Drop-ins

A drop-in is a ready-made poll you can put in front of the room at any point in a talk, without building it into a slide first. Tap it on your phone or laptop and it covers the presentation screen and appears on every connected phone. When you are done, end it and you are back on your slides.

Use one when the room drifts, to check that a point has landed, or when a question comes up that you did not plan a slide for.

How it works

• Your drop-ins live in a Poll library in your dashboard. Build them once and they are ready for every deck you present.
• During a session, open the presenter page on a phone or laptop and tap the poll you want.
• The poll fills the presentation screen and audience phones switch to it within a few seconds. Votes and results work like any other Doppio poll.
• Tap End poll to close it. The screen and phones return to whichever slide you are on.

You need a running session for this, so start presenting as usual with the Doppio extension. See Running a live session.

Build your poll library

1. Open your poll library and sign in with Google.
2. Click New poll.
3. Choose a Type, write the Question and fill in the answers.
4. Choose a Voting time and whether to Show results while people vote.
5. Click Save.

Your library starts with three starter polls: “Still with me?”, “How confident do you feel about this so far?” and “Thumbs up or thumbs down?”. They are marked Starter. Edit or delete them like any other poll; once deleted, they do not come back.

Setting	Limit	Default
Question	140 characters	Required
Options	2 to 6 options, each up to 60 characters. Scale types can have up to 10 steps.	Two empty options
Voting time	10 seconds to 5 minutes	30 seconds
Show results while people vote	On or off	On
Library size	50 polls	Three starter polls

Poll types

Type	Use it for
Poll	Any multiple-choice question.
Agreement	How strongly people agree with a statement.
Emotion	How people feel about something.
Score	A number rating. Set the Range from 0 or 1 up to 10 steps, with optional labels for each end.
Yes / No	A straight two-way choice.

For the scale types, answers run from the most negative to the most positive. Reword any of them to suit your question, and keep that order so the results read correctly. See Rating scales for how phones answer them and how the results are reported.

To delete a poll, click its delete control and then Delete; Keep leaves it in place.

Connect the presenter page

1. Open presenter.doppio.live on your phone or laptop.
2. Click Sign in with Google. Use an account that can present the deck: the owner, or someone the event has been shared with.
3. Enter the 5-digit event code from your join slide and click Connect.

The presenter page remembers your event, so next time it opens straight to your polls. Use Switch event to connect to a different deck, or Use a different account if you signed in with the wrong Google account.

Someone else can drive

The presenter page works just as well on a laptop at the back of the room. A colleague with access to the event can run the drop-ins while you present.

Drop one in

1. Start presenting. Until you do, the presenter page shows Waiting for the presentation.
2. Under Tap a drop-in to put it on screen, tap the one you want.
3. It goes live straight away. A short On screen message offers Undo for a few seconds in case you tapped the wrong one.
4. When you have what you need, tap End poll.

Unless a timer is running, there is no confirmation step: one tap puts the poll up, and Undo or End poll takes it down.

Slides that already have something on them

A drop-in never sits on top of another vote.

Current slide	What happens when you tap a poll
No Doppio item	It goes live.
Takeaway	It goes live.
Poll	The polls are greyed out with “This slide has a poll. Move to another slide to use a drop-in.”
Timer, running or paused	You are asked to confirm: “Starting this poll will stop the timer on this slide.” Start poll resets the timer and puts the poll up; Cancel leaves everything as it was.
Timer that has not started or has finished	It goes live.

Moving slides while a drop-in is up

You can keep moving through your deck while a drop-in is on screen. Moving to a slide with no Doppio item or a takeaway leaves the drop-in up. Moving to a slide with a poll or a timer closes the drop-in, so that slide's own poll or timer takes over.

When the session ends

Pressing Stop Presentation closes any drop-in that is still up, and the presenter page goes back to Waiting for the presentation. Drop-ins are saved with the session's other results in your dashboard, marked Drop-in. See Analytics & exports.