
What's New?

DialogLoop™ Engage
August 2023
✓ Welcome Page and Polls: Copy/Paste from Microsoft Word now pastes Text instead of image.
✓ Q&A
- Added new video backgrounds.
- Improved Q&A preview.
- Moderation: Deleted questions are now deleted everywhere.
✓ When the Attendees' list is reset, the counting starts over with #1.
June 2023
✓ Major Update:
- The Q&A feature can now filter questions (Moderation).
- Multiple users can be moderators simultaneously.
- Questions appear directly in a PowerPoint Slide, using the free DialogLoop Engage Add-in available in the Microsoft Store.
- Beautiful animated Backgrounds can be used to display the Audience's questions
- Questions can be "Liked", and are ranking automatically on the PowerPoint Slide.
✓ Other New Features:
- Add a new question type: WebSurvey
- Possibility to transform a single-question poll into a multi-question survey/quiz
- Polls Title is now auto-generated if not specified by the owner.
- NPS and Likert Polls now have a Chart visualization.
- Add several preset fields to the Form question type.
✓ Bugs correction:
- Ease the drag and drop/Sorting of questions in the Quiz and Survey windows
- Charts now accept multi-lines labels.
May 2023
✓ New PowerPoint Features:
- DialogLoop's console in PowerPoint now has new icons/features: Question Preview, Quiz correct answer reveal.
- The Quiz feature now allows the Presenter to store an explanation for the Correct and Wrong answers.
✓ New "Embed Code for Website" option :
- Independant URL: All polls and quizzes can now be shown in a dedicated URL, without a Header and a Menu.
- Website Integration: All polls and quizzes can now be embedded into a website using an HTML code to integrate into an iFrame.
- Includes the option to allocate Points to answers.
✓ Bugs correction:
- Themes can now show a full image as a background.
- Theme's color handling improved
April 2023
✓ Quiz icon now offers Multi-questions as standard.
✓ Bugs correction:
- Drag and drop answers.
- Improve correct answers management.
✓ Insert Video links in the Welcome page.
✓ Auto-insert Poll's name if empty.
March 2023
✓ New User Interface look and feel.
✓ New Attendees Pane:
- See all attendees as they log in.
- Delete all attendees if needed.
✓ Optimization of the Attendees' counting method.
✓ Visualisation in the PowerPoint Add-In:
- New Output: Attendees connected to the session can be visualized inside a Slide.
- Arrows added to the console to ease the Slides switch.
✓ Bug Corrections:
- Event's Page: The header image can now be changed and saved.
- The setting of the Randomized Answers feature is now marked accurately.
- Deleting polls responses updates the Visualisation within the PowerPoint Slide.
- Simplification of the first-time login process
- Simplification of the Event's creation/cloning process
- Improved User Interface Translation
July 2022
✓ Bug correction in Polls/Word Cloud/Survey's output now displays long questions fully.
✓ Surveys can now display questions one after another, or all at once.
May 2022
✓ Bug correction in Polls: When the text of the answers is too long to be displayed on the Chart, they can be automatically replaced by A/B/C/... or a/b/c/... or 1/2/3/....
April 2022
✓ Event's Welcome Page:
- The Event name field has been removed to save space and offer more design flexibility.
- The Event's name can be changed on the Events list page.
- The Header and Left images are now updated automatically to the Attendee page.
✓ Poll/Quiz/Word Cloud/Survey:
- User Interface: New Lighter design.
- Improved charts: Response images are now larger.
✓ Simplified Settings Page.
✓ New Design Feature:
- Add a background image to all Poll, question type, and Word Cloud charts.
- The background gets updated LIVE in the output link even if the Poll has started.
✓ Bug correction: Reloading the page brings you back directly to the Pane you used to view.
✓ Cosmetic changes.
March 2022
✓ Updates to the DialogLoop Engage Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint/Excel/OneNote:
- Improved compatibility and Integration.
- Activities are sorted per creation date.
- The Home icon is now available in all Activities.
- It is now possible to have more than 6 polls appearing in a PPT (using the Add-in).
- Polls are now actionable one after the other.
✓ New Poll type: Open Ended question.
✓ New Survey feature (Beta version).
✓ Cosmetic Changes.
February 2022
✓ MAJOR RELEASE:
DialogLoop Engage is now available as an Add-In for PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote directly from the Microsoft Store. The Add-In is Free. It enables to seamlessly visualize Activities created with DialogLoop Engage, directly from within PowerPoint/Excel and OneNote.
Other Updates:
✓ New "Cloning Event" button on the My Events page.
✓ Word Cloud: The Default number of times attendees can change responses is now 99.
✓ Public Chat and Q&A Output Links now display a Welcome Text.
✓ Corrected several Bugs when using DialogLoop™ Engage with Microsoft Web Viewer Add-in in PowerPoint:
- Polls, Word Cloud, Questions, and Public Chat now appear every time.
