--- title: "Slido: Poll Question Types" canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/TL/26510852133/Slido%3A%20Poll%20Question%20Types" format: markdown --- Polls are a great way to collect input from your students. You can use them for activities, to test knowledge, or to elicit feedback. You can choose from various types of single polls, or activate multiple polls at once and build them into a Survey. > ℹ️ To get a poll set up, you must first create an event in Slido. Instructions on how to create an event can be found here: [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510884929](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510884929) Click on your event, then select the **Interactions** tab on the top left. Next to interactions, select the ***+ Add ***button. You will then see the options to **Create new interactions** for: - [Audience Q&A](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Audience-Q%26A) - [Multiple Choice Poll](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Multiple-Choice-Poll) - [Word Cloud](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Word-Cloud) - [Open Text Poll](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Open-Text-Poll) - [Ranking Poll](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Ranking-Poll) - [Rating Poll](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Rating-Poll) - [Quiz](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Quiz) You can also group multiple of these poll types together by creating a [survey](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/26510852133/Slido+Poll+Question+Types#Survey). ## Audience Q&A ![image-20260202-171929.png](media://e3b0a66f-517c-428a-8ffe-b6657fd38d4c) With Audience Q&A, attendees can use their devices to send their questions into Slido. They’re also able to upvote questions submitted by other participants. The Q&A is unlimited, and so participants will be able to submit as many questions as they wish. You can also manage questions as the host. There are a few different actions you can take on questions: 1. Highlight the question that’s being answered so that it gets more attention. ![image-20260202-172326.png](media://404eceae-f15e-4e93-ab27-42f2f765cdf6) 2. Mark the question as answered once you don’t want to display it anymore. You can then view those questions in the Archive folder. ![image-20260202-172207.png](media://6d1701f7-9251-4b2e-986b-43286883ebad) 3. Change the order of the questions. By default, the questions will be sorted by their popularity, but you can change this to have the most recent questions at the top. ![image-20260202-172243.png](media://93283e6d-4d8f-46ac-8cc0-a1b63232bed2) **Note**: Unlike other question types, Audience Q&A is only added once per Slido session. However, it can be opened and closed as desired. ## Multiple Choice Poll ![Multiple Choice Poll](media://d558af15-ba45-4f31-918a-4e7f633c17e6) Poll the audience with a multiple-choice question to learn more about their preferences and opinions. A multiple-choice poll is also a quick way to check your audience's understanding of presented content in real time. Each option in a multiple-choice poll can be up to 256 characters long. You can check **multiple options** by clicking the Poll options gear icon to enable the users to pick more than one option. You can select how many options you’d allow them to select. This would work well if you had multiple correct answers in your poll. There is a toggle in the Poll options for marking a correct answer if this is the case. ## Word Cloud ![Student view of a word cloud](media://e396a618-1154-4171-8af1-cdf2f063ef05) A word cloud turns open-text responses into a cloud of words whose size will depend on how many times they have been submitted by the participants. In the poll settings of a Word cloud, you have toggle settings to allow multiple responses your participants can submit as many answers as they’d like, a profanity filter to prevent explicit words and phrases, and you can set a character limit. > ℹ️ Word clouds work best visually with short answers so advise your participants to use one to three words when using the word cloud to get the best results ## Open Text Poll ![Student view of an open text poll](media://49b0ffc9-8048-4b39-82f7-ef629e00e03a) Use the open text poll to have attendees type in words or longer text. Perfect for open-ended questions to inspire. You can toggle on multiple answers and show respondent names from the Poll settings if you’d like to see where the ideas are coming from! Please note that the open text poll is **limited to 5,000 responses** to optimize performance. ## Ranking Poll ![Student view of a ranking poll](media://ff771b0b-bffb-4863-8e23-3a10a4136ead) Learn about your participants’ preferences by letting them prioritize the options with a ranking poll. The poll settings give you the option to select the number of options you’d like ranked, and an option to randomize the options displayed for each participant. ## Rating Poll ![Student view of a rating poll](media://808ef063-698a-424d-aa22-3bdf92d9291e) Create a rating poll and allow attendees to send feedback on your presentation or rate their experience. A rating poll can be from 1 to 10 stars or even emojis. ## Quiz Similar to *Kahoot* (another online quizzing platform). You can create a quiz containing a collection of multiple-choice questions that students can answer using Slido. ## Survey Similar to a Quiz, Surveys are a collection of questions for students to answer. However, unlike a Quiz, Surveys are not limited to multiple-choice questions. For example, you could start with a word cloud, followed by a rating poll, or an open text poll to ask for the reason for your rating. You can add a survey to your interactions to run multiple polls at the same time. This lets you collect feedback, rate multiple items, and add an "other" option to a multiple-choice poll. To create a survey, select the *+ Create survey *button within any selected Poll**.** From here, you can then build your survey, by adding and selecting the poll types available to you from the menu. > ℹ️ For further information or assistance with Slido, please contact the Educational Technology Office at [edtech@uconn.edu](mailto:edtech@uconn.edu) or (860) 486-5052.