Audience engagement for eventsGet people in the room and online taking part
Live polls, timed quizzes, moderated Q&A and chat inside every session, for the room and the stream alike, with points, badges and a leaderboard if you want them.
Chat is on Pro and above, and gamification on Business and Enterprise
Keynote: the grid we need by 203511 questions · 7 answered · median wait 1m 50s
Live to audiencePre-moderatedBoard11Needs review1Queue1On stage1Answered7Hidden1
Needs review · 1
Will the 2035 target survive a change of government?
Pending?Audience member·09:41 · just now
ApprovePut on stageReplyHistory (1)
Queue · approved, ready for stage · 1
Who pays for grid-scale storage before the market does?
AOAmara Okafor·09:34 · 7m ago
Put on stageMark answeredHideReplyHistory (2)
On stage · 1
How quickly can the connection queue be cleared?
On stage 02:14LWLeah Whitfield·09:29 · 12m ago·On stage 09:39
Mark answeredClear stageReplyHistory (3)
Polls
Run live polls in six formats
A poll can be single choice, multiple choice, a ranking, a rating shown as stars, numbers or NPS, a word cloud or open text. Results are drawn to suit each type, and open-text answers can be held for approval before they show.
Push a poll to attendees, open voting when the presenter is ready, close it, and reset it if the session needs a second run. Results can go on the big screen as a presentation scene.
Q&A
Moderate Q&A from review to the stage
Questions move through lanes: needs review, queue, on stage, answered and hidden. Moderators approve, stage, answer or hide a selection at once, answer a cluster of the same question in one go, and reply into the room or privately to the asker.
Every question keeps a timeline of what was done to it and by whom. Where AI triage is switched on, it flags questions, groups duplicates and drafts answers, and the moderator decides what to use.
Chat
Keep chat open or hold messages for approval
Chat can be open, moderated after the fact, or held for approval before anything goes live. Hosts post announcements into the chat, clearly labelled, and the ticker carries short notices across the event.
Attendees react to messages with emoji, and moderators see the counts update live. With gamification on, popular messages earn their author points.
Quizzes and gamification
Reward taking part with points, badges and prize draws
Quizzes run in rounds, either timed and scored automatically or as a buzzer round called from the stage. Quiz points feed the same leaderboard as everything else.
Gamification awards points for voting, taking quizzes, asking questions, completing a profile and watching video. Prize draws can be weighted by points, limited to attendees above a threshold, or drawn by hand.
Measured
Score every attendee on how much they took part
Each attendee carries an engagement score built from time present, poll votes, questions and chat, worked out from the same counters the analytics read. Room figures show how many of the audience took part, and the attendee list marks each person hot, warm or cold for follow-up.
What is in it
What engagement includes
- Live polls
- Six types, from ranking and NPS to word clouds.
- Timed quizzes
- Scored automatically and ranked, or run as a buzzer round.
- Moderated Q&A
- Lanes, bulk actions, duplicate clusters and replies.
- AI triage
- Flags and draft answers that advise the moderator, switched on per account.
- Chat
- Open, post-moderated or held for approval, with emoji reactions.
- Gamification
- Points, badges, a leaderboard and prize draws.
- Presentation scenes
- Holding, countdown, announcement and poll scenes for the big screen.
- Engagement score
- Built live from time present, votes, questions and chat.
Works with
The rest of the Event OS, sharing the same data
Questions
Questions about engagement
- Does the AI moderate Q&A on its own?
- No. Where AI triage is switched on, it flags questions, groups duplicates and drafts answers. A moderator still approves, stages, answers or hides every question.
- What poll types are there?
- Single choice, multiple choice, ranking, rating (as stars, numbers or NPS), word cloud and open text. Open-text answers can be held for approval before they appear.
- Can people watching online take part?
- Yes. Polls, Q&A and chat sit beside the stream in the attendee app, so people in the room and people watching remotely take part in the same session.
- Which plans include engagement?
- Polls, quizzes and Q&A are on every plan. Chat is on Pro and above, and gamification, with its leaderboard and prize draws, is on Business and Enterprise.
Book a demo
See it working on your own event
Bring a real event, room clashes, spreadsheets and all, and we’ll show you how it would run in EventStreams.