- Improved features in the Control Panel.
- Change of DialogLoop™ Logo in the Polls Output Links.
✓ Added Wait-Notification-Spinners across the App.
November 2021
✓ Added 8 languages to the Word Cloud Profanity Filter: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese.
✓ New Advanced Word Cloud Engine:
- Allow participants to change their answers several times.
- Recognizes single words (separated by comma) vs dual words and phrases.
- Recognizes input done on several lines.
- Supports Emoji input, multi-lingual text with accents, and logograms (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and more).
- Set words number limit and max number of characters per answer.
- Automatic, dynamic, and multi-lingual Profanity Filter:
- Pick one or several languages to filter.
- Profanity Filters are now available in English, French, German and Spanish.
- Dual-mode filter: Remove profanity or replace it with a custom character.
- Each Word Cloud can have its filtering setting.
- Custom Appearance: Background, Colors, Words axis, Font Style.
- The output link shows a Control Board, the number of participants/answers received.
- New Optional Output layout to show Session URL.
- Timer
✓ Multiple User Interface improvements
✓ Public Chat/Q&A: corrected a bug in the Settings page, disturbing changes validation.
October 2021
✓ Events list user interface simplification
✓ Polls:
- New Selector user interface
- Polls settings: New simpler user interface and new options
September 2021
✓ Attendees' Welcome Page can be hidden dynamically.
✓ Available Activities are now clickable on the Welcome Page.
✓ A link to the session's QR-Code can now be copied and inserted into PowerPoint Web viewer Add-in or any web software.
✓ User Interface now in Italian.
✓ Integration into PowerPoint using Microsoft's Web Viewer Add-in (available in the Microsoft Add-In Store): Insert Polls/Word Cloud/ Chat Window links into a PowerPoint Slide to avoid the switch to the DialogLoop Engage Window!
✓ Added a Dynamic Control Board on Polls Charts to operate DialogLoop Polls directly from PowerPoint!
✓ Bug Corrections and App optimization.
August 2021
✓ Supports 10 Languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Japanese, German, Malaysian, Portuguese, Spanish.
June 2021
✓ Poll Engine improvements:
- Four Chart types are now available: Pie Chart, Doughnut, Horizontal/Vertical Barres
- Simplification of the User Interface for Polls Creation
- Improvement of the Poll User Interface structure and intuitiveness
- Correction of User Interface bugs
✓ New Emojize features (see below)

DialogLoop™ Influence
June 2023
✓ New Features:
- Add a new question type: WebSurvey
- Possibility to transform a single-question poll into a multi-question survey/quiz
- Polls Title is now auto-generated if not specified by the owner.
- NPS and Likert Polls now have a Chart visualization.
- Add several preset fields to the Form question type.
✓ Bugs correction:
- Ease the drag and drop/Sorting of questions in the Quiz and Survey windows
- Charts now accept multi-lines labels.
May 2023
✓ New PowerPoint Features:
- DialogLoop's console in PowerPoint now has new icons/features: Question Preview, Quiz correct answer reveal.
- The Quiz feature now allows the Presenter to store an explanation for the Correct and Wrong answers.
✓ New "Embed Code for Website" option :
- Independant URL: All polls and quizzes can now be shown in a dedicated URL, without a Header and a Menu.
- Website Integration: All polls and quizzes can now be embedded into a website using an HTML code to integrate into an iFrame.
- Includes the option to allocate Points to answers.
✓ Bugs correction:
- Themes can now show a full image as a background.
- Theme's color handling improved
April 2023
✓ Quiz icon now offers Multi-questions as standard.
✓ Bugs correction:
- Drag and drop answers.
- Improve correct answers management.
✓ Insert Video links in the Welcome page.
✓ Auto-insert Poll's name if empty.
March 2023
✓ New User Interface look and feel.
✓ New Attendees Pane:
- See all attendees as they log in.
- Delete all attendees if needed.
✓ Optimization of the Attendees' counting method.
✓ Visualisation in the PowerPoint Add-In:
- New Output: Attendees connected to the session can be visualized inside a Slide.
- Arrows added to the console to ease the Slides switch.
✓ Bug Corrections:
- Event's Page: The header image can now be changed and saved.
- The setting of the Randomized Answers feature is now marked accurately.
- Deleting polls responses updates the Visualisation within the PowerPoint Slide.
- Simplification of the first-time login process
- Simplification of the Event's creation/cloning process
- Improved User Interface Translation
July 2022
✓ Bug correction in Polls/Word Cloud/Survey's output now displays long questions fully.
✓ Surveys can now display questions one after another, or all at once.
May 2022
✓ Bug correction in Polls: When the text of the answers is too long to be displayed on the Chart, they can be automatically replaced by A/B/C/... or a/b/c/... or 1/2/3/....
