Collect Data with Real-Time Audience Polling

Whether your organization teaches kids how to use multiplication tables or demonstrates proper food safety procedures to workers in the hospitality industry, it can be tough to keep track of who is absorbing what. It would take too long to ask an entire class how they are doing one by one, and some learners are hesitant to admit they need help even if they realize they do. We are Echo360, and we have solved this problem with our suite of Point Solutions products. Point Solutions allows instructors to conduct real-time audience polling without disrupting class flow, making it easier than ever before to identify lagging learners and help them overcome their unique obstacles. We also offer a real-time polling app on Apple and Android devices to let learners engage with poll questions on their terms.

What Benefits Can Real-Time Audience Polling Offer?

Adding polls to a PowerPoint presentation or academic lecture can give instructors the evidence they need to identify struggling learners and take appropriate action. If a young student is fooling around, their teacher will know it even in a remote learning environment. Instructors can easily visualize learner responses in real-time, allowing instructors to adjust their presentations based on the room. If a math class quickly grasps integers, their instructor can move on to something fresh even if they didn't originally plan to. Alternatively, a new employee who fails an assessment can be enrolled in remediation automatically.

Our suite of Point Solutions products takes this interactivity one step further by revealing audience engagement scores. If learners are mentally checking out, their instructor will be notified that they need to change things up. Polls can also be a great way to encourage quieter learners to share their thoughts with the rest of the group and collect feedback on how a presentation could be improved moving forward. Most importantly, polling encourages student engagement by transforming passive presentations into interactive sessions that resonate with your audience.

How Can Real-Time Audience Polling Improve Learner Engagement?

Humans are naturally curious, and we want to see how others answered a poll question after answering it ourselves. As such, sharing the results of a poll is an effective means of increasing audience engagement. Likewise, polls can be a great way to break up large amounts of text, helping learners digest all of the information presented to them. Point Solutions even includes an Anywhere Polling feature that allows instructors to add multimedia elements such as video and images to polls to make them more stimulating. If you need help finding appropriate questions to ask, ExamView is test-generating software with an extensive question bank you can draw upon.

Of course, real-time audience polling isn't the only way to engage an audience. Our learning engagement platform is called Dojo360 and includes communication tools such as screen sharing and virtual whiteboards to promote engagement. Echo360 takes advantage of Automatic Speech Recognition to quickly and affordably caption video content, helping learners get more out of watching a video while also making video content more searchable.

Does Your Real-Time Polling App Provide Flexibility?

Access to mobile learning makes life easier for both instructors and learners. Point Solutions allows for polls during scheduled live classes or self-paced assignments, allowing instructors to choose the option that works best for their learners. Point Solutions can also track attendance and award participation credit, giving instructors more time to teach. Learners can answer the questions via their mobile devices, web browser, or a dedicated clicker to ensure equity. They can even receive push notifications to remind them to answer polls as they go live.

We would love to tell you more about Point Solutions and all of our other educational tools, so please contact us with any questions you have. Once your organization's instructors grow accustomed to real-time audience polling, they'll never want to go back!