All reviews of Glisser

Benefits:

I've been a Glisser user for some time now, and it really saved me in the switch to virtual events during COVID-19. It quickly takes events to the next level, especially virtually, to keep the audience engaged, while also helping my team collect important metrics about the event.

Drawbacks:

Getting a hang of the interface can take a second, but the customer support team is really wonderful which helped to alleviate the initial onboarding bump!

In sum:

Glisser helps to take our events, whether in person or online or both, to the next level. We have seen a noticeable improvement in our understanding of how an event went thanks to Glisser.

Benefits:

Love the ease of use, the features, Twitter Wall, analytics, and the seamless transitions from slides to video. Oh and the mobile device usage is awesome.

Drawbacks:

In a world that has all these features separately for free, the cost is the only draw back. There is great value in this software, greater value if it were more cost effective.

In sum:

All the tools in one application!

Benefits:

It is easy to add in questions that will encourage audience participation in your presentation. I also like the PowerPoint plug-in, which allows you to edit the presentation as you go, and not necessarily have it complete prior to adding in the interactive features.

Drawbacks:

Once a PPT is uploaded into the system, it cannot be edited. This makes it difficult to use the same presentation over time or edit as you go.

In sum:

Interaction with audience members kept them more engaged.

Benefits:

Very easy to use, I like how it help with my job system.

Drawbacks:

a little pricy, other than that, there is very little cons

In sum:

Easy to use, affordable and highly engaging. It took me 5 minutes to upload my slide deck and add interactive widgets to it. I can test everything prior to my presentation and then share the Glisser link with the audience. They can easily and participate in the presentation through their smartphone. Fantastic.

In sum:

I use Glisser to deliver workshop-presentations. Not quite a workshop because I am still presenting but certainly not a presentation because I can get the audience so involved. My typical audience size is between 10-20 people and it really helps me create a 2-way interaction. Q&A is brilliant, I bring up the questions view throughout my presentations to ensure everyone understands what I am talking about and speed up/slow down accordingly. I wish I was able to archive answered questions though without turning on moderation. Automatic slide downloads also mean that I don't have to bother with the usual end of session email and follow up - anybody who wants a copy of my content just gets it.

In sum:

An hour is a long time to be listening to anyone's voice but Glisser completely changes this. Building in the interactive features and embedding video into the presentation meant both the 200 strong audience and I remained engaged throughout. There were no awkward microphone moments as you waited for the ushers to assist with questions from the audience. Instead, questions are posted in text and better yet, the ability for audience members to like questions meant I could focus on the top ranking queries and comments. The tech worked seamlessly and the data captured through Glisser means I was able to capture feedback and reach out to the attendees within 24hrs of the event. I'll definitely be using Glisser again, I could see it working well for anything from a focus group presentation to our annual conference. Keep up the great work team Glisser!

Benefits:

The application keeps presentations more lively

Drawbacks:

At times the application become non responsive

Benefits:

Initial set up was easy - there was a lot of personalisation available and I was able to incorporate lots of interaction styles. It is unique, and definitely worth paying for IF you can afford it.

Drawbacks:

It was really difficult using this with children. They didn't understand the format of it the way they did with Kahoot. This would, however, be perfect for an adult audience.

Benefits:

I liked that students are able to download the powerpoint (including their notes) after the lecture. I also like the polling option.

Drawbacks:

I don't like how you cannot continue taking notes on a certain slide once the lecturer clicks through the powerpoint.

Benefits:

This is a great way for professors to quiz a class and make presentations more interactive!

Drawbacks:

If not set up properly then it displays everyone's answers and people are able to change choices based off of a majority.

Benefits:

Our teachers have been able to determine if they taught subjects sufficiently during lectures.

Drawbacks:

I don't love when our teachers use it because I can't really listen during class, and learn more later on my own.

