Visit www.slido.com and log in using the Login box at the top right. If you don’t have an account, they’re free to create and will allow you to customise your activity right up to the event day.

The next screen lists your events past, present and future along with the relevant event code (looks like a hashtag). You can click on any of these to launch the management page. To create a new one from scratch click Create Event.

In the popup that appears, fill out the relevant information to create your event. As a guide:
1. The Event Name will be seen by users after typing in the event code and during the event, so choose something easy to understand.
2. The Start Date and End Date control when your code is live on Slido’s servers. Whilst you can test using the website itself before and after your event is LIVE, it’s best advised for testing using phones/tables in the department to straddle your event date the day before the actual day (e.g: Make a 2 day event for a 1 day session)
3. The Event code is what makes your activity unique to others and works in the same way a hashtag does on social networking platforms. The difference is that these codes aren’t permanent so you can reuse them on different events and in turn they can be used when nobody else is using them (the website can tell you if the one you want is in use when you create the event).
Once in the management page for your event you’ll find several sections to help you plan your activities.
1. Settings will allow you to revisit the options you entered when creating the event as well as some extra settings to personalise the experience.

Audience Q&A posting (which we typically use for free text questions) is always enabled when your event is not running anything else and when responses arrive, they can be found in the right hand column on the main page.

If you want to save questions to make note of later hover over the chosen question and click on Star Question.
To emphasize a question to users, click on the Highlight question option which will make the background on both yours and the presentation screen turn blue.
To help manage questions you have answered, you can move questions to the archive list by choosing Mark as answered. To get to these later, choose the Archive filter at the top of the list.
NOTE: On the free plan the moderation panel on the left has no purpose.

Ideas are a similar approach to the above but take on the form of isolated, focused topics that can be made live to users on demand. To access ideas, click on the Ideas tab at the top of the page.
1. To create a new topic, select the New Topic button and give it a name.
2. To launch your topic, hover over the chosen one and click on the green play button. You can only have one topic active at a time. When you have finished you can press the red stop button when hovering over a topic to deactivate it and return the presentation screen to Q&A.
3. Similar to Audience Q&A you can organise, highlight and remove ideas using the three buttons on the right of each idea when hovered over.
  NOTE: On the free plan you can only have one created topic at a time

Live Polls take an approach similar to Qwizdom and allow users to participate in fun activities such as word clouds and quizzes. An example of each is in the screenshot below.
1. To create a new poll from scratch select the Create poll button and choose an activity from the menu that appears. Fill in the relevant information from the popup that appears after that.
2. If you’d prefer to use a predefined activity, you can use the Browse Templates button to get a head start.
3. To launch your poll, hover over it and select the green play button. You can only have one poll active at a time. When you have finished you can press the red stop button when hovering over a poll to deactivate it and return the presentation screen to Q&A.
  NOTE: On the free plan you can only have one of each type of created poll at a time. Surveys are also unavailable to free users.

Presenting your Slido Event

Before you begin, ensure your computer is set up to display in Extended Mode if it is able to. This allows you to moderate the event and have the presentation screen on the Projector simultaneously. To do this on a Windows computer, hold down the Windows key and press the P key once. From the options that appear in the centre of the screen (Windows 7) or on the right hand side (Windows 8.1/10) selected Extend.

Once on your event management page, hover over the Present Mode button and select Present on another screen. Drag the windows that appears onto the Projector screen (by default, this is usually off to the right of your PC monitor) and select FULLSCREEN from the floating panel in the Present window. If dragging proves a struggle an alternative way to do it is to hold down the Windows key and use the right arrow key until it appears in the centre of the projection screen (if it doesn’t work, try using left as it may be set up differently).

Connecting Students to Slido

Get them to visit www.slido.com on their devices
On the homepage, have them enter your Event code in the box on the left of the page and press the Join button once found.