Slido
Include and engage everyone in your meetings through an interactive app with live polls, Q&A, quizzes and word clouds. Use Slido with Webex, PowerPoint, Canvas, or a website to capture participant views and make them feel connected.
Features
- Collect all participants’ perspectives whether in person or online.
- Export questions and voting results for further analysis.
- Allow your audience to ask questions and upvote the questions they like, bringing the most important topics to light.
Getting Started
Instructor Resources
Create a Slido
- Log into your sharing platform (Webex, PowerPoint, Teams, Google Slides) or visit the slido webpage.
- When prompted to login click Log in with Webex.
- Login through OKTA with your ISU credentials.
- In the upper right corner click the green + New Slido button and choose From Scratch.
- Add an Event name and Start date.
- Click Schedule Slido.
- Create content.
Using Slido Integrated in Webex
- Update your Webex meetings app to the latest version (41.6 or later) and ask attendees to do the same.
- Schedule a Webex meeting and/or start a Webex meeting
- Click Apps in the bottom right corner
- Select Slido
- Select an existing Slido from the list or click the green Create a new One
- If you wish to hide results until all activity has ceased, ensure that the Show Results button is crossed out.
- When you are ready to activate a poll or activity click on the Play button to enable.
Integrate Slido in PowerPoint
- Access the Slido Download for Windows webpage
- Click Download for Windows
- Install download to your computer
- Open PowerPoint presentation
- A Slido button will appear in your toolbar
- Click the Slido tool button
- A bar will open on the right side of the PowerPoint screen
- Click Log In
- Choose Log in with Webex
- Login via your ISU credentials
- Select an existing Slido from the list or click the green Create a new One button
- You may also add Audience Q&A. This will allow participants to propose and upvote questions that you may address later in the presentation.
- Share your presentation.
- Slido activities, in presentation mode, will include a QR code as well as an access code that participants may use to login and interact with the activity.
Using Slido in Teams
The current integration is a work in progress. You may utilize Slido by accessing it via the Slido website and sharing your screen with participants.Embed Slido in Canvas
- Login to the Slido website to create and/or access your Slido event.
- Select the appropriate Slido event.
- Determine whether to embed the entire event and all associated activities or a single poll/activity.
- To add an entire Slido event
- Select Settings in the upper right corner.
- Click Integrations from the Event settings menu on the left.
- Select Embed Slido.
- Click Copy embed code.
- To add a single poll/activity
- Click the three-dot menu to the right of the appropriate activity.
- Select Share.
- Click to copy the embed code.
- To add an entire Slido event
- Add the embed code to Canvas.
- You may embed the Slido activities anywhere the Rich Content Editor (RCE) is available (discussion boards, assignments, pages, quizzes, etc.).
- Select the Embed icon in the RCE toolbar.
- Right-click in the textbox and select Paste.
- Choose Submit.
- The Slido event or activity will appear in the RCE.
- Note: If you embed the entire event, each poll/activity will appear individually as they are activated.
- Select the Embed icon in the RCE toolbar.
- You may embed the Slido activities anywhere the Rich Content Editor (RCE) is available (discussion boards, assignments, pages, quizzes, etc.).
Student Resources
Slido in Webex
- When an instructor opens a Slido poll/activity in Webex, and you are logged in through the desktop or web application, the interactive poll/activity will open to the right.
Slido in PowerPoint
- When your instructor utilizes Slido in a PowerPoint presentation, the slide will include a QR code and a website address you may access from your personal device.
- From the Slido website enter the code provided on the PowerPoint slide in the Joining as a participant? bar.
Online Documentation
- Instructors and Students
- Licensing and Policies
Licensing
Slido’s Basic plan is free and includes 100 participants and three polls per event.
Policies
Support
- Contact Slido support
- Slido Community
- ISU Solution Center: solution@iastate.edu / 515-294-4000