Split the Points is an unscored, allocation-style Vote slide. Each participant is handed one whole — a fixed total you choose — and divides it across the categories you define. There are no right answers and no leaderboard; the point is to reveal where a room's collective priority, appetite, or spend actually lands when people can't back everything equally.
Reach for it any time "pick one" is too blunt and you need people to show how much each option matters relative to the others. The presenter canvas aggregates every split into a live weighted-average chart, so trade-offs and camps show up in real time.
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1. Create a new slide and select Split the Points under the 'Vote' section of the slide type picker, next to Poll.
2. Question / prompt — the headline shown on the canvas and above the audience ballot. Leaving it blank falls back to a suggested placeholder ("How would you split our innovation budget?").
3. Categories — the options participants split across, from 2 to 8 (default 4). Use the add control for a new row and the trash icon to remove one; reorder with the up/down arrows or by dragging. Blank rows are dropped from the stage and ballot once you start presenting.
4. Unit — how the total reads. Three choices:
5. Total — the whole each participant distributes. Fixed at 100 in percent mode; freely set between 10 and 10,000 for points or custom (default 100).
Note 👉 Once the slide has collected at least one response, the total locks — changing the pool would invalidate splits already cast, so reset the slide's results first.
6. Increment (step) — how much each +/− tap moves. Defaults to 5% of the total (5 at a total of 100) and is bounded to 1%–10% of the total, so spending the whole pool always takes a similar number of taps whatever scale you pick. Changing the total re-scales the increment proportionally.
7. Shuffle options — off by default. When on, each audience member sees the categories in their own stable random order, so a category's position on the ballot can't sway the split. Your own order and ranking are unaffected.
8. Results chart — how the canvas visualises the aggregate: Pie (default), Bars, Columns, Stacked, Radial, or Treemap. All chart types read the same per-category averages — they only differ in form, so you can switch styles at any time without affecting anyone's submitted answers.
Allocating: participants see the question and one stepper row per category — a minus button, a number field, and a plus button (no slider). Taps move by the increment you set, or the amount can be typed directly. A "Left to place" meter tracks the unspent remainder, and an entry can never push the split over the total (it's capped).
Note 👉 Participants can submit as soon as some points are placed — the full total doesn't have to be spent. If points are still unplaced, a confirmation asks whether to submit anyway; under-spending is allowed and nothing is auto-filled.
Submitting: once submitted, a participant is locked in — the split can't be changed, and the submitted state is remembered per device (it survives leaving and returning to the slide), so nobody silently overwrites their earlier answer. A recap shows each option as its share of their own split.
Your canvas computes a weighted average per category across all respondents and ranks the categories highest-average first. Results render as the chart you chose (default Pie), with each wedge or bar showing its share of the whole plus a legend of amounts.
Tip 💡 Aggregation is live — the chart grows as responses arrive. Resetting the slide's results clears the aggregate for the next round.