Webcast Support

IMPORTANT NOTE: To enable Webcast Support, the Administrator must install ViewsFlash with the webcast=1 servlet parameter.

Cogix ViewsFlash can be used to ask participants questions during live webcasts. When viewing an archived webcast, the questions can be presented at the same point in the presentation as the original performance.

Both surveys and polls can be combined with a webcast, with different features.
If you have to pick one, we recommend Surveys:

Feature	Polls	Surveys
Show live results after each question	Yes	No
Show question during archived webcast	No	Yes
Store data as one table	No	Yes
Analyze data	No	Yes
Built using	place	Survey
What is being shown each time	A poll	A page of questions
Step-by-step instructions	For polls	For surveys

To make all this work, you need to create a set of frames. A frame will host the video or audio stream; another frame will host the ViewsFlash polls; other frames could host other applications. We have provided complete framesets that you can adapt for your own use.

During the webcast, each visitor's browser continually asks the ViewsFlash server "what is the current question". A presenter's console provides a way to "Mark" the current question, so that visitor's browsers can then show it. The latency between presenter choices and visitor experiences depends on how often this query is made, and can be adjusted.

Next: Webcast Polls