Leaderboards are a great way to keep participants engaged during a quiz or scored polling session. This article covers how to add an individual leaderboard to your PowerPoint presentation using the Vevox add-in.
Looking for team leaderboards? See Set up a team leaderboard in PowerPoint.
In this article we cover:
- Before you add a leaderboard
- Scoring types
- Standard vs advanced scoring
- How to add a leaderboard to your presentation
- What the leaderboard displays
- What participants see on their devices
1. Before you add a leaderboard
If you are going to allocate scoring to your polls and show an individual leaderboard or include a quiz in your PowerPoint presentation, keep these points in mind:
- You must have at least one poll with a correct answer set. Without correct answers, leaderboards will have no data to display.
- Not every poll needs a correct answer - only those you want to include in scoring.
- You can add as many leaderboards as you like throughout your slide deck. Each one shows cumulative scores up to that point.
- Leaderboard scores only include polls run through the current PowerPoint presentation — scores from Present View are separate.
- Depending on your session settings, the leaderboard can show participant names or be anonymous.
- Participants will see the leaderboard on the main screen and an individualized view on their own device.
2. Scoring types
When adding a leaderboard, you choose one of two scoring types:
- Points only — participants are ranked by the number of correct answers. This is the default and most commonly used option.
- Points and speed — participants are ranked by correct answers, with speed used as a tiebreaker. An extra column shows how long each participant took to answer. Available on Pro plans and above.
3. Standard vs advanced scoring
The scoring type you select determines how participants are ranked. How many points they earn per correct answer depends on whether you use standard (the default) or advanced scoring.
| Standard scoring | Advanced scoring | |
| Available on | All plans | Pro and above |
| Points per correct answer | 1 point | Adjustable |
| Multi-answer polls | Full point only if ALL correct options selected | Partial scoring available |
| No response | 0 points | 0 points |
4. How to add a leaderboard to your presentation
Add your polls to the slide deck.
Move over to the Vevox side panel, select + Add Content and choose Leaderboard.
Select Individual leaderboard, then choose your scoring type: Points only or Points and speed.
Select the Done (tick) icon to confirm.
Press the back arrow - the leaderboard will appear at the bottom of your poll list.
Select + Add in the side panel to insert the leaderboard into your slide deck. It will appear after your currently selected slide.
Always place a leaderboard after a polling pair (question slide + result slide). Never insert it between the two.
You can add as many leaderboards as you like to your presentation
5. What the leaderboard displays
When you advance to a leaderboard slide, what you see depends on the scoring type you selected.
1. Points only leaderboard
The leaderboard displays:
- Ranked list of top participants with their positions and scores
- How many participants share a position (if applicable)
- Total number of participants
- Average score across all participants
2. Points and speed leaderboard
The speed leaderboard displays the same information as above, plus:
- An extra column showing the cumulative time each participant took to answer all polls correctly
- Scoring precise to a thousandth of a second, so ties are rare
- Only correct answers receive a time. If a participant answers quickly but incorrectly, they won't receive a score or a time for that poll.
- If the session is set to anonymous, names are replaced with "Participant."
6. What participants see on their device
1. On the correct answer screen, participants see:
- The answer they submitted
- The correct answer
- How long they took to respond to that poll
- A correct answer explanation, if one was set
- The three fastest correct respondents for that poll
2. On the leaderboard screen, participants see:
- Their own ranking and score
- Their cumulative response time (speed scoring only)
- Total number of participants
- Group average score