Drop a poll at any moment or invite a one-tap reaction, and watch the room respond as it watches. A fast read on comprehension, energy and consensus, anchored to the second it happened.
Built with instructors and learning designers who needed a quick read on the room, not another graded task.
Not whether one learner got it right, but how confident the cohort feels and where it splits.
Reactions mark interest or confusion in a single click while the video plays.
Every response tells you exactly what was on screen when it happened.
Pick a timestamp, write the question, add options, and review before it goes live.
Reactions and polls lower the bar so every learner takes part, not only the vocal few.
See responses accumulate in real time and spot where opinion splits.
Keep the video rolling while still checking the pulse of the cohort.
A poll appears at its moment and collects answers in the panel beside the player. Reactions live on the video itself, one tap each, and stack up on the timeline where they were made.
Each poll carries the timestamp it was asked at, so a result is always read next to the frame that prompted it.
Bars fill in real time in the panel. A near-even split is the clearest possible signal that a topic deserves class time.
Every tap is stored with its moment. Clusters show where attention spiked and where confusion piled up.
Writing a good pulse question is mostly restraint. Keep the options to three or four, write them in plain language, and avoid trick phrasing, which belongs in graded quizzes if anywhere. Prediction prompts ask viewers to commit before the reveal; confidence prompts ask how sure they are. Both read best when there is no way to fail them.
Deciding on an answer forces a learner to reconstruct what was just explained instead of letting it wash past.
A misconception found at the moment it forms is cheap to fix. The same one found at the exam is not.
Prediction and confidence prompts make learners examine their own model before the answer arrives.
Low-stakes, anonymous participation widens who takes part and makes an asynchronous course feel populated.
Polls and reactions are part of the Interactions Space, the same layer that carries quizzes and surveys. Each interaction comes with its own bundle of settings and a preview of the final result before learners see it.
Pick the moment, write the question, add the options. The poll appears in the player when playback reaches it, and learners answer without pausing their flow.
Let viewers react on the video as they watch, marking interest or confusion in a single click. Reactions are stored with their moment, so they map the shape of a lecture.
Responses accumulate in real time and are visible in the panel, per option and per moment. A split vote is easy to spot and easy to act on.
Responses can be anonymous, which is what makes sentiment checks and sensitive topics honest. Quiet learners take part without writing a public word.
Every interaction carries a bundle of settings made for its type. Choose them, then review the final result exactly as learners will see it before publishing.
Activities are reusable and copy with your course, so a good prediction prompt written once serves every future run of the class.
Poll results broken down by timestamp and reaction density along the timeline flow into Annoto's analytics next to watch behaviour.
The underlying responses can be exported as CSV or pulled through the API for anyone doing deeper course analysis.
Polls are deliberately ungraded. When a moment calls for a scored check, an in-video quiz uses the same Interactions Space and syncs its results to the LMS gradebook, so the two sit side by side in one video without any change of tool.
A pulse check is not a quiz, and it reads best when it cannot be failed. These are the settings where that pays off.
A poll inside the pre-class video surfaces where students stand before the discussion starts. The instructor opens the live session with the numbers: which option most chose, where the vote split, and what that says about the reading. The in-person time goes to the disagreement rather than to a recap.
Before the outcome of a case is revealed, learners are asked what they would decide. Committing to a position first turns the reveal into a test of their own reasoning, and the distribution of answers becomes the seminar's opening question.
Polls and reactions provide low-stakes participation that keeps passive viewers active and gives quieter students a way to be present without writing a public comment. Reaction clusters show the instructor where confusion accumulates across hundreds of viewers.
A confidence poll after a policy or product video ("How ready do you feel to apply this?") tells the learning team which segments need a follow-up, and reactions mark the moments where a demo lost people. No clickers, no separate survey tool, and results stay attached to the video.
Cadence matters as much as placement. One poll per major segment is a sustainable rhythm; a prompt every ninety seconds trains viewers to dismiss them. Place polls after dense stretches, where a wrong answer changes what you do next, and let reactions carry the signal in between, since they cost viewers nothing and accumulate on their own.
Everything happens in the video your learners already watch. No clickers, no separate polling app, no second login.
Pause at the moment that matters, write the question, add three or four plain-language options, and pick the settings for this interaction. Preview the final result before it goes live.
The poll appears when playback reaches it. One tap records the answer, anonymously if you choose, and the video keeps rolling. Reactions are available at any moment, with no prompt needed.
Live bars show consensus and split. Jump back to the moment to reteach, open the next class with the numbers, or leave a follow-up comment where confusion clustered.
Close the loop publicly. Response rates depend on learners believing their taps matter, and the strongest lever is narration: open the next session or announcement with the result, then say what changed because of it. Instructors who do this consistently find that participation holds through the end of term instead of fading after the novelty wears off.
Poll responses and reactions flow into Annoto's analytics next to watch behaviour, so every number sits beside the moment that produced it.
Over a term the pattern stabilises: instructors learn which minutes of which videos reliably split the vote, and those minutes become the agenda for live sessions. The underlying responses can be exported as CSV or pulled through the API.
A poll is only useful if it costs nothing to run. Annoto puts polls and reactions in the video inside your LMS, keeps the results in your analytics, and lets Lumo draft the questions.
Annoto works inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace and Open edX through LTI 1.3, on top of Kaltura, Panopto, Wistia, YouTube and Vimeo players. Learners never leave the course page, and there is no clicker, polling app or second login to manage.
Participation and responses roll into Annoto's engagement analytics beside watch behaviour, and can be exported as CSV or pulled through the API. When a moment needs a scored check rather than a pulse, an in-video quiz in the same Interactions Space syncs results to the LMS gradebook.
Lumo can summarise a video, explain a concept in plain language and scaffold prompts from recall to analysis and evaluation. Turn a draft into a prediction poll or a confidence check, place it at the right moment, and keep final say over what the class is asked.
“It made managing online discussions easier, and gave me information on how much students are engaging with the videos.”
Graded questions on the timeline, with scores synced to the gradebook.
Guided watching, flipped classroom, peer review and more, step by step.
Participation, watch behaviour and interaction results per course, video and learner.
Every engagement, assessment and AI feature in one layer over your video.
Book a 20-minute demo and watch polls and reactions work inside your LMS, on your own content, with live results filling in as you watch.