Migrated from the old AhaSlides community — Originally posted by shalyce.corney on 8 March 2025 · 3 votes on the old forum · view the original
Hi would it be possible to add an option for polls where participants rank the options?
For example: in a presentation we have 6 factors that we believe are important for a resource to be good - balance, commitment, consultation, innovation, data, and usability. We’d like for participants to rank them in order of priority for them and the final answer show an average of what everyone prioritised.
Originally posted by Nathan Tran (AhaSlides team) on 11 March 2025
Hi,
Thanks for reaching out! That’s a great idea. We’d love to understand a bit more about how you’d like this ranking poll to work.
- Would you like participants to assign a unique rank to each factor (e.g., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), or should they be able to give the same ranking to multiple factors?
- How would you like the final results to be displayed? For example, would you prefer an average ranking for each factor, a visual bar chart, or something else?
- Do you need any additional settings, like a limit on the number of factors they can rank?
Let us know, and we’ll see how we can make this happen!
Kind regards,
Nathan
Originally posted by shalyce.corney on 11 March 2025
Hi,
Yes, I think it has to be a unique rank to each factor. For the scenario I described, I wouldn’t want participants to rank any of the factors as “equal third” or anything.
I imagined it like dragging boxes to arrange them in order of preference. I attached an example where a participant drags the options to put them in order to show their preference/priority and then submits that order.
I’m not exactly sure what the correct way is to calculate the final rankings with preferential voting like this - as in how much something being ranked first, and how much something being ranked second, third, fourth, etc. contributes to the final order things end up in. As far as the answer showing up on the screen, for the scenario I was thinking of I would just need to see the blocks stacked in the “winning” order (from top to bottom) to see which one was most people’s priority. It would even be really cool if the blocks shuffled around as votes came in.
Showing the outcome as a bar chart would also work. I attached an example of ranked choice voting results that show the bar broken down into colours for when an option was a first choice, second choice, etc.
As far as number of factors, I wouldn’t want to go much higher than 6 just to ensure the information is digestible and the question can be answered relatively quickly. But I don’t know if I’d put a hard limit at six. I would probably put a hard limit for the amount of blocks that can fit comfortably on an average phone screen - you wouldn’t want people to have to scroll through the options and drag them up and down to re-order them.
Attachment on the original post: ScreenRecording_03-11-2025 20-54-28_1.mov — converted to an animated WebP so it plays inline here.
Originally posted by Nathan Tran (AhaSlides team) on 13 April 2026
Hi,
Great news! This is now possible with our new Ranking slide feature.
You can set it up exactly as you described: add your 6 factors (balance, commitment, consultation, innovation, data, and usability) as items, and participants can drag them into their preferred order of priority. The results are calculated using a weighted scoring system (Borda count), where higher-ranked items earn more points. All scores are totalled across participants, so the final result reflects the group’s overall priorities, not just the most popular single choice.
Here’s how to get started:
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Open your presentation and click New Slide, then choose Ranking.
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Enter your question (e.g. “Rank these factors in order of priority to you”).
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Add your 6 factors as items.
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Set how many items each participant must rank under Pick per participant.
You can find full setup instructions here: https://help.ahaslides.com/portal/en/kb/articles/using-the-ranking-slide
Let us know if you have any questions!