In sum:

After our first outing with Glisser at the incredibly successful annual Design Summit in the summer, we called on Mike and the gang at Glisser to jazz up November's MedTechSouthEast pitching event. An evening of quick-fire pitches, Glisser really added to the event and made the whole experience interactive, adding value to the audience and pitchers alike. The data we gathered is also going to help us format the next stages of the competition. The service was first rate and took a lot of pressure off us. Thanks again Glisser, look forward to working with you again in the near future.

Benefits:

Makes it easy for students to get a copy of tutorial slides, polling is nice

Drawbacks:

I had trouble uploading my slides the first time, it would be nice to be able to make minor tweaks to slides (e.g. fixing a spelling mistake) within the Glisser interface, I'm worried that my students are getting spammed with feedback requests

In sum:

It's helping make my slides accessible during a tutorial and allowing tutes to be more interactive through things like polls

In sum:

The best kept secret for a memorable, world class presentation. It takes me like 2 minutes to turn average content into an amazing experience. All you need to do is put 3 or 4 polls at the start of your deck and everyone will pay attention to what you have to say. If you are in sales and ever present with prospects in the room this is the tool you need up your sleeve.

Benefits:

The ease of use, ability to "like" other posts to show agreement, easily accessible

Drawbacks:

Color scheme in the app, having to edit slides outside of Glisser before re-uploading

In sum:

Glisser makes it easy to get anonymous feedback about decisions in a way that is instant and interactive

Benefits:

Having used Glisser for over 7 years I can honestly say it's one of my go-to tools for any event!

Drawbacks:

Not a great deal to be honest, any suggestions here would be merely personal preference

In sum:

The Glisser team have some of the best people and culture when it comes to event tech suppliers, their customer support and service especially on event days it what sets them apart.

Benefits:

Despite very little time to learn the program, I found it incredibly easy to use. We ran an event with 150 people seamlessly, the audience gave very positive feedback for the sessions.

Drawbacks:

The free trial version would be better if it was full featured for a period of time. Being exposed to the metrics and additional data capture in real use is more convincing than just reading about it as a feature.

Benefits:

Graphical presentation, preparation of slides and cell phone interface are most impressive.

Drawbacks:

Having to do the presentation in the Glisser environment is the biggest concern. Many presentations are done in pure PowerPoint mode. Products like Poll Everywhere allow the user to download and use an add-in in PowerPoint and add slides as necessary. Glisser wants you to do it the other way around - move the slides into Glisser then add their slides to the presentation. I prefer the add-in method, allowing me to prepare all the slides offline in PowerPoint.

In sum:

Getting more questions and interaction from an audience which would much rather cell phone text than get up in front of a microphone.

Benefits:

being able to use it with a large group of people

Drawbacks:

The way the pages are setup is confusing

Benefits:

I liked how easy and seamless it was to display Q&A questions following our speaker sessions during a live event

Drawbacks:

We would love to see the Twitter Wall feature be developed further and become available as we used a different solution to display social media discussions during our event.

In sum:

We used Glisser to manage the Q&A portion after each speaker session during one of our live events. The tool worked without flaw and attendees have said they have never seen an app of this type work so seamlessly and actually bring value to the conversation.

Benefits:

In only 10min you have your presentation with a survey live and are ready to present it. No need for the audience to install any app.

Drawbacks:

You can't add or edit single slide of your presentation afterwards. If you made a complex survey and discover an typo you'll have to redo the whole thing.

In sum:

We were able to quickly put together a presentation with a direct survey and had an interesting workshop.

Benefits:

The audience don't have to download an app, just go to a browser so they're more likely to engage. It makes the presentation I'm doing more engaging and interactive. The upvoting of questions is such a simple, democratic way to ensure I'm delivering value to my audience. The data I get after each presentation to learn what areas people were most engaged with my talk, what questions people have is so valuable.

In sum:

I delivered a better presentation experience. I learnt how to present more effectively.

