We’ve had tons of requests for real-time moderation for free-text response polls. We’ve listened and now we’ve delivered. Today we’re introducing our new support for real-time response moderation, available on some of our premiums plans.  Most Audience Response Systems and their 12-key keypads are too clunky to let people text in words and sentences.  But text-to-screen (or “txt wall”) can give participants the impression that it’s ok to yell anything anonymously. Now, we give you control over which SMS and Web responses are okay to display in live results and which are not.  You can outsource this job to someone in your organization or to a professional service like ICUC moderation. That way, you’ll never be embarrassed by audience members who might submit distracting or unproductive messages.

Chart Settings (colors, visual options, and themes) Saved Globally

The Adobe Flash-based poll settings let you customize colors, select % vs total votes, bar vs column, and set many other visual settings.

Text Message Poll Charts and Graphs – Display Options

Polls used to save their display settings only on the computer they were customized on, sort of like setting your computer’s desktop wallpaper.  But if other people viewed your poll on their own computer, they would not see it with the visual settings you selected.  This is now fixed.

If you’re running a poll in PowerPoint or on a new computer, and we can’t detect that you’re the poll’s owner, we’ll ask you to login if you want to save your settings for all viewers.  Otherwise, your changes will be just applied for the current computer. This way you don’t have to login if you’re in the middle of a high pressure presentation and just need to quickly bump up the font size for the people far in the back.

Login to save chart options for all users

One way to help PowerPoint polls know that it’s “really you” (and skip the need to re-enter your username and password) is to make sure you use the “Remember me” option when logging in to Poll Everywhere.

Poll Everywhere Login

This has some exciting effects: now you can email your PowerPoint presentations out to people and they will see your poll exactly as you see it.  Or choose your favorite color theme and embed your live SMS poll on your blog – everyone will see it the same way you do.