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Notes on running live sessions that hold a room, and what we are building at Quack.
15 October 2026 · 5 min read
How to run a team retro with live polls without killing the conversation
Use live polling to surface real team friction during retrospectives without letting votes replace honest debate.
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How to run a project kickoff with live polls that catch misalignment early
Expose unspoken scope risks, clarify unclear ownership, and test alignment during your kickoff before work starts.
13 October 2026 · 4 min read
Make a Quack deck from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini
Connect your Quack account to the AI assistant you already use, ask it for a quiz, and get a real deck to present. Then ask it how the session went.
13 October 2026 · 4 min read
Run your session from your phone, with your notes in your hand
Pair your phone with the big screen and move through a Quack session from anywhere in the room, with your speaker notes for this slide and the next.
8 October 2026 · 4 min read
What to do when nobody answers your live question
Fix dead air during live polls and quizzes by diagnosing connection stalls, lowering social stakes, and rescuing stuck prompts.
7 October 2026 · 5 min read
How to run a live quiz game the whole room joins from their phone
Build the deck, put the code on the big screen, and read the answers as they land. Players need no app and no account.
13 September 2026 · 4 min read
Formative questions that change what you do in the next ten minutes
Design mid-session questions that diagnose confusion immediately and dictate your next five slides without making participants feel evaluated.
17 August 2026 · 4 min read
Running an icebreaker when the room hates icebreakers
How to design low-exposure warm-up questions that get every participant to tap their phone without feeling put on the spot.
10 August 2026 · 4 min read
How long to leave interactive slides open during a live session
Set exact countdown timers by question type and use live response velocity to close polls without losing room momentum.
3 August 2026 · 4 min read
Why quiz questions that split the room teach more than easy wins
A question that everyone gets right builds false confidence instead of exposing the misconceptions you need to address in a live session.
27 July 2026 · 3 min read
Why participants guess early and when speed points break quiz accuracy
How speed-based scoring alters room behavior and when to remove time bonuses to protect learning.
25 July 2026 · 2 min read
Co-Host now narrates what just happened in the room
Quack watches each reveal and writes one line under the standings, so the host has something to say about the scores instead of reading them out.
25 July 2026 · 3 min read
Running a live quiz without losing the room
Pacing, question difficulty and scoring decide whether a live quiz holds a room. Here is how to set all three before you start.
25 July 2026 · 2 min read
When participants game the quiz score, the design is often the cause
If your quiz participants prioritize speed over accuracy, rethink how points, timers, and leaderboards shape their engagement.
22 July 2026 · 2 min read
Word cloud questions that actually work
A word cloud only says something when several people pick the same word. The prompt decides whether that happens.
18 July 2026 · 2 min read
Run a quiz with no projector at all
Phone-only mode puts the whole stage on every player's phone, so a quiz works around a table, in a corridor, or anywhere without a screen.
14 July 2026 · 2 min read
Assign a deck as homework and let people work at their own pace
Self-paced mode turns any Quack deck into a link people open on their own schedule, with results collected the same way a live session collects them.
11 July 2026 · 2 min read
Generate slides without leaving the editor
Quack AI now works inside the deck you are building, adding a few slides at a time rather than producing a whole deck you have to reshape.
8 July 2026 · 2 min read
Polling a hybrid meeting without leaving remote people behind
Hybrid meetings fail remote attendees at predictable moments. A poll fixes some of them and makes others worse. Here is which is which.
4 July 2026 · 2 min read
How to ask a question that gets an honest answer
Anonymity is necessary and not sufficient. Wording, options and what you do with the results decide whether people tell you the truth.
30 June 2026 · 2 min read
Running a Q&A that surfaces the real question
Open-floor Q&A rewards confidence over curiosity. Upvoted questions change who gets heard, and change what you have to do as a host.
26 June 2026 · 2 min read
What to do with the answers after the session ends
Most session data is collected, screenshotted once and abandoned. A short follow-up routine turns it into something the group can act on.