Webcasting with polls |
By combining a set of frames, JavaScript, new API commands, and new poll scheduling options, it is now possible to conduct live polls or surveys while an online audio or video presentation is presented at the same time.
1. Create a place. In option 6, choose "Use the place name".
2. Create different polls to be presented at different times during the live presentation. A poll can be one or several questions that will be presented at once. Do not use multi-page polls. Publish the polls but do not specify a start or end date. On the Security page, turn on duplicate vote checking.
3. Become familiar with the files in /ViewsFlash/webcast. Copy all these files
to a working directory and customize them to suit your needs. PollPresentation.html
is frame set configured for presentation of polls during a webcast. The left
frame uses other.html, which you should customize to show a video stream, for
example. The right frame uses PollFrame.html, which is a frameset for presenting
the polls in synchronization with the webcast moderator.
4. Open a browser to the place page and click on Webcast. On this page you have the following options:
| Start | Click on this shortly before the start of the webcast. This clears the poll display and marks the beginning of the webcast. |
| Blank | Click on this anytime during the presentation to remove the poll display. |
| Show Show » Show |
Click on one of these links to advance the presentation to that question. The question currently shown is marked » |
| End | Click on this to clear the display and mark the end of the webcast. |
Webcast Participants should open a browser window go to the poll presentation you just created. Its URL is:
/ViewsFlash/webcast/PollPresentation.html?eventid=PPPP
where PPPP is the name of the place created in step 1 above.
5. For best results, create an introductory and and ending poll that say "Welcome" and "Thank you" (use the 'Just HTML' question type).
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