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# How to Create and Configure a Rating Scale Slide in AhaSlides
> Collect nuanced audience opinions on a sliding scale, with customisable statements, value ranges, and labels beyond a simple yes-or-no answer.
A Rating Scale slide is ideal when you need more nuanced responses than a simple yes-or-no option can give you. Pose a broad question, add specific statements, and let your audience rate each one on a sliding scale.
## How It Works
* **The host** poses a broad question, adds specific statements related to it, and asks the audience to rate their opinions on each statement using a sliding scale.
* **The audience** accesses the slide on their phones and responds to each statement via the sliding scale.
* **The resulting data** appears on a graph showing what and how many responses each statement received, along with the average numbered response for each statement.
## Setting Up a Rating Scale Slide
Enter the main question you want to ask your audience. This can invoke an answer on a scale — for example, *"How satisfied are you with our service?"*, with 1 being *very dissatisfied* and 5 being *very satisfied*. It can also be a statement, such as *"My experience of this service was highly satisfactory"*, with the scale measuring *strong disagreement* (1) to *strong agreement* (5).
If your question needs clarifying, add a longer description — it appears underneath the question on audience members' devices.
Statements are the specific parts of your broad question that you want an answer to. For example, for *"How satisfied are you with our service?"* you might add statements for different aspects such as *"ease of use"*, *"friendliness of staff"*, or *"speed of delivery"* — up to **8 statements**.
If your broad question *is* your statement and you don't need separate statements, delete all statement boxes. This centralises the layout so your audience responds only to the one question at the top.
Set the wording and number of values on your scale. Values typically run from 1 to 5, but you can increase this to any number below **1000** for a more refined answer. The **low label** and **high label** appear at either end of the scale on your display, and wording for values in between appears on audience devices — provided the difference between the lowest and highest value is no more than 10.
## Rating Scale Settings
Set a time limit between **5 seconds and 20 minutes**. While presenting, you can turn the timer off or change the limit — but once turned off, you can't turn it back on from present mode; you'll need to switch to edit mode to re-enable it.
Stop accepting responses at any point during presenting — useful if you need to clarify a question before your audience submits their answers. Click the **Submission closed** icon to reopen submissions, or the **Submission opened** icon to close them.
Hide all results until you press **Show results**. Click **Apply to all questions** to apply this to every question in the presentation.
Displays a vertical line showing the average response across all statements of your broad question.
Removes the skip option for statements, making it mandatory for participants to rate every statement.
## Understanding Your Response Data
The graph shows all responses across all statements, colour-coded by statement so you can see exactly how audience members responded to each one.
Average performance for each statement appears in the colour-coded circles at the bottom of the graph. Enable **show the average line for all statements** in **other settings** to see the combined average across all statements, shown as a white circle below the individual averages.
Hover over each circle to see how many responses each value received, or hover over a statement — or its circle average — for an isolated view of how that statement fared.