Launching the Poll Presentation View

The Presentation View for your Poll is a centralized display that your entire crowd sees at your event. This display automatically shows all the details of your Poll like the Active Question, the available answers, and live answer results. This view also displays the instructions and Crowd URL for your crowd to access your Poll on their mobile devices.

Your crowd uses the Presentation View to "follow along" while using their mobile device to vote.

Do I Have To Use the Presentation View?

No, your Poll will still work even if you don't use the Presentation View. All the information needed for your audience to vote is displayed on the Participant View on their mobile devices such as questions, answers, live answer results, etc. However, the Presentation View also shows each question, and the real-time answer results in a large-format presentation view (similar to Keynote or PowerPoint), which is beneficial for your audience to follow on one centralized screen.

Launch the Presentation View

To open the Presentation View, click on the large purple Presentation View button under the Crowd Views box on the Experience Dashboard, which will open up a Presentation View in a new browser tab. This browser tab can be detached and then dragged to the projector desktop of your computer.

An Experience Dashboard and a detached Presentation View window 

Set the Presentation View to Full-Screen Mode

After opening the Presentation View in a new browser tab, you'll detach the browser tab and move it to an Extended Desktop area on your computer that is connected to a projector, HDTV, or another display source. These are often connected to your computer's external display ports via HDMI, DVI, VGA, etc.

Check out Connecting Crowdpurr to a Projector or HDTV for more information on displaying the Presentation View.

Once the external device is displaying the Presentation View's browser tab, click the Full-Screen button in the lower-right-hand corner of the Presentation View. This will put the Presentation View into full-screen presentation mode.

Full-screen Presentation View for a Poll

Your audience can now see the URL, Experience Code, and instructions for joining your Poll. Once they've joined, they can now use the Presentation View to follow along with your Poll. The Presentation View will show appropriate messages based on if your Poll is in the Ready state, the Live state, or the Finished state. It also shows the Active Question and Live Answer Results (A).

Helpful Tip

For best practice, you should do this bit of setup before your audience arrives at your event so guests can view the Presentation View and prep to join your Experience.

Next Steps

Now that you know how to open the Participant View and launch the Presentation View, we're ready to actually run and test your Poll! This is the fun part! Go to Running Your Poll.