Create a Q&A Interactivity

Adding a Q&A Interactivity to your Presentation Pigeonhole helps you: 

• Gauge Understanding: Get immediate feedback on what concepts are landing and which need more clarity.
• Collect Valuable Insights: Discover what your audience truly cares about.

To learn more, see About Pinned Q&A.

Step 1: Add the Q&A

1. Start a Presentation Pigeonhole by following Steps 1-2 in Create a Presentation Pigeonhole.

2. If the Q&A is the first Interactivity you’re adding to the Presentation, select the Q&A card.

   

   The “Add interactivity to presentation” page for a new Presentation. It shows the cards for all the Interactivity types.

If you already added other interactivities, select Add interactivity > Q&A.

Adding an Interactivity to a Presentation that already has interactivities 

A new slide is added to the Presentation. A card for the Q&A displays in the left sidebar. By default, the Q&A is pinned so participants can access it and submit questions at any time during your Presentation. 

2. (Optional) You can unpin the Q&A. In the left sidebar, hover over the Q&A and select the pin icon.

   

3. In the right sidebar, enter the Q&A name.

   

   The view of a new Q&A Interactivity. Enter the Q&A name in the right sidebar.

4. When you’re finished, select Save changes in the right sidebar.

Step 2: Configure settings

1. (Optional) You can modify the settings for the Q&A in the Settings area below the Q&A itself in the right sidebar. Select More settings to expand the settings panel.
   • Anonymous responses: When disabled (default), participants are asked to create a profile when submitting answers. The organiser can identify participants who submitted answers. When enabled, participants are not identified in the answers they post in the Audience Web App, Panels, and Insights.
   • Question Filtering: When enabled, you can allow or dismiss participant questions before they appear on the Audience Web App and Projector Panel, giving you more control over the content shown.
   • Comments: Enables respondents to comment on Q&A questions. Comments do not appear on the Projector Panel by default, but can be accessed. 
   • Comment filtering: Enables an admin to manage audience comments by choosing to Allow, Edit, or Dismiss them. Only allowed comments are visible to your audience. You can enable or disable this comment filtering feature at any time, even while the Interactivity is live.
   • New question alert on Q&A slide: When a new Q&A question is submitted, it displays on the Q&A slide as a notification with the “New” indicator. When question filtering is enabled, an Admin must approve the question before it displays.
   • Answers: This feature allows you to provide text answers to questions in the Q&A that you were not able to address while the Interactivity was live. Your audience can return to the same URL to view the Admin-approved answers. 
   • Answer Ratings: When a question is marked as answered, participants can privately rate the answer. The answer ratings are not visible to the audience and can be seen only in the PDF and Excel reports of the Interactivity.
   • Reactions: Allows participants to use emojis to react to moments in your live events, live streams, and on-demand videos. Available for plans with Reactions enabled. 
   • Question votes: Adds a vote button to the Audience Web App. participants can vote on submitted questions, including their own. This setting is always on by default. Question voting can only be disabled on Enterprise plans.
   • Participants can only view their own submitted questions: Enables a participant to filter for questions they submitted non-anonymously in the Audience Web App. Participants will not be able to see questions from other participants in the Audience Web App. 
   • Display questions by: You can display questions in the Audience Web App in these orders:
     • Top Tally: The total number of votes.
     • Latest: The order in which they were posted. 
       The audience can also adjust the display in the Audience Web App. 
   • Tags: Create tags to organise questions by topic.
   • Require tags for every question submitted: When enabled, participants must select at least one tag before they can post their question. This ensures every submission is automatically sorted for your moderators and speakers.

The settings for a Q&A Interactivity

Step 3: Save your work

When you’re finished, select Save changes to save the Interactivity.

Step 4: Test the Interactivity

Open the Projector Panel and Audience Web App to view the Q&A from your audience's perspective. Or, practise running it as an organiser with the Admin Panel. 

After testing, you can clear your own responses. Hover over the card for the Interactivity and select the “More options” menu (…) > Clear responses.