--- title: Remesh Discussion Guide Best Practices description: This article is relevant to our Live, Flex and Video product offerings. You can find more information about our product offerings here. Your Remesh discussion guide contains the questions you intend t --- [Skip to content](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-discussion-guide-best-practices#main-content) English Show submenu for translations ![59b7eb52c29cb1fb87e1bba7bf1ef88c41152899.png\]](https://help.remesh.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/59b7eb52c29cb1fb87e1bba7bf1ef88c41152899.png?height=40&name=59b7eb52c29cb1fb87e1bba7bf1ef88c41152899.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations - Go to remesh.ai Go to remesh.ai How can we help? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Knowledge Base](https://help.remesh.ai/?hsLang=en) 2. [Getting Started](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en) 3. [Additional Resources](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#additional-resources) # Remesh Discussion Guide Best Practices This article is relevant to our Live, Flex and Video product offerings. You can find more information about our product offerings [here](https://help.remesh.ai/live-vs-flex?hsLang=en). ### Overview Your Remesh discussion guide contains the questions you intend to ask your audience. In a **Live** Conversation, your discussion guide allows you to select and send out pre-programmed content to the group in real time as you moderate a Live session. In a **Flex** Conversation, your discussion guide contains the questions your participants will answer at their own pace. In a **Video** Conversation, your discussion guide contains the pre- and post-interview questions you'd like your participants to complete asynchronously before and after you conduct your video interview. It is important that you plan for thoughtful and engaging questions that will lead to gathering high quality insights. In this guide, we'll outline our recommended best practices for crafting an ideal Remesh discussion guide. ### Included in this Article - [Getting Started](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-discussion-guide-best-practices#gettingstarted) - [Drafting your Discussion Guide](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-discussion-guide-best-practices#drafting) - [Best Practices](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-discussion-guide-best-practices#bestpractices) - [Example Discussion Guide](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-discussion-guide-best-practices#exampledg) - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-discussion-guide-best-practices#faq) ### Getting Started Before sitting down to draft your discussion guide, consider the following. - **Define your Research Objectives**: Identify what you would like to walk away from your research understanding. This will help guide your discussion guide creation. - **Review Question Types**: Review Remesh's [question types](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-question-types?hsLang=en) to get an idea of what you may want to include in your discussion guide. - **Identify ideal completion time length**: Remesh's discussion guides are very time-focused, so we recommend identifying how long you would like your participants to spend completing your Discussion Guide questions, then this can be used as a guideline. We recommend setting aside 60 minutes for a Remesh Live Conversation and preprogramming about 80% of that allotted time. For a Remesh Flex Conversation we recommend 30 minutes. For more on the basics of conducting research on Remesh, check out our [Intro to Research and Analysis](https://help.remesh.ai/intro-to-research-and-analysis-with-remesh?hsLang=en) article. ### Drafting Your Discussion Guide There are [many ways to go about drafting your Remesh discussion guide](https://help.remesh.ai/in-platform-discussion-guide-builder?hsLang=en), and your discussion guide can contain any combination of our [Question Types](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-question-types?hsLang=en). You can find our recommend process below. - Draft an outline of any questions you might want to ask in your Remesh Conversation in a Word Document. You do not need to identify what types of questions you would like these to be or the length of time dedicated yet, simply compile any questions you may want to ask in a bulleted list or table format. - Add any relevant instructions, transition language and parting words. You can find examples of this below under "example discussion guides" - [Upload your Word Document draft into the platform](https://help.remesh.ai/uploading-excel-or-word-document?hsLang=en)\*. This will not include [Onboarding Polls](https://help.remesh.ai/question-type-onboarding-polls?hsLang=en) so you may want to add these at this time. - Once you've uploaded your draft, you'll notice that the estimated completion time will populate. You can also click this estimate to see a breakdown of how we get that number. ![](https://help.remesh.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-06-24%20at%202-37-16%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=578&height=83&name=Screenshot%202024-06-24%20at%202-37-16%E2%80%AFPM-png.png) - Then, begin editing your discussion guide to get as close to your ideal completion time as possible. You can go about this in multiple ways, including...  - [Delete questions](https://help.remesh.ai/in-platform-discussion-guide-builder?hsLang=en#bulk-action) : Questions that you no longer want to include in your discussion guide can be deleted. Note that deleted questions cannot be recovered. - [Mark questions as "optional" (Live)](https://help.remesh.ai/in-platform-discussion-guide-builder?hsLang=en#optional-messages) : If there are questions you only want to ask if you have time during your Live Conversation, mark them as optional. Questions marked as optional will be tagged during a Live Conversation. They will not be counted towards your estimated completion time and will be skipped if you moderate using [AutoSend](https://help.remesh.ai/moderate-your-live-conversation-with-autosend?hsLang=en). - [Adjust allotted time (Live)](https://help.remesh.ai/in-platform-discussion-guide-builder?hsLang=en#estimated-time) : For Live Conversations, each item in your discussion guide will have an amount of time associated with it. This is the amount of time that participants will be able to answer the question. You can make adjustments to this by selecting the dropdown, or typing in a custom number. ### Best Practices - If you are conducting a Live Conversation, we recommend programming your discussion guide to be about 80% of your total allotted time. So if you were planning to conduct a 60 minute session, you would want to program your discussion guide to be about 50 minutes. The remaining time can be used to ask follow up questions and make changes as you are [moderating](https://help.remesh.ai/moderate-a-live-conversation?hsLang=en). Alternatively, you can program placeholders into your discussion guide where you intend to ask follow up questions. - There is no perfect formula for a Remesh Conversation, but programming about 50% Ask Opinion questions can be a helpful starting point.  - Utilize a variety of question types to keep participants engaged. - We recommend including instruction text, context and encouragement throughout your discussion guide as needed. ### Example Discussion Guide Below is an example discussion guide for an ~15 minute Live Conversation taking place at the beginning of a company town hall meeting to gather employees thoughts and questions. Regardless of use case, this basic structure can be followed for many Remesh Discussion Guides. | **Item Type** | **Text** | **Notes** | | --- | --- | --- | | Text | Hello everyone. Thanks for joining! My name is Maria and I will be leading today’s discussion. We want to know what you really think. There are no right or wrong answers and importantly, this is completely anonymous, so please be honest! | The introduction provides notes to participants about what to expect during the session. | | Text | I will be asking you a mix of questions.For open-ended questions, type out your response and click submit. Once you submit your own answer you may be shown responses from other members of the group. When you are shown a pair of responses, select the one response out of the pair that you agree with most. If you are shown a single response please use the "agree" or "disagree" button to indicate if you agree or disagree with the response. Keep an eye on the timer, as you only have a limited amount of time to respond! | | | Text | For polls, simply choose your desired response(s) and click submit! | | | Text | For ranking, please follow the directions in the question and click the empty boxes to select the appropriate number. If you need to remove a number, simply click it again! When you're finished, click submit.  | | | Text | Let's get started! | | | Single Select Poll | Overall, how would you rate your week at work? \- Very Good \- Good \- Average \- Bad \- Very Bad | Ask polls followed by Ask Opinion questions to get both quantitative data as well as a look at the "why" behind participants' responses. | | Ask Opinion | Tell me more, what happened this week that contributed to your selection in the last question? | | | Text | Just a moment while I review those responses... | It can be helpful in Live Conversations to include designated space and placeholders in areas where you anticipate you'd like to ask follow up questions. | | Ask Opinion | \[PLACEHOLDER FOR FOLLOW UP QUESTION\] | | | Ask Experience | What do you need from your manager to ensure next week goes well? |   | | Text | Thanks everyone! Now let's talk about the future a bit. | Transition text can help participants understand changes in context. | | Single Select Poll | How optimistic do you feel about the next 6 months at work? \- Very Optimistic \- Somewhat Optimistic \- Not Very Optimistic \- Not at all Optimistic |   | | Ask Opinion | Please tell me more about why you do or do not feel optimistic about the next 6 months. |   | | Text | One more question... |   | | Ask Opinion | What questions do you have for the leadership team? |   | | Text | Thanks for your thoughtful responses! We'll be compiling these questions and answering them during our town hall later today, we look forward to seeing you there! You can now exit your browser. | Program a wrap up message to let participants know that the Conversation has ended. |   Features above indicated with a \* require Large Language Model features to be enabled by a workspace administrator. You can find more information about that [here](https://help.remesh.ai/generative-ai-llm-permission-settings?hsLang=en). ### Frequently Asked Questions - **Why do you recommend 60 minutes for a Live Conversation and 30 minutes for a Flex?