Sign-In Slide: When you need to know who's in the room

Problem

How do I 'take attendance' or do a 'roll call' of people in the room? Perhaps you want to make sure that your audience stayed in the session the entire time, so you'll have them sign-in at the beginning, as well as at the end of the session to prove that they deserve the credit for the training/session.

Solution

Create a Sign-In slide that lets you receive any numeric entry (up to 6 digits) from each keypad that is participating in the poll.

Our clients typically come up with their own 'sign-in code', which is then attached to their badge, or other form of identification, so that they always have it on them.

Next, you create the Sign-In slide itself, anywhere in the presentation...

First, you need to know that it's a type of slide that will only really work with keypads that support multi-digit entry, such as EZ-VOTE 10 and EZ-VOTE PRO.

The single-digit keypads will work, but they can only support up to 10 answers, so your "sign-in code" will be limited.

Find it under Insert Question drop-down on the EZ-VOTE toolbar:

Second, the Sign-In slide was designed to simply record who is present in the room at the time of polling on it and then report it later (in Excel, for example).

It will not give you any kind of visual representation of all votes after the polling is closed, besides the real-time vote counter, if you choose to use/keep it.

Third, you will be able to run a specific Sign-In report from the Reports menu on the EZ-VOTE toolbar to get the data from all keypads that voted.

Simply go to Reports --> Sign-In Results to generate the report:

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