Do you wish your meetings were more engaging?
Are you tired of people not participating?
Even though you know that they have something to say?
Well, in today's video we're gonna solve that problem by using Slido.
A guaranteed way to make your meetings, whether they're in person or virtual, more engaging.
Hello, everyone, Scott Friesen here, at Simpletivity helping you to get more done, and enjoy less stress.
And Slido is a tool that I use on a regular basis.
So let's get started.
Here's a quick example of what Slido can look like for your participants.
Here I've set up a poll, and this is actually a poll I delivered recently, where I asked a question.
Sort of a great way to break the ice, at the beginning of the presentation, or something that you're delivering.
Whether it's a town hall, or maybe a brainstorming meeting.
And I asked my participants,
Create an event
"Hey what are the most common sources of your interruptions?"
And this is what they said.
And the great thing about it, is that it's interactive, and it's live, and your participants don't have to download or install anything.
All they need to do is use their phone, or other device that they may have with them, and go to slido.com.
So let's get started.
Once you've signed up for your Slido account, what we need to do is come in here and we're gonna select, Create an event.
And a couple of things that we need to do here.
Number one, let's give it an event name.
Now you wanna name it something that you're gonna be familiar with.
So you manage your different events here within Slido.
But also keep in mind that this is something that your participants are going to see as well.
So let's say, I'm gonna call this one, a Brainstorming Session.
I don't mind if they see that.
Maybe you have a catchier title, or something else that is relevant to your subject.
Next up we need to select a start, and an end date.
And you can see that many of these end dates, are a few days out.
Because if you are hosting a conference, or maybe you're holding several meetings,
over the course of several days, you wanna use the same polls, or ask the same questions, or collect the same feedback.
So you can either set the start and end date to the same date, or, I'm just gonna leave it as is here.
From July 2nd to July 5th.
And then the last thing we need to do here is either confirm this event code.
It's gonna give you a random number.
This is how participants are going to access Slido, so that they can participate.
But I recommend that you use something custom.
You use something that is very specific, and also maybe simple for your users to remember.
So in this case, I'm gonna say, brain, I don't know, that sounds a little funny to me, I'm just gonna say brainstorm.
Now if someone else who uses Slido, is going to be using this event code in the same time frame, it will not be made available.
And Slido will tell you that up front.
But it looks like I'm safe.
For these three days I can use the event code, brainstorm.
Let's hit, Create Event, and now we're ready to set up our event.
Whether that is setting up our Q and A, or maybe asking some live questions, as in the poll that I just stated here.
So here on the right-hand side.
Q A
This is where our Q&A will be displayed.
But why don’t I show you what it’s going to look like for your participants?
The great thing about Slido is that your participants can participate anonymously.
This means they can ask questions they might be a little embarrassed to ask live, in person, or if their username is attached in a video conferencing setup.
So, I’m going to click “Try Sending a Question.”
We get a preview of what Slido will look like on users' phones.
Typically, you’ll have two options up here at the top: the Q&A, where people can ask questions throughout the presentation or brainstorming session, and the polls.
We haven’t set up a poll yet, but we’ll do that in just a moment.
Let’s pretend we are participants.
I’m going to type, “When are we launching the next product?”
I have the option to add my name, but most people prefer to ask anonymously.
As a presenter, I often encourage anonymity to encourage more feedback and more frequent use of Slido throughout the session.
I’m going to hit “Send,” and you can see on the right-hand side that I can view the questions as they come in.
Below, participants can see their own questions as well as everyone else’s.
Let’s ask a few more questions: “When is lunch?”
There’s always someone asking about the break.
And maybe, “Can we release these notes to our friends?”
Participants can see everything coming in.
Now, I’m going to go over to the right-hand side and go into present mode.
This is what you will share with your viewers, whether you're live, in person, or sharing via video conferencing.
Here, you can see the top questions listed.
I only have three questions in this case, but the great thing is that whether you’re presenting on a large screen or via video conferencing, everyone sees what’s rising to the top.
People can vote on these questions using the thumbs-up icon.
We haven’t upvoted anything yet, but if I go back to the preview and upvote a question, it moves to the top of the list.
This encourages participants to get more involved and read other people’s questions.
You can display about three to five top questions on your screen, prompting people to upvote what interests them most.
This helps you, as the presenter or moderator, see what’s most relevant to your audience.
As a presenter or moderator, you can hover over questions to see options.
For example, clicking the up arrow will bring a question to the top and give it a different color, notifying the audience that this is the question being answered now.
