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Live quizzes in the Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet chat.

Put a question on your shared screen and start the clock. Everyone types 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the Zoom, Teams or Google Meet chat, and the fastest right answers score the most. No QR code, no phones, nothing to install.

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Works where you do: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, YouTube Live, LinkedIn Live, Substack Live and Restream. Also on your PowerPoint slides.

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What does a high temperature do in a language model? What does a high temperature do in a language model? Type 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the chat

Time left: 20s

  1. Increases randomness
  2. Reduces context
  3. Adds parameters
  4. Improves accuracy
0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen 1
  2. James Okoro 2
  3. Aisha Rahman 1
  4. Tomás García 1
  5. Priya Nair 4
  6. Daniel Kim 1
  7. Mei Lin 3
  8. Olu Adeyemi 1
  9. Hannah Weber 2
  10. Marco Bianchi 1
  11. Fatima Zahra 1
  12. Lukas Novak 4
  13. Grace Park 1
  14. Arjun Mehta 2
  15. Chloe Martin 1
  16. Yusuf Ali 1
  17. Ben Carter 3
  18. Elena Popescu 1
  19. Noah Schmidt 1
  20. Inês Duarte 2

Type 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the chat before time runs out.

A meeting in Microsoft Teams or Zoom. People type answers in the meeting chat and StreamAlive turns them into a quiz on the shared screen. You can type your own answer in the chat.

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Type in the chat.

How do you answer this quiz? Type 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the chat

Time left: 45s

  1. Scan a QR code
  2. Download an app
  3. Type in the chat
  4. Shout it out
0 responses
  1. You 3
  2. Tomás García 3
  3. Priya Nair 3
  4. Daniel Kim 1
  5. Mei Lin 3
  6. Olu Adeyemi 3
  7. Hannah Weber 4
  8. Marco Bianchi 3
  9. Fatima Zahra 3
  10. Lukas Novak 2
  11. Grace Park 3
  12. Arjun Mehta 3
  13. Chloe Martin 3

Other tools ask people to get their phone out, scan a QR code, open a link and enter a code, and then they get distracted by notifications. With StreamAlive, they type in the chat.

In a Teams or Zoom meeting, “3” is sent in the chat and appears in the quiz on the shared screen, which asks “How do you answer this quiz?” Everyone else’s answers follow.

Answering is one number in the chat. Nobody fumbles for a phone while the clock runs, so notifications never get the chance to pull them away, and their attention stays on the question.

We used to tell people to put their phones away so they wouldn’t be distracted, then later ask them to pull them out again to scan a QR code. That never sat right with us. StreamAlive removed that contradiction completely.

Amy Baughman Sitkins Group

How to run a quiz in Zoom or Teams.

  1. You let StreamAlive into your meeting and share your screen.
  2. Your audience types 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the meeting chat before time runs out.
  3. StreamAlive scores every right answer by speed and keeps the leaderboard.

  1. Paste your Teams or Zoom meeting link into StreamAlive and press Connect. It waits in the lobby like a note-taking app. Admit it once and it starts reading the chat.

  2. Share your screen and pick the StreamAlive window, the same way you share slides. Or present the quiz from your PowerPoint deck.

    This is the step people miss. Your audience can only answer a question they can see.

  3. Everyone sees your question the moment you share. It’s a slide in your StreamAlive presentation, set up beforehand with the right answer and the timer.

  4. They type the option’s number in the meeting chat before the timer runs out. No QR code, no link, no phone.

  5. Answers count until zero. Then the right answer is revealed, and the fastest right answers score the most.

  6. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed. Connect StreamAlive to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot and ask what the room thought.

What makes a password strongest? Type 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the chat

Time left: 30s

  1. Length
  2. A symbol
  3. A capital letter
  4. Your pet’s name
0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen 1
  2. James Okoro 2
  3. Aisha Rahman 1
  4. Tomás García 1
  5. Priya Nair 3
  6. Daniel Kim 1
  7. Mei Lin 2
  8. Olu Adeyemi 1
  9. Hannah Weber 1
  10. Marco Bianchi 4
  11. Fatima Zahra 1
  12. Lukas Novak 2
  13. Grace Park 1
  14. Arjun Mehta 1
  15. Chloe Martin 3
  16. Yusuf Ali 1
Illustration of the six steps. The presenter pastes the meeting link into StreamAlive and presses Connect. StreamAlive waits in the meeting lobby and is admitted, then posts in the chat that it is reading the chat. The presenter presses Share and picks the StreamAlive window, a poll appears on the shared screen, and answers typed in the chat fill the poll bars as they arrive. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed, and an AI assistant can answer questions about it.

A quiz on its own, or on your PowerPoint slide.

Share the StreamAlive window and the quiz fills your screen. Or put it on a slide with the PowerPoint add-in, share PowerPoint as usual, and the answers come in right there on the slide.

  1. Daniel Kim 1
  2. Mei Lin 2
  3. Olu Adeyemi 1
  4. Hannah Weber 1
  5. Marco Bianchi 3
  6. Fatima Zahra 1
  7. Lukas Novak 2
  8. Grace Park 1
  9. Arjun Mehta 1
  10. Chloe Martin 4

Type in the chat to add your own answer.

A Microsoft Teams meeting. First the host shares the StreamAlive window on its own; then the host shares PowerPoint, where the same interaction sits on a slide. Answers typed in the Teams chat fill the interaction either way. Choose a slide in the slide list to switch interaction, or type your own answer in the chat.

Points for speed, and a leaderboard after every question.

Each question counts down. The faster someone types the right answer, the more points they score, from 1,000 down to 200. Press “Show leaderboard” after any question to see who’s ahead: points add up across every quiz in your session.

What does a high temperature do in a language model?

