Free and Easy to use Mobile Audience Response Polling Apps

Want to know if your audience agrees to what is being said during a presentation or training? Do you want your audience to vote during the session? No, you don’t need to request a gesture from the audience or ask them to raise their hands as modern technology is helping presenters in this regard. It goes without saying that keeping your audience engaged is the most important thing while you are delivering a lecture or a presentation. Your audience needs to be part of the conversation and presentation rather than remaining mute spectators. This is one challenge you need to address to make your events productive and successful.

Mobile audience response polling apps let you address this challenge. From gathering the opinion of the audience to conducting live polls, there are several ways in which you’d be able to benefit from using these systems. In a world where every person attending an event is most likely to carry a smartphone along you can make use of these devices to make your sessions participatory and productive. With increased interactivity your audience also feels like part of the session. To leverage this possibility you must choose the right audience response apps. Here we look at some of the free and easy to use polling apps that would make your audience part of the presentation and take active part in the presentation and not merely listen to the lecture -

• PollEverywhere – It is quite a popular audience response system that is being widely used for small and large events. Along with the web based interface this tool also allows polls to be conducted via mobile devices. Using this you can easily integrate polls in your PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides. The app comes packed with several features that allow you to conduct quizzes or even ask open ended questions during the presentation including true/false quizzes, multiple choice questions and even have clickable images within your presentation.
• Meridia–This is by far the most comprehensive audience response app that is available in the market. What makes this app the best among the lot is its scalability which makes it an ideal tool for corporate presentations, training and sessions involving large number of audience. From conducting live polls to gathering feedback on your presentation you can do a lot using this app. What makes this a powerful tool is the comprehensive dashboard you have at the backend which can be used to create interactive quizzes and polls. It also comes with advanced analytics feature that lets you track all details related to audience participation and this data lets you improve your future presentation.
• Vote! – If you are looking to cut the clutter and want to use an app that is extremely easy to use start using Vote! It doesn’t come packed with features like some of the other tools that we have mentioned in this list but allows you to conduct polls during the event easily. What makes it stand out is the clean and easy to use UI. Polls can be created on this app at will and the participants can easily take part in them with the results being made available in real-time.
• Three Cents – This is another app that is gaining popularity among public speakers. Apart from letting you conduct polls during presentations it can also integrate results from other platforms such as Twitter. Facebook, text messages and even email. While this one is little complicated to use compared to some of the others that we have mentioned here it is useful for presenters who seek opinions from audience across different platforms or when the events are being live streamed.
• Slido– It works pretty similar to most of the other apps that we have mentioned above. What makes it different and powerful is the distinctive Q&A element that it adds to the presentation. With this app you will be able to let your audience come up with questions related to the presentation and the same can be answered by the presenters as well as other attendees at the event. This gives the audience a sense of understanding that they are involved in the whole process.
• Crowd Mics – This isn’t a traditional audience response app but one that is very useful during live events. This app can be used along with any of the other apps that we have mentioned in the list. As the name suggests this app allows audience to ask questions to the presenter. Instead of a microphone being passed around your audience’s smartphone acts as their microphone.

Choose any of these mobile audience response polling apps and you’d ensure success of your event. Most of these apps can be customized to meet the exact needs of your session in terms of integrating live polls within your presentation or seeking opinions of the attendees during various stages of the event.

Summary – In this write-up we look at the audience response system polling apps and discuss their basic features and functionalities.

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