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Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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What's new in Slido: February 2023Product News

We’ve had Valentines and a bunch of exciting updates for you in Slido this February ❤️Off the back of our amazing updates in January, bringing our users Pexels, we’re leveling up again with GIPHY, allowing you to express yourselves facilitating meetings with a gif 🎉 We also have improvements to MS Teams functionality and updates for your Slido Analytics.  We can't wait to hear what you think 😎 📹 Brighten up your meetings with GIFs Make your Polls Pop ✨ add GIF’s to Polls, with GIPHY!GIPHY is the no.1 source for the best and newest GIFs and animated stickers online. Add funny GIFs, reaction GIFs, and stickers to your polls by choosing a keyword and you’re all set!Perfect for a stress-free facilitation providing visual context with ease, as well as some light-hearted fun that can boost your team's morale and build trust 😊The best part is, it’s available for everyone!**not compatible with Google Slides or PowerPoint integration Adding GIF’s to your Slido polls 🚀 MS Teams integration

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Cori from slido
26 days ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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What's new in Slido: January 2023product news

Happy New Year, Slido community! 🎉 We hope you’ve had a restful holiday season and we’d like to thank you for your feedback, suggestions and questions in 2022 💚 If we learned anything last year, it’s that collaboration is absolutely crucial in every team. To start off the year, we’re partnering with Pexels to bring you a library of free images for your polls. We’re also releasing Spaces, a brand new feature for collaboration, improving your MS Teams integration experience and enhancing security with Theta Lake 🚀 🎨 Pexels in Slido: Bring Your Polls to Life with Free ImagesYou can now choose from hundreds of thousands of royalty-free images and add them to your poll in one click! ✨  If you want to use an image poll but don’t have an image to upload, the Pexels integration provides you with a vast library of images you can add instead.➡️ Learn more about how to use Pexels in Slido here and get 7 Tips on taking your polls to the next level with Pexels here.  ⚡️Collaborating even easier

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Meggie from Slido
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Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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Introducing Enhanced Security & Compliance for Slido (and Webex Polling) with Theta Lake 🔒News

Compliance Challenges of Deploying Audience Interaction Platforms For meeting hosts in regulated industries such as financial services, balancing productivity and compliance is a challenge as they try to lead more effective meetings and events. In regulated industries, engaging audiences through polls and Q&As also involves ensuring that their digital communications comply with retention, supervision, and review requirements. Financial services organizations, in particular, must preserve e-communications for monitoring and supervision including MiFID II,SEC 17a-4 and public disclosure requests. Archiving of all content, such as live polls, Q&As, surveys, or crowd-sourced ideas, are included in this process. Each year, regulators levy hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for failing to monitor communications. There are few compliance solutions for archiving electronic communications from audience interaction platforms such as Slido. As a result, financial services companies

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Cori from slido
1 month ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

Introducing Slido Spaces 🤝new feature

We’re thrilled to introduce our easiest collaboration feature yet: Slido Spaces.  Spaces allow you to categorize and share meetings with your colleagues automatically - without the hassle of inviting everyone manually. What’s more, you can say goodbye to an endless list of events in your dashboard. Spaces let you organize your events based on a meeting type, project, team or client – whatever suits you best. 👉 Request early access to be one of the first to test it out! So, how does it work?  Create a space and give it a name, e.g. All-hands meetings or Execs Invite the relevant members of your organization into this space Create and work on Slido events all with the same access rights  What can you do in Spaces? Categorize your events based on a team, meeting, project, client etc. Easily collaborate on recurring meetings without having to share access every time Benefit from space-specific analytics, templates, settings and more (Coming in future)  Who can use Spaces?Spaces ar

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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Introducing Pexels in Slido: Bring Your Polls to Life with Free Images by Pexels 🖼️

Slido has teamed with Pexels - the source of free images, to bring creativity to your live polls.You can now choose from the hundreds of thousands freely-usable pictures and add any image to your poll in one click!Excited? So are we! Here’s how Pexels work in Slido: Create a poll. Click ‘Upload an image’. Choose your preferred image from the library. Hit save.  Once you’re ready to run the poll, display it on full screen and encourage your audience to vote. You can manage your polls easily via the handy control panel at the bottom of your screen.  👍 TipKeep the poll results hidden while your teammates send in their votes. Only once you’re ready to display the voting results on screen, hit ‘Show results’.  Why should you try Pexels in Slido?If you have previously used Slido’s image polls, the Pexels integration will provide you with an additional advantage - besides uploading your own image into a poll, you will now be able to choose from a vast library of readily available image

