Accept and present audience questions

You can start a live Q&A session in your Google Slides presentation and present questions at any time. Viewers can ask questions from any device.

Start a Q&A session

Accept audience questions

1. Open a Google Slides presentation.
2. At the top, next to Slideshow , click the Down arrow .
3. Click Presenter View.
4. In the new window, click Audience tools.
   • To start a new session, click Start new.
   • To resume a recent session, click Continue recent.
   • To end Q&A, click the on/off switch in the Q&A window.
     • Tip: Even if you don't turn off Q&A, the Q&A view closes shortly after you end your Google Slide presentation.

Tip: If you use Google through your work, school, or other organizations, you can choose who can submit questions:

• In the "Presenter view" window, click Audience tools and change "Accepting questions from…"

Show audience questions

Presenters can display audience questions in a presentation:

1. Under "Audience Tools," find a question to display.
2. Click Present.
   • To change the question, find a different question and click Present.
   • To hide the question, click Hide.

Review recent sessions

Presenters can see questions from recent Q&A sessions:

1. Open a Slides presentation.
2. At top, click Tools Q&A history.
3. Recent sessions appear on the right.

Ask a question

Audience members can ask questions in a presentation:

1. Go to the link at the top of the presentation.
2. Click Ask a question… and type a question.
   • Audience members can optionally check the box "Ask anonymously."
3. Click Submit.

Vote on questions

Audience members can vote on the questions to be answered:

1. Go to the Q&A link shown on the slide.
2. Below the question you'd like to vote on, click Up vote or Down vote .