PowerCom Features
PowerCom is an ARS (Audience Response System) or GRS (Group Response System) software product as a Microsoft Office PowerPoint add-in, not stand alone ARS software. When conducting meeting, training and presentation, PowerCom allows you to gather polls from audience for their feedback. By using PowerCom along with wireless keypads, you can record polling data and display the resulting data in a graph. The best way to explore PowerCom functionality is to review the PowerCom sample.ppt demo file. Then follow step by step demo of inserting Poller to sample questions and run slide show in the demo mode to experience the benefits of PowerCom.
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PowerCom
Function listing
I. Installation:
- Easy and user friendly set up program
- Automatically detects older version of PowerCom and upgrades to the
current version after user confirms deletion of older version.
- Installation program validates the system requirements and instructs
user to meet minimum requirements using Fail, Warning, and Pass indicators.
- Installs all Windows Registry for all installed software automatically.
- Includes Hardware driver
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II. Set up and system configurations:
- Com port selection and auto detect available Com ports with Help
instruction.
- Change channel function.
- Keypad settings function available for ReplyWorldWide.
- Keypad range setting function.
- Test keypad with easy to understand color display.
- Allow user to select the result polling data file path.
- Merge and combine polling result data file.
- Disable some configuration feature from UI front end and restrict
the setting via Windows registry.
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III. PowerPoint Slide question design:
- An easy four step Poller wizard to insert polling object to capture
keypad voting.
- Only three steps are mandatory, music setting is optional at step
4.
- Automatically captures question via PowerPoint title text box and
answer choices via text box.
- Allows user to enter question summary in 1 to 2 words.
- Demographic question to accommodate data analysis feature
- Force “Start polling right after slide shown” as default
option, modifiable only via Windows registry.
- 'Hide result' display option.
- Numerical, Alphabetical, Yes/No, True/False graphic formats.
- Correct answer indicator and 'Majority is the correct answer' option.
- 3D graphic display chart types with customizable bar colors, font,
text shadow, background and transparent background.
- Shows percent of vote and number of vote or both.
- Shows mean function.
- Save as system wide default for Graph type and format setting.
- Resizable and repositionable Poll display graphic with transparent
effect.
- Poller's attributes can be changed without deleting and inserting.
- Can copy a Poller object and paste to other slides.
- Tool bar displays common Poller's attributes for easy maintenance.
- Optional music playing while polling and allows user to select favorite
music file and set it as default in PowerCom system settings.
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IV. PowerPoint Slide Show:
- Slide show confirmation allows user to change slide show configurations
and settings before slide show.
- Forces demo mode when no proper base station is selected.
- Writes to log option to assist trace debug.
- Allows user to change result polling data path location.
- Resumes polling from previous incomplete slide show or re-starts from
beginning.
- Instantly displays 'polling result' and 'skip the result' as options.
- Easy normal slide show navigation using space bar.
- Additional hot keys for easy navigation override.
- Adopts most of the PowerPoint hot keys for normal slides (without
question poller).
- Right mouse click on Poller as alternative to remembering hot
keys.
- Disables conflicting PowerPoint hot keys for the question slide.
- Continue voting or re-set vote count to re-vote options after vote
stopped or result display.
- Slide show data analysis advanced option as a separated window display.
- Page up key to review previous slide.
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V. Result display and reporting:
- Make your Polling result record keeping easy and convenient. Save
summary and detail result in Word and HTML formats.
- Result data analysis reporting tools.
- Displays summary results to audience and keeps detailed voting record
for speaker.
- Result Sorter to display result graph.
- Slide sorter to display Slide screen images.
- Summary and detailed voting result by slide in Word format reports.
- Voting result stored as XML file for easy system interface.
- System automatically versioning of result data to avoid accidental
deletion of important data.
- Data analysis result manipulation in Excel spread sheet and OLAP
data display with graphic charting.
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Business benefit:
- Make your PowerPoint interactive.
- Increase participation from your audience.
- Make your collaboration with your audience effective.
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Some common restrictions:
- Only single choice answering, cannot select multiple choices at once
- Most of the keypad systems have up to 10 answer choices
- Input keys are very limited. Not suitable for free expression or
non-single choice format of test.
- Good for in-person meetings and should be live & real
time, not good for individual answering of questions from internet or
by his own pace.
- Not a good idea for large amount of data to be chosen from (due
to the limitation of screen space)
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