The Presentation Pigeonhole is a lightweight choice designed for single-flow scenarios like team meetings, classes, and quick demonstrations. It’s comprised of interactivities, including:
- Q&A
- Multiple choice poll
- Quiz
- Assessment
- Word cloud
- Open-ended poll
- Survey
The landing page for a new Presentation
When you add a new Interactivity to a Presentation Pigeonhole, it creates a new slide.
The following table shows the number of interactivities for each plan type.
| Interactivity | Basic Plan | Pro Plan and above |
|---|---|---|
| Polls (Multiple choice poll, Quiz, Assessment, Word cloud, Open-ended poll) | 5 total | Unlimited |
| Q&A | 1 | 1 |
| Survey | 1 | Unlimited |
The following table shows the maximum number of questions per Interactivity. Where an Interactivity allows only one question, the Projector Panel displays one question per slide. For other interactivities, the presenter clicks through the questions.
| Interactivity | Questions |
|---|---|
| Assessment | Unlimited |
| Multiple choice poll | 1 |
| Open-ended poll | 1 |
| Q&A | 1 |
| Quiz | Unlimited |
| Survey | Unlimited |
| Word cloud | 1 |
Showing a Presentation Pigeonhole
With a Presentation Pigeonhole, the Audience Web App shows the same Interactivity as the Projector Panel. Attendees can’t go to other slides on their own. This flow boosts audience engagement, focus, and utility. You can be confident the audience is seeing exactly what you're talking about, leading to a smoother delivery.
By default, participants can view and engage with interactivities in the Audience Web App as long as:
- The Presentation Pigeonhole is in Active status (which remains the case until the set End Date)
- Polls are set to Shown (the default setting)
- Q&A interactivities are pinned (the default setting)
However, you can hide an Interactivity until you present it live. For example, you might want to hide a Quiz or Assessment.
For more information, see Present a Presentation Pigeonhole.
Status
By default, a Presentation Pigeonhole is Active when you create it. The interactivities are shown and accessible in the Audience Web App. This lets participants engage with questions or surveys right away. This functionality is ideal for:
- Collecting questions before you present
- Gathering final survey responses after you present
The status of a Presentation Pigeonhole switches to Ended after a set period of time. When this occurs, it becomes inaccessible to the audience but remains editable. To restore access, simply change the end date. All interactivities share the same status as the Pigeonhole.
The default active periods are:
- Basic plans: 30 days
- Paid plans: 90 days
You can change the end date for a Presentation Pigeonhole manually.
About sharing
If you plan to co-present or receive help managing your talk, share the Pigeonhole with an assistant. Your colleague or assistant can then help manage the flow and audience interaction.
The Share Presentation window showing the link and QR code for sharing with an Admin. The Admins tab and Share button are highlighted
Limitations
By design, the Presentation Pigeonhole doesn’t support the following features:
- Adding speakers or tracks
- Nesting interactivities
- Agenda page
- Moderator Panel
There are also a few limitations during the Beta period:
- Data isn’t tracked in Workspace Analytics.
- The Presentation Pigeonhole is not supported on the dedicated meeting apps for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex.
Settings
You have comprehensive control over your Presentation Pigeonhole, including details, audience access, and more. All settings must be configured from the Dashboard. To configure them, select the gear icon in the left sidebar.
The settings landing page shows the general settings. The settings (gear) icon is highlighted.
General
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Presentation name | The name for the Presentation Pigeonhole. |
| Passcode | The passcode for joining. |
| End date | The date the Presentation switches from Active to Ended status, preventing audience access. Use this field to override the default End date. |
| Presentation language | The language to use. |
| Audience Web App languages | The languages participants can choose from in the Audience Web App. |
Interactivities
| Interactivity type | Setting | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Q&A | Default profile selection | Sets whether by default participant responses are submitted with their profile information or anonymously. To capture profile information, you must also select Allow participants to create profiles in the Attendees settings. |
| Q&A | Vote settings | Sets whether participants can only upvote questions, or if they can also downvote them. |
| Q&A | Question length | Limits questions to either 200 or 400 characters. |
| Open-ended poll | Default profile selection | Sets whether participant responses are submitted with their profile information or anonymously by default. To capture profile information, you must also select Allow participants to create profiles in the Attendees settings. |
| Open-ended poll | Answer length | Limits answers to either 200 or 400 characters. |
| Word cloud | Default profile selection | Sets whether participant responses are submitted with their profile information or anonymously by default. To capture profile information, you must also select Allow participants to create profiles in the Attendees settings. |
| All | Reactions | Makes up to four reactions, or emojis, available to participants. Select from preset options, or select Add to upload custom reactions in PNG, JPG, or GIF format. |
Attendees
You can let participants create profiles in the Attendees area of the Pigeonhole settings. The profile information can then be captured along with their responses if:
- The participant creates a profile in the Audience Web App
- The Default profile selection in the settings for Interactivity is set to Submit with Profile by default
This information helps you understand your participants better. At a minimum, a Profile contains the participant’s Name and Email. To add more Profile fields select Add field, then select the field to add from the drop-down list. The choices are:
- Role
- Company
- Department
- Industry
- Position
- Phone
- Country
- Staff ID
- Image
- Custom field
The settings page for Attendees
To change the details about a profile information field, select the Edit button in the row for the field. A new page shows the Field name and allows you to change the Field type and whether the field is Required.
The Edit field page for the Name field
Integrations
The Integrations area of the Presentation Pigeonhole settings gives a high-level overview of how to add interactivities to your PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Security
To improve security and limit access to specific participants, consider requiring participants to authenticate with Single Sign-On (SSO) before accessing the Pigeonhole.