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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Introducing Required questions in Surveys 🎉

You can now make questions mandatory to answer when sharing Surveys with your audience!  Here’s how you can set it up in Slido admin 👉Go to your Polls and open up or create a Survey. On the right hand side, simply toggle on Required question for those questions that you’d like to make mandatory for your participants to answer. Activate the Survey and share your event or the link to the Survey with your audience.  And here’s what your audience will see 👉If someone tries to submit the survey while skipping required questions, Slido will automatically highlight the ones that are mandatory in red and won’t let them send their answers until all of them are filled in.   That’s it! You can pick and choose which questions you’d like to make mandatory to answer, or even make all of them required.  We see many clients using required questions for collecting feedback after strategic meetings, such as all-hands or quarterly reviews. This is to make sure that they collect the opinions of even tho

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Slido Team
Slido Team
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🥧 Introducing Pie chart (Beta): Be a part of Slido future improvements

Did you know it’s possible to display your Slido poll results as a pie chart? It’s still work in progress, but you can jump right in and test it out today! Join the discussion and let us know what you think.  How to set it upIn your multiple choice poll, toggle on the option Show results as pie chart Once you’ve done that, share your Slido event code or link with your colleagues or friends to collect votes Open Present mode and let the magic happen! The pie chart will also show on your participants’ devices once they vote. You as a Slido admin will see the results as a bar chart for now. Help us make the pie chart betterOur pie chart is currently in Beta version, which means there’s still room for improvement. To discover its full potential, we’d like to invite you to join the discussion below and leave your feedback:Is there anything you’re missing?  Anything you’d like to change?  When would you prefer using a pie chart over a bar chart?Please be as specific as possible - the more de

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3 months ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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What's new in Slido: November 2022 🧣News

In this winding down month here at Slido before we're all gearing up for the festive season ahead, why not take a peek at our short-but-sweet Product News from November 😎 Integrations 🌐 Slido now supported in Webex Webcast Available in Webcast, with a few limitations. Webcast currently only supports Q&A, Multiple choice and Rating polls. Slido in Webex Webcast 🚪 Support for Multiple rooms, now in Webex sidebarMultiple rooms support is available in the Webex sidebar. Try it out! Multiple rooms in Webex Sidebar Q&A📈 New look in Q&A AnalyticsQ&A analytics has a fresh look, new insights and automatic detection of question sentiment. This is limited to events run in English, but can be manually applied for all languages, and also if you don’t agree with the sentiments captured in English 🎉New Q&A Analytics 📩 Download an image of your Q&A resultsShare your insights from meetings more easily with the option to download the results of your Q&A word cloud and s

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Cori from slido
3 months ago
Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: October 2022 🎃News

The weather is starting to cool down so snuggle up and keep warm with our hot-off-the-press product news. Check out how we improved Slido during October and let us know what you think by commenting below 🤗 Live polls 🎨 Word cloud animationThe word cloud is now even more magical with its smooth, animated movement ⚙️ Rating poll now customizable When setting up a rating poll, you can now choose whether you want participants to send their ratings as stars or emojis and you can also set labels for low and high scores    Using emojis in a rating poll  ⚡️ Multiple choice poll improvements Marking an option as correct in a multiple choice poll is now even easier as you just need to click on the circle next to the option  Marking an option as correct in a multiple choice poll  Integrations 💬 Typing indicator available in Webex The Webex integration sidebar now shows when participants are typing their responses in live polls   🔥 Webex sidebar improvements  The Webex sidebar also allows you

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Meggie from Slido
4 months ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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What's new in Slido: September 2022 🍂News

Term time is in full swing, all the leaves are brown and the pumpkin spiced lattes are flowing at Slido HQ! 🎃 Let’s take a look at what our teams brought us in September, we’d love your feedback! Integrations 🔗 Slido for Windows add-in support for global deployment There’s now a  brand new update to our Slido for Windows/PowerPoint add-in with support for global deployment. This means multiple regions! Slido for Windows Add-In Q&A 🗑 Withdraw a reply in Q&AWas your question answered in a meeting before they got to your reply? No problem! Participants can now withdraw any of their replies to a Q&A question. Just go to the right of the question and select ‘withdraw.’ Withdraw a reply in Q&A Live Polls ✍️ Typing indicator for Polls in Slido admin mode Make sure everyone has their say! You can now see when your participants are typing their responses to Open Text Polls in admin mode. This also applies to Surveys and Ranking Polls. Typing Indicator in admin mode Other 🆕 A