Time left: 8s

  1. Increases randomness
  2. Reduces context
  3. Adds parameters
  4. Improves accuracy
0 answers
  1. Sarah Chen 1
  2. James Okoro 2
  3. Aisha Rahman 1
  4. Tomás García 3
  5. Priya Nair 1
  6. Daniel Kim 1
  7. Mei Lin 4

Type 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the chat to play along.

Also in the family: multiple choice questions, live polls and rating polls.

Ask StreamAlive’s AI to write the quiz.

Type a topic and StreamAlive writes quiz questions for it, four options each and the right answer marked. Keep the ones you like, change the rest, and add them to your presentation as slides.

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  1. Which mechanism lets transformers weigh relationships between tokens?

    1. A. Self-attention ✓ (correct)
    2. B. Pooling
    3. C. Dropout
    4. D. Quantization

  2. What does a high temperature typically do when sampling from a language model?

    1. A. Increases randomness ✓ (correct)
    2. B. Reduces context
    3. C. Adds parameters
    4. D. Improves accuracy

  3. Which technique helps reduce catastrophic forgetting during continual learning?

    1. A. Replay buffer ✓ (correct)
    2. B. Larger batch
    3. C. Higher learning rate
    4. D. Fewer layers
Try another topic:
An example of what StreamAlive’s AI writes. Yours comes from your own topic.

Quizzes in your brand’s colors, fonts and logo.

Pick one of more than 50 ready-made themes, from plain dark and light to scenes, seasons and moving backgrounds. Or make your own with your colors, fonts, logo and background, for one quiz or every one at once.

Which planet is closest to the sun?

Time left: 15s

  1. Mercury
  2. Venus
  3. Mars
  4. Earth
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Trainers and lecturers who turned their knowledge checks into a game.

Participation jumped once the QR code was gone.

60%

took part when they had to scan a QR code

90%

take part now they just type in the chat

Attendees taking part in Virtual Approval’s virtual and hybrid events, before and after they switched to StreamAlive.

Before StreamAlive, we were using other well-known QR-based interaction tools. About 60 – 70% of people would follow a QR code. Now that all they have to do is type in the chat, we see more like 90 – 95% of participants engaging.

Rachel Locke Founder & CEO, Virtual Approval
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  • it turned my class from a handful of participants to everyone participating, whether it was the shy students or the ones who thought they were too cool to give their opinions.

    Manish Agarwal Lecturer, Indian Institute of Management
    Read Manish’s story

  • There’s no second screen, no apps, no QR codes. People stay focused on the session instead of figuring out the tech.

    Brent Kelly President, Sitkins Group
    Read the Sitkins Group story
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How to run a quiz in Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or PowerPoint

It’s the same three moves everywhere: let StreamAlive into your meeting, share your screen, ask. Here’s how StreamAlive gets in wherever you present, with a step-by-step guide for each.

In your meeting

With your slides

In a live stream

In the room

Your first session won’t be a solo act.

Chat to the StreamAlive team, join a daily AMA, or follow the step-by-step guide for your platform. You can test it in a meeting with one colleague before anyone else sees it.

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Questions about live quizzes

How do I run a quiz in Zoom?

Create the quiz in StreamAlive, connect StreamAlive to your Zoom meeting with the StreamAlive app for Zoom or the meeting link, then share your screen and pick the StreamAlive window. When a question comes up, the timer starts and people type 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the Zoom chat.

How does scoring work?

A right answer scores between 1,000 points, if it comes in straight away, and 200, if it comes in as time runs out, falling evenly in between. Wrong answers and answers after zero score nothing. You can change the most and the fewest points.

How long does each question last?

As long as you set: 15 seconds unless you change it. Answers after zero don’t count, and the right answer is revealed the moment time runs out.

Is there a leaderboard?

Yes. Press “Show leaderboard” after any question. Points add up across every quiz in your session, so you can crown an overall winner at the end.

How do people answer?

By typing the option’s number, 1 to 4, in the meeting chat. Each person’s first answer counts, so there’s no guessing every number.

Can a question have a picture?

Yes. Add a picture beside the options: a chart to read, a place to name, a step in a process to spot.

What’s the difference between a quiz and multiple choice?

A quiz counts down, scores faster right answers higher and keeps a leaderboard. Multiple choice has no timer and no points: people answer, and you show the correct answer when you’re ready.

See how multiple choice works
How do I add a quiz to PowerPoint?

Install the StreamAlive add-in, add a quiz to a slide, connect StreamAlive to your Teams or Zoom meeting and present in Slide Show. When the slide is up, answers typed in the meeting chat come in on your slide.

Can I run a quiz in Google Meet or with Google Slides?

Yes. In Google Meet, connect StreamAlive with the meeting link and people answer in the Meet chat. Google Slides can’t show live content inside a slide, so StreamAlive gives you a quick link to paste on your slide. Clicking it while you present opens the quiz in a browser tab: connect StreamAlive to your meeting from there and share that tab.

Do participants need an app, an account or a QR code?

Not online. In Zoom, Teams and Google Meet they type in the meeting chat they’re already using. In a room, people open StreamAlive’s browser chat with a QR code or a short link and code, still with no app or account.

Why does StreamAlive need to join my meeting?

It reads the meeting chat so it can turn answers into the quiz. It joins the way a note-taking app does, and you admit it. It doesn’t record your meeting and has no access to your video, audio or shared screen.

Does it work for hybrid and in-person sessions?

Yes. People in the room answer in StreamAlive’s browser chat on a phone or laptop, and people online answer in the meeting chat. Both feed the same quiz and leaderboard.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Sessions with up to five participants are free, with every interaction included and no card needed. Paid plans start at $100 for a pack of 4 sessions, and Pro is $75 a month, billed annually.

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