Using Pigeonhole Live as a Speaker Collaborator with Google Slides

What is Speaker Collaboration on Google Slides?

As a Speaker, your Event Organiser may have invited you to collaborate on Pigeonhole session(s). This enables you to boost the engagement of your presentation by adding interactivities like Q&A, Polls, Quizzes, and more, to your presentation, and add them as slides in presentation apps like PowerPoint or Google Slides. 

When the interactivities are presented, your audience would be able to access the interactivity via their devices and start asking questions, voting on polls, and more.

How to begin?

• You should have received notice from your Event Organiser that you have been invited to collaborate as a Speaker
• You will need to install the Pigeonhole Live add-on to your Google Slides

Installation

In Google Slides > Extensions > Add-ons > click Get add-ons.

Search for "Pigeonhole Live" and Install to install the add-on to your Google Slides.

Do reach out to us if you are unable to to install the add-ons.

Logging in

In Extensions, click on Pigeonhole Live to launch the login screen.

On the login screen,

• If you have an existing Pigeonhole Live account, select Log in.
• If you do not have an existing Pigeonhole Live account, select Invited to collaborate as a speaker

Enter your email address (the same one that the event organiser assigned collaboration access to) and click Continue to Login.

An access code will be triggered and sent to your inbox. Check your inbox for the access code. Input the code to continue.

On successful login, the right hand panel will show a list of sessions that you have been invited to.

Click on the session you want to use for your presentation.

You can then start creating interactivities and add them to your presentation.

Creating interactivities

A Speaker can add the following interactivities to their presentations: Q&A, multiple-choice poll, Quiz, Assessment, Word cloud, Open-ended poll, and Survey.

• Q&A: Engage your audience with real-time questions and answers
• Multiple choice poll: Gauge audience understanding and preferences with interactive polls
• Quiz: Test audience knowledge and create a fun, competitive atmosphere
• Assessment: Evaluate audience learning and identify areas for improvement
• Word cloud: Visualise audience responses and highlight key themes
• Open-ended poll: Gather in-depth feedback and answers to a question
• Survey: Collect detailed data and insights for post-event analysis

A Speaker will be able to manage interactivities up to 7 days after the event date. The event date can be found under the session list details.

An overview of the settings available for each interactivity type:

Interactivity	Settings	Description
Q&A	Anonymous response	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses
	Question filtering	Allow a moderator to review and manage participant-submitted questions before displaying to the audience Share the Moderate Responses link, and navigate to the interactivity to manage and filter questions
	Comments filtering	Allow a Moderator to review and manage participant-submitted comments before displaying to the audience
	Answers	Allows Speakers to add answers to questions asked by participants using the Moderate link
	Answer ratings	Participants can privately rate answers given by the Speaker
	Question votes	Participants can vote on questions submitted
	Attendees can only view their own submitted questions	Participants can only view the questions they have submitted
	Display questions by	Display questions by top-voted or latest submission
Multiple Choice Poll	Anonymous response	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses
	Comments	When there is only 1 question in the MCQ, allow participants to comment on the question
	Comments filtering	Allow a moderator to review and manage participant-submitted comments before displaying to the audience
	Attendees can change their vote	Attendees can change their vote before confirming submission
Quiz	Presenter pace	When enabled, questions will go to the next one automatically after a set time.
	Audience Pace	Audiences can vote on questions at their own time. The presenter will need to move the quiz onwards manually.
	Anonymous responses	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses
	Leaderboards	Rank your participants on overall performance, based on the speed and accuracy of their answers
	Attendees can change their vote	Attendees can change their vote before confirming submission
	Starting a quiz	Use the Moderate Responses link, navigate to the quiz to start the quiz
Assessment	Anonymous response	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses
	Attendees see the correct answers on the Audience Web App after submitting	Reveal correct answer to participants after they submit their response
Word Cloud	Answers	Customise the number of responses an attendee can submit
	Anonymous response	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses
	Answer filtering	Allow a moderator to review and manage participant-submitted answers before displaying to the audience
Open-ended Poll	Anonymous responses	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses
	Answer filtering	Allow a moderator to review and manage participant-submitted answers before displaying to the audience
	Comments	Allow participants to comment on answers submitted by other participants
	Comment filtering	When comments are enabled, allow a moderator to review and manage comments before displaying to the audience
Survey	Anonymous responses	Enabling this allows participants to participate anonymously and their profile information would not be saved nor tied to their responses

Managing interactivities

Adding interactivities as slides

To add an interactivity as a slide, hover over the interactivity, and an orange Add icon will appear for interactivities that can be added as slides. Interactivities that do not have the icon cannot be added as slides.

Add sign-in instructions for the audience

Add Sign-in instructions to display Pigeonhole join instructions on a new slide. This allows your audience to scan the QR code and be able to automatically follow the interactivities presented.

Editing interactivities

Hover over the top right of each interactivity to find more settings.

Select Edit to edit options or settings for an interactivity.

Hiding interactivities

By default, interactivities added to the presentation are hidden from the audience until presented, indicated by a hidden eye icon. Only when the interactivity (like the Poll in the screenshot) is the presented slide, then audiences will be able to participate. This gives Speakers the control of when to reveal the interactivity for attendees.

Some presenters might want to allow audiences to access the interactivity on their devices at their own time between interactivities that the Speaker is presenting. Then, they can select to Show the interactivity.

This could be desired in some situations, such as allowing audiences to ask questions in a Q&A throughout the presentation. 

Clearing responses

Before a presentation begins, you can test out how your interactivities would function as it would during the actual presentation. You might find it useful to run the presentation, and simulate how your audiences would experience the event on their devices by scanning the qr code and responding to your interactivities.

After you are done testing, you can then select the interactivities that you have tested with, and clear your test responses. This ensures that your post-event Insights consists solely of actual answers from your attendees without including your test data.

Deleting interactivities

To remove an interactivity completely, select Delete. This removes all the data and slides related to the interactivity.

Presentation mode

When you are ready to present your deck, click the Present button on the Pigeonhole Live sidebar to ensure the live results load in the session slides. Using Google’s native Slideshow button will not be able to load the live results.

In presentation mode, your audience members who have accessed Pigeonhole interactivities through the QR code or link will see the following:

• When a regular, non-Pigeonhole slide is presented, audience members are able to navigate freely between shown interactivities
• When a Pigeonhole slide is presented, audience members will see the currently presented interactivity on their devices

Note: Due to Google Slides technical limitations, using the Present button to present might result in certain functionalities like slide animation, gifs, and hyperlinks (including embedded videos), not working as intended.

Sharing links

Invite attendees

Share interactivities via Copy link or Download QR code.

Some presenters might want to share the link before their presentation begins to collect responses for interactivities such as Q&A, or even share the link after to collect responses for interactivities such as Survey.

Note: To share a link and have attendees be able to view and access the interactivities, do ensure that the interactivities are Shown and not Hidden.

Moderate responses

Some presenters may require moderation for their interactivities, including those who:

• Have enabled filtering in their settings
• Are Quiz presenters

Presenters can share the Moderate Responses link ahead of the presentation so that their teammates can help to filter responses, or start a Quiz. Learn more about filtering questions

Interactivity analytics

If you would like to access the analytics for your interactivities, please contact your Event Organiser for more information.

Troubleshooting

For speakers, a presentation deck can only host interactivities for one session.

Switch session message

If you would like to change to another session, existing interactivity slides would be automatically removed from the presentation before being able to change sessions.