CLiKAPAD
Credit card size, ultra light weight and with full size voting buttons!

CLiKAPAD is a single-digit credit card size, ultra lightweight keypad with full size voting buttons supporting numeric and alpha responses. Luminescent voting buttons are excellent for low light meeting situations.

Advantages:

Bring your presentations to life with powerful ARS software!

As a speaker in a conference or presentation, have you ever wondered what your guests were thinking of just as you started up your discussion? How much do they know about your topic, your industry, and your background? What about their level of knowledge on the topic being covered? No one wants to give an entire presentation that is so out of touch with the audience that they sit totally confused out of courtesy or worse yet, they get up and leave.

In public speaking 101, they tell you to get the audience involved. Ask questions, work for a response. But no one is immune to the “deer in headlights” syndrome that comes from a group that is both shy and afraid to speak up. Trying to get one individual or a group to respond to a particular question can sometimes be equated to the dentist’s task of “pulling teeth.”

By using the interactive technology you can involve your attendees in your presentation and give them that all important anonymous response opportunity right in palms of their hands. Now when you launch your topic, you can start by getting everyone to rate his or her knowledge level of the material you plan to present. By providing a few choices, the individuals can use the handheld keypads to select a choice to provide the speaker with a more honest level of understanding regarding the subject, without fear of ridicule. When everyone has responded, the responses can be displayed in the form of a bar or pie chart immediately!

Instantly, you know the level that you must address to keep this crowd’s interest. Once they’re hooked on using the device, you can direct your viewers through a series of polls that will help keep you, and them, on track throughout the entire session.

An ARS customer recently commented, “Our CEO began using the Audience Response system in his quarterly employee meetings. It’s a two fold reward. The employees feel they are being heard and still remain anonymous, and the CEO can find out what the employees are thinking without putting anyone on the spot.”

Sample Graph

The basic ways to structure a multiple choice question include:

To help hold the audience’s attention, a combination of the different formats may be used. You may want to begin the session with asking a few demographic questions to break the audience into key subgroups that will allow you to better utilize the information and further assist in the discussion of topics.

A few questions up front regarding objectives of the meeting, or key performance factors relative to the topic of the conference, can be asked to establish a base line of perception or knowledge. Those same questions can be asked near the end of the event to find out how the perception or knowledge has shifted throughout the meeting. This data can be displayed in a comparative format or saved for later analysis.

For testing purposes, individual keypads can also be tracked as desired. Responses for all questions are saved throughout the event and can instantly be re-displayed and/or reported in a variety of formats.