PowerCom
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PowerCom is an ARS or GRS (Group Response System) add-in software for Microsoft PowerPoint
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'PowerCom is among the leading brand name for Audience Response System (ARS) or Group Response System (GPS) software that is made even powerful by its compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint.
PowerCom is widely used for presentations, meetings, symposiums, lectures, trade shows, elections and all other events/activities that are stimulated by audience participation and cooperation. PowerCom is very easy to use and fully integrated with PowerPoint.
PowerCom provides ARS
Technology
worldwide
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. Today’s audience response systems run on the same computer
used by people every day, wireless technology, infrared
and radio frequency
, faster processors, cheap storage memory, and widely available personal computers.
PowerCom provides customized features and functions to suit your every needs.
allows the audience to interact and allows the presenter to collect audience feedback
. There are three components that make up an audience response system: keypads, the base station, and the computer used to run the presentation software.
PowerCom has customized features for specific industry needs and requirements. From the keypads to its Specialty Systems, PowerCom offers ARS how you want it, when you want it!
- Reply Mini
- Reply Mini Plus
Advanced Level
- Reply Plus V3- Text
Specialty Keypad
- Ativa
PowerCom RF1
Reply Solo System
Reply Worldwide
is responsible for the transfer of information from the keypad to the computer. Many of the base stations can vary widely in how they look. The size of it is not as important as the location because receiving a strong signal depends on location. There is radio frequency base stations. An infrared base station will operate like a TV remote control which means that it will need a direct line of sight from the device and the base station. In contrast, a radio frequency base station doesn’t need to be in a direct line of sight from the device. This gives you more freedom, allowing operation from different floors and rooms.
There are two main types of audience response software: stand alone software and presentation software add-ins (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint). Audience response software lets the presenter collect participant data, display graphical polling results, and export the data to be used in reports and analysis.
Stand alone software works like any other type of software. Data collection and presentations are done through this. Their presentation modules usually have high quality graphics which are suitable for high-end audio-visual productions. Audience response professionals usually choose the standalone applications.
Add-in software has to be installed into other presentation software like PowerPoint or Apple Keynote. It modifies the presentation software by adding ARS capabilities. Add-in software uses the capabilities of a program while adding its support of an ARS system.
The software you choose is usually dependent upon the type of hardware you purchase and vice versa. Many hardware systems require you to use that company software with their systems because some of the software from other companies will not work on their systems. Until the ARS industry standardizes, this proprietary problem will continue to exist; however some systems do allow you to use different software titles because of similarities in the hardware.
When making a purchase, be sure to ask which software titles will be compatible with your hardware system.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...
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'PowerCom is among the leading brand name for Audience Response System (ARS) or Group Response System (GPS) software that is made even powerful by its compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint.
PowerCom is widely used for presentations, meetings, symposiums, lectures, trade shows, elections and all other events/activities that are stimulated by audience participation and cooperation. PowerCom is very easy to use and fully integrated with PowerPoint.
PowerCom provides ARS
Ars
Ars , or Arsim is a derogatory Hebrew slang term for the Israeli stereotype of a low-class young man. The stereotype may also refer to attributes such as flashy jewelry and clothing...
Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
worldwide
World
World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....
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The System
Audience response systems have been keeping up with modern technologyTechnology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
. Today’s audience response systems run on the same computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
used by people every day, wireless technology, infrared
Infrared
Infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light, measured from the nominal edge of visible red light at 0.74 micrometres , and extending conventionally to 300 µm...
and radio frequency
Radio frequency
Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...
, faster processors, cheap storage memory, and widely available personal computers.
PowerCom provides customized features and functions to suit your every needs.
The Hardware
PowerCom ARS uses Reply System hardware. The hardwareHardware
Hardware is a general term for equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sold in hardware stores....
allows the audience to interact and allows the presenter to collect audience feedback
Feedback
Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or...
. There are three components that make up an audience response system: keypads, the base station, and the computer used to run the presentation software.
PowerCom has customized features for specific industry needs and requirements. From the keypads to its Specialty Systems, PowerCom offers ARS how you want it, when you want it!
The Keypads
Entry Level- Reply Mini
- Reply Mini Plus
Advanced Level
- Reply Plus V3- Text
Specialty Keypad
- Ativa
PowerCom RF1
Reply Solo System
Reply Worldwide
The Base Station
The base stationBase station
The term base station can be used in the context of land surveying and wireless communications.- Land surveying :In the context of external land surveying, a base station is a GPS receiver at an accurately-known fixed location which is used to derive correction information for nearby portable GPS...
is responsible for the transfer of information from the keypad to the computer. Many of the base stations can vary widely in how they look. The size of it is not as important as the location because receiving a strong signal depends on location. There is radio frequency base stations. An infrared base station will operate like a TV remote control which means that it will need a direct line of sight from the device and the base station. In contrast, a radio frequency base station doesn’t need to be in a direct line of sight from the device. This gives you more freedom, allowing operation from different floors and rooms.
The Software
Audience Response System SoftwareThere are two main types of audience response software: stand alone software and presentation software add-ins (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint). Audience response software lets the presenter collect participant data, display graphical polling results, and export the data to be used in reports and analysis.
Stand alone software works like any other type of software. Data collection and presentations are done through this. Their presentation modules usually have high quality graphics which are suitable for high-end audio-visual productions. Audience response professionals usually choose the standalone applications.
Add-in software has to be installed into other presentation software like PowerPoint or Apple Keynote. It modifies the presentation software by adding ARS capabilities. Add-in software uses the capabilities of a program while adding its support of an ARS system.
The software you choose is usually dependent upon the type of hardware you purchase and vice versa. Many hardware systems require you to use that company software with their systems because some of the software from other companies will not work on their systems. Until the ARS industry standardizes, this proprietary problem will continue to exist; however some systems do allow you to use different software titles because of similarities in the hardware.
When making a purchase, be sure to ask which software titles will be compatible with your hardware system.
The PowerCom Software Features
- Com port selection and auto detect available Com ports with help instruction
- Change channel function
- Keypad range setting
- PowerPoint slide question design
- Four step poller wizard
- Automatically capture question via PowerPoint title text box
- Allows users to enter question summaries
- Demographic question to accommodate data analysis
- Force "Start polling right after slide shown" as default option, modifiable only via Windows registry
- Hide result display option
- Numerical, Alphabetical, Yes/No, True/False graphic formats
- Allows user to change result polling data path location
- Result data analysis reporting tools
- Display summary result to audience and keeps detail voting record for speaker
- Voting result stored as XML file for easy system interface
- Resizable and repositionable poll display graphic with transparent effect
The Applications
- Focus Groups
- EducationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
& TrainingTrainingThe term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of... - Corporate Meetings
- CMECME- General :* Chief Mechanical Engineer, persons in charge of building or maintaining locomotives* Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express , formerly CallManager Express , a telephony system...
and Medical Symposiums - Elections and ShareholderShareholderA shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders own the stock, but not the corporation itself ....
Meetings - Interactive Trade Shows
- Seminars/Speeches
- Field Survey
- SMS Texting
- Live Auction
- Self Paced PollingPollingPolling is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany....
- Moment-to-Moment
- ARSArsArs , or Arsim is a derogatory Hebrew slang term for the Israeli stereotype of a low-class young man. The stereotype may also refer to attributes such as flashy jewelry and clothing...
for Market Research - Other shared/group events