In sum:

The presentation software run smoothly, did not had any issues with it. The organizers were impressed and even asked if they can use it, the other speakers asked also about the solution and envy me. The audience (200 people) liked it, everyone had only positive words. I was impressed of how many interactions I had from the audience and the voting system for questions helped a lot pointing out the best questions. As first interactivity I choosed a closed question regarding the audience field of activity and this pointed out in real time the exact demographics in the audience (in percentage 34%, 21% 37%, 8%). I could not achieve this with the usual "please raise a hand" question, and helped me position better the information i will deliver during the presentation. The audience spend some time on the mobile rather than looking at me on the stage. But that was good for the ones in the back that did not have such a good placement compared to the screen because they followed the slide on their mobiles and tablets.

Benefits:

It's interactive with the classroom. The content is able to be saved. You can have polls in the materials. The lecturer still controls the content.

Drawbacks:

I do not have any cons about the product.

Benefits:

I love the way I can get real time feedback during my presentation

Drawbacks:

The isn't an option for audio for online presentations.

In sum:

It's hard to tell the effectiveness of trainings. You perform keeps the audience engaged and allows trainers to make adjustments as needed.

Benefits:

Super easy to use and really helps you create great events. I hope to use this for our client's events in the future.

Drawbacks:

It looks like they've added a lot of features that were lacking since last year. So hopefully all the cons were worked out.

Benefits:

I think that Glisser is a great product and I love the way that polling is embedded in the slides. I

Drawbacks:

I think it could be improved by adding a couple of feature such as speakers bio and being able to review the agenda. I also would also prefer that it ran in a yearly subscription model.

In sum:

Its been really good and a much improved product compared to slido etc

Benefits:

Great UI that was easy to navigate and easy to read

Drawbacks:

No integration with google slides or keynote

In sum:

Very solid customer experience

Benefits:

gets audience involved, live results, keeps audience engaged, plug-in for PowerPoint is easy to use

Drawbacks:

Format will not match the PPT presentation. If not using the plug-in, cannot rearrange slides or edit the presentation easily from the website. Users must enter their email addresses to use.

In sum:

I love being able to keep my audience engaged.

Benefits:

This is a great product for developing interactive and engaging presentations for an audience. I mostly love the audience engagement features that include polls and social media integration. Very simple to use and learn.

Drawbacks:

This software is great and provides features many others don't. I thoroughly enjoy using it and look forward to improvements made to the software over time.

Benefits:

It's super easy to use. You can download the presentation at the end with whatever notes you made. It allows participation from the audience.

Drawbacks:

It's difficult to go back to previous slides, you have to go through all of the ones in between. You are not able to change your question answer once clicked.

In sum:

We use this program in the classroom to promote in-class participation and it works great. All you have to do is put in the url and you are right in the program following the professor's presentation.

Benefits:

The look of the populated graphs, ease of use with cell phone, back-end data that could be pulled into client reports

Drawbacks:

That the presentation had to be shown via the browser in the Glisser system (as opposed to a PPT)

Benefits:

Participant feedback is important and this is the only redeeming quality. I do enjoy knowing how people are receiving the information I am sharing with them.

Drawbacks:

The design, the lack of intuition, the constant asking for my password/making me re-register. All of these things are so frustrating!

In sum:

Running polls in my presentations has completely changed how I deliver content. It's more of an interactive experience that the normal mind dump presentations. On the down side you will need an internet connection, but then it's pretty impossible to do this kind of thing without one.

Benefits:

I liked that the presenter can directly interact with the audience through the presentation. The presentation changes on the audiences electronic device as it is being presented.

Drawbacks:

There isn't any way to actually return to the prior slide as the presenter is going through their set.

In sum:

My overall experience has been positive. As a student it keeps me engaged with the presenter on my device and minimizes distractions throughout the presentation.

Benefits:

The various features are great as far as customizing your page and the analytics.

Drawbacks:

I found it hard to use, we didn't receive many applicants from it, and I thought the pricing was tough just considering the return. Lastly I work with a Franchise system and each location cant have their own page which makes it hard on the franchisor to manage.

In sum:

I thought the customer service was great, it just didn't work out with our system.

Benefits:

Using Glisser is a great way to engage with our audience and our delegates really like that they can download slides instantly.

Drawbacks:

Sadly it isn't optimised for use on mobile phones so that can be tricky sometimes.

