Guide to Slido

Slido is an online Q&A system that will allow participants to enter their questions, and the moderator to select which questions will be asked to the candidates.

The advantage of Slido is that you can filter questions, see what questions have been voted as more important, and choose which question to ask the candidates next.

We have created a Slido account for you, and the login details will be included in the email that this document came with. However, if your church already has an account, then we recommend using that.

Before the event, take a few minutes to familiarise yourself with Slido. Log into the Q&A panel, and (on another device) ask a couple of test questions. Be sure you delete the test questions before the night!

MC’s Q&A Panel

The Q&A panel is where the MC can see questions being asked by the audience and select the next question to ask the candidates.

Logging into the panel

Go to slido.com and click the “Log in” button on the top right corner. Use your church account, or the login details that we have sent to you.

There should be an event created for your forum (we’re using Ryde as our example)

Click on the event, and you will be taken to the “polls” page. We are not using polls, so we want to go to the “Q&A” page. You can find that on the top menu.

On a large screen, you will see two panels – on the left is “Questions for Review” and on the right is “Live”. On a phone, those panels will be tabs at the top of the screen. The left or “review” panel is for larger conferences where questions are moderated before being made visible to all other participants and the MC. We are not using moderation, so questions asked by the audience will instantly appear on the right side “live” panel.

Managing Questions

As the audience asks questions, they will appear on the “live” panel

On each question you will see the name of the asker (or anonymous if they did not provide one) and the question.

Each question will have a blue “up” arrow, and a green “tick” (on a laptop you might have to hover over the question for those buttons to appear)

When planning to answer a question next, click on the blue button to pin it to the top.
When the question is answered, click the tick to mark it answered and remove it from the list (a question erroneously marked as “answered” can be found in the “archive” panel and restored).
There is also a “star” button to mark questions you want to get back to later

Questions are sorted in order of votes, with the most popular at the top.

Audience asking questions

Audience members who want to ask questions can access the audience panel at slido.com by entering the unique code for your forum. We have provided that unique code in the email, and in the PowerPoint slide.

Once they have entered that code, they will see a panel similar to the MC’s panel, where they can ask their own questions and up-vote questions they agree with.

Using Slido on the night

On the night, introduce Slido early and put up the PowerPoint slide we have provided you (or an alternative). You can keep that slide up for most of the night.

When the slide comes up, you can say something like:

“We are using Slido to manage our questions. Go to slido.com and type in the number on the screen. You can ask your own questions, or click the thumbs up to vote for another question”

When you get to the stage of answering questions, if the MC is choosing questions to answer, there is a little bit of a juggle as you engage with the answers and look ahead to choose the next question.