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Practical guides for interactive sessions

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Guide 1

Run a live poll in a lecture

A single well-timed question tells you more about a lecture hall than twenty minutes of nodding. This is the shortest path from a question in your head to live results on the projector.

Before you start

  • A presenter account — the free Starter plan includes three polls.
  • A workspace, with its 6-digit PIN or QR code on your first slide.

Steps

  1. 1

    Create the poll

    Open your workspace, add a poll and pick the type that matches the job: multiple choice for a concept check, rating for confidence, word cloud for prior knowledge, open text for the questions you had not thought of.

  2. 2

    Decide who drives

    Turn on presenter-controlled mode so the question appears only when you launch it. Add a timer if you want a hard stop, and choose whether votes are anonymous.

  3. 3

    Let students in

    Students open the join link or scan the QR code in any browser. No app and no account — a phone from the back row is enough.

  4. 4

    Launch and watch

    Start the poll. Results update on your screen as votes arrive. Show the chart when you have enough answers and talk about the split, not just the right answer.

  5. 5

    Close and keep

    Close voting when the discussion is done. Results stay in the workspace, so you can compare cohorts next term.

Tips

  • One concept per question. If you need two, make a multi-question poll.
  • Follow a hard question with a rating poll: “How confident are you in your answer?”
  • Anonymous voting gets more honest answers from large rooms.

Related:Live polls Interactive lectures

Live poll results chart updating as participants vote
Results appear on the presenter screen as votes come in.

Guide 2

Set up an invite-only workshop

Paid trainings and internal sessions need a closed door: only the people you invited, in a room that fills up and then stops. Workspace settings cover this without any extra tool.

Before you start

  • A presenter account and the email addresses of your participants.
  • A canvas plan for the session — what participants should add, and what they should not touch.

Steps

  1. 1

    Create the workspace and close it

    Create a workspace for the workshop and set its access mode to invite-only whitelist. Add the participants’ email addresses; anyone else who has the PIN is turned away.

  2. 2

    Send the invitations

    Use email invitations from the workspace. Each email carries the PIN and the join link, so nobody has to copy anything from a slide.

  3. 3

    Set the size and the clock

    Set a participant limit that matches the room and a session duration for the workshop, so the workspace is not left open afterwards.

  4. 4

    Decide what participants may touch

    On the canvas, choose per object type whether participants can add, edit, connect or delete. Adding sticky notes on, deleting other people’s notes off is a good default for brainstorming.

  5. 5

    Afterwards, regenerate the PIN

    When the workshop is over, regenerate the PIN so the old one no longer opens the workspace. Your materials and the canvas stay where they are.

Tips

  • Keep a few spare seats in the participant limit for late additions.
  • Test the join flow from a phone before the day.
  • Save the canvas under a name before the session so you can restore a clean board for the next group.

Related:Workshops and facilitation Access modes and security

Collaborative canvas with sticky notes and connections
Canvas permissions decide what participants may add, edit or delete.

Guide 3

Design a quiz students actually remember

A quiz is retrieval practice, not an exam in disguise. The questions people answer from memory are the ones that stick — so build for recall, keep the stakes low, and use the analytics to see what to teach again.

Before you start

  • A workspace with a quiz available — the Starter plan includes one.
  • The three or four ideas from the last session that matter most.

Steps

  1. 1

    One idea per slide

    Build the quiz as slides, one question each. Vary the question format so students cannot pattern-match, and keep the wording short enough to read on a phone.

  2. 2

    Points and timers, sparingly

    Assign points to reward correct answers, but use timers only where speed is the point. A generous timer keeps the focus on recall rather than reflexes.

  3. 3

    Let the assistant draft, then edit

    Give the AI assistant your topic and it drafts questions and answer options. Edit every one: the assistant does not know which misconception your class has.

  4. 4

    Run it live or share it

    Launch the quiz in the session with the PIN, or share the quiz link so students can take it later in the week.

  5. 5

    Read the analytics

    Quiz analytics show results per question. A question most of the room missed is your first slide next week.

Tips

  • Save a good quiz as a template and reuse it in another workspace.
  • Quiz last week’s material, not today’s — spacing is what makes it stick.
  • Keep the scoring light-hearted; the goal is recall, not ranking.

Related:Quizzes and assessment All features

Where this happens in the product

Everything in this guide is available on the free Starter plan; paid plans raise the limits on workspaces, polls, quizzes, pages and storage.

Guide 4

Share slides and handouts without email

Attachments bounce, links get buried in inboxes, and someone always asks for the slides again. Put the material in the workspace once and let participants take it from there.

Before you start

  • Files within your plan’s storage: 10 MB on Starter, 100 MB on Basic, 500 MB on Pro.
  • Optionally, text you would rather publish as a page than upload as a file.

Steps

  1. 1

    Upload into folders

    Add slides, PDFs, images and documents to the workspace’s files and sort them into folders — one per session works well.

  2. 2

    Let participants preview and download

    Participants open files in the browser preview and download what they need. Each file shows a download count, so you know whether the handout was picked up.

  3. 3

    Turn text into a page

    For reading material, write a page in markdown or import an existing markdown file instead of uploading a document. Pages render on any screen size.

  4. 4

    Publish with the right link

    Share a page with a public link, an expiring link or a PIN-protected link. Public links can be added to your LMS or intranet like any other URL.

  5. 5

    Export when you move on

    Pages export back to markdown, so your material is never locked in.

Tips

  • Name files with the session date; participants look for “week 3” more often than for a title.
  • Use an expiring link for term-limited material and a public link for the syllabus.
  • Delete last year’s files to stay within your storage limit.

Related:File sharing Links, QR codes and LMS

YouLinker files screen listing a PDF, a Word document, a CSV file and an image with sizes and upload dates
Files are organized in the workspace and previewed in the browser.

Guide 5

Use presenter-controlled polls in a hybrid seminar

In a hybrid room the remote half is always a step behind — unless everyone answers the same question in the same place. Presenter-controlled polls and a video room keep both audiences in sync.

Before you start

  • A workspace with a multi-question poll prepared in advance.
  • The join link pasted into the meeting invitation for remote participants.

Steps

  1. 1

    Open the video room and share your screen

    Start the workspace’s video room (powered by Daily.co) for remote attendees and share your screen so they see the same slides as the room.

  2. 2

    Everyone joins the workspace

    People in the room scan the QR code; remote participants use the link from the invitation. Both end up in the same workspace with the same PIN.

  3. 3

    Advance the questions yourself

    Launch the poll in presenter-controlled mode. You move to the next question when the discussion is ready, and the change appears on every device at once.

  4. 4

    Show results to both halves

    Reveal results when you decide. They render on the projector and in every participant’s browser, so remote attendees are not squinting at a shared screen.

  5. 5

    Collect the questions

    Keep the workspace chat open for questions from either side and answer them between poll questions.

Tips

  • Ask remote participants to answer first; it gives them the floor.
  • Open with a word cloud — it works identically in the room and online.
  • Close the video room when you finish; results and chat stay in the workspace.

Related:Hybrid seminars and webinars Live polls

Where this happens in the product

Everything in this guide is available on the free Starter plan; paid plans raise the limits on workspaces, polls, quizzes, pages and storage.

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