Every Crowdpurr experience has a QR Code, Experience Code, and a Crowd URL that you can share with participants to allow them 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.
The Experience Code
For participants who do not know how to scan a QR Code, they may use the Experience Code or the Crowd URL. The Experience Code is an alphanumeric code (e.g., ABC123) that is unique to your experience. Your participants must enter the code when they manually navigate to www.crowd.live on their mobile devices. They will be prompted to enter an Experience Code.
Navigating to crowd.live requires participants to enter the Experience Code
Accessing the Experience Code
The Experience Code 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, the Experience Code is displayed just above the "Experience Code" label.
Experience Code on the Experience Dashboard
Can I customize the Experience Code? Yes, users on the Seminar Plan (and above) can customize the Experience Code to a word or phrase custom to their brand or event.
Presentation View
The Experience Code is also displayed on the Presentation View. To open the Presentation View, click on the purple Present button in the top gray bar.
The Present button on the Experience Dashboard
Sharing the Experience Code
The Experience Code can be shared for participants in multiple ways.
Displaying the Experience Code on the Presentation View
The Presentation View is meant to be connected to an HDTV, projector, or other display device at a venue so the participants may see it. Additionally, the Presentation View may be shared in a virtual meeting (e.g., Zoom, Teams, WebEx) so that participants may see it. This allows participants to read the Experience Code.
Before an experience is started, the Experience Code is displayed along the bottom of the Presentation View as an alternative to using the QR Code. This allows participants to read the Experience Code, navigate to www.crowd.live, and enter the Experience Code, prior to your experience starting, so they may join.
Experience Code displaying within the URL Bar on the Presentation View
After an experience has started, the Experience Code is still displayed along the bottom of the Presentation View so participants may join after the experience has started.
Experience Code displays during an active question
Can I turn off the Experience Code if I just want to use the QR Code? Yes, the Experience Code label can be hidden on the Presentation View using the Presentation View's lower-right settings. Disable the Show URL Bar setting to hide the Experience Code.
Emailing the Experience Code
If you have participant email addresses (e.g. a corporate event or participant database), the Experience Code can also be emailed. Just be sure to include the www.crowd.live link as well and include instructions to enter the Experience Code.
Emailing Your Participants? It's better to simply email the Crowd URL instead of the Experience Code, as this will allow participants to simply click on the URL link instead of having to take the extra step to navigate to www.crowd.live and then enter the Experience Code.
Texting the Experience Code
If you have participant phone numbers (e.g. a corporate event or participant database) you can share the Experience Code using an SMS text message.
Texting Your Participants? It's better to simply message the Crowd URL instead of the Experience Code, as this will allow participants to simply click on the URL link instead of having to take the extra step to navigate to www.crowd.live and then enter the Experience Code.