Benefits:

Functionality. Integrated slides & polling. I don't know about customer support or value- I didn't use support, and I didn't pay for it. And the pricing wasn't on the website, so who knows? I did forward info to our IT/audiovisual guy, but I'm not calling to find out the price.

Drawbacks:

Took too long for audience to access the website. If I had the link ahead of time that might have worked, but since I didn't, I had to wait for everyone to type the address into their phones, which took much longer than I would have predicted. A QR code within the presentation would have facilitated this better. Also, several times while editing the polls, I had to shut down the slides altogether to get them to edit properly.

In sum:

Interactivity

Benefits:

Enaxis Consulting recently used Glisser during an IT leadership forum in Houston, and the response from our participants was overwhelmingly positive. As our primary presentation engine, Glisser's simple to use interface made creating the presentation and polling questions easy and quick. We were able to directly upload PDF and PowerPoint slides into the app and could easily move the slides around to work on presentation flow. The polling option was also simple and intuitive to set up. We used polls throughout the forum to engage our participants and get real time input from the group on key discussion points. This shaped the discussion as it allowed our speakers and panelist insight into where the audience stood on different topics. Our participants were very impressed with the tool and many of them expressed interest in using the app in their future events. Finally, the Glisser team was wonderful to work with. They were responsive and worked with the Enaxis team to answer any questions we had. Thank you again! The Glisser app really helped to make our event a huge success.

Drawbacks:

Overall the product was great and we really benefited from the polling options. The only issue we faced was the inability to embed videos through power point slides.

In sum:

Enaxis Consulting recently used Glisser during an IT leadership forum in Houston, and the response from our participants was overwhelmingly positive. As our primary presentation engine, Glisser's simple to use interface made creating the presentation and polling questions easy and quick. We were able to directly upload PDF and PowerPoint slides into the app and could easily move the slides around to work on presentation flow. The polling option was also simple and intuitive to set up. We used polls throughout the forum to engage our participants and get real time input from the group on key discussion points. This shaped the discussion as it allowed our speakers and panelist insight into where the audience stood on different topics. Our participants were very impressed with the tool and many of them expressed interest in using the app in their future events. Finally, the Glisser team was wonderful to work with. They were responsive and worked with the Enaxis team to answer any questions we had. Thank you again! The Glisser app really helped to make our event a huge success.

Benefits:

It was super easy to upload presentations and I loved the features an options to engage audiences like the polls and quizzes. The option to download the presentation at the end is a nice touch and really helpful to delegates attending the presentation.

Drawbacks:

There were a few issues connecting with the Google Chrome and Safari Browsers and sometimes the presentation was slow to upload. At the start of the presentation delegates had a few problems signing up as the screen froze at 'Join'.

In sum:

Great presentation tool to engage audiences and deliver professional development.

Benefits:

It is simple to upload your presentation and add in your interactive slides. The mobile interface for the audience works well. The ability to change answers (or stop users from doing so) is useful.

Drawbacks:

All audience members are asked to enter their email address when using the app for the first time. It would be nice to have themes matching those of Powerpoint for the interactive slides.

In sum:

Simple audience participation

Benefits:

Glisser definitely increased the audience participation in the conference. The ease of use of the product by the delegates (and me as an organiser) was a real bonus. I totally recommend

Drawbacks:

Also being a conference enhancement and delegate participation software program I cannot find anything that I don't like about this product, because it works and gets people interactive.

In sum:

The main benefit I received from the software was that it made my life easier both leading up to during and after our conference. It got people interactive and in addition to this they could download the presentations easily (which always tends to be a nightmare for conference organisers). Making a commitment to go paperless and wireless, this was by far the best product to enhance that commitment. People enjoyed making notes on their tablet and phone and then downloading it. I would totally recommend this product.

