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A Brainstorm slide turns your session into a group thinking exercise: participants submit ideas, vote for their favourites, and you reveal the results ranked by popularity — three stages, one slide.

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Setting Up a Brainstorm Slide

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Add a new slide

Click New slide in the AhaSlides editor and choose the Brainstorm slide.
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Write your question

Enter the question or prompt you want participants to brainstorm on.
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Add extra fields (optional)

Add any additional fields for participants to fill out, such as name or email.
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Set the number of votes

Specify how many votes each participant gets to cast on others’ ideas.
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Choose submission mode

Choose whether participants can submit one idea or multiple ideas.

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The Three Stages

When you present, your audience moves through three stages:
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Stage 1: Submitting ideas

Participants write their ideas and fill in any additional fields you’ve set up. Ideas appear on the presenter’s screen in the order they’re submitted, with up to 200 ideas per slide. Show or hide submissions at any time by clicking the eye icon under Submission.
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Stage 2: Voting

Click Next: Voting to open the voting stage. Participants see all submitted ideas and vote for their favourites. Hide the vote count during voting by clicking the eye icon under Voting for a more dramatic reveal at the end.
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Stage 3: Result

Click Next: Result to rank all submissions by vote count. Click any idea to enlarge it on screen.

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Video Tutorial

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Brainstorm in Self-Paced Mode

If participants access the slide in self-paced mode, they move through the three stages on their own device without waiting for the presenter to advance.
Participants who go through the slide earlier can’t see ideas submitted after they voted, so late submitters receive fewer votes. To work around this, ask participants to submit their ideas first, then return once all submissions are in before voting begins.