Word Cloud: everyone's answer, at a glance
Ask a room a one-word question and Word Cloud turns every answer into a single visual — words repeated by more people simply grow larger.
Word Cloud is the slide to open a session with when you want an instant, honest snapshot of how a group feels or thinks, without anyone having to justify their answer. "Sum up this quarter in one word," "What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear 'change management'?", or a classroom warm-up asking students for one word describing how they feel about an upcoming exam — all work well because the format rewards brevity and doesn't ask anyone to write a full thought. Watching the cloud reshape itself live is also simply more engaging to look at than a list or a bar chart, which makes it a strong choice for a session's opening minute when you want to grab attention.
If the question genuinely needs a full sentence to answer — not just a word or short phrase — Open Ended is the better fit; cramming a longer thought into Word Cloud just produces a cloud of unrelated fragments instead of a clean cluster of shared language.
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Add the slide
Select New Slide → Word Cloud under Interaction.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotThe slide type picker with Word Cloud highlighted under the Interaction group.
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Ask something short
Fill in the Question field with a prompt built for a word or two — "Sum up this quarter in one word" works better than a question needing a sentence.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotThe Word Cloud editor with the Question field focused and a sample one-word prompt entered.
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Cap submissions if you want to
Limit how many words each person can add in Settings — a cap of one or two keeps the cloud focused, while a higher cap invites a richer but noisier result.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotThe submissions-per-person limit setting on a Word Cloud slide, set to a small number.
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Turn on the profanity filter for larger or public groups
With an open-ended text field, it's worth switching on moderation before a large or public audience joins — see the note below.
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Present and watch it form
The cloud reshapes live as responses arrive — more submissions of the same word means a bigger word, so the shape of the whole cloud tells the story of the room's answer.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotA Word Cloud mid-session, with word sizes varying based on how often each was submitted.
Video: a Word Cloud growing in real time as responses come in — words appearing, resizing, and rearranging as more submissions land, the most visually distinctive results view in the slide library.
Switch on the profanity filter first — see session-wide settings. Free-text input from an audience you don't fully control is the one place in the whole library worth double-checking before you go live.
Frequently asked questions
Can I limit how many words someone submits to a Word Cloud?
Yes — set a per-person submission cap in Settings, anywhere from a single word up to several.
Can I remove a specific word after it's already shown up in the cloud?
Yes — a presenter can delete an individual word from the results, and the cloud reshapes immediately without it.
Does capitalization or spelling affect how words group together?
Submissions are normalized for casing so "Change" and "change" count as the same word; different spellings or synonyms are still treated as separate words.