Hello, @board-of-directors!
An idea was put forth a the latest Professional Development Committee meeting that I would like to put to the board as a whole.
The Idea
For session questions, particularly for panel discussions, could we use Survey123 to solicit questions from the audience?
Before the panel starts, a survey link would be on the screen, or on small handouts, as a QR code. Audience members would have the chance to submit questions to the panel, possibly anonymously.
The session moderator would need some kind of read-only access to these questions, in order to field the questions to the panelists as they come in. Perhaps an auto-updating dashboard?
Extending: One survey, multiple panels / sessions?
If one of the fields in the survey tied the response to a session (using a hidden field baked in by the QR code), it’s possible we could use the same survey to collect audience questions from any panel, or even regular sessions and workshops, if we wanted.
It’s actually something I already do for the webinar series, to collect feedback at the end of the presentation. I just create a new QR code for each webinar that bakes the session ID into it so that the response is associated with the specific session.
This is in the ILGISA AGOL account:
Replicating this for audience questions would be fairly straightforward.
Feedback?
On that note, did we want to collect feedback this way, too? My session feedback dashboard is already set up, and could easily be used for in-person presentations as well.
If we wanted to pursue this for either / both, I’m happy to set it up and generate all the QR codes, it’s a pretty simple python script.
