Manage a session’s rhythm together.
Preparation, individual thinking, shared work and review do not all need the same form of participation. Divide the session into sections; the moderator determines the current section and the contributions expected at that moment.
Polls, scales, votes, questions and reactions serve different purposes. A result chart alone does not explain why a team reached that outcome; the discussion and reasoning need to stay in the working context.
The planned interaction and the contributions that actually happened, an objection to content and a participation reaction, a proposed decision and a confirmed outcome need separate consideration. The moderator, the person compiling the results and the decision authority need not be the same person.
Think of Roomvoice interactions as a deck.
In the Roomvoice target experience, questions, content steps and interactions are prepared in an ordered deck. The author’s editor, the moderator’s controller, a participant’s phone and the shared stage are different surfaces of the same run.
Multiple-choice questions, open responses, word clouds, ranking and other evaluation forms are selected for the session’s purpose. The new deck experience is being designed as a more integrated continuation of the existing individual participation tools.
Keep working with the results on the board.
In the deck approach, open responses can become sticky notes, rankings can become lists, and evaluations can become suitable Wall objects. A participant’s answer connects to an output that people can explore together.
Identity visibility, the timing of result disclosure and display conditions in small groups are part of participation design. “Anonymous” is not used as a single, unlimited guarantee.
