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What's new in Slido: January 2025
As we kick off 2025, let’s reflect on major product improvements from last year that set the stage for exciting new features we’ll bring to you in the upcoming weeks. As always, we also have this month's fresh updates for you. 🎉 Celebrating 2024 milestones 2024 was an amazing year! We rolled out your most-requested feature, left no stone unturned to improve your Slido experience and introduced a smart functionality that provides tailored suggestions and valuable insights. Here's a look back on last year’s product highlights. 📥 Slido Integration with PowerPoint for macOS Our most requested feature ever, the integration with PowerPoint for macOS, allows everyone to seamlessly engage their audience during meetings and training sessions. Whether you’re a Windows or macOS user, you can now seamlessly add Slido polls, quizzes, and Q&A sessions directly into your PowerPoint slides. Haven’t tried Slido for PowerPoint yet? Check out the short video below to find out more about it. 🆕 New Slido Host mode The new Slido Host mode was a big project with a clear goal: to design a more intuitive experience that lets you create slidos faster and more easily. But that's not all. We've kept the features you love and added new ones. We promise, there's more to come this year. 🤖 AI features in BETA Last year, we introduced several AI features as BETA versions, and we're excited to announce that they they will soon be generally available! You can look forward to AI generated polls, quizzes and questions improvements for participants. Stay tuned. Suggest polls in presentation integrations 🗓️ New releases in January Starting strong this year with several fresh improvements—here’s what’s new this month: 🔙 Restore a question in Present mode Marked a question as answered accidentally or a little too soon in Present mode? It happens to all of us. Now, with just one click, you can easily restore your question to its previous state, whether it was highlighted or not. Restoring a question in Present mode 🏷️ Bulk label questions To help you keep everything organized while managing Q&A, you can now save time by adding labels to multiple questions at once. This last bit completes the set of bulk actions for questions you’re familiar with from the previous Slido interface. Labelling questions in bulk 💬 Notification for new audience questions To help you keep track of incoming questions while running or creating polls, a notification will appear in the Interactions list when new audience questions are submitted. New questions notification at the top of the Interactions list 🔠 Categories for suggested polls in PowerPoint and Google Slides Are you using AI-powered poll suggestions in your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation? They're now organized into categories, making it easier than ever to choose the right ones for your opening, main content and wrap-up. After clicking the generate button, poll suggestions will appear under each category. Suggested polls organized in categories Finally, as we announced earlier, we retired Slido Switcher on January 15, since there's less need for it now that Slido for PowerPoint is available on macOS. That's all for our January updates! We hope you're as excited about them as we are! Don't forget to subscribe to our Product News to stay in the loop on all things Slido. 📩 Got feedback? We're all ears! Share your thoughts with us at experience@slido.com 🌏
Watch a recorded training of Slido's new interface!
Check out a recorded training below and learn all about the new interface! The training includes: The motivation behind the redesign A tour through Slido’s new look & the biggest changes Our best practices during an engaging live demo Questions from the audience Feel free to share this with any colleagues who may be interested. Additional resources: Want to download the slides? Find them attached below 😎
New Slido interface feature continuity
Slido’s new interface is now available for all users – with the ability to switch to the old interface remaining for some time. Our new interface was designed with ease of use and efficiency at the forefront. The core functionalities (polling and Q&A) are stronger, quicker, and more intuitive than ever. However, this does mean that a few features had to be deprecated. See below for the most up-to-date details about Slido’s feature continuity. In this article: Features returning in the future Features that may return Features leaving permanently Features returning in the future Ability to enable/disable Q&A or polling within your slido Ability to search within your Q&A Improved ability to share announcements with your audience Reuse polls you’ve previously created Ability to moderate open text poll responses Features that may return If you are using either of the below features and you’re willing to share your use case, we’d love to talk to you. Filter Q&A by Label in Present mode: This feature is rarely used, but we are open to exploring more relevant use cases. Poll templates: As mentioned above, the ability to reuse previous polls is coming soon, but our teams are still evaluating the value of Slido’s native poll library. However, we are already leveraging AI to make poll creation easier and smarter than ever. Check out our Suggest Polls BETA feature and see how to create polls in seconds based on your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation. Features leaving permanently Developing the new interface gave us the opportunity to look critically at our product and understand how it was being used. As a result, there are elements of Slido that we will be sunsetting. Agenda/Session: We developed the agenda feature when we were mostly used at conferences. In 2024, Slido is mostly used within companies to help facilitate conversation between leaders and their teams. This means that the agenda feature has very low usage and so we decided against the investment it would need to modernize the technology it’s built on. Ideas: The Ideas feature was designed in a way that makes it difficult to evolve. We are currently exploring other brainstorming poll designs, including an enhanced open text poll, that will better address the needs of our users. Show results as pie chart (multiple choice poll): This is another feature with low usage. The improvements needed to match our quality standards are simply too costly. Switcher app: With Slido for PowerPoint now supporting macOS, there’s less and less need for Switcher. The Switcher app is currently used by less than 1% of all users and used within less than 1% of all slidos – which means we simply couldn’t justify updating it for the new interface. Star a Q&A question: This feature was replaced with our more powerful Q&A Labels function. Archive a Q&A reply: This has been replaced with the Delete reply action.