** In short, Live Conversations are a more unique and dynamic offering which may hold your participants attention for longer, while Flex Conversations offer a more survey-like experience which require the researcher to be slightly more mindful of maintaining participants' attention. We have seen equally high completion rates in Live and Flex Conversations when following these guidelines. - [Getting Started](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Quick Start Guides](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#quick-start-guides) - [Remesh Demo Resources](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#remesh-demo-resources) - [Remy - Remesh's AI Agent](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#remy-remeshs-ai-agent) - [Additional Resources](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#additional-resources) - [MCP Server](https://help.remesh.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en#mcp-server) - [Preparing for Your Remesh Conversation](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Creating a Conversation and Programming Details](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#creating-a-conversation-and-programming-details) - [Programming Your Discussion Guide](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#programming-your-discussion-guide) - [Question Types](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#question-types) - [Recruiting Participants](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#recruiting-participants) - [Additional Conversation Settings](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#additional-conversation-settings) - [Launching Your Conversation](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#launching-your-conversation) - [Best Practices](https://help.remesh.ai/preparing-for-your-remesh-conversation?hsLang=en#best-practices) - [Collecting Data](https://help.remesh.ai/collecting-data?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Conversation Moderation Basics (Live)](https://help.remesh.ai/collecting-data?hsLang=en#conversation-moderation-basics-live) - [Conversation Moderation Best Practices (Live)](https://help.remesh.ai/collecting-data?hsLang=en#conversation-moderation-best-practices-live) - [Monitoring Your Data (Flex)](https://help.remesh.ai/collecting-data?hsLang=en#monitoring-your-data-flex) - [Analyzing Your Data](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Getting Started Analyzing](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#getting-started-analyzing) - [Remesh Definitions and Metrics](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#remesh-definitions-and-metrics) - [Understanding the Big Picture](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#understanding-the-big-picture) - [Finding Themes in Qualitative Data](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#finding-themes-in-qualitative-data) - [Diving Deeper](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#diving-deeper) - [Exporting Data](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#exporting-data) - [Additional Tools and Features](https://help.remesh.ai/analyzing-your-data?hsLang=en#additional-tools-and-features) - [Remesh Workspace and Settings](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-workspace-and-settings?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Workspace Management](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-workspace-and-settings?hsLang=en#workspace-management) - [Organizing Conversations](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-workspace-and-settings?hsLang=en#organizing-conversations) - [Settings](https://help.remesh.ai/remesh-workspace-and-settings?hsLang=en#settings) - [Use Cases and Problems Solved by Remesh](https://help.remesh.ai/use-cases-and-problems-solved-by-remesh?hsLang=en#main-content) - [Use Cases](https://help.remesh.ai/use-cases-and-problems-solved-by-remesh?hsLang=en#use-cases) [![remesh-logo.png](https://help.remesh.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/Remesh_Logo_WHITEBG-01-1.png?width=150&height=29&name=Remesh_Logo_WHITEBG-01-1.png "remesh-logo.png")](https://remesh.ai/) remesh.ai Help Center Copyright © 2025, Remesh Inc. ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "VideoObject", "caption" : { "@type" : "MediaObject", "contentUrl" : "https://help.remesh.ai/media-transcripts/218121281645/en.vtt", "inLanguage" : "en", "name" : "en Captions" }, "contentUrl" : "https://4256459.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4256459/video_assets/218121281645/inherited/web_optimized.mp4", "dateModified" : "2026-07-27T17:58:10.634Z", "duration" : "PT10M44S", "height" : 660, "name" : "Discussion Guide Best Practices", "thumbnailUrl" : "https://4256459.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4256459/Maria%20Nar%20Videos/Discussion%20Guide%20Best%20Practices.mp4/medium.jpg", "uploadDate" : "2026-07-27T17:57:51.225Z", "width" : 1422 } ```