Benefits:

I loved the way Glisser integrated easily with my Powerpoint presentation. I hate talks with large wordy slide decks and was looking for ways to engage my audience. I used very few slides with large print and interesting graphics. Glisser's modern look and ability to customize the view made their product look like it fit naturally into deck. I used the live audience poll feature to present interesting questions to the attendees which drew them into the content and held their focus. I received many positive comments and stayed for almost 2 hours afterward to answer questions! The folks at Glisser are very accommodating and were happy to help me make the most of my presentation. They contacted me quickly after I signed up for the trial and showed interest in what I was doing. They answered my questions by email within hours and attentively followed up afterward. I've had great success using Glisser at one conference. I will use it again at a second conference and I've already had a request for a third smaller and private presentation. I hope to be able to use it again for future engagements.

Drawbacks:

I compared Glisser to half a dozen competing products and found that some were easier to use and some were more difficult. I had to get used to the web interface which is intuitive enough but still a bit different than using a desktop program like PowerPoint. An add-on must be installed into PowerPoint which proved to be tricky. The slide deck must also be uploaded to the Glisser site and kept in sync before a presentation can be made. During the presentation, the live slides must be toggled to in a browser window. The Glisser plug in makes this relatively painless but it is still an extra step to remember in the middle of your presentation. I occasionally found the uploaded poll slides appeared in a different order than in my deck - and I still haven't figured that out why. Instead, I used generic local slides and website slide with the actual poll questions.

In sum:

I was able to deliver a much more engaging presentation at the software conference I was invited to speak at. I feel that Glisser made my presentation much more memorable and had helped me build my image and brand in the market I operate in.

In sum:

I used Glisser for The London SaaS Meetup. Previously the meetups were lacking in audience interaction and Glisser changed all that. Having never used it before, I was very impressed with the level of customer service and patience given by the Glisser team. In fact, it's a doddle to use and drastically improved the social sharing, participation and feedback from the meetup members. I'm signing up to use it for the rest of the SaaS Meetup series.

Benefits:

The Glisser platform is easy to use. It provides a great end user experience too.

Drawbacks:

I don't have any issues with the software.

In sum:

The customer support that we receive from [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is excellent. He and the team are professional, responsive and make our large scale presentations easy.

Benefits:

Slick interface UX Ease of set up Support from team

Drawbacks:

Would like to see more features but understand this is being developed.

In sum:

Glisser is one of the only solutions I have seen that is truly user friendly - it's simple, intuitive platform gave my attendees the very best experience for my virtual event. From on-boarding to live-event execution, the team at Glisser were phenomenal. If you're looking for an exceptional product, then choose Glisser. You will not be disappointed.

Benefits:

I like how the results page allows you to see the results come in live, it definitely feels more dynamic!

Drawbacks:

Since we were using this primarily for the quiz side rather than presenting, it didn't feel obvious that you needed to add a presentation first to create a quiz. In the end we had to make 1 title slide and upload it to be able to make the quiz.

In sum:

So far we have only briefly experimented with it! Glisser helped us to add a nice energiser to a company day out, and others from the company have considered using it in future client meetings

Benefits:

The Q&A section is an awesome way to address questions throughout, WORD CLOUD feature is actually really fun for participants and encourages them to participate and ask questions. I absolutely love how much more participation I get from my audience when I use Glisser, plus it's easy for participants to use! I really like customizing my presentation to an audience and Glisser makes it fun! It is so great that audience can use either their phone or a computer. This is a great way to make a boring presentation an event! Not only do I get more participation, but I also find my audience remembers more of what I say when I review with a quick quiz. You can easily judge if a concept was retained or if you should re-enforce a concept or re-explain an idea.

Drawbacks:

I wish it was cheaper. I also wish you could link out to websites. I want to take my audience on a virtual journey. I see the potential here, but I want more features. Also, I wish you could move the slides around and do quick edits, it is so frustrating to want to change 1 little thing and you have to download the whole pdf again in the correct spot.

In sum:

Audience participation. Easy poll.

Benefits:

The product is so intuitive and easy to use

Drawbacks:

It would be great if you could make it a secure platform, ie only let those view who you want to

In sum:

Only had the initial training so far, but that was great, very informative and easy to follow