Using the Word Cloud Slide
A word cloud lets you pose a question and have participants submit short written responses. All the responses are displayed on one screen, with the most popular responses appearing larger in the cloud.
The most popular reponse will be the largest one in the cloud and will sit directly in the middle of all other repsonses.
The most popular reponse will be the largest one in the cloud and will sit directly in the middle of all other repsonses.
In the example above, the word 'hola' was entered more times than the other words by participants, making it the biggest and most central response.
Setting up your Word Cloud
Check out this video for a 1-minute explainer on how to set up a live word cloud 👇
Step 1: Create your slide and question
Start by creating a new slide and selecting the word cloud slide type from the options. Write your question or statement in the 'your question' box.
Step 2: Change your word cloud settings
Change the settings of your word cloud to your liking. There are 6 settings that you can change:
1. Entries per participant: The amount of responses that each of your participants is allowed to submit. This can be between 1 and 10.
2. Time limit: This applies a time limit to the slide. When checked, you can choose your time limit between 5 seconds and 20 minutes.
While running the word cloud slides, you have the option to turn off the timer or change the time limit. If you turn off the timer, you cannot turn it on again in the present mode. You will need to switch back to edit mode to enable the timer again.
3. Close submission: Close submissions for specific slides can be useful if you need to clarify a question before your audience submits their answers, or for any other reason where you do not want the participants to submit their answers to a question at that moment.
When presenting, you can click the "Submission closed" icon to enable the audience to submit their answers, and click on the "Submission opened" icon to close it.
4. Hide results: This hides the submitted responses from the presenter's screen as they're being submitted. On the slide, there will be a button to reveal the responses whenever you want.
5. Allow audience to submit more than once: This allows each participant to submit their responses an unlimited amount of times.
Filter profanity: This turns on the profanity filter, which automatically censors English language swear words when they're submitted by your audience. (Note: checking this box will apply the profanity filter throughout your entire presentation.)
Step 3: Present and get responses
Once you press the 'Present' button, your participants will be able to submit their responses to your word cloud.
The word cloud will update with each response that comes in. It will assign a random colour to a new response and each word in the cloud (except for the most popular word at the centre) will shift to a different, random position.
You can manually delete any response in the word cloud simply by clicking on it. Doing so will shift the responses in the cloud to another random position.
If you delete the most popular response at the centre of the cloud, the next most popular one will fill its place.
Smart Grouping your Word Clouds
On AhaSlides, you have the capability to intelligently group word clouds. Enhancing the presenter's ability to interpret audience responses effectively. With Smart Grouping, words with similar meanings are clustered together, enabling a swift understanding of prevalent patterns within the responses.
To group responses within a Word Cloud slide, follow these steps:
- While presenting, navigate to the bottom of the presenter's screen.
- Locate and click on the 'Group' icon.
This action will instantly organize words with similar meanings, enhancing the clarity and efficiency of your analysis. Click on the icon again to ungroup.
The Word Cloud slide supports maximum 5,000 submissions.
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