> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs2.ahaslides.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Presenting with AhaSlides: Settings, Audio, and Sharing
> Share your AhaSlides presentation via URL, QR code, or access code, and control self-paced mode, audio, display language, and audience settings.
When you're ready to go live, AhaSlides gives you several ways to share your presentation with an audience and a set of presenter controls to manage the session. This page covers everything from sharing options to audio, display language, and managing slides during a live session.
## Sharing Your Presentation
Participants join your session at [audience.ahaslides.com](https://audience.ahaslides.com) using an access code or a direct URL. No app download is required — the audience experience runs entirely in a mobile browser.
A direct link your audience can click to join instantly — useful for virtual events, emails, and chat messages.
Display the QR code on your presentation screen for in-person events. Participants scan it with their phone camera to join immediately.
A short alphanumeric code participants type at audience.ahaslides.com. Easy to read aloud to a room.
**Pro plan.** Replace the auto-generated access code with your own branded shortcode — for example, your company name or event hashtag.
**Permanent link — Pro plan.** Pro plan users can enable a permanent link so the same URL and access code persist across multiple sessions of the same presentation. Participants can bookmark it once and use it every time.
## Self-Paced Mode
Normally, you control slide progression for everyone in the room — when you advance, everyone's screen advances. In **Self-Paced Mode**, each participant moves through the slides at their own speed.
This is ideal for:
* Asynchronous surveys shared via link
* Training modules participants complete on their own schedule
* Situations where you're not controlling a shared screen
Enable Self-Paced Mode in **Presentation Settings** before starting your session. Once enabled, participants see navigation arrows on their device to move forward and back through slides independently.
## Preview / Test Mode
Before going live, use **Preview Mode** to experience your presentation exactly as a participant would — without recording any real response data.
Click the **Preview** button (eye icon 👁) next to the **Present** button in the editor. Your browser opens a presenter view while a second tab simulates the participant view. Close the preview tab when you're done; no data is saved.
## Profanity Filter
AhaSlides includes a built-in profanity filter for text input from your audience. It applies to:
* Word Cloud slides
* Open Ended slides
* Q\&A slides
* Type Answer slides
* Participant name fields
Enable the profanity filter per-slide in the slide settings panel, or switch it on globally for all applicable slides in **Presentation Settings**.
## Emoji Reactions
During a live session, participants can send emoji reactions — 👍 ❤️ 😂 😮 😠 — that float across the presenter screen and participant screens in real time.
Enable or disable emoji reactions in **Presentation Settings** before or during your session. Turning them off removes the reaction toolbar from participants' devices.
## Audience Controls
**Get Slides button:** Optionally allow participants to download a static copy of your presentation after the session ends. Toggle this on in **Presentation Settings → Audience Controls**. When enabled, a **Get Slides** button appears on participants' screens at the end of the session.
## Slide Audio
Audio features require a paid plan (Essential, Pro, or Enterprise).
AhaSlides supports three types of audio in a presentation:
* **Slide Audio:** Attach an audio clip to an individual slide. It plays automatically when that slide is shown during the session. Configure it per-slide in the slide settings panel.
* **Presentation Audio:** Set background music that plays throughout the entire session. Upload a track in **Presentation Settings → Audio**.
* **Sound Effects:** Enable quiz sound effects — countdown ticking, correct answer chime, incorrect answer buzz — on Quiz slides. Toggle these on in the Quiz slide settings.
## Presenter Notes
Write notes for each slide in the **Notes** panel at the bottom of the editor. Your notes are not visible to participants at any point during the session.
During presenting, access your notes by opening the **Remote Control** view on a separate device (phone or tablet). Navigate to your presentation's remote control URL, log in, and you'll see your current slide, your notes, and navigation controls — all from your second screen.
## Managing Slides During Presenting
**Navigating:** Click the **Next** and **Previous** buttons on the presenter toolbar, or use the **← →** keyboard arrow keys to advance or go back between slides.
**Grid View:** Press **G** on your keyboard to open a grid overview of all slides. Click any slide thumbnail to jump directly to it — useful for skipping ahead or returning to an earlier slide mid-session.
**Multi-selecting slides in the editor:** In the slide panel, hold **Ctrl** (Windows) or **Cmd** (Mac) and click to select individual slides, or hold **Shift** and click to select a range. Move or delete multiple slides at once to reorganise your deck quickly.
## Display Language
AhaSlides supports **27 presenter languages** and **32 audience languages**, so you can run sessions in your local language regardless of where your team or audience is based.
* **Presenter language:** Set in your **Account Settings**. Controls the language of the AhaSlides editor and presenter toolbar.
* **Audience language:** Set per-presentation in **Presentation Settings**. Controls the language of the AhaSlides UI shown on participants' phones and browsers.
The audience language setting controls the language of AhaSlides interface text — buttons, labels, and prompts — shown to participants. It does **not** translate the content of your slides (your questions, answer options, or images).