selecting the right audience response system

ALL ABOUT AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM (ARS)………………………….…………………..….3

USAGE OF AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM……….……………………………………………………..4

SCOPE OF TRADITIONAL AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM…………….…………………………5

WEB-BASED AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR ONLINE MEETINGS…….…………….6

YAWNBUSTER CONNECT AS THE NEW WEB-BASED ARS……………………….………..…….7

REACH OF AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM………………………………………….…………………..8

3 EASY STEPS FOR YAWNBUSTER CONNECT…………………………………….….………………..9

SUMMARY………………….……………………………………………………………………….……….……….…..10

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Audience response system is a tool that helps to create interactivity between the

presenter and the audience. It even allows participants at a meeting or an event

to respond to questions and their opinions to go in sync with the surveys or the

list presented.

In this era when business meetings, seminars, webinars etc… have become the

basic solution of any planning, decision making and strategy implementation,

audience response in an all makes it possible with its various traditional tools as

well as next generation online audience response system.

Audience response systems create an active environment among the participants

and increase their participation to a great extent. Also, it helps provide instant

results and feedback to the presenter and participants. The immediate responses

from an ARS helps and can be used to confirm audience understanding of key

points, their opinions, key takeaways etc.

With the change in time, seminars or in-person meetings were supported by

traditional ARS; whereas webinars need to be supported by some new-age tool

(online ARS).


ALL ABOUT AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM (ARS)

TRADITIONAL AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEMS

Wireless Keypads / Clickers

Wireless Slammers

Virtual Buzzers


USAGE OF AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM

Traditional audience response systems are majorly used in

Classrooms

In-person meetings or seminars

In classrooms, it gives faculty the ability to fine-tune their instruction based on

student responses. In large halls or so, the presenters get the proper outcome of

their presentation with the use of traditional ARSs such as clickers, slammers or

buzzers etc…

Personal-response technology works well both for large lecture halls and for

smaller classes. Problem with clickers, slammers or buzzers occur when people go

online and these device couldn’t respond to the scenario.

Figure 1: Features of Traditional ARS


SCOPE OF TRADITIONAL AUDIENCE RESPONSE

SYSTEM

With the communication and presentations going online, the audience response

system went to a significant level with the web-based ARS. Primary usage of

these kind include

Webinars

Web based meetings

Distance Learning

Online Polls or Surveys

When used in classrooms, in-person seminars or meetings, web-based ARS adds

wings to the performance and interaction levels, making it more viable.

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WEB-BASED AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR

ONLINE MEETINGS

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Few points where YawnBuster Connect scores over traditional ARS are

Use of mobile devices or laptops instead of traditional ARS like clickers,

slammers or buzzers.

No hardware, maintenance or repair required.

Ideal tool for online meetings

Enables qualitative information capture and analysis

In a nutshell, YawnBuster Connect is an ARS that will help presenters keep their

audience’s attention, increase knowledge retention and confirm the understanding

of the audience.

YawnBuster Connect redefines interaction levels in presentation sessions. It can

be referred as the next generation of online audience response systems (ARS). It

allows people to easily and affordably engage & interact with their audience

worldwide.

This advanced audience response system allows teachers, presenters or speakers

to gather observe and instantly share audience responses in real time without the

need of any traditional audience responders like clickers or slammers etc…

YawnBuster Connect works for both online meetings and webinars as well as in-

person seminars and lectures. Attendees need just a mobile device or a laptop to

become an active part of the session. The audience can interact with the

presentation by simply visiting a URL on their mobile phone or laptop's web

browser.


YAWNBUSTER CONNECT AS THE NEW WEB-BASED

ARS

Figure 2: ARS Positioning

As presented, x axis denotes the audience type & y axis refers to the measure of

audience response. Traditional ARS are placed in Quadrant III as they are used in

the In-Person/Local meetings where the ARS hand-held devices could be easily

used & can collect a good amount of data; whereas YawnBuster Connect can also

be placed into the same Quadrant with the fact laptops and mobile devices with

internet connections are easily available in in-person meetings as well. In the

perspective of online meetings, YawnBuster Connect are majorly placed with

higher qualitative response in the Quadrant I. It has already gained the position

with the higher number of quantitative responses.


REACH OF AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM


3 EASY STEPS FOR YAWNBUSTER CONNECT

In the current era of live and interactive presentations, audience response

systems (ARS) have proven out to be a boon. The whole gamut of presentations

took a new turn with the introduction of the traditional ARSs such as clickers,

slammers etc. Once thought to be nearly impossible at a station; voting, surveys,

meetings and seminars gained a new life with the live stream inclusion of

audiences.

Further, with the online audience response system, YawnBuster Connect has

come out as the web based ARS that lets presenters do the same thing for their

online meetings and webinars: collect, view and instantly share responses in real

time without the usage of traditional audience clicker pads or any software

installation for viewers.

The easy and proficient procedure of this software has made it a prominent name

in the audience response system industry. Outshining the various challenges that

were faced by the audience response, YawnBuster Connect has come out to be

very user friendly tool for an efficient presentation.

In a nutshell, YawnBuster Connect is a wholesome pack of abstracts like view,

share and interact and that too in real time!

To learn more about YawnBuster Connect, click here…

http://www.yawnbuster.com/audience-response-system.html

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