Personal Response System (PRS)
A personal response system (PRS) — also called an audience response system or clicker system — allows individual participants to respond to questions or vote in polls during a presentation or class. Each participant uses a handheld device or smartphone to submit their answer, and results are aggregated and displayed instantly. PRS technology is used in lectures, corporate training, and conferences to increase participation, gauge understanding, and make sessions more interactive.
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Distributed Audience
A distributed audience is a group of presentation attendees who are physically located in different places — such as different offices, cities, or countries — and who attend the presentation remotely or from multiple simultaneous locations. Managing a distributed audience requires careful attention to technical setup, timing across time zones, and engagement tools that compensate for the lack of physical presence. Distributed audiences are common in global organizations, virtual events, and multi-site corporate communications.
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Display duration
Display duration in PowerPoint refers to the length of time a slide remains visible before automatically advancing to the next one. Setting a display duration enables auto-play presentations that run without manual input — useful for kiosks, event loops, or self-running demos. Duration settings are configured per slide in the Transitions panel and can be combined with timing controls on individual animations to choreograph a fully automated presentation sequence.
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.potx file extension
A .potx file is a file which contains, styles, texts, layouts and formatting of a PowerPoint (.ppt) file. It's like a template and useful if you want to have more than one presentation with the same formatting.
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