Audience Response Systems have several positive features. These features include privacy, real time system, and the ability to have both impromptu and scale questions.
First, an Audience Response System allows privacy because the particiapants responses are confidential and anonymous. Awareness of this fact can encourage better honesty among participants. This awareness of privacy also allows you to ask more personal questions, as well as get more real answers.
Next, an Audience Response System uses a real time system. Simply put, this means that any data that is collected by the system is available to the leader of the meeting instantly. This data can also be calculated instantly to provide you with easily understandable percentages.
Audience Response Systems also provide you with the ability to ask impromptu
questions. Before a meeting starts, you can enter your questionnaire into the system. If at any point in the meeting, you decide to add another question it can be inserted easily.
Finally, some Audience Response Systems are also equipped with the ability to scale questions. This means that any information taken from participants during a questionnerre can be converted into an easy-to-read graph.