VersyNow for education
The audience engagement and analytics platform for educational events
Run academic conferences, lectures, PD days and continuing-education sessions where every participant gets a voice — then know exactly what your audience understood, what they asked, and who to follow up with, about 10 minutes after the session ends.
No credit card. No app for attendees. Built in Quebec by the team behind VersyEdu.
In short
VersyNow is an audience engagement and event analytics platform for professional and educational events. Organizers, faculty and speakers use it to run live Q&A, polls, quizzes and word clouds from a QR code. After each session, VersyNow sends an automatic AI report with question themes, a minute-by-minute engagement timeline, a pre/post survey comparison and a prioritized list of participants who agreed to be followed up. It helps educational organizations engage their audience, improve their content session after session, and turn attendees into enrollments, members, partners or donors — with consent.
- Product typeAudience engagement + event analytics platform (web-based)
- Built forProfessional and educational events, live, hybrid or virtual
- Attendee accessQR code or link, any phone or laptop, no app install
- After each sessionAutomatic AI report in about 10 minutes
- Follow-upConsent-based, on the participant's own question
- PricingFree 28-day trial; paid plans from USD 12.99/month
What is VersyNow for educational events?
VersyNow is the event side of the Versy ecosystem. Where VersyEdu structures debate and critical thinking inside the classroom, VersyNow handles the events that education runs on: conferences, lecture series, information sessions, PD days, training and community meetings.
It does three jobs in one tool:
- Engage the room. Live Q&A with upvoting, polls, quizzes, word clouds and anonymous mode so the whole audience participates, not just the three people willing to take the microphone.
- Understand the audience. Analytics and AI turn every question, vote and answer into a clear picture of what resonated, what confused people and what to change next time.
- Continue the relationship. Participants who opt in are classified and followed up on the questions they actually asked — the warmest outreach an institution can do.
Which educational events is VersyNow built for?
VersyNow is built for professional and educational events where the audience's questions matter. The most common formats:
Higher education & research
- Academic conferences and congresses
- Research symposia and colloquia
- Guest lectures and public lecture series
- Research seminars and lab meetings
- Knowledge-mobilization and research-transfer events
- Funding and grant information sessions
Recruitment & student life
- Open houses and program information sessions
- Graduate, MBA and executive-education webinars
- Orientation and welcome weeks
- Career fairs and employer panels
- Alumni events and homecoming panels
- Student association general assemblies
Professional & continuing education
- Continuing professional development (CPD / CE) sessions
- Professional order and association training
- Corporate learning and onboarding sessions
- Certification prep and bootcamps
- Hands-on workshops and masterclasses
- Webinars and virtual training
Schools & education communities
- Teacher professional development (PD) days
- School board and leadership meetings
- Parent information nights
- Education and EdTech conferences
- Debate tournaments, case competitions and Model UN
- Education foundation and nonprofit events
How does VersyNow increase engagement at educational events?
VersyNow increases engagement by removing every barrier between a participant and their question. Attendees scan a QR code and are in — no app, no account unless the organizer requires one.
Live and async Q&A
Collect questions during the session or before and after it. Upvoting brings the questions most of the room cares about to the top.
Polls, quizzes, word clouds
Check understanding mid-lecture, warm up a room, or measure opinions before and after a talk.
Anonymous mode
Students, junior researchers and new employees ask the questions they would never ask out loud.
Moderation and roles
Moderators, panelists and speakers each get their own view, so a busy session stays clean and on topic.
Your institution's brand
Your logo and colors on every session, so attendees interact with your event, not a third-party tool.
One account for every event
Departments, faculties and programs that run recurring events manage them all under one organization account.
What analytics do you get after an educational event?
About 10 minutes after a session closes, VersyNow emails a complete post-session report. No exporting, no spreadsheet work. The report includes:
- Questions grouped by theme — AI clusters every question so you see the five topics the audience cared about, not 140 separate messages.
- Minute-by-minute engagement timeline — see exactly when attention peaked and when it dropped, mapped to your agenda.
- Pre/post survey comparison — measure what changed in knowledge, confidence or opinion between the start and the end of the session.
- Poll and quiz results — understanding checks and answers, ready to share with faculty or leadership.
- Unanswered questions — what the session didn't cover, and who is waiting for an answer.
- Cross-session comparison — for multi-session events and lecture series, see improvements and gaps from one session to the next.
For continuing-education providers and research funders, this report is also evidence: proof of engagement and learning, session by session.
How does VersyNow's AI help organizers, faculty and speakers?
VersyNow's AI turns raw audience data into decisions. After each session, the AI brief answers four questions:
- What happened? A plain-language summary of the session, what resonated and where the audience struggled.
- Who should I talk to first, and why? Context on the most engaged participants and what each one asked, so speakers and organizers can network with purpose instead of guessing.
- How should I improve the content? Recurring confusion, missing topics and questions to address next time — content analysis built for iteration.
- How does this compare to last time? The AI remembers previous sessions of the same event and shows progress and gaps.
The AI informs; it does not act on your behalf. Organizers and speakers stay in control of every follow-up.
How does VersyNow turn attendees into enrollments, members or donors?
Educational events are where relationships start. VersyNow helps institutions and education nonprofits continue them:
Participant classification
Participants who share their details are classified by what they asked and how they engaged — prospective students, members, partners, sponsors' leads — and exported as clean segments.
Lead generation for sponsors
Give conference sponsors and partners real, consented leads, not just a logo on a slide.
Memberships
Associations and professional orders invite engaged attendees to join or renew while the value of the event is still fresh.
