Turn explanation into active practice
Move from showing a framework to asking people to use it. Participants make a choice, compare the result, and discover where their mental model needs adjustment.
MATCHING AND SORTING
Make people work with the ideas, not just listen to them.
Ask participants to connect definitions, order a process, rank priorities, or sort examples into categories. Active practice exposes how people are reasoning and makes abstract material easier to remember.
See how people organise the idea in their own minds.
WHY IT WORKS
A clearer signal from the whole audience.
Recognition is not the same as understanding. Matching and sorting activities ask participants to apply relationships, sequences, and criteria, producing a richer signal than simply asking whether the material makes sense.
Reveal the reasoning behind an answer
A sequence placed in the wrong order or an example matched to the wrong definition shows exactly where understanding breaks down, helping you give more targeted feedback.
Make complex material easier to remember
Organising information creates stronger connections than passive review. The activity becomes a practical rehearsal for the process, decision, or classification people will use later.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
See the question before you build it.
This is roughly what each question looks like on a participant’s own phone or laptop. They answer on their device while the result builds on your screen.
Drag and match
Pair each item with the one it belongs to.
Match the term to its definition.
NounA person or thing
VerbAn action
Sort into categories
Drop each example under the heading it belongs to.
Sort each animal into its class.
Mammal
WhaleBat
Reptile
Gecko
Image hotspot
Tap the right spot on a diagram or photo.
Tap the nucleus.
Sequence race
Put the steps back into the right order, against the clock.
Order the water cycle.
1Evaporation
2Condensation
3Precipitation
4Collection
USE CASES
Useful wherever participation should change the conversation.
Process and procedure training
Ask teams to put safety steps, customer workflows, or operational stages in the correct order before they apply them in practice.
Concept and definition review
Match terms to explanations, examples to categories, or scenarios to the policy or principle that applies to them.
Group prioritisation
Let participants rank options by urgency, value, impact, or confidence, then compare the combined result with the room’s discussion.
HOW IT WORKS
Add participation without rebuilding your presentation.
Deckly keeps your existing slides at the centre and adds interaction only where it helps.
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Choose the relationship
Decide whether participants should pair items, arrange a sequence, categorise examples, or rank priorities.
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Add concise options
Keep each item easy to scan on a phone and make the intended criteria clear in the prompt.
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Review the thinking
Use the live result to unpack why an order or match works, then retain the responses for follow-up.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Plan the activity with confidence.
What can I use matching activities for?
Matching works well for terms and definitions, situations and responses, products and benefits, examples and categories, or any content built around clear relationships.
What is a sorting or ranking activity?
It asks participants to place items into an order, such as process sequence, highest-to-lowest priority, strongest-to-weakest evidence, or most-to-least urgent.
Can I add these activities to an existing presentation?
Yes. Upload a PowerPoint or PDF, insert the activity where practice is most useful, and continue with the original slides when it is complete.
EXPLORE MORE ACTIVITIES
Choose the response that fits the moment.
START WITH THE DECK YOU HAVE
Present. Engage. Understand.
Upload a PowerPoint or PDF, add a live activity, and give everyone in the room a simple way to take part.