Word cloud

Open Topics & Questions, select the topic on the left where the question belongs, and click + Question.

11Topics & Questions22Select topic33New question

1. Topics & Questions
2. Select topic
3. New question

The editor opens. Click the Question type field and choose Word cloud (collect terms).

11Word cloud (collect terms)

1. Word cloud (collect terms)

Choose the question type Word cloud (collect terms). Terms per person (1 to 5) and Characters per term (2 to 60) limit the input; At most this many terms on the wall keeps large clouds readable. LehrPuls merges identical terms regardless of upper and lower case. Show the result on the wall while collecting is switched on here.

11Title22Question text33Terms per person44Characters per term55live on the wall66Preview

1. Title
2. Question text
3. Terms per person
4. Characters per term
5. live on the wall
6. Preview

Click Save (or press Cmd+Enter or Ctrl+Enter). The question is now in the topic and can be added to any playlist.

11Save

1. Save

After the start, the projector shows the QR code and the address. Participants scan the code with their smartphone and they are in — no app, no account. How to start a session is shown in the guide Running a session.

In the live cockpit the question is listed on the left. The large Show question button — or the space bar — opens it on all devices and shows it on the projector.

11Show question (space bar)22connected devices

1. Show question (space bar)
2. connected devices

The smartphone shows up to three fields for terms. Participants type their terms and send them — a single term is enough.

11Type terms22Send

1. Type terms
2. Send

After sending, the smartphone confirms receipt. Until the question is closed, Change answer still allows corrections.

In the cockpit the cloud grows under Running result; next to it LehrPuls counts the mentions. Because Show the result on the wall while collecting is switched on, it grows on the projector as well.

11Submissions so far22Close (space bar)33single answers

1. Submissions so far
2. Close (space bar)
3. single answers

While answers are still being collected, the cloud on the projector grows with every answer.

Every term in the cloud in the cockpit is a button: one click hides it on the wall and on the devices — for example a joke like “Pizza”. Hidden terms appear crossed out in the cockpit; another click brings them back.

11Click to hide

1. Click to hide

Close ends the submission; after that LehrPuls accepts no more answers. The main button now reads Show results — one more press of the space bar shows the result.

11Show results

1. Show results

The reveal shows the finished cloud without the hidden terms.

The smartphone shows the same cloud; the participant’s own terms are highlighted.

The cockpit shows the result as well. The space bar moves on to the next question; after the session everything is under Analytics.