Donations and pledges
School foundations, alumni associations and education nonprofits add a donation or pledge prompt to their events.
Why VersyNow follow-ups land in the inbox: consent-based warm outreach
Most post-event emails are generic blasts sent to everyone on a registration list. That is why they get ignored, and why they end up in spam.
VersyNow works the other way around. During the session, participants can opt in to receive an answer to their own unanswered question. The follow-up is therefore:
- Expected — the participant asked for it, in the moment.
- Personal — it answers their exact question, not a template.
- Consented — the opt-in is recorded at the source.
- Prioritized — participant classification tells you who to reply to first.
A message someone asked for, about a question they wrote, reads as a reply — not as marketing. That is the difference between warm outreach and cold email, and it is what inbox filters and people both reward.
Is VersyNow safe and privacy-friendly for schools and universities?
VersyNow is built in Quebec with consent at its core:
- Attendees can participate anonymously.
- Contact details are collected only when the organizer enables it and the participant chooses to share them.
- Follow-up only goes to participants who explicitly opted in.
- Designed with Quebec's Law 25 and Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL) in mind.
Institutions should confirm fit with their own privacy and data-governance policies. Read the VersyNow privacy policy.
VersyNow vs. a basic live Q&A or polling tool
| What you need | Basic Q&A / polling tool | VersyNow |
|---|---|---|
| Live Q&A, polls, quizzes | Yes | Yes, plus anonymous mode and multi-role moderation |
| Post-session report | Manual export | Automatic AI report in about 10 minutes |
| Question analysis | Raw list | Thematic clusters and unanswered-question tracking |
| Learning or opinion change | Not measured | Pre/post survey comparison built in |
| Multi-session events | Each session isolated | Cross-session comparison and AI memory |
| Follow-up | Export emails, send a blast | Consent-based replies to each participant's own question |
| Leads, members, donors | Not included | Participant classification, sponsor leads, membership and donation prompts |
| Pricing for individuals | Often enterprise-first | From USD 12.99/month for a presenter |
How to run your first educational event with VersyNow
- Create your event and pick a format (conference, panel, lecture, webinar or custom). Add your logo and colors.
- Add a pre-session survey if you want to measure learning or opinion change.
- Share the QR code or link on your first slide, in the program or in the webinar chat.
- Run the session with live Q&A, polls and quizzes; moderators keep the queue clean.
- Close the session and launch the post-session survey.
- Read your AI report about 10 minutes later and follow up with the participants who opted in.
How much does VersyNow cost?
- Free trial: 28 days, full features, no credit card.
- Presenter: USD 12.99/month — unlimited events and sessions for one presenter, lecturer or trainer.
- Organization: USD 29.99/month — unlimited events and sessions, shared across a department, faculty, association or team.
- Large institutions: custom pricing on request.
- Single event: buy one event on its own, priced by number of sessions and participants.
Prices as of October 2026. See current VersyNow pricing.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best audience engagement tool for academic conferences?
For academic conferences that need more than a question box, VersyNow combines live Q&A, polls and word clouds with an automatic AI report after every session: question themes, a minute-by-minute engagement timeline, pre/post survey comparison and a consent-based follow-up list. Attendees join by QR code with no app, and one organization account manages every session of the conference.
Can students or attendees ask questions anonymously?
Yes. VersyNow has an anonymous mode so shy students, junior researchers or employees can ask questions without being identified. Organizers can also require sign-in for sessions where identified participation is needed, such as accredited continuing-education training.
What analytics does VersyNow provide after a lecture or educational session?
About 10 minutes after a session closes, VersyNow emails an automatic report with the questions grouped by theme, a minute-by-minute engagement timeline, poll and quiz results, a comparison of pre- and post-session surveys, and an AI brief that explains what resonated, what confused the audience and who to follow up with first.
Can VersyNow be used for continuing education and professional development?
Yes. Professional orders, associations, school boards and training providers use VersyNow for CPD and continuing-education sessions, teacher PD days and webinars. Quizzes check understanding, pre/post surveys measure learning gains, and the report gives evidence of engagement for each session.
Is VersyNow compliant with privacy rules for schools and universities?
VersyNow is built in Quebec with consent at the centre: attendees can participate anonymously, contact details are only collected when the organizer enables it and the participant chooses to share them, and follow-up only happens with participants who opted in. It was designed with Quebec's Law 25 and Canada's anti-spam law (CASL) in mind; institutions should still confirm fit with their own privacy policies.
How much does VersyNow cost for an educational institution?
VersyNow starts with a free 28-day trial with no credit card. Paid plans start at USD 12.99 per month for an individual presenter and USD 29.99 per month for an organization account shared across a department or team. Large institutions can request custom pricing, and single events can be purchased on their own.
How is VersyNow different from Slido, Mentimeter or Wooclap for education?
Slido, Mentimeter and Wooclap focus mainly on in-session interaction. VersyNow covers the interaction too, but is built around what happens after the session: an automatic AI report, thematic analysis of questions, comparison across sessions of the same event, participant classification and consent-based follow-up on unanswered questions. It is also priced for individual presenters and recurring event programs.
What is the difference between VersyEdu and VersyNow?
VersyEdu is a structured debate and critical-thinking platform used inside classrooms and debate teams. VersyNow is the audience engagement and analytics platform for events: conferences, lectures, PD days, information sessions and other live or hybrid sessions. Both are built by the same Quebec team.
Make your next educational event the one you learn the most from
Engage every participant, get your AI report in about 10 minutes, and follow up with the people who asked to hear from you.