- AMA (Ask Me Anything)
- An AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) is an open Q&A session where an audience submits questions to a host or guest on any topic. Anonymous submission and upvoting are common, so the most-wanted questions rise to the top. → How to run a Q&A session
- Anonymous polling
- Anonymous polling collects responses without attaching them to identities, so participants can answer honestly without social pressure. It is used when the truthful answer matters more than knowing who said it — psychological-safety checks, sensitive feedback, or dissent. → Anonymous polling for workshops
- Audience response system (ARS)
- An audience response system (ARS) is any tool that lets a presenter pose questions and gather a group’s answers live. Early versions used physical “clicker” handsets; modern ones run in the browser, so participants answer from a phone via a link or QR code.
- Backchannel
- A backchannel is a parallel text conversation that runs alongside a live talk — a chat or Q&A feed where the audience reacts, asks, and votes without interrupting the speaker. It lets large or remote audiences participate continuously.
- Exit ticket
- An exit ticket is a quick question or two posed at the end of a class or session to check what participants understood before they leave. It is a formative-assessment technique that tells the teacher what to reteach — not a graded quiz. → Exit ticket questions
- Formative assessment
- Formative assessment is checking understanding during learning — through quick questions, polls, or exit tickets — so the teacher can adjust before moving on. It contrasts with summative assessment (a final test or grade) and is meant to guide teaching, not score it.
- Icebreaker
- An icebreaker is a short, low-stakes question or activity used at the start of a meeting or class to get people talking and comfortable participating. Good icebreakers are quick, inclusive, and answerable by everyone. → Icebreaker questions
- Live polling
- Live polling is asking an audience questions during a session and collecting their answers in real time — usually from their phones — so results appear instantly on screen. It turns a one-way presentation into a two-way conversation and gives the host an immediate read of the room.
- Pulse check
- A pulse check is a short, frequent survey — often just one or a few questions — used to gauge how a group is feeling or what they think right now, rather than a long annual survey. Teams use pulse checks to track morale, clarity, or workload over time. → Town hall questions
- Q&A upvoting
- Upvoted Q&A lets an audience submit questions and vote on others’, so the questions most people want answered rise to the top instead of whoever speaks loudest. It surfaces shared priorities and gets shy participants’ questions asked for them. → How to run a Q&A session
- QR code poll
- A QR code poll lets an audience join a live poll by scanning a code with their phone camera — no app to install and no link to type. It is the lowest-friction way to get a room of people into a poll quickly.
- Sentiment analysis
- In an audience-feedback context, sentiment analysis is automatically gauging whether responses are positive, negative, or mixed — for example, summarizing the overall mood of open-text answers from a session so a host does not have to read every one. → AI insight report
- Town hall / all-hands meeting
- A town hall (or all-hands) is a company-wide meeting where leadership shares updates and takes questions from the whole organization. Live polls and anonymous Q&A are common in town halls to hear from employees who would not speak up otherwise. → TapInFlow for teams
- Word cloud poll
- A word cloud poll asks everyone to submit a word or short phrase, then displays the answers as a cloud where more-frequent responses appear larger. It is a fast way to surface the room’s shared sentiment at a glance — common in icebreakers and pulse checks.
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