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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 😎
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What's new in Slido: November 2024
As the holiday season approaches, we're excited to bring you a good selection of updates and features designed to enhance your Slido experience. From festive quizzes to streamlined interfaces, we've got plenty to share. 🎄🥂 A special surprise: Holiday quiz Get into the festive spirit with our special holiday-themed quizzes! They're perfect for engaging your colleagues, friends or family during the holiday season. Available in both PowerPoint and Google Slides integrations, these quizzes are sure to add some fun to your meetings and get-togethers. Holiday quiz in Slido sidebar in presentation integrations Plus, if you’re a Basic plan user, you can now use the AI-powered polls to easily add polls related to your presentation content. Curious about how it works? Dive into the article below to find out more: 🙌 Say Hi! to Slido’s new interface Since November 7, the new Host mode has become the default for everyone, but our efforts to make your Slido experience even better don't stop there! Read on to discover what’s new. Got a minute? We'd love your feedback 🤗 Please share your thoughts by answering two quick questions. We appreciate every response! Also, don’t miss out our free new Host mode trainings, to get yourself familiar with the new interface. 📦 Manage audience questions in bulk Bringing back the bulk actions to Q&A in the new Host mode, you can now mark multiple questions as answered, or archive and delete them all at once. Dismissing multiple questions at once 🧩 Improved Participant mode experience Submit your testing questions and poll votes in real time using Participant mode, right next to your interactions. Instead of covering your content, Slido interface now shifts to the side to display the Participant Mode, making it easier to view the submissions. Improved Participant mode Plus, we've switched the order of the slido code and privacy indicator in the header to help reduce unnecessary movements while setting up your slido. It's a small change, but we hope you find it helpful! 🔢 Poll character limit indicator in polls We’ve added a character limit indicator for longer poll questions and options. You'll see this indicator appear after 200 characters, with a maximum limit of 257. Just a heads-up: if your text exceeds this limit, the poll won’t save Poll character limit indicator in Open text poll Looking ahead to early 2025, you'll find the character limit indicator in poll descriptions, question replies, and polls in presentation integrations. 🎉 🔎 Access a member’s slidos from the Team page As a Slido Admin you can access a member’s slidos directly from the Team page, making it easier to find the right slidos. Access member’s slidos from the Team page 📥 Slido for PowerPoint updates We've rolled out the latest versions of Slido for PowerPoint on both Windows and macOS platforms. Be sure to update to take full advantage of new features and a refined user experience. For macOS users, version 1.51 brings the Suggest Polls feature, now available to all Basic plan users. It also improves compatibility with macOS 15 Sequoia and the latest PowerPoint updates, optimizes slideshow performance and removes incorrect warning messages. On Windows, version 1.14.0 focuses on stability by resolving issues that caused PowerPoint to crash in window mode. New features include update notifications for users with older PowerPoint versions and the ability to download QR codes directly from the sidebar, boosting usability and audience engagement. Download the latest Windows version: Basic installer link Admin installer link Stay updated with the latest changes: ⏳ Coming soon: Get ready for redesigned My slidos page In December, look forward to the enhanced My slidos page, featuring improved filtering and search functionality. You'll be able to sort through all your slidos, the ones you host, or, if you're an admin, accessing all organization's slidos. Search by name, owner or code to quickly find what you need. New My slidos page You’ll also be able to check each slido's status—active, upcoming, or past—and choose your preferred view, whether list or gallery. Managing your slidos will be simpler, with options to delete multiple slidos at once and access frequently used actions through the quick actions menu. 👋 Goodbye to Slido Switcher On January 15, 2025, we’ll be retiring our Switcher app. While it has been invaluable for displaying polls and Q&A during your meetings and events with presentations, our PowerPoint and Google Slides integrations have effectively taken its place. This shift will allow us to focus on enhancing your Slido experience and developing new features. For more details, please read the announcement below: That's all for our November 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 🌏👋
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.