Anything that functions like a presence manager?

[LDD1]

We would like our webinars to be eligible for continuing professional education credits, and most accreditation boards require periodic polls or pop-ups to confirm that attendees are present and participating. The polls take too much time and are affecting the flow of our presentations, and our speakers dislike them.

We have tried polls (disrupts the flow); asking people to chat a code word to us (too much clerical work confirming attendance afterward); and separate e-mails (also too much clerical work). The attendance reports we are able to generate are insufficient for accreditation.

Is there anything (a plugin, compatible system, workaround, etc.) that would function like a popup to let our attendees confirm they're present and paying attention?

[Chris Droessler]

We use the Attendee reports for that. What additional data would you like to see in the Attendee report?

[LDD1]

The Attendee  Report isn’t sufficient, because the accreditation bodies insist on recorded real-time participation. We need something that works exactly like the polls but doesn’t interrupt the presentation (the polls put a pause to the entire thing while we put up that screen and get everyone to respond).

I’m looking for a pop-up that people click to confirm their presence and attentiveness within a certain amount of time, while the lecture proceeds in the background. Some other webinar softwares offer a presence manager or smaller pop-up polls, and I’m looking for a solution that’s similar.

[AshC]

@LDD1   Currently there is nothing like what you've described, though Attendees can ask questions at any time without disrupting the presentation itself.  Organizers can also send 'Chat' messages to the audience at any time without appearing on the presentation window, which can ask them to verify their presence in return. 

Alternatively, the 'Interest Rating' is something we use to calculate how active individual attendees were during the broadcast: 

https://support.goto.com/webinar/help/how-is-the-attendee-interest-rating-calculated-g2w090036