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Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: August 2022 🚀News

Grab your favorite sweater and watch the leaves turn brown because September is here! But before we return to school and the office, let’s take a look at how we improved Slido over the past month. Check out our August updates and let us know what you think 😎 Got a question about these updates, our product roadmap or a feature you’d love to see in Slido? Let us know in Community and sign up to our product event for a chance to get answers from our GM Peter Komornik or our Head of Product Peter Krajnak.​​​ Integrations 🖐 Drag and drop polls in WebexYou can now drag and drop polls and change their order directly in the Webex sidebar   🔐 Switcher for Mac now more secure We updated Switcher for Mac to support a more secure logging in process   💻 Passcode and link to your Slido event available directly in PowerPoint  It is now easier than ever to get your event link and passcode in PowerPoint as both are available in the sidebar    🖥 Passcode and link to your Slido event available in Go

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Meggie from Slido
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Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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What’s new in Slido: July 2022 🌞News

Schools out for summer 🏫 , but that doesn’t stop our teams here at Slido! See what we’ve been working on and what’s improved for our users in July. As always, we’d love to know what you think! 💡 Integrations 🔒 Keeping your presentations in PowerPoint securePowerPoint has joined the switch to authenticate users with Slido TheAuth, our new internal Slido app. Why not try Slido for PowerPoint and see how it works for you.  🔗 Integration with Webex personal devices & Advanced settingsSlido for Webex (Participants only) is now available on Webex personal devices registered to the specific user with RoomOS 10.16.1.6 or later. On top of that, you can now access Slido’s advanced settings such as privacy, Q & A and live polls through Webex directly.  Live Polls 📊 Topics for Open text polls are now available in Slido LabsEver wanted to see the common topics and themes that your participants share in polls? Now you can do just that! Toggle on OpenText topics in your event settings un

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Cori from slido
7 months ago
Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: June 2022 🌈News

Summer is fast approaching but not even the warm weather could slow down our dedicated teams. Check out how we improved Slido during June and let us know what you think 😎 Integrations 🔎 Showing survey results now possible in WebexMeeting hosts can now easily display survey results, one question at a time, in the Webex integration 🙋‍♀️ Participants can launch polls in Webex Any participant in a Webex meeting can now launch Slido and create polls This was previously only possible for meeting hosts  🖼 Images in polls can now be enlarged in Webex No more squinting at your screen! It is now possible to enlarge images in polls directly from the Webex sidebar   Enlarging image polls on Webex  Live polls 🧑‍💻 Participant names now visible in Open text polls Open text polls now show participant names so everyone can see who contributed each submission If you don’t want to show participant names, this feature can be disabled or participants can always submit as anonymous   Displaying pa

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Meggie from Slido
8 months ago
Slido Team
Slido Team
published in Product News

Slido in Webex has a new look 🎉News

We made a few changes to Slido admin sidebar in Webex to improve your experience during meetings and webinars.  Introducing new look of Slido sidebar in WebexUpdated 4 November: You can select from multiple rooms you created in advance in Slido directly in Webex sidebarUpdated 2 November: We’re turning on the new sidebar for everyone and multiple rooms are coming in mid November!Updated 26 May: The new sidebar in Webex is now live for everyone by default!Updated 20 July: New settings were added to the Slido sidebar in Webex On December 1, 2022 we turned on the new look for everyone and removed the option to switch between the two versions.  What’s new: Intuitive user experience and modern look New polls design, support for quiz and results download Localization support Intuitive user experience and modern lookThe new interface is designed specifically for use in Webex. It’s simplified and easy to navigate. If you’re yet to get to know Slido, tooltips and system messages will help you g

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Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: May 2022 ⚡️News

