Slido
Interactive polling and Q&A platform for meetings and events
What is Slido?
Try SlidoSlido helps teams and event organizers make meetings and sessions more interactive by letting audiences contribute in real time. Use it to crowdsource questions, run live polls and quizzes, collect surveys, and start discussions that work for both in-person and remote participants. With audience participation features like speaker Q&A and upvoted questions, you can turn feedback into clearer next steps.
What is Slido used for in meetings and events?
Slido is used to make sessions interactive by crowdsourcing the questions that matter most and gathering real-time input from participants. You can use it for audience Q&A, live polls, quizzes, surveys, and word-cloud style prompts to kickstart discussion and capture feedback during or after the session.
What makes Slido helpful for remote and distributed teams?
Slido is designed so remote attendees can join the conversation, whether it’s voting on topics, participating in Q&A, or responding to interactive polls and surveys. It’s also used for livestreamed sessions and distributed meetings where you want everyone to be able to contribute from their location.
How does audience Q&A work with Slido?
In Slido’s speaker’s Q&A and similar formats, audience members can submit questions and upvote the best ones. This helps surface the most relevant questions during the presentation, and it can also be used after sessions to keep the conversation going.
What kinds of interactive activities can you run besides Q&A?
Beyond Q&A, Slido supports interactive activities like team satisfaction surveys, quizzes for onboarding and training icebreakers, formative check-ins to confirm understanding, and feedback surveys to collect responses while participants are still in the room.
Is Slido a fit for training and education use cases?
Yes—Slido is used to make training more engaging with warm-up polls, check-for-understanding questions, guess-the-correct-answer activities, training Q&A as questions arise, and quizzes to recap a lecture. It can also help large classes stay interactive with polls and quick formative assessments.
Can Slido support different event and meeting formats like panels or AMAs?
Slido can be used for panel discussions to crowdsource questions and get conversation started among panelists, as well as Leadership Ask Me Anything sessions to address top questions and concerns. It’s also used for leadership and team moments like retrospectives, collaborative decision-making votes, and leadership feedback collection.