Capturing and presenting audience response at scale

Abstract

One example method includes receiving, by the video conference provider, a plurality of responses during a time period, the plurality of responses each provided by one of a plurality of participants in a video conference, the video conference associated with a host and hosted by a video conference provider, and each of the plurality of responses associated with a timestamp and one of a plurality of types of responses, wherein the one of the types of responses comprises an audible response, a visual response, or a user input response. The method also includes sampling, by the video conference provider, the plurality of responses to identify a plurality of response characteristics and generating, by the video conference provider, a consolidated response associated with each timestamp, the consolidated response based at least in part on the plurality of response characteristics. The method further includes assigning, by the video conference provider, an assigned score to the consolidated response associated with each timestamp, wherein assigning comprises utilizing one of the plurality of types of responses to prioritize certain of the plurality of responses, generating an indicator reflecting a comparison of the assigned score to a typical score associated with the host, and outputting the indicator to the host.