# Vote · Discuss · Revote > Peer Instruction as a quiz: everyone votes alone, talks it over with a neighbour, then votes again for points — and you see how the room changed its mind. Source: https://engageslide.com/knowledge-base/quiz-games/vote-discuss-revote · EngageSlide Help Center · Quiz & Game Slides ## What is Vote · Discuss · Revote? A **Vote · Discuss · Revote** slide turns one good multiple-choice question into a short lesson, based on Eric Mazur’s **Peer Instruction**. First everyone answers **alone** on their phone — no points, and nobody sees the results yet. Then you start a **discussion**: the screen tells the room to find someone who answered differently and convince them, optionally showing how the first vote split (without the right answer). Finally everyone **votes again**: this second vote is a normal quiz question that scores points by speed and adds them to the **Leaderboard**. The reveal shows the right answer and how the room moved, for example _26% right before the discussion → 85% after_, and how many people changed their mind. It works best with conceptual questions that have a tempting wrong answer — a common misconception. Video tutorial: [Vote · Discuss · Revote — video tutorial](https://youtu.be/g4ANEId8Wrw) Presenter creates the slide → Click Present → Share code / QR → Audience enters code → Respond & submit → Real-time results ## Create a Vote · Discuss · Revote slide 1. On **Home**, click + Create new presentation (or add a slide to an existing one). 2. In **Choose Slide Type**, pick **Vote · Discuss · Revote**. You can also type it into Search slide types…. 3. The slide is created and the right panel opens on the **Content** tab. ## Set up the content 1. A new slide starts with a classic example: A heavy ball and a light ball are dropped from the same height at the same time. Which lands first? with four answers and _They land at the same time_ marked as right. 2. Write your own question in the title field and edit the **options** like any quiz question: 2 to 6 answers, and tick the right one. Good questions test understanding, and their wrong answers are the mistakes people really make. 3. In the **Vote · Discuss · Revote** block, choose how long the **First vote** lasts (10–60 seconds) and how long the **Discussion** lasts (30 seconds to 3 minutes). 4. Choose whether to **Show the first vote while discussing**. On (default): the room sees how the votes split, without the right answer — a split vote is what starts a good discussion. Off: the split stays hidden until the end, so nobody just follows the majority. 5. Under **Settings**, set the time and points for the **second vote** — it uses the normal quiz settings (Seconds to answer, Min / Max Point, More points for fast correct answers). ![The Vote · Discuss · Revote editor — slide list, live screen with join code & QR, and the content panel](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-editor.webp) ## Vote · Discuss · Revote settings - **First vote** — 10, 15, 20 (default), 30, 45 or 60 seconds. Players can change their answer until the vote closes. No points. - **Discussion** — 30 seconds, 1, 1½ (default), 2 or 3 minutes. You can start the second vote earlier with **Vote again**. - **Show the first vote while discussing** — On (default): bars show the split of the first vote, without the right answer. Off: the split stays hidden. - **Second vote** — A normal quiz question: Seconds to answer, Min Point / Max Point and More points for fast correct answers apply. Its points go to the Leaderboard. ![Vote · Discuss · Revote settings in the right panel](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-settings.webp) ## Present & share the join code 1. Click **Present** in the top bar to put the slide on the big screen. 2. A **join code** and a **QR code** appear (e.g. `36Y56`). 3. Participants open the **Audience** app at **join.engageslide.com**, type the code and press **Enter** — or simply scan the QR. 4. When everyone has joined, the responses start flowing in live. ## How the audience responds After **Start Game**, phones show **1 · Vote alone** with the question and the answers: _What do you think? This first vote gives no points._ Players can tap another answer to change their mind until the vote closes. During the discussion the phone says **Talk it over!** and reminds each player of their first answer. Then the normal question appears with a banner — _Second vote — this one scores points! First time you said: …_ After the reveal, the phone shows the usual result and points, plus _You changed your mind: The light ball → They land at the same time_ (or _You kept your first answer_) and how the whole room moved. ## View results During the first vote the big screen shows the three steps, the question and the answers — with no counts and no right answer — plus a countdown and how many people have voted. Press **Close vote & discuss** (or wait for the timer) to start the discussion: _Find someone who answered differently — and convince them!_, the split bars if they are on, and a countdown. **💡 Teacher tip** (only when you tap it) gives Mazur’s rule of thumb from the first vote: under 35% right — re-explain briefly; 35–80% — the best moment for discussion; over 80% — explain quickly and move on. **Vote again** starts the scored question, which works like Select Answer. At the end the chart shows the second vote with the right answer, and a **Before → after discussion** panel shows the share of right answers before and after, each answer’s change and how many players changed their mind — and to the right answer. The points appear on the next Leaderboard. ![Step 1: everyone votes alone — no counts and no right answer on screen](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-vote.webp) ![The first vote on the phone (no points)](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-phone-vote.webp) ![Talk it over — with your first answer as a reminder](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-phone-discuss.webp) ![The second vote scores points](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-phone-revote.webp) ![Step 2: the discussion, with the split of the first vote and the teacher tip](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-discuss.webp) ![Step 3: the second vote, the right answer and how the room changed its mind](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-result.webp) ![On the phone: the points and “You changed your mind”](https://engageslide.com/images/kb/vote-discuss-revote-phone-result.webp) > **Tip** — The best questions get between 35% and 70% right on the first vote. If almost everyone is right, skip the discussion; if almost everyone is wrong, explain first — then use the discussion on the next question. ## Question ideas - **Physics:** Which falls faster? · Where is the force on a ball at the top of its flight? - **Maths:** Is 0.999… equal to 1? · Which is bigger: 0.25 or 0.205? - **Biology:** Where does most of a tree’s mass come from? (the air) - **Training:** Which of these emails is phishing? · Which step comes first in our process? ## Frequently asked questions ### Does the first vote give points? No. Only the second vote scores points and counts on the Leaderboard. The first vote is just thinking — that’s why people answer honestly. ### Can players change their first answer? Yes, until the first vote closes. During the discussion the vote is closed. ### What if someone didn’t vote the first time? Their phone asks them to listen in during the discussion, and they can still answer the second vote for points. ### Should I show the split before the discussion? Usually yes — seeing that the room disagrees is what makes people talk. Turn it off if one strong majority might just be copied. ### Does it work in self-paced mode? Self-paced players have no shared discussion moment, so in self-paced mode the question plays like a normal Select Answer question. ### Where does the idea come from? From Peer Instruction, developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard: a conceptual question, a vote, discussion between students, and a second vote — one of the best-studied active-learning methods.