I signed up for a webinar yesterday through Checkpoint Learning. I was listening to it on my laptop while I was making breakfast and feeding the dogs. About an hour into the class, I noticed there had not yet been an attendance polling question.
I thought that was strange and was concerned I may have missed a couple. I scrolled through the slide show pdf document to see if I had missed one. Checkpoint Learning will tell you where in their presentation the polling questions are. I could not find a single slide, either before or after the current slide. I figured that, maybe, they decided to remove those slides from the pdf or maybe they forgot to put them in.
I continued to listen, this time very attentively, for another half hour. But, still no polling questions. Hmm... Something is wrong.
I went back to my Checkpoint Learning e-mail and found this:
Participants are required to actively participate throughout the webinar by responding to attendance verification pop-ups. When a pop-up appears on your screen click the I AM PRESENT button. The attendance verification pop-up will only be on your screen for one minute, and there is NO audible cue.
Oh great! How many of these have I already missed? Am I even going to get credit now. I quit the class.
Is this silent pop-up thing a new industry standard? Or is this just a Checkpoint thing?