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title: Questions and answers
description: Ask your audience for text responses or selections and review the results.
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# Questions and answers

Speaker-created questions collect structured participation. They are separate from [audience Q&A](audience-questions.md).

## Choose a type

| Type | Audience input | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | A written response | “What would you like to learn today?” |
| Single Select | One configured choice | “Which tool do you use most?” |
| Multiple Select | Several configured choices | “Which topics interest you?” |

Text answers support up to 255 characters.

## Configure a question

Add the question text, input label, and placeholder. For selection questions, configure the choices and their values, and choose a bar or donut chart for results.

Single-select inputs support a select or radio presentation. Multiple-select inputs support a multi-select or checkboxes, with minimum and maximum selection settings in the editor.

Choice values identify answers internally; choice text is the label people read.

## Order and share

Reorder questions in the talk workspace to match your presentation. Ordering is separate from the question's number: moving a question does not renumber it.

Use the generated audience short link to direct people to a specific question. The talk must be running before people can answer.

## Review results

Open a question to inspect its saved answers. Choose **Live presenter results** for a presentation-oriented view.

For multiple-select questions, one response can contribute to several choice counts. Do not interpret the sum of those counts as a count of people.

## Edit safely

Existing answers are **not converted** when you change a question's type or choice values. Such changes can make historical answers difficult to interpret.

Prefer a separate question or duplicated talk for a new version once responses have been collected.

## Clear or delete

**Delete all answers** permanently removes the question's saved responses while keeping the question.

**Delete question** permanently removes both the question and its answers. The interface requires confirmation; neither action can be undone.