What is an Audience Response System?

An audience response system (ARS) is used to engage the attention and participation of attendees at meetings, training courses and other forums. By using economical individual wireless response keypads and audience response software the entire group is able to respond to questions, input their opinions and even vote.

How do they work?

    1.   Create a typical presentation in PowerPoint.
    2.   Add interactive content questions right in PowerPoint.
    3.   Distribute wireless audience response keypads to participants.
    4.   Collect responses when an interactive slide appears.
    5.   Display results immediately and analyze later if desired.

    Studies show that meetings and events that use interactive keypads can boost attentiveness as much as 88% and enhance content retention up to 27%. An audience response system pays for itself many times over in better knowledge retention, group consensus and wiser decisions.

    OptionPower audience response systems are an extensively used brand of interactive audience response solutions. OptionPower offers full integration into Microsoft Office and PowerPoint, a wide variety of affordable keypads for rental or purchase, and specialized modules for group training games, employee surveys, group decision making, delegate voting and event ROI measurement.