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Live Ranking

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Live Ranking hands your audience a list and lets them drag it into their own order — best pizza topping, top worship song, most important friendship quality — then combines everyone’s rankings into one crowd-sourced verdict on the big screen.

Building a Ranking

Create a new Live Ranking document from the Feature Library:

  • Write your prompt (e.g. “Rank these movies”).
  • Add 3 to 8 options, each with a color.

In Settings (gear icon): Show QR Code (on by default), Show Live Results (off by default — rankings work best as a reveal), and Result Format (None or Score). Display Options covers the Title Graphic and Background.

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Running It

  1. Press play, then Start Voting.
  2. Phones show the options as a draggable list — “Drag to rank — your #1 pick goes on top” — with a Submit Ranking button. Each person submits once; no name needed.
  3. Watch the voter count climb, then Stop Voting and flip on Show Live Results for the reveal.
  4. Resume to collect more, Reset to clear and rerun, End to finish. An Export CSV appears when the session ends.

Results combine everyone’s orderings into overall scores: an option earns more points the higher each person ranks it, so the final bars reflect the whole room’s consensus, not just first-place votes. Turn on Reorder Live Results to keep the bars sorted as scores shift.

Tips

  • Keep results hidden while voting (the default) — announcing “your number one pick is…” lands better than letting the bars spoil it.
  • Ranking takes more thought than a poll tap. Give the room a beat to actually drag before you close voting.

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