Sharing leaderboards & scores is fun and is effective when it comes to increase participant retention and engagement.
In this article we cover:
- Things to know before you set up a leaderboard
- Adding a leaderboard to your presentation
- What you will see when displaying a leaderboard
- Change the color of the leaderboard background
Things to know before you set up an individual leaderboard
If you are going to allocate scoring to your polls and show an individual leaderboard or include a quiz in your PowerPoint presentation, then you need to consider the following:
- Team leaderboard are also available in the PowerPoint add-in. Read here how to set that up.
- Ensure you have selected the scoring option to identify a correct answer when setting up the polls. Without correct answers, there will be no scoring or leaderboards.
- Not all polls need to have correct answers if not desired.
- Vevox will allocate one point per poll when a participant has answered the poll correctly.
- If a multichoice poll was set up so that the participant needs to choose more than one correct answer, the system would only allocate one point per poll if the participant selected ALL the correct options.
- When a participant fails to submit a response while the poll is open, no score will be allocated for that specific poll.
- You can activate a speed leaderboard.
- You can add as many leaderboards to your presentation as you wish. The leaderboard will always show cumulative scoring. Note that it will only display the scores of polls asked through the current PPT presentation (no mixing of PPT scoring with Present View scoring).
- Participants will see the leaderboard display on the computer/big screen in PowerPoint and an individualized leaderboard display on their mobile devices.
- Depending on your session settings, a leaderboard can show individual names or be anonymous.
Adding a leaderboard to your presentation
Start with adding a couple of polls to your slide deck, then add a leaderboard by clicking on the ‘Add’ button next to the leaderboard icon from the side panel.
Add more polls, then another leaderboard, and so on.
Finish with a leaderboard to see the final scores.
Alternatively, add the required number of leaderboards to your slide deck after you have added all the polls. When you want to add a leaderboard in a specific place in your slide deck, make sure to click on a result slide and then click the Leaderboard 'Add' button in the the side panel. The leaderboard will now appear after the result slide. Repeat this for all the leaderboards you want to add to the quiz.
Always add a leaderboard AFTER a polling pair for the question and result slide.
When showing a leaderboard you will see:
- List of the top participants with their positions and scores.
- How many participants are sharing a position (if applicable).
- The total number of participants taking part.
- The average score of all your participants.
Example of an anonymous leaderboard. Note there are 2 participants with the same score in 4th place.
Change the background color of the leaderboard banner
To change the color, right-click on the banner, choose ‘Format Shape’, then ‘Fill color’ and ‘More colors’. Now enter the new colour code and press OK.