Guidelines for Submitting Audience Polling Questions

1. Questions should be in a multiple-choice format. Choices may be numbered from 1 to 10, lettered A to E, or simply 'Yes' or 'No'. Correct choices, if any, should be clearly indicated, preferably by an asterisk next to the choice.
2. Questions and choices should be stated as clearly and succinctly as possible, remember, the more words that are displayed on a screen, the smaller they must be and the harder it will be for the audience to read them.
3. ARS displays can highlight specific words on screen using bold, italic, underline, and/or a unique highlight color. Superscripting and subscripting are supported.
4. Use of normal upper and lower case conventions is encouraged, as it makes the questions more readable for the audience. To assure the correctness and appropriateness of all text displayed, ARS will honor upper and lower case as submitted.
5. Questions should be submitted in the order they are to be used wherever possible. Inclusion of an event agenda with the questions is very helpful.
6. Questions should be submitted to ARS two weeks prior to your event date, to allow for their accurate and efficient entry, display formatting, proofing, and delivery to your site event.
7. Non-polling (purely information) displays are allowed; however, the ARS system is not intended to be a replacement for normal slide or videographic presentation media, and its excessive use as such may incur additional charges.
8. To serve you more effectively and efficiently, ARS asks that questions be submitted in printed or typewritten form. Please do not send handwritten originals, or multiple generation faxes.
9. We prefer to accept questions via word document (.doc) or ASCII text (.txt) for importing into our software. This will help eliminate some typographical errors. Questions may be sent on diskette or forwarded to our Production Department via e-mail.
10. ARS would like to help you make your presentations look as professional as possible. If you are using any other slide, presentation support, logos or specific color schemes, we would like to get a copy of that information and/or files. We are using bitmap (.bmp) images in a 1024 x 768, 32 bit color format. We can accept a number of different formats (TGA, GIF, TIF, etc.) and convert the image to the desired format for our program. If you have materials to contribute, please forward them to us. Graphic images can be e-mailed directly to our graphic artist at graphics@audienceresponse.com. Please include the job number as a reference.

Following entry or importing into our system, ARS proofs all questions for typographical errors against the originals provided. We are happy to send a printed or data copy of the questions to you for additional grammatical and content proofing. ARS also encourages you to schedule a rehearsal prior to beginning the meeting for one final review of the questions on screen.

Thank you for letting ARS serve your Audience Polling needs!