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Activities

Polls, word clouds, and Q&A — the shared response primitives.

Activities are the interactive elements the audience responds to. They share one field model, so the same primitives power both live sessions and async forms.

  • Poll — single or multiple choice; results tally live.
  • Word cloud — free-text submissions aggregated into a weighted cloud.
  • Q&A — questions submitted and upvoted by the audience.

More activity kinds

Beyond the core three, Oratora also supports:

  • Quiz — a timed, always-scored multiple-choice question (a poll becomes scored too if you mark a correct option).
  • Rating — a star or smiley scale.
  • NPS — a 0–10 Net Promoter Score question.
  • Open text — a free-response prompt without word-cloud aggregation.
  • Spin wheel — a randomized picker, handy for prize draws or shout-outs.
  • Social wall — a live feed of audience submissions on the big screen.
  • Slides — a presentational content slide (title, bullets, statement, or image) shown on the big screen between activities. Collects no responses.

Same engine, more renderers

Every activity is the same contract — prompt in, responses in, an aggregated result out. Adding a new kind means extending the shared type union and adding a renderer; the underlying engine doesn't change.

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