Your first interactive talk

By the end of this guide, you will have run a small talk called Getting to know the room and collected a real answer. No Slidev integration is required.

Before you start

• Create an account or sign in, verify your email, and complete any access steps shown by Inalia.
• Have a second device or private browser window ready to act as an audience member. Attendees do not need an account.
• Check your plan's available talks and questions. Live Reactions and Audience Questions require Premium; neither is needed for this tutorial.

Use a practice talk: this walkthrough saves real participation. For non-saving rehearsals, see Rehearse safely.

1. Create a talk

From your talks workspace, choose Create Talk. Set Talk Title to Getting to know the room, add a Brief Description, and choose an Accent Color and Scheduled Date. Submit the form.

You should see your talk workspace with a Status card. New talks are disabled; a scheduled date does not start them automatically.

If creation cannot be confirmed, check your talk list before submitting again.

2. Create your first poll

Choose Create Question and fill in:

Use Add Choice to create three choices. Give each a distinct value and a color:

Choose Create Question to save. You should see the question in your talk's question list.

These are speaker-created questions for attendees to answer. Audience Questions is a separate feature for questions attendees ask you.

3. Open participation

Choose Run in the Status card. Open Overview to check the audience-facing talk page.

Open your poll and copy its Audience short link to your second device or private window. Do not share your workspace or Live presenter results URL.

You should see the poll and its three choices without needing to sign in.

4. Submit and review an answer

On the audience device, select Some experience and submit the form. In your owner workspace, open the question's Live presenter results.

You should see the answer reflected in the results. The question detail also lists saved answers; use Refresh answers if needed.

If nothing arrives, confirm that the talk is running, the link belongs to this question, and demo mode is off. See Troubleshooting.

5. Collect feedback before finishing

Enable Feedback in the talk workspace. From the audience overview, follow the feedback link and submit a rating or message. Review it in your owner workspace.

Keep the talk running while collecting built-in feedback. Enabling Feedback alone does not open participation, and finishing the talk closes the built-in form.

If you configure an external form instead, test its access separately. See Interactions.

6. Close the session

When participation and feedback collection are complete, choose Finish.

Your saved answers and feedback remain available in your owner workspace. Disable pauses participation without marking the session finished. Running a finished talk again does not clear its old data.

For a new session, duplicate the talk rather than mixing audiences' results. Check the duplicate's demo-mode setting before presenting.

Next steps

• Connect this same talk to Slidev.
• Rehearse and follow the pre-flight checklist.
• Share participation links with your audience.