The Care Commission are to take interactivity to forums with new keypads.
The Care Commission has bought 100 Reply mini+ keypad audience response system from AV Department with SNAP voting software. The Care Commission intend to use the system at their regular forums which are attended by supported persons and carers. The SNAP software will allow presenters to prepare their slides in PowerPoint with out the need for loading any software on to their machines. The SNAP system opens a PPT file and recognises bullet pointed options as a possible questions and automatically offers the presenter to ‘ask or not to ask’, complete with result graphics.
Reply hardware is open source which means there are multiple software packages to choose from. As you grow in confidence in the programming and operation of the system you can upgrade the software to take advantage of additional features and capabilities with out the need to change your hardware so giving a clear up grade path while maintaining the functionality of the originally purchased software for others.
Another advantage to buying from AV Department is the knowledge that you are able to hire extra keypads for those rare occasions when you need additional capacity. Demos and ‘try before you buy’ hires are available. See other Care Commission news below…
Visit Scotland host interactive day for staff.
Visit Scotland is Scotland’s national tourism aurthority with staff spread through out the country all involved in promoting Scotland as a premium destination. With such a distributed staff it is important that all employees are aware of the important contribution they all make to the greater organisation. Reply IQ Audience Response keypads were utilised in the plenery and break out sessions for assesing staff attitudes to topics and knowledge levels of key themes. Deletext was also deployied to gather comments and thoughts through out the day to allow staff to pose questions and make comments quickly and anonomsly. The organisers where then able to answer and react too comment dynamically during the event while all delegates where still in attendance, rather than waiting on paper event feedback forms.
Mini goes for a spin around Scandinavia
A major financial institution has ‘dry hired’ (with out technician) a Reply mini+ audience response system for use on a road show around Scandinavia. After just a morning of training the client took the 40 light weight keypads as hand luggage on the week long tour. Operating on 2.4Ghz there are no licensing issues anywhere in the world making it ideal for such international events.
Holyrood Events use Audience Response to add to reporting
Holyrood Events work with government, public, voluntary and private sector clients. Audience response plays a pivotal role in the staging of their events and provides real and honest feed back which is used to underpin the conference reporting. The reports are not only distributed to conference delegates but also to those who can have direct and real influence on the subjects covered. AV Department work very closely with Holyrood Events to ensure that every aspect of their polling is perfect, including pre-event proofing of all questions, programming and chairman briefing. Post event AV Department provide the results as pdf, ppt and as excel showing the break down by filter questions asked during the day. In all it makes for a powerful partnership which delivers results time after time. “Technology support for speakers must be the best I’ve ever seen / heard” (Comment from post event evaluation)
Supported persons make feelings known through Audience Response
The Care Commission regulates all adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland. The commission regularly host forums to communicate with supported persons and service providers. Audience Response is used though out the day to gauge opinion on what the Care Commissions priorities should be and where the delegates want to see progress made. A series of prioritised questions give indicators to the direction for continued development. All results where displayed instantly to the audience to allow further discussion. The results where also ‘filtered’ to see if the opinion differs between defined groups. At the end of the event a series of questions complete the event evaluation in a matter of minutes. “Just wanted to say a huge thank you for yesterday – yet another success”
Community Health Partnership speeds process using Audience Response
Kirkcaldy & Levenmouth Community Health Partnership (CHP) is part of NHS Fife. CHPs use the expertise and skill of their staff to improve services, they take decisions which make a real difference in their local community. CHPs ensure that their staff are fully supported and able to make decisions to set clinical priorities. AVD recently helped Kirkcaldy & Levenmouth CHP to prioritise long term conditions by utilizing an Audience Response system. The process initially asked committee members to identify themselves as a GP, Nurse, Pharmacist etc.. these ‘filters’ are then used to reveal any major differences in opinion between groups, differences that would have been lost in an overall response. Presentations are given and the members of the CHP are asked to prioritise the ‘directional options’ of each clinical area. Every option is ranked by every member with close attention being paid to the number of responses being received to ensure that every ones opinion is counted. Reviewing of the polled results allowed the client to develop ranked priorities. With the session conducted in an afternoon it was the clients opinion that “the system allowed us to avoid a long and detailed consultation exercise “
