Session Buttons

A session button starts one of the session tools for everyone in the room: a countdown timer, a dot vote, or a poll you write in advance.

Adding one

The Session row of the Behaviour category opens into three buttons, one per tool: Timer, Dot vote and Poll. Pick the one you want and it drops ready to press, rather than dropping a generic button you then have to point at a tool.

It is how a board carries its own running order: put "5 minutes" over the writing column and "Vote — 3 dots each" over the results, and anyone can run the session.

A Timer becomes the clock

A Timer goes further than starting something elsewhere: it counts down on the board itself, with its own pause, resume, reset and remove controls. It is the same timer as the pill in the top bar, so pause it on the board and it pauses there too.

Changing the setting

Each button carries a … menu on its own face for the setting you change most: length presets on a Timer, dots each on a Dot vote, and the question and answers on a Poll.

Changing a Timer's length while it is counting restarts it at the new one, keeping it running (or paused) as it was. Extend a timer between rounds rather than mid-round.

For the full range, right-click and open Session, which has room for a proper number input.

A button stays the tool you picked it as. If you want a countdown where you put a vote, drag a Timer out of the palette instead — the palette has one tile per tool, so choosing there is the whole decision.

How a Poll button asks

A Poll button carries its answers as well as its question, and you pick the shape they take — the same five the poll composer offers:

• Yes / No, and + Abstain for the version with a way out.
• Choices — the answers you write yourself, two to six of them.
• Rating 1-5.
• Free text, for answers people type.

Only Choices reads a written list. Switch to Yes / No and the list is left alone but unused, so you can try a shape and come back without retyping anything. A Choices button with fewer than two answers has nothing to press, so it shows as not set up until you add a second one — every other shape is ready as soon as it has a question.

Who can start one

Starting a tool needs edit access, so on a view-only link the button shows as unavailable, though you can still take part once somebody starts it.