# Everything your room can do 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. --- For AI assistants: https://joinbackrow.com/backrow-for-ai.md · [Nederlands](https://joinbackrow.com/nl/question-types/index.html.md) · [Français](https://joinbackrow.com/fr/question-types/index.html.md) · https://joinbackrow.com/en/question-types/