Fresh off the press, here’s our monthly Product news! Check out how we improved Slido during May and let us know what you think 😎 Integrations 🖼️️️️  New layout of image polls in Google slides and PowerPoint Images now appear side by side with polls in our Google Slides and PowerPoint integrations by default You can still show images before polls if you wish   🧑‍🎨 Fresh look now default in Webex The redesigned Slido admin experience in Webex is now enabled by default for all hosts 🚀 Quizzes have arrived to Webex 🎉 Quizzes are finally available in our redesigned Webex sidebar Live polls⏳ Open text responses appear one at a time Instead of pouring in all at once, participants’ responses in open text polls now appear one by one   💬 Present mode shows if participants are typing live Present mode now shows when participants are typing their answers in open text and word cloud polls   Other 🔐 New internal authorization app We developed TheAuth - a new internal app which aligns Slid

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Meggie from Slido
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Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: April 2022 🌼News

With another month behind us, it’s time to look at how we’ve improved Slido over April. Check out the changes we’ve made and let us know what you think 😎 Q&A 🙋‍♀️ Automatically generated topics in the Q&ASlido now automatically generates topics based on questions in the Q&A Participants can filter questions using these topics This is only available for questions in English at the moment  Other 🌍 Basque now in Slido Event owners can select Basque as the language of Slido for their participants. Kaixo!  🔒 Participant anonymity in events Users can set participants to be anonymous, named by default, only named or only anonymous in their event settings Check out our tutorial for setting this up      🔐 Participant anonymity for the whole organizationLicense owners and admins can now set participants to be anonymous, named by default, only named or only anonymous in all events in their organization This setting can also be locked so that users can't change the setting in th

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Meggie from Slido
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Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: March 2022 🐣News

Spring has finally arrived and it has not only brought sunshine and longer days, but also updates to Slido. Check out the improvements we’ve made over March and let us know what you think 🤗 Integrations ✅ Compatibility with Empower add-in in PowerPoint Our PowerPoint integration now works with the Empower add-in You can use the Empower add-in to integrate design guidelines into PowerPoint for the entire company  Live Polls  Improved reading experience in Open text polls Presenters and participants can easily scroll through responses in Open text polls and responses stay in the same position A notification appears when new responses are sent into the poll    Redesigned poll templates library The poll templates library has a new, fresh look with 135 new poll templates so whatever the use case, we’ve got it covered   

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Meggie from Slido
Meggie from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: February 2022 💗News

Check out how we’ve improved Slido over February! Let us know what you think. Integrations  Redesigned sidebar in Webex  The Slido admin sidebar in the Webex integration has a new look designed for an unbeatable experience in Webex Hosts need to enable the new look manually by toggling on the option directly in the sidebar in Webex   New design for action bar in Webex We have redesigned the bar at the bottom of the Webex sidebar that lets hosts launch, activate and create polls and more It now adapts to the context of the interaction and the host’s needs   Request to manage Slido now available in Webex Meeting co-hosts and panelists can request to manage Slido directly from the new Webex sidebar during the meeting  No need to set up shared access in advance   PowerPoint integration changes in operating system support Our PowerPoint integration does not support operating systems older than Windows 10 anymore This includes Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1   PowerPoint integratio

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Meggie from Slido
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: December & January 2022 ❄️

We’re starting the New Year strong with plenty of new features and great updates!  None of this would be possible without you, our amazing users, and your most honest and valuable feedback.  Thank you   Integrations 🤝 Cohost support for Webex - phase 2Meeting cohosts and panelists can now request to manage Slido directly from the Webex sidebar during the meeting No need to set up shared access in advance!    🔎 Filter your own events in Webex  Slido owners and admins can now filter out only their own events directly in Webex sidebar   🔧 PowerPoint integration improvements (v1.0)A new version on our PowerPoint integration (v1.0) is out! It includes proactive notifications about potential issues of add-in, better detection of network connectivity and more Live polls 🔴 Emoji support in Word cloud profanity filterThanks to your feedback, we’ve added new emojis to our profanity filter in Word Cloud Following emojis are now automatically filtered out: 🍆 🍑 💩 🖕 👅 💦 🤬 📊 Survey resul

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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What's new in Slido: November 2021 🍁News

  🧩 Integrations Cohost support for WebexYou can now add your colleagues as collaborators to your Slido in the web Admin For collaborators in Webex, all they need to do is click Apps button in a Webex meeting or event and the admin view will be displayed. Slido OAuth2 support in Switcher for both Mac and WindowsThere’s a newly updated version of the Slido Switcher for both Mac and Windows with the support for more secure Slido OAuth2 authorization when logging in 📊 Live polls + Q&A New layout of image poll in Present modeYou can now choose if you want to show the image side by side next to the poll results or separately in the Present mode. Emoji support in Q&A profanity filterWe’ve added certain emojis to our profanity filter for Q&A This means that if your participants submit a question containing these emojis, it’ll be automatically filtered out and archived 🔒 Privacy Hide from search and Passcode for all plansPrivacy is one of our top priorities and so all plans are

