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*Two brand-new slide types, sounds that bring energy to your quizzes, **LaTeX
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*rendering for educators, **a redesigned presenter backstage, cleaner reports,
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*and a central hub for all your integrations. *Here’s everything that shipped in April.
This month’s highlights: Two new slide type
Ranking — Let your audience rank options in real time. See the group’s
consensus instantly.
Idea Board — Collect free-text ideas, group them into themes, and let
the audience vote for the best ones.
Together with Pin on Image (released in March), these three slide types make
up AhaSlides’ group discussion activity suite, built for collecting, organising,
and prioritising ideas in a live session.
Ranking question: Let your audience weigh in
Standard polls tell you which option wins. Ranking tells you the full picture — how
every option stacks up relative to the others, across the whole audience.
The vibe check: Participants drag options into their preferred order, and you see the
group’s consensus build in real time.Great for priorities, preferences, and any question
where order matters.
Why this matters: Useful for product roadmap votes, training needs assessments, session
feedback, and any moment where you need more than a single winner.
Help Centre article: Using the Ranking slide
Idea Board: Collect, cluster, vote
Getting structured, actionable ideas from a live audience has always been difficult.
Idea Board makes it a built-in part of your presentation.
The vibe check: Participants type in their ideas freely. The presenter groups responses
into themes on screen. Then the audience votes to surface the most valuable ones.
What’s new: Idea Board is a new slide type where the flow is: collect free-text responses
→ organise into groups → open voting to prioritise. All inside one slide, with no extra tools required.
Why this matters: Ideal for workshops, retrospectives, and brainstorming sessions.
The voting step means you leave with a ranked shortlist, not just an unfiltered collection of responses.
Part of a set: Idea Board pairs with Ranking (this month) and Pin on Image (March 2026)
to form AhaSlides’ group discussion activity suite. Use them together to run structured,
engaging group sessions from start to finish.
Help Centre article: Using the Idea Board slide
Sound effects: Add energy to your quizzes
Sound effects are now available at the slide level, so you can choose the right tone for
each moment rather than applying a single setting to the whole presentation.
The vibe check: Pick from a set of built-in audio effects that play when results are
revealed — without leaving the slide settings panel.
What’s new: A new “Sound” option in slide settings lets you assign an effect per slide.
Why this matters: Audio cues help maintain energy and focus, particularly in longer
sessions or remote meetings where engagement can drop.
Help Centre article: Slide and presentation audio
Read more about the story behind this new sound set.
LaTeX support: Render mathematical expressions
LaTeX expressions now render directly inside AhaSlides — no workarounds, no screenshots
from external tools.
The vibe check: Type LaTeX syntax in any text field and it renders inline, both in the editor
and during presentation.
What’s new: Wrap your expression in $$...$$ for display mode or $...$ for inline
rendering. Supported across slide titles, body text, and answer options.
Why this matters: A long-standing need for educators in science, engineering,
and mathematics — and a meaningful step toward supporting university and technical
training use cases.
Help Centre article: How to use LaTeX in AhaSlides
New Backstage: Q&A moderation built in
Backstage has been redesigned with a clearer layout and dedicated Q&A
moderation controls, so managing live questions is part of the presentation flow rather
than a separate task.
The vibe check: See incoming questions, approve or hide them before they go live, and pin
the ones you want to address — all from one panel.
What’s new: New Backstage layout with a dedicated Q&A moderation panel. Approve
questions before they appear to the audience, star the most relevant ones, and keep your
session on track.
Why this matters: Moderated Q&A gives presenters control over what the audience sees,
which is essential for large sessions, sensitive topics, or events with high audience volume.
Help Centre article: Using Backstage while presenting
Reports, overhauled: faster, cleaner, more complete
Reports have been rebuilt from the ground up with faster load times, a cleaner layout,
and more complete data at every level.
The vibe check: Open your session report and get a clear breakdown of what happened
— per slide and per participant — without additional processing.
What’s new: Redesigned reports with per-slide breakdowns, participant-level
response views, and improved export options. Load times are significantly faster for
large sessions.
Why this matters: For trainers, HR teams, and educators who need to review or share results
after a session, better reports mean AhaSlides delivers value beyond the live moment.
Help Centre article: Your AhaSlides presentation report
AhaSlides Marketplace: All your integrations in one place
Marketplace is a central hub where you can find, connect, and manage all your AhaSlides
integrations — Zoom, Teams, LMS tools, and more — from a single location.
The vibe check: Browse integrations by category, connect in a few clicks, and manage
permissions without navigating through separate settings menus.
What’s new: The Marketplace tab is now active in your account. Explore
available integrations, view existing connections, and handle all management
in a single location. You can also submit requests for new integrations that work
with your workflow.
AhaSlides MCP is out for AI-workflow lover, and Teams add-in is coming back soon.
Why this matters: As the integrations catalogue grows, a central discovery
and management surface makes it easier for teams to get AhaSlides working
with their existing tools.
Help Centre article: Integrations on AhaSlides
Here are a few updates for this month. Stay tuned for more activities and
integrations coming your way. Happy presenting!
**From Cheryl, AhaSlides **