Every Crowdpurr experience has a QR Code, Experience Code, and a Crowd URL that you can share with participants to find and join your experiences. These features make it easier to share your Crowdpurr experiences with your participants.
Here are quick descriptions for each of the above sharing features, which have the same purpose to allow your participants to join your experience:
QR Code: A visual image that can be shared that allows participants to join your experience by scanning the QR Code with their devices (e.g., mobile phone).
Experience Code: The Experience Code is an alphanumeric code participants can enter after navigating to www.crowd.live in order to join your experience.
Crowd URL: The Crowd URL is the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or "hyperlink" of your experience that participants can either click on or enter to join your experience. This takes the form of www.crowd.live/<experience_code>. The above QR code is encoded with this URL.
The QR Code, the Experience Code, and the Crowd URL are different ways of navigating to the same experience! The experience QR Code is actually encoded with the Crowd URL so scanning the QR Code is the same as clicking on the Crowd URL. This is also the same as navigating to www.crowd.live and entering the Experience Code.
Experience QR Code
The experience QR Code is an encoded image that can be easily scanned by participant devices (e.g. mobile phones) using their device camera. When a participant scans the experience's QR Code, their device will open a web browser to your experience (e.g., trivia game, poll, bingo game, etc.).
Does the QR Code ever change for my experience? The QR Code encodes the unique URL for your experience that includes the Experience Code. Normally, this never changes.
However, users on the Seminar Plan or higher, may customize their Experience Code. Also, users on the Conference Plan may add a Custom URL.
Updating the Experience Code or adding a Custom URL will change the experience's QR code. You'll need to download the QR Code again in order to save, print, and share the updated QR code.
Accessing the QR Code
The QR Code for a Crowdpurr experience can be found in the following locations:
Experience Dashboard
After creating an experience, open the Experience Dashboard from the My Experiences list. At the top of the Experience Dashboard in the gray bar, click on the QR Code button with the small QR Code icon.
QR Code icon on the Experience Dashboard
This will open the QR Code pop-up. From here, the QR Code can be downloaded, printed, etc.
Download QR Code dialog
Can I just show the QR Code on my own mobile device for my participants to scan? Yes, some hosts log into their Experience Dashboard from their own mobile device, click on the QR Code pop-up, and then walk their phone around with the QR Code displayed, and allow their participants to scan the QR Code directly from the host's mobile phone. This only works on smaller crowds. For larger crowds, it's best to display the QR Code to everyone on the Presentation View.
Presentation View
The experience's QR Code is also displayed on the Presentation View. To open the Presentation View, click on the purple Present button in the top gray bar.
Present button on the Experience Dashboard
Sharing the Experience QR Code
An experience's QR Code can be shared for participants to scan in multiple ways:
Displaying the QR Code on the Presentation View
The Presentation View is meant to be connected to an HDTV, projector, or other display device at a venue for participants to view. Additionally, the Presentation View may be shared within a virtual meeting (e.g., Zoom, Teams, WebEx) so virtual participants may see it. This allows participants to view and scan the experience QR Code with their mobile device.
Before an experience is started, the QR Code is displayed prominently in the center of the Presentation View. This allows participants to scan the QR Code to join before your experience begins.
QR Code displayed on the Presentation View
After an experience is started, the QR Code is displayed in the lower-left corner to still allow participants to scan it even after the experience has started.
The QR Code moves to the bottom left corner during the active experience.
Can I turn off the QR Code on the Presentation View? Yes, the QR Code can be hidden on the Presentation View using the Presentation View's lower-right settings. Disable the Show QR Code setting to hide the QR Code.
Printing the QR Code
From the Experience Dashboard's QR Code pop-up, the QR Code can be saved and printed. This allows you to create printed signs, placards, or business cards around a venue (e.g., at the bar, on cocktail tables) that participants can see and then scan with their mobile devices.
A printed QR Code placard on tables for participants to scan
Emailing the QR Code
If you have participant email addresses (e.g. a corporate event or participant database), the downloaded experience QR Code can also be attached to a group email. Participants can then view the QR Code and scan it with their mobile devices.
Emailing your participants? It's usually better to simply email the Crowd URL instead of attaching the QR Code, as this will allow participants to simply click on the URL link instead of having to figure how to scan a QR Code while already on their mobile device.
Can I SMS text the QR code to my participants? If you have participant phone numbers (e.g. a corporate environment or participant database), it's best not to text the QR code as participants will not be able to scan it from their mobile device. It's better to text the Crowd URL.