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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What's new in Slido: October 2021 🎃

  Live polls We’ve refreshed the look of our poll modal and made it even easier to add images to any polls.   Q&AYou can now enable Question topics in Slido Labs. This new feature automatically generates topics from your questions so that you and your participants can easily navigate through larger amounts of questions during Q&A.   🏢 Organizational SettingsWe’ve added the option for account owners to enable or disable their users exporting data to Google sheets. This allows you to prevent your data being held on Google’s platform.    Let us know what you think about our latest updates in the comments below! 

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: September 2021 💪

Integrations 🎉 PowerPoint integration is out of BETAWe’re excited to share that our PowerPoint integration has moved out of BETA and is now available for all users of Windows 10 and PowerPoint 2013 (and later)!  🕹 New Slido button in Google Slides navigation barThere’s a new Slido button in the bottom navigation bar in Google Slides that allows you to display Slido whenever you want during your presentation. Note - this button works only if using our Slido Chrome Extention as well. ⚠️ Ideas disabled in Webex integrationIdeas BETA was removed from our Webex integration sidebar because we're getting ready for a redesign which will affect the Ideas BETA functionality.Live polls 😃 Emoji picker for live pollsIt is now easier than ever to add an emoji to your response in a live poll with our new emoji picker. It’s available in the Slido desktop app and Webex integration. Please note that on mobile, participants need to use the emoji keyboard to insert an emoji. ✍️ Translation of textual e

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Alex
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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: August 2021✌️

Webex integration Product News  We’re excited to announce that we’re officially rolling out Slido’s integration with Webex Meetings   From now on, you can interact with your audience using Slido’s live polling, quizzes, and Q&A feature right within your Webex Meetings.Here’s a full article on how to set up and use this integration.And here are 11 tips for using Slido in your Webex Meetings.  Other Product News  New placeholder slides in PowerPoint integrationWe’ve added handy poll icons to every placeholder slide to make it much simpler to see where your Slido slides are and what type of poll you’ve added to each slide.  New joining slides in Google Slides and PowerPoint integrationThere’s now an easier way to add joining instructions to your presentation by simply adding a joining slide directly from the integration sidebar. This slide will include all the important information about how your participants can join Slido, including the event and QR code.  New version of Switcher fo

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: June 2021 👏News

Integrations 🎨 Customize Slido in Google Slides & PowerPoint integrationsYou can now customize your Slido look directly from the Google Slides and PowerPoint sidebars either by gallery themes or by choosing your own custom theme. No need to open Slido settings! 🔗 Open Present mode from video integrationsWe added a new present button to our video integrations sidebar that opens Slido Present mode in a new browser tab to make sharing your Slido Wall even easier.  Other Emojis in SlidoEmojis are now supported in all Slido polls! Both for participants and admins. 🔒 Random event passcode generator in both Event & Organization settingsYou can automatically add a layer of protection to all your future events by enabling random Event passcode generator in your Organization settings. Passcodes for events can also be randomly generated for individual events in your Event settings This means that your participants will need this Event passcode to access your events.Change language in

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Meggie from Slido
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: July 2021💡News

This month’s updates are super quick as our team has been enjoying the summer by taking some well-deserved time off 🌴 We’ll be back in full-swing soon!  Integrations 👉 New placeholder slides design in our Google Slides integrationWe’ve added handy poll icons to every placeholder slide to make is much simpler to see where your Slido slides are and what type of poll you’ve added to each slide. ⚠️ Clearer notifications when using our PowerPoint integration offlineWe’ve revamped our notification screen and sidebar to make it clearer when Slido is not available for you when you work on your PowerPoint slides offline Other 🤝 Collaborators for our Basic users are now enabled Event collaborators are now available for our Basic plan users Please note that there is a limit of max. 10 people you can invite to help you with your Basic event 🎥 Remote meetings video updates in Slido AcademyWe’ve added some great new videos on improving your remote meetings setup to our Slido Academy!  Let us kno

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