Shortcode not working in widgets

I had my slideshow working at one point on my widgetized home page however for some reason it’s not working anymore. All I’m doing is, creating my slideshow, grabbing the shortcode, heading to my widgets and pulling the “Text” widget to my home top section and pasting it in & saving. It then only shows the actual shortcode in my home top widget section on the front end and not the slideshow as you would expect.

I do this on a random page on my site and it works, so I know it’s working and setup correctly. Is there a reason the shortcode i not working in the widgets?

I have wordpress. 4.5 and all plugins are updated (and have been deactivated at one point to test it out).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluid-responsive-slideshow/