Audience questions submitted from a phone and moderated at the front of the room. The smallest module in the catalog and the one that changes a session the most.
What it is
A question channel per room, not per session — the room has a queue that runs all day and whoever is chairing moderates it. Delegates scan a QR code and type; the moderator works the queue on their own screen, and each question is tagged with whichever session was running in that room when it arrived.
What it changes
The roving microphone and the queue of people who wanted to make a statement rather than ask a question both disappear. Quiet delegates ask things. The chair sees everything before it is public and chooses the order.
The panel session
Questions accumulate through the panel; the chair stars the best three and works them in order rather than taking whoever stood up first.
The AV operator as moderator
Hand the moderator link to the technician in the booth — it needs no Rostrum account at all.
The post-event record
Export the room's questions to Excel, including the ones there was no time for, and send them to the speakers.
What you can do
- Give every room its own question channel and printable QR code — one at a time, or all of them as a zip.
- Issue a moderator link per room that works without an account, and revoke or regenerate it.
- Star, mark answered, edit and hide questions. Edits are marked as edited rather than hidden.
- Filter the queue by all, unanswered, answered, starred or hidden, and sort oldest or newest.
- See which session each question arrived during.
- Export the filtered queue to Excel.
- Brand the public asking page with your own colors.
Settings
| Setting | What it controls | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Require attendee login | Whether askers must identify themselves before submitting. Only available while the Attendee App is also on — delegate sign-in is the app's email-code flow, so without the app there is no delegate identity to require. | Off |
| Primary color | Six-digit hex. Brands the public asking page; a live preview shows the result. | Blue |
| Accent color | Six-digit hex. The submit button. | Green |
With the setting on, a delegate who scans the QR is sent through the app's email-code sign-in and returned to the question form. The switch is only editable while the Attendee App module is enabled, and the requirement goes quiet if the app is later switched off — the form falls back to anonymous asking rather than locking delegates out.
Moderator links are stored hashed, so the copyable URL exists only in the moment you generate it. After a page reload the only way to get it back is to regenerate — which revokes the link you already gave the moderator.
Generate the link and paste it somewhere immediately. Generating a new link always revokes the previous one for that room, so this is a deliberate one-way door rather than an oversight.
Rooms defined on the venue — the channel is addressed per room. It does not require sessions, though question-to-session tagging only works when there are sessions to tag against.
Questions are per room and run all day; there is no per-session channel and no way to clear the queue between sessions other than hiding. There is no upvoting by the audience, no display screen for questions, and no approve-and-publish flow — moderation is star, answer, edit and hide.