No one wants to speak to a room of blank faces. Which is why audience involvement is crucial. Whether you're leading a meeting, a training session, lesson or presentation, with the Activote for PowerPoint ® response system you can:

• engage your audience with instant question and answer sessions.
• generate discussion by asking for opinions.
• stimulate thought by encouraging the audience to debate an issue.
• learn about your audience by gauging opinions, perceptions, and attitudes. 
• check understanding with instant feedback.

Features

• Radio technology: no need to point handsets to the receiver to ensure that responses are received.
• Handsets available in sets of: 16, 24, 32, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500. Single handsets are also available should the system need to be topped-up at a later date.
• Up to 504 handsets within a single system.
• Built in ‘Slide Wizard’: to help you set up questions easily.
• Selectable question types: multiple choice, yes/no, true/false, Likert Scale.
• Named or anonymous responses: depending on whether ‘who responded with what’ is important.
• Microsoft Excel ® integration: automatically export results or audience feedback into Excel ® to display graphs or save and reference later.

So how does it work?

Once the Activote for PowerPoint ® software has been installed onto a computer, an additional toolbar is available within Microsoft PowerPoint ®. Icons on the toolbar enable handsets to be set up and questions to be created using the ‘Slide Wizard’. From the toolbar, user groups can be created (for when you need to know who responded with what) and results exported to Excel ®. Presentations can be a mix of voting and non-voting slides and there are various options, such as the ability to display graphs on the page instantly or to have a countdown timer on display.

When the presentation is started and a voting slide is shown, the presenter simply invites the audience to respond by clicking the icon on screen. The audience then presses a button on their handset which corresponds with their chosen answer. The presenter stops the response session when desired and moves on. At the end of the presentation, results can be displayed automatically and instantaneously in Excel ® or they can be saved for use later.

And that’s it. Couldn’t be simpler… or more affordable, if you would like to arrange a demostration please call 01953 600888 or email sales@etsnet.co.uk