when you give a presentation you want
your audience to be engaged
and one way to increase engagement is to
invite the audience to participate
using the audience question and answer
tool
to get started click the drop down arrow
next to present
and choose presenter view from the menu
the presentation will start like normal
but a separate window also opens up to
help guide you during your presentation
to open a q a session click the audience
tools tab
then select start new
the q a session is now open
here is what the audience sees a large
notification appears above the
presentation
audience members can go to the url to
ask a question
here's what the process looks like on a
smartphone audience members start by
typing the url
into the address bar of the web browser
then tapping go a web page opens
and the audience members can see
questions that have already been
submitted
if they're signed into their google
account they can even vote on which
questions they must want to have
answered
to ask their own question participants
can tap the text box and type their
question
if they are signed in their name will
appear alongside their question
but they can choose to ask the question
anonymously if they want to
they submit their question by tapping
submit
in the presenter view you can see every
question as they are submitted
to show a question to the audience click
present
they will see the question instead of
the current slide
to return to the presentation you can
either go to another slide
or you can click hide if you ever want
to stop
accepting questions just click the
toggle near the top
audience members won't be able to submit
any questions while accepting questions
is turned off
another useful feature of audience q a
is that you can review the questions
after the presentation is finished to
see past questions go to tools
q a history here you can review
questions that were asked during each
session
which can provide helpful feedback about
how to improve your presentation
in the future
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