Impromptu Questions

The Impromptu questions feature allows the user to insert a new question slide during the slideshow (by pressing the shortcut key "I")

Condition: This can not be done during voting and can only be completed in any other stage including the non-question slide.

When a presenter requests an Impromptu question during the slideshow, PowerCom will display a popup window at bottom of the screen prompting the presenter to enter the following parameters:

1.    Summary: Question summary description. This is a mandatory field.

2.    Scale of answer choices: Yes/No, True/False, and any number of choices from 2 to 10.

3.    Graph: Show percent of votes, number of votes or both.

Click ‘OK’. PowerCom will then create a new slide with the question title that the presenter entered with the Poller box allowing participants to start voting.

The rest of the presentation is exactly the same as a normal question slide with poller.

PowerCom will insert this new slide after the current slide and the presenter should save the PowerPoint file after the slideshow to preserve the Impromptu question slide. Since there is no answer choice, the presenter may want to enter the answer choice after the slideshow.

If there are default Timer and Music settings, then the presenter can click T or M to start and stop Timer and Music.

The beauty of the Impromptu question feature is that the presenter can create a new question slide without exiting the slideshow. However, the limitations are:

1.    The presenter can not type in all answer choices.

2.    The presenter may not have time to type in the whole question.

3.    The presenter must be quick so the lecture can be continued without delay.

When to use the Impromptu question feature?

A good usage of impromptu question is when the presenter wants to alter the current question slide answer choice but does not want to exit and resume slide show.