Running a live session

A session is one live run of your deck, from Start Presentation to Stop Presentation. Here is how to run one smoothly, and what your audience sees along the way.

Before the room fills up

• Put the QR code somewhere early. Your opening slide is the natural home for it. Latecomers can always type the 5-digit code at doppio.us instead.
• Present from Chrome, signed in. The Doppio extension runs the session, so present from the browser where it is installed and signed in.
• Run your polls once for yourself. Five minutes of presenting to an empty room with your own phone catches a mistyped option or an over-short countdown before anyone else sees it.

Starting

1. Open your deck in Chrome.
2. Click the Doppio extension icon and press Start Presentation.
3. Present as you normally would, speaker notes and all.

Anyone who scans before you have pressed Start Presentation sees a waiting screen. It holds for two minutes before asking them to try again, so start your session shortly before you invite the scan.

During

• Their phones follow your slides. When you advance, every connected device advances with you. Voting opens when you land on a poll slide, and takeaways appear on the slides you gave them to.
• Countdowns run where you asked. On the slide, on their devices, both or neither, exactly as you set per poll in Audience Settings.
• Give each poll its moment. Read the question aloud, let the countdown breathe, and narrate the bars if results show live. The room engages with whatever you give your attention to.

Stay on the air

The extension quietly checks in with Doppio while you present. If your browser closes or your connection drops for around ten minutes, Doppio assumes the show has ended and stops admitting new participants. Phones already connected are not kicked out, but it is one more reason to present from a machine that stays awake and online.

Stopping

Click the extension icon and press Stop Presentation. That closes voting, ends the session, and files the results under the session's name in your dashboard.

Stop the session, don't just shut the laptop

Pressing Stop Presentation is what wraps up the session and its results for your dashboard. Make it part of your packing-up ritual.

For the condensed, printable version of all of this, see Show day.