VBrick Systems V5.0 manual Best Practices

Best Practices

It's always a good idea to test your audio, video, and slides locally before presenting to a live audience. This can help identify problems in advance and provide your viewers with an optimal viewing experience. For a successful presentation, there is no substitute for a thorough walk-through that can anticipate and address potential issues—particularly with your network. The best way to test what your viewers will actually see and hear is to have someone view your presentation from a separate desktop using Internet Explorer. This will test the presentation on your local network and/or over the public Internet and will provide a real- world test of your multimedia presentation in a simulated production environment. A simpler method is to self-test the audio and video using the Video preview window the Presenter page. This is an easy way to check and adjust the audio and the video. When you click on the viewer, a preview window opens and you can verify the audio and video quality and make sure you are properly centered in the window.

Creating Polls

Polling is an interactive feature that lets you communicate with viewers and share the results. Select Create Poll to conduct a realtime multiple-choice poll of your viewing audience. You can type in a question and up to five answers. If you type the questions and answers in realtime, your audience will have to wait while you type the questions. If you prepare the questions and answers in advance, the polling form is automatically populated when you click Import. Saved presentations will also include poll results if any. It is important to note that viewers must be online before a poll is initiated. Otherwise they will not see the poll.

TTo create a poll:

1.From the Presenter interface, click Create poll to display the following page.

2.Create a multiple choice poll by typing in the question (which becomes the name of the poll) and the possible answers. You can also use the Import feature to import an existing poll. If importing, create a text file with the question on the first line and each of the four possible answers on a separate line—do not use blank lines. Then Browse to the file, click Import to populate the form, and then Send Poll to distribute to viewers.

3.A pop-up window will then display in realtime on each viewers desktop and they can select an answer and send the response back to the presenter.

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