What is ShoutOUT?
ShoutOUT is an open-source web application for creating interactive online presentations. It provides presenters with various tools to make their presentations more dynamic and engaging for remote audiences.
Some key features of ShoutOUT include:
- Embed images, videos, audio clips, and other media into slides
- Insert interactive poll and survey questions for audiences to respond to in real-time
- View insights on audience engagement levels throughout the presentation
- Collaborative presenting that allows multiple speakers to control slides and interact with the audience
- Includes templates and themes for quick customization of slide decks
- Record presentations to generate shareable video links later
- Compatible across devices - presentations can be viewed on phones, tablets, laptops seamlessly
Unlike traditional slide software, ShoutOUT focuses on driving up audience participation and making online presentations feel more dynamic. With its interactive capabilities like polls, Q&A, file and screen sharing, it fosters better audience engagement. Presenters can get feedback in real-time during their talks.
As an open-source platform, ShoutOUT is free to use. It can be self-hosted on any web server running PHP and MySQL. The open-source model allows developers to customize and extend the software as per their needs.