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.
There’s no need for switching between apps or windows anymore!
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Important: The integration works only with the Microsoft Teams desktop native app (not via browser). Only Microsoft Teams meetings are supported (there’s no support for Teams live events yet).
In this article:
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Add Slido to Microsoft Teams
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Add Slido to your Teams meeting
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Prepare your meeting
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Run your meeting
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Frequently asked questions
Add Slido to Microsoft Teams
To begin with, add Slido to Microsoft teams, either by using Microsoft AppSource or by opening Apps in your Teams.
Afterwards, please make sure that you have enabled Turn on new meetings experience under Microsoft Teams Settings → General.
If you 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.
Add Slido to your Teams meeting
Before you can add Slido to your meeting, please first:
- Schedule the meeting (either via the Microsoft Teams calendar or Outlook)
- Invite at least one participant to the meeting if it’s scheduled via calendar (not needed with Outlook)
Afterwards, open the meeting either by:
- Clicking Edit (if the meeting’s been scheduled via the calendar)
- OR by clicking Meeting options in the invite body (if the meeting’s been scheduled via Outlook - as shown below)
You can then add Slido to your meeting:
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Click the + button in the menu bar and choose Slido
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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
Please note that you have to add Slido individually to each meeting where you want to use it.
Prepare your meeting
Afterwards, you can set up your polls and Q&A session as needed.
Run your meeting
If you’ve added Slido to your Teams meeting, the audience will automatically see it right next to the video call. The admin interface is visible only to you.
During the meeting, Slido is visible both to you and the participants directly in the window during your call.
You can manage the event and the participants can interact with it without the need to switch the windows or apps.
This is how the integration works for your participants:
Alternative solution: Collect questions outside of a meeting
If you want to collect questions outside of a meeting, you can add Slido to your Teams channel.
Create or select an event and other channel members can ask and upvote questions directly there, as shown below:
Frequently asked questions
Why does an organizer need to invite participants first, before being able to add Slido app as a tab?
You only have to invite someone if the meeting’s been scheduled using Teams Calendar. When scheduling it using Outlook Calendar, you actually don’t have to invite anyone.
Is Teams extensibility (apps) going to be supported in Teams Live Events and other types of meetings?
Yes, meeting organizers will be able to add Slido in an ad-hoc (chat) meeting, channel meeting as well as Live events (the webinar product).
I have to use the previous method using a tab - I also have the same issue I add slido to a team and then get no + button - It worked when I tried it a couple of weeks ago but now it doesn’t. So frustrated :-(