If you like, you can hit the checkmark to remove that question from the list, so only unanswered questions remain.
But it gets better.
As a moderator, you get this preview view on your smart device or desktop.
I love opening up the Q&A early in my presentation to review questions throughout.
I don’t always show this screen to the public; I might be showing my slides or video as I talk.
However, I can preview all the questions coming in and adjust my presentation on the fly based on audience feedback.
This is useful even in large crowds where you might not hear from many people directly.
You can get a sense of what’s going on and address the most relevant concerns or interests first, rather than just responding to the quickest hand-raiser.
Polls
To be quiet, and keeps talking over everyone else.
So a fantastic tool for engagement.
But, it doesn't stop there.
Let's go over here to Live Polls, and see if we can set up a live poll, like I showed you right off the top.
Now there's a few different polls that we can create here.
Multiple choice, is a great ice breaker, it's very engaging, it's very easy for people to use right?
'Cause they don't have to enter in any text.
But there's some other good ones you wanna keep in mind as well.
You can create a word cloud.
This is great if you're asking a question such as, "In one word, how would you describe this?", or "In one word how would you describe how you're feeling today?"
The reason why I suggest using the one word, for the word cloud is that, of course, the answers that are given multiple times are going to grow, and they're gonna show bigger, like we see here on this example with clear goals.
You can add a quiz, which is relatively new here within Slido.
You can add a rating, you know, "Out of four stars", or "Out of ten stars, how are you feeling today?"
Another great ice breaker.
Multiple Choice
And you can also just do open text, which is similar to Q and A, although you can't vote on these ones.
So this is more just bubble text that will be appearing.
But probably the one I use most often with my meetings, with my presentations is multiple choice.
Now it's fairly straightforward, but let's just go through the different features, the different options here, so you can create your own multiple choice questions like a pro.
So, multiple choice, let's say, let's do something very, very easy here, "What is your favorite pet?" okay, we'll say "What is your favorite pet?"
And of course we gotta give a few different options here, so I'm gonna say, dog, cat, I'm gonna say fish maybe, and let's say other.
Let's give another other option as well.
Now, there's a few other choices here.
We can say, mark the correct answer, if this is more of a quiz format, right?
If you want to try and see, maybe you wanna test your audience, halfway through, or part-way through your presentation.
Have they been listening?
Give them a multiple choice question, and see if they can guess the correct answer.
I'm gonna leave this one unchecked for now, but the one below, can be very helpful, depending on what you want to have your participants' feedback with here.
Do you want to allow multiple options?
Now, by default this is gonna be unchecked, but you can check this, and then also set a limit.
So this can be great if you wanna maybe ask a question like, "What are your two favorite pets?" Or "What are your two most favorite, or three most favorite?"
And then you can say what that limit is, so that they can't choose more than that.
I'm gonna uncheck it in this particular case, I just want them to pick a particular option here.
And all I need to do now is hit Save.
So now my multiple choice is ready to go.
By default, my Q and A is gonna be the thing that is presented, when I go into this presentation view.
And as I mentioned before, your participants will never have to worry where they need to go.
Whether they have a phone, any device with a web browser, just go to slido.com and here is going to be the event code listed right below.
But let's say I wanna ask this multiple choice question.
So in the administrator view on my phone, or here within the desktop version.
I just need to hit, Play.
And by hitting Play, the right side of my screen is going to showcase this, but you'll see, if I go back to the presentation view, it is now gonna show the poll.
It's gonna switch over from the Q and A, and show my poll.
And the great thing about it is, that you can see if the majority of people are coming into the poll, because this little ticker in the right-hand side, you can see over here, if I go to my first example, I had 19 people participate in this poll.
This ticker will go up live, so you can tell if people are having trouble, you can tell if the majority of the room, or the majority of your audience is coming in or not.
But the other great thing is that this poll is dynamic.
So, as people start to vote, these bars will start to expand, or get smaller, depending on what is most popular.
And I find time and time again, people really, really enjoy this.
When I use Slido at a conference, or in a live situation, people are often laughing, they're having a good time, sometimes they change their decision, based on what they see up here.
It's often a fight to the end.
You know, is dog gonna win, is cat gonna win?
And it comes right down as a nail-biter.
People really, really enjoy the engagement level, here with Slido.
Now if you wanna make your online meetings more engaging, I would encourage you to view my video on how to use breakout rooms in Zoom.
It's a fantastic way to get the conversation going.
Or you can click the video to the right, to watch the latest video, right here on Simpletivity.
Remember, being productive does not need to be difficult.
In fact, it's very simple.
