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Voting Tool
Use the
Voting Tool
on the
Tool
Palette
with the
eBeam Respond RF
voting system to
allow participants to respond to electronic testing, formative assessments, surveys, opinion
polls, games and questions posed by the presenter. The data collected from these keypads is
immediately transmitted to the presentation, giving the presenter a better understanding of
comprehension.
Before using the Voting Tool on the Tool Palette, make sure that the eBeam Respond product
is set up completely. Carefully follow the instructions from the eBeam Respond Quick Start
Guide instructions that came with your product.
The eBeam Respond voting response system is powered by TurningPoint
®
2008 software. For
detailed instructions on how to set up eBeam Respond (voting system) enabled PowerPoint
files and similar topics, go to your Start menu > Turning Technologies, LLC > TurningPoint
2008 and refer to the user guides provided for Office 2003 and 2007.
See the following topics:
Voting Tool Controls
How to Run a Voting Session with eBeam Respond
Voting Tool Controls
The Voting Tool controls are described in the following table.
Tool
Control
Description
Voting
Response
Window
The
Voting Response
window contains 2 pieces of information: Number of responses and
feedback.
Number of responses (shown as 5) shows the number of responses you have received
to the current question. If this number is shown in
green
, voting is still open for this
question. If this number is shown in
red
(see image to left), then voting is closed.
Feedback shows the number of your audience members who pressed the
?
on their
response card to indicate that they have feedback about the current question.
Repoll
Question
Select
Repoll Question
to clear the previous responses and get ready to accept new
responses from the audience for the currently displayed question. Both the original
responses and the new responses are stored in the TurningPoint 2008 session file.
If the slide show had previous voting session data saved, it might open showing voting
closed. To begin voting again, select the
Repoll Question
button.
Insert Slide
Insert Slide
allows you to insert a slide into a presentation that is currently open for voting.
Pressing this button opens a drop-down menu allowing you to select the slide type to be
inserted into the presentation. You are able to gather voting results on the inserted slide
immediately.
Toggle
Results
The
Toggle Results
button changes the values displayed on each results chart. The values
can be represented as either numbers or percents. This button only works when a results
chart is shown.
Show/Hide
Showbar
The
Show/Hide Showbar
button opens and closes the TurningPoint 2008 Showbar. The
Showbar contains the options available to the Voting Tool and also additional TurningPoint
2008 options.
Refer to TurningPoint 2008 help for more information on the Showbar.
Display
Participant
Monitor
The
Display Participant Monitor
button opens the Participant Monitor.
Refer to TurningPoint 2008 help for more information on the Participant Monitor.
Show the
Original
Chart
The
Show the Original Chart
button can be used after using the Toggle Results or Data
Slicing buttons to return the chart to its appearance when it was first created.
