Interactive Voting
The most effective meeting and learning activities share a common element: high levels of audience participation. Audience response systems are called by many names - interactive voting systems, audience voting keypads, audience survey systems, electronic voting systems and so on. Audience response systems are voting keypad products designed to both quickly and accurately gather individual answers to questions put to a group during meeting, training, decision making, or research situation.
Clap Trap Productions hires everything you need to create an interactive event - ideal for staff training, market research, agms etc.
We can the hire you the keypads and the user-friendly software which is designed to work with powerpoint. These handsets can be used in a room at the same time without causing interference with each other. With very little training you can be writing interactive presentations that will keep your audience interested and allow you to track the results.
Alternatively, we can create your interaction presentations and provide the audio and visual equipment for your event.
Interactive Voting Option 1
We supply equipment, you create and present the presentation:
Laptop computer with powerpoint and voting software 30 individually programmed keypads (more on request) Radio frequency receiver (with leads) Quick start training booklet and telephone support Delivery 2 days before event Postage paid return delivery From £1,000.+vatInteractive Voting Option 2
We create presentation, you present the presentation:
1 day off site creation of your customised presentation Engineer at your event for 1/2 day (mileage restrictions) 50 individually programmed keypads (more on request) Laptop and radio frequency receiver We plug into sound and visual equipment at the venue Small changes to presentations can be made on site From £2,000.+vat
Examples where Interactive Voting is used
Public Consultations
Various public bodies such as Local Councils and Government Agencies have a statutory obligation to hold public consultation meetings where members of the public are invited to attend, hear about future plans, put their point of view across to senior officials and ask questions In the past these meeting would have consisted of a one-way communication process where the officials of the public body, usually senior managers or elected officials, would give their presentation and then possibly ask questions to the audience and ask the audience to respond with a show of hands.
Interactive voting system use now means that these types of meeting can be genuine two-way event as the presenters can gain real-time feedback on the presentations and to the questions that they put to the audience. Rather than ask participants to respond to verbal questions with a show of hands, the question is put as a multiple choice type question via the overhead projection system and participants press a button on the keypad that corresponds with the answer they want to give. The results are immediately collated and the results shown as a graph on the screen.
Delegate and Shareholder Meetings
Wireless audience response systems are the perfect tool for gathering and tabulating votes from groups large or small. They save hours of manual labour in comparison to other traditional methods of voting.
Polling and tabulation of standard votes in multiple-choice or Yes/No/Abstain formats can be done using many voting softwares.
Classroom Testing and Training
Although the use of voting systems in the classroom give the advantage of immediate feedback and can be used to set tests to the participants, it must be remembered that the real beneft of interactive voting systems comes about as a result of the discussion that can occur around the results, not just from the results themselves.
When lectures are made more interesting then they are made more memorable, and one of the better ways of making them more interesting is to make use of an interactive voting system. Interactive voting systems can be used to enhance both the trainer’s and trainee’s experience in the class by transforming the presentation into an interactive presentation. From the trainer’s perspective, it allows them to instantly assess knowledge level, or opinions, on the topic being discussed for the day. From the trainee’s perspective, it allows them to instantly see, in a non-threatening way, their knowledge level on the subject matter in comparison to their peers.
Interactive voting system can provide a method to quickly test and instantly evaluate the trainees’ knowledge level on the topic. Responses can be tracked by individual (by means of a roster file that links keypad numbers to names) or can be anonymous with overall group feedback. Response data can be fed back to the group, or simply saved and tracked for later viewing and printout. Test questions can be given different weights for scoring and can be assigned a topic or subject. This allows you to test participants on a variety of topics with the questions in a random order, but receive a report based on how the participants scored by topic.
For making learning fun, you can also divide your audience into teams to turn your testing into an enjoyable and motivational game show style event. Graphics can be instantly produced to show the percentage of each team that answered the question correctly and also show how the different teams are doing at any time. Points scored can be accumulated throughout the game and shown in rounds or overall. All data gathered is stored within the voting software and can be exported for analysis at a later date. Some voting softwares have there own reporting features that allow export into other programmes for further analysis. Other softwares have sophisticated integrated MSOffice based reports that produce a wide range of different reports.
Voting systems can be used in a number of ways in the classroom, one of the most effective ways is to use the system to run a short test at the beginning of the session to gauge the level of knowledge of the subject, without showing the correct answers. Then during the training session ask questions to ensue that the participants have understood the learning points put across to them,and then finally at the end ask some questions to see how knowledge of the subject has changed. Ask the same questions at the end of the session that you asked at the beginning of the session to see a before and after comparison and this time show the correct answer.
