Adding Slido to your Microsoft Teams meeting allows your audience to submit and upvote questions, vote in polls, or participate in surveys and quizzes directly in the Teams meeting window during your call.
Depending on your preference, you can prepare everything in advance or even minutes before your meeting.
This integration is available in all our plans.
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Slido in Microsoft Teams works in a both web browser and on iOS or Android devices, for participants and meeting organizers. If you have participants from a different organization joining a Teams meeting, just make sure you’re are using the latest version of the desktop app or web browser.
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Watch the demo video below or continue to step-by-step guide:
Add Slido to your Teams meeting
Create your meeting in the Teams or Outlook calendars to integrate Slido into Microsoft Teams in advance. Alternatively, add Slido directly to your ongoing meeting.
Please note that you have to add Slido individually to each meeting where you want to use it.
Using Microsoft Teams calendar to add Slido
To start, schedule a meeting in your Microsoft Teams or Outlook calendars, then open the meeting in Teams calendar by clicking Edit.
You can then add Slido app to your meeting:
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Click the + button in the menu bar and choose Slido
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Then, log in with your Slido account or sign up
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Choose whether you wish to create a new Slido event or use an already existing one
Don’t see Slido among the apps? Please contact your IT department as there might be restrictions in place and Slido app needs to be whitelisted.
Adding Slido to an ongoing Teams meeting
To add Slido during a Teams meeting, use the Add an app button.
Please note that depending on your meeting policy, other meeting participants might also have an option to add Slido to your meeting. Go to the Meeting options to set your preferences.
Once the meeting starts:
- Click on the + button on the menu bar
- Select Slido from the list
- Log in to your Slido account or sign up
- Select your existing Slido event or create a new one
Prepare Slido polls and Q&A
Create your polls by using the +Add button. Add your question and options depending on your preferred poll type. Your Q&A session is added and open by default.
Click the gear icon inside the interaction to adjust your settings.
Add collaborators
If you’d like to a colleague help you control the Slido as admin in Microsoft Teams, you can add them as collaborators. Use the Share access feature in the respective Slido by logging into slido.com or go to the Slido hamburger menu in Teams > Settings > Advanced settings > Share access. You can then invite your collesgues by adding their email address.
Collaborators can help you create in advance or on the spot and manage everything live.
Manage Slido during a meeting
Once you join your Teams meeting, click the Slido icon from the top menu to open it in the Teams sidebar. The admin interface is only visible to you to run your polls and manage Q&A.
Share Slido present mode to stage in Teams
You can now use the ‘share to stage’ button in Teams to show Slido in Present mode in the middle of the meeting window.
You can do this by selecting the arrow icon from the top right corner of the sidebar to share instantly.
Participant experience
When you launch a poll, a notification is sent to the meeting chat, prompting the audience to vote. After clicking the button, Slido sidebar opens for participant to submit their votes.
Add Slido to PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams
You can seamlessly integrate Slido with into your PowerPoint presentation and automatically activate your polls and display Q&A for your participants in Teams as you progress through your slides.
To run Slido with PowerPoint and Teams:
- Add Slido to your PowerPoint presentation and prepare your interactions
- During the meeting, open the same Slido in both PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams
- Screen share your presentation and click Present with Slido.
Once you get to the Slido interaction slide, your polls will automatically activate for participants in Microsoft Teams to vote. To submit questions, your audience needs to open Slido from the upper Teams menu.
Slido Present mode integrated to your presentation deck displays poll results and Q&A for everyone in a bigger format.
For more detailed steps, read our Meeting organizer guide.
Not using PowerPoint for your presentations? You can also integrate Slido with Google Slides.
Use Slido outside of the meeting
If you want to collect questions in advance or run a feedback survey after the meeting is over, you can add Slido to your Microsoft Teams channel.
Access analytics and download Slido results
You can view Slido analytics and export your results by going to the Slido hamburger menu > Download results in both your Teams meeting sidebar and calendar meeting edit mode.
A new browser tab will open for Slido.com > Analytics tab.
Have added the wrong Slido to your meeting or you don’t need it anymore? You can remove Slido from your Microsoft Teams meeting, click on the three-dot menu from the sidebar and choose Remove.
Similarly, to remove Slido from your Teams channel, right click on the Slido icon in the top menu bar and choose Remove.
For more information about the integration, check out our FAQ article for answers to common questions, or troubleshooting tips.
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