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25 Word Cloud Questions for Meetings and Workshops

A word cloud gives everyone in a meeting or workshop a way to contribute a short response to the same question. It can help you explore expectations, collect ideas or start a discussion about a shared experience. Choosing the right question makes a difference. A focused prompt produces responses you can discuss and use. A […]

How to Make an Existing PowerPoint Presentation Interactive

You have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go. The information is there, the slides are in order and you know what you want to say. But where does the audience get involved? Making a presentation interactive does not mean rebuilding the deck or adding an activity to every slide. Start by finding a few places […]

35 Poll Questions for Training Sessions

A useful training poll gives you something you can act on. It might reveal that your audience needs more background, uncover a misconception or help you decide which example to cover next. The challenge is choosing questions that do more than fill a gap between slides. Here are 35 poll questions for training sessions, organised […]

Participoll Goes Serverless

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to boost the capacity and scalability of our interactive polling system for PowerPoint.  Online polls create their own unique challenge for tech infrastructure. Normal websites have a steady flow of traffic with not much variation.  Polls however are a bit more “feast and famine” with the potential to […]

How to Save your PowerPoint Presentation as a Video

It’s really easy to save your whole PowerPoint presentation as a video which can be uploaded to the likes of YouTube and Vimeo. Note that this should not be confused with embedding video into your slides or creating a screen recording, both of which are also possible in PowerPoint.   Quick Way to Save PowerPoint […]

ParticiPoll-Based Research Studies Improved Retention in Lectures

Professor Charles Maxfield, MD, Chief of Pediatric Radiology at Duke University and his colleagues have been conducting research into active learning over passive learning. The team have chosen ParticiPoll as an interactive learning tool for their research. ParticiPoll co-founder Ben Ravilious spoke to Professor Maxwell….       BR: Tell me about your background and […]