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Polls, word clouds, quizzes, Q&A, feedback, hearts and sign-ups: what each one is, when to use it, and what the big screen and the phones show.

The room answers

Live polls

One question, two to six answers. The bars move on your own slide as the votes come in.

When to use it
To open a talk, take the pulse, or let the room predict or decide. Yes or no, an agree scale, a rating from 1 to 5 or how people feel come ready in one click.
On the big screen
The results inside your own slide design: bars, columns, rings, bubbles, a live ranking or one big number.
On the phones
The answers as big buttons. One tap votes, and people can change their answer while the poll is open.

Word clouds

Everyone sends up to three words. The words given most grow biggest, live.

When to use it
For a first impression, a mood, or one word that sums it up.
On the big screen
The words in your slide, sized by how many phones gave them. Capitals, accents and spaces count as the same word, and you can hide a word.
On the phones
Up to three short words, which people can change while the question is open.

Quizzes with a leaderboard

A countdown, the right answer lit up, and points for answers that are right and fast.

When to use it
To test what stuck, to wake a room up, or as a game at the end. A true or false statement is one click away.
On the big screen
The question with its countdown, then the right answer, the leaderboard of nicknames and the final ranking.
On the phones
A nickname once, then one answer per question, right or wrong straight after, and your own place on the leaderboard.

Q&A with thumbs-up

Questions come in during the talk and the room votes the best ones up.

When to use it
At every talk: people ask what they would never ask out loud.
On the big screen
The top questions on your Q&A slide, and one question big on the screen while you answer it. Approve questions first if you like, hide one or mark it answered.
On the phones
Type a question, with a name or without, and give a thumbs-up to the questions you want answered too.

Feedback with stars

A score out of five and open ideas, whenever you ask for them.

When to use it
At the end of a talk, or after each part of a training.
On the big screen
The number of scores, and the average once it reaches the score you choose. The ideas stay with you.
On the phones
One to five stars and, if they like, an idea.

Hearts per slide

The room sends hearts to the slides they love, so you see which moments landed.

When to use it
Always on: it costs the room one tap and tells you what to keep.
On the big screen
A small heart counter in the corner of the slide; afterwards the hearts per slide in your results and the PDF.
On the phones
A heart under the slide, up to ten taps per slide.

Sign-up forms

Name, email and your own questions, for the people who want to hear more.

When to use it
For a demo, a pilot, a newsletter, the slides by email, or a follow-up call.
On the big screen
How many people signed up. Names and emails go only to the organization’s owners and admins, ready to export.
On the phones
The standard form or your own: the fields you choose, your own questions (text, a choice, yes or no) and why you ask each one. Consent is never ticked in advance.

Pick all that apply

A poll where everyone ticks several answers, or up to the number you choose.

When to use it
For priorities, the tools people use, or the topics they want next.
On the big screen
Each answer as the share of people who picked it, in your own slide design. The shares add up to more than 100%, as they should.
On the phones
The answers as buttons to tick, then one Send. People can change their picks while the poll is open.

Photo choice

This one or that one? Two to six photos side by side, and the room picks.

When to use it
For designs, products, places or anything people judge by eye.
On the big screen
Your photos in your own slide, each with its answer and the room’s share as the votes come in.
On the phones
The photos as big tiles to tap, two side by side, with the answer under each.

The wheel

Names, prizes or choices on a wheel that spins on the big screen and stops on one.

When to use it
Who asks the next question, which prize, which topic comes next: let chance decide, fairly.
On the big screen
A wheel in your own colors that spins for a few seconds and stops under the pointer. Each spin is kept with the session.
On the phones
The wheel spinning, then the entry it stopped on.

Random winner

Draw a winner from everyone who took part, signed up or got the quiz right.

When to use it
For a prize at the end of a talk, a raffle among people who signed up, or a reward for right answers.
On the big screen
A moment of suspense, then the winner as “Participant 17” or a quiz nickname. Never who someone is, unless you allow a first name.
On the phones
The winner’s own phone says “You won!”, with confetti. Backrow draws on its server, every person equally likely.

Your slides tell it back

Conclusions across polls

Combine polls on one slide: “46% chose the sea, and 70% of them want to go in spring.”

When to use it
To end a set of questions with an insight instead of a chart.
On the big screen
The results of earlier polls, answers added up, or a poll counted only among the phones that gave a certain answer in another.
On the phones
Nothing extra: it follows from the answers the room already gave.

Every room before this one

Show this room’s answers next to every earlier session of the same talk.

When to use it
For talks you give again and again: “this room thinks differently from the eleven before it”.
On the big screen
One question over every earlier session of the presentation, this room on its own, or all of them added up.
On the phones
Nothing extra: the phones answer the question as usual.

The talk’s recap

A last slide that sums up your talk: time, hearts and questions per slide.

When to use it
As the closing slide, or at a break to look back with the room.
On the big screen
Per slide how long it was on screen, its hearts and its questions, and the slides that stood out. It fills in live.
On the phones
Nothing extra: it is made from what the room already did.

Live numbers

How many phones are in right now, and how many answers your organization ever got.

When to use it
On a welcome screen, at a stand, or on a slide about reach.
On the big screen
Phones right now, rooms, answers, phones and sessions, for this presentation or your whole organization.
On the phones
Nothing: it counts, it never names anyone.

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