Interactive Voting Systems

Interactive voting systems use hand held devices to give all members of your audience the opportunity to respond to questions displayed on your presentation screen.

You can choose from a range of handsets from simple devices where a single press is all that is required to respond to more advanced models with clear LCD displays to facilitate numerical, ranking and rating options.

Link the voting system to your PowerPoint presentations to make them interactive or use inbuilt templates for generating questions. You can even make any Windows based third party software interactive. Import questions from MS Word or just 'float' a live web page into Optivote and it is ready for voting.

How do interactive voting systems work

Having installed any relevant software on your computer all you need is a display device, usually a projector or plasma screen, and the receiver unit which plugs into your USB port. All the audience members are given a remote control handset which they use to enter their chosen responses to questions displayed on the screen.

Those button presses send a signal to the receiver which, via the Optivote software, stores the data immediately. This can be displayed graphically to the audience (or not if you so wish) and is automatically stored for later reporting. In depth reports can be made either for the group as a whole or for each individual.

Inexpensive infra red devices offer a great way for small groups to enjoy the benefits of interactive voting. For larger groups and faster operation the radio frequency devices offer more flexibility.

PowerPoint files can be linked to the voting system software making them interactive. However, its not just PowerPoint – some interactive voting systems has its own set of templates for question creation and can be used with any Windows based application including websites.