Audience questions

Collect questions from the audience on their phones, moderate them and put one on stage.

The audience sends questions from their phones through the room's ask link. A moderator approves, queues and answers them, and puts one on stage for the presenter.

The moderator page with state filters, a sort menu and the first question card — The moderator page: filter, sort and move each question along.

Collect questions

In the control room, open Devices and copy the ask link, or show its QR code on a screen in the room. It opens /timer/r/<room>/ask without signing in.

The audience asks

They type a Question and, if they like, a Name. A blank name asks anonymously. Submit sends it, then Submit another clears the form for the next one.

Moderate

Open the moderator link (/timer/r/<room>/moderator). New questions arrive at the top of All and New as they are sent.

Put one on stage

Click the show button on a card. Screens whose layout has a Moderator element show it, with the approved and queued questions under it as up next. Only one question is on stage at a time.

The ask page on a phone with a Question field, an optional Name field and Submit — What the audience sees on their phone.

Question states

State	Meaning
New	Just sent, not looked at yet.
Approved	Fine to take.
Queued	Lined up to be asked next.
On stage	Showing to the presenter now.
Answered	Done. The card dims.
Dismissed	Not taken. The card dims.

The filter bar picks All, New, Approved, Queued, On stage, Answered or Dismissed, each with its count. Sort by Newest, Oldest, Most votes or Starred first; the Queued view keeps queue order, so sort is off there.

In the header, Ask page opens the audience page in a new tab and Flash flashes the screens three times without a message, to tell the presenter a question is waiting.

Each card shows the votes, the question, who asked (or "Anonymous") and when.

Button	What it does
Approve	Marks a new question approved.
Queue	Lines it up. Shown on new and approved questions.
Show on stage / Hide from stage	Puts it on stage, or takes it off.
Answered	Marks it done.
Dismiss	Sets it aside.
Star	Stars it, so Starred first puts it at the top.
Edit	Fixes the wording. `Cmd`+`Enter` saves, `Esc` cancels.
Colour	Tags the card with a colour, or clears it.
Note	A Private note for the moderators. The audience never sees it.
Delete	Click once to arm ("Tap again to delete"), again to delete.

Ask page settings

Open the ask page while signed in as the room's owner and click Ask page settings (the gear). Anyone else who saves is refused, as the audience can only send and vote.

Setting	What it does
Open or closed	Turns submissions on or off.
Closed message	Shown while questions are off. Blank shows "Submissions are closed".
Logo	Cliqer, None or Custom with an image address.
Title	Blank uses the room title.
Subtitle	Blank shows "Submit a question".
Question label, Name label	Your own field labels. Needs custom audience questions in your plan.
Hide name	Removes the Name field, so every question is anonymous.

Click Confirm to save or Cancel to leave without saving.

Plans

How many new questions a room holds at once depends on your plan. Questions you approve, queue, answer or dismiss no longer count. Past the cap, a new question is refused until the moderator works through some. Custom field labels need custom audience questions in your plan. See Plans and limits.

Questions can also come in through the API: submit_question and vote_question need no key.

FAQ

Import from Stagetimer

Bring a rundown in from a file.

API and integrations

Run the room from other tools.

Output designer

Lay out what each screen shows, from a big countdown to a lobby with a QR code, and key it over video.

Import from Stagetimer

Bring a rundown in from a Stagetimer CSV, a spreadsheet or a Cliqer Timer export, and take one out again.