Participate and answer questions by SMS/Text message in Wooclap
No internet connection or no connected device available? No problem! Participants can engage with the presentations thanks to SMS participation.
This feature is available for users with a Pro or institutional subscription.
How to configure SMS text participation
You can enable or disable this option directly from the ⚙️ Settings or from the Join this event screen.
☝️ Note that the Answer by SMS option is disabled by default.
From Settings
You can enable Answer by SMS from the ⚙️ Settings tab, under Participant devices.
From the Join this Wooclap event screen
You can decide to activate or deactivate SMS participation through the How to Participate screen before presenting your event.
The participants can send @CODE to the number showed on the screen to connect to the event (CODE being your event’s code).
How does Answer by SMS works?
You can use text message participation only with these questions:
Fill in the Blanks, Brainstorming, Guess a Number, Matching, MCQ, Poll, Prioritization, Rating, SCT Concordance, SCT Judgment, Sorting, OpenQuestion and the Message Wall.
When a question appears on the presentation screen, participants can send a new text message with their answer to the same number.
SMS answers to a particular question must be sent in the corresponding format.
Every time you ask the audience a question, you can display the corresponding format by clicking the button on the left side of the code banner or by typing i on your keyboard.
Ask questions on the Message Wall via SMS text
Participants can also send questions to the message wall by SMS text.
Every SMS/text messages that are sent while displaying the Message Wall or while there is no vote in progress will be displayed on the Message Wall.
Where to send your answers
The event number changes depending on the country selected in your account settings.
You can change the number to a different country's in your Account settings.
We currently have a phone number for the following countries:
Australia
Belgium
Canada
France (except overseas territories)
Germany
Netherlands
Spain (except overseas territories)
United Kingdom (except overseas territories)
USA
Note that the text messages will be sent at the normal rate with no additional charges. The American/Canadian numbers are toll-free, even without a phone contract.
If you'd like to use text message participation in another country, do get in touch with the team!
☝️The audience will not receive any kind of spam or unsolicited texts after voting on Wooclap. The participants’ phone numbers will never be shared with speakers or third parties of any kind.
Note that text message participants won't receive a text confirming they are connected, either.
If you're participating in the same event several times, you only need to connect to it once, and you will be connected to the event until it is reset or until you connect to another event.
If you're participating in different events, you do need to connect to the new event every time.
SMS and Self-paced Session
SMS/text participation is limited to Live Session events and can't be used to answer Self-paced questionnaires.
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