Check for understanding in real‑time
Use live polls or quizzes to check if your students are keeping up with the lecture. This will help you identify the points that need clarification and adjust your lesson accordingly.
Slido for education
Maximize the learning of your students
Keep your students engaged with live polls, quizzes and interactive Q&A, all without downloading apps or leaving your presentation.
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Empower quiet students to ask questions
Remove students’ fear of asking questions in front of the class. With Slido, they can post questions anonymously from their phones and upvote the questions they like.
Collect feedback to improve your classes
Become a better teacher, one lecture at a time. Ask for feedback with simple surveys and see how your students vote and participate over time.
What you get from Slido for Education
Integration with your slides
Create polls, quizzes and Q&A within your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations.
Support for virtual classes
Integrate Slido with Microsoft Teams and engage students both online and in the room.
Quizzes
Make learning more fun with friendly competitions. Includes timer and leaderboard.
Special pricing
Get unlimited polls, quizzes and surveys with our special rates for teachers and professors.
Live polls & surveys
5 types of polls available: multiple choice, rating, open text, word cloud and survey.
Anonymous Q&A
Collect, display and analyze your students’ most pressing questions.
Works with your favorite tools
PowerPoint
Integrate Slido with your PowerPoint and present seamlessly using just a clicker.
Google Slides
Add polls, quizzes and Q&A directly to your Google Slides presentation with our add-on.
Microsoft Teams
Presenting to a virtual or hybrid class? Engage your students as they watch your lecture.
The average student performed the entire letter-grade higher than they did before we started using Slido.
Careers staff use Slido for quick pulse checks with students. When they do live activities on Zoom, Slido gives the presenter the ability to ask quick questions that students can answer anonymously.
Slido helps me check that students not only memorized something but also understood it. It makes students think about what’s being said, not just listen.
Slido helps me to design more interactive tutorials and increase students’ participation in classes.
Popular use cases
Quick formative assessment
Get a pulse-check on how well your class has understood the material you are presenting.
Recap your lecture with a quiz
Find out how much your students have learned by hosting a fun quiz at the end of the session.
Crowdsource students’ questions
Collect the most important questions in a safe way and address any unclear points.
Find more examples in our ebook
Get our free guide with more tips on how to use live polls to make your lectures engaging and fun.
How it works
Prepare your lecture directly in PowerPoint or Google Slides using our integrations. Add your polls, quizzes or Q&A and customize the code the students will use to participate in your class.
Students can join simply by scanning a QR code or going to slido.com and entering your Slido code. No app downloads necessary.
When presenting, all you need is a clicker. Slido polls and Q&A will be activated automatically as you go through your slides.
After your session, you can easily export all the data into Excel or Google Sheets and analyze the results.
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Frequently asked questions
- Am I eligible for the EDU pricing?
- If you are a professor or teacher with active teaching engagement in a school or university, you are eligible. EDU plans are also available for students. Our pricing will automatically detect your eligibility based on your email domain. Learn more about our criteria and review process.
- How can I deal with irrelevant questions?
- There are several ways to prevent your students from misusing the Q&A. You can encourage them to ask only relevant questions, or turn on the moderation to review the incoming questions before your students can see them. Alternatively, you can require people to sign in with their names.
- Is the free version enough, or should I purchase a plan?
- The free version allows you to use all of our core features. However, if you want to ask more than 3 poll questions per session, moderate the Q&A, create surveys or export your data, you’ll need to purchase the Professional plan.
- Is my computer enough to run Slido?
- Yes, you can run Slido directly from PowerPoint or Google Slides. If you want to run a separate Slido session, you can open Slido in your browser and display the Present mode.