April 2022
✓ Event's Welcome Page:
- The Event name field has been removed to save space and offer more design flexibility.
- The Event's name can be changed on the Events list page.
- The Header and Left images are now updated automatically to the Attendee page.
✓ Poll/Quiz/Word Cloud/Survey:
- User Interface: New Lighter design.
- Improved charts: Response images are now larger.
✓ Simplified Settings Page.
✓ New Design Feature:
- Add a background image to all Poll, question type, and Word Cloud charts.
- The background gets updated LIVE in the output link even if the Poll has started.
✓ Bug correction: Reloading the page brings you back directly to the Pane you used to view.
✓ Cosmetic changes.
March 2022
✓ New Poll type: Open Ended question.
✓ New Survey feature (Beta version).
✓ Cosmetic Changes.
February 2022
✓ New "Cloning Event" button on the My Events page.
✓ Word Cloud: The Default number of times attendees can change responses is now 99.
✓ Public Chat and Q&A Output Links now display a Welcome Text.
✓ Corrected several Bugs when using DialogLoop™ Engage with Microsoft Web Viewer Add-in in PowerPoint:
- Polls, Word Cloud, Questions, and Public Chat now appear every time.
- Improved features in the Control Panel.
- Change of DialogLoop™ Logo in the Polls Output Links.
✓ Added Wait-Notification-Spinners across the App.
November 2021
✓ Added 8 languages to the Word Cloud Profanity Filter: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese.
✓ Emojize: Solved a compatibility bug with Apple Safari on MacOS, and Microsoft Web Viewer Add-In for PowerPoint on Mac.
✓ New Advanced Word Cloud Engine:
- Allow participants to change their answers several times.
- Recognizes single words (separated by comma) vs dual words and phrases.
- Recognizes input done on several lines.
- Supports Emoji input, multi-lingual text with accents, and logograms (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and more).
- Set words number limit and max number of characters per answer.
- Automatic, dynamic, and multi-lingual Profanity Filter:
- Pick one or several languages to filter.
- Profanity Filters in English, French, German, and Spanish.
- Dual-mode filter: Remove profanity or replace it with a custom character.
- Each Word Cloud can have its filtering setting.
- Custom Appearance: Background, Colors, Words axis, Font Style.
- The output link shows the number of participants/answers received.
- New Optional Output layout to show Session URL.
- Timer
✓ Multiple User Interface improvements
✓ Public Chat/Q&A: corrected a bug in the Settings page, disturbing changes validation.
October 2021
✓ Events list user interface simplification
✓ Polls:
- New Selector user interface
- Polls settings: New simpler user interface and new options
September 2021
✓ Attendee Welcome Page can be hidden dynamically
✓ Available Activities are now clickable on the Welcome Page
✓ A link to the session's QR-Code can now be copied and inserted into streaming software (OBS Studio, vMix, Twitch Studio...).
✓ User Interface now in Italian
August 2021
✓ Supports 10 Languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Japanese, German, Malaysian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
June 2021
✓ Poll Engine improvements:
- Four Chart types are now available: Pie Chart, Doughnut, Horizontal/Vertical Barres
- Simplification of the User Interface for Polls Creation
- Improvement of the Poll User Interface structure and intuitiveness
- Correction of User Interface bugs
✓ New Emojize features
- Now comes with a choice of seven customizable Emoji fountains

DialogLoop™ Emojize
April 2022
✓ Event's Welcome Page:
- The Event name field has been removed to save space and offer more design flexibility.
- The Event's name can be changed on the Events list page.
- The Header and Left images are now updated automatically to the Attendee page.
✓ Simplified Settings Page.
✓ Bug correction: Reloading the page brings you back directly to the Pane you used to view.
February 2022
✓ New "Cloning Event" button on the My Events page.
✓ Corrected several Bugs when using DialogLoop™ Engage with Microsoft Web Viewer Add-in in PowerPoint:
- Flying Emoji now appear every time.
- Improved features in the Control Panel.
- Change of DialogLoop™ Logo in the Polls Output Links.
✓ Added Wait-Notification-Spinners across the App.
November 2021
✓ Solved a compatibility bug with Apple Safari on MacOS, and Microsoft Web Viewer Add-In for PowerPoint.
October 2021
✓ Events list user interface simplification
September 2021
✓ Attendee Welcome Page can be hidden dynamically.
✓ Available Activities are now clickable on the Welcome Page.
✓ A link to the session's QR-Code can now be copied and inserted into PowerPoint Web viewer Add-in or a video streaming software (OBS Studio, vMix, Twitch Studio...).
✓ User Interface now in Italian.
August 2021
✓ Supports 10 Languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Japanese, German, Malaysian, Portuguese, Spanish.
June 2021
✓ Now comes with a choice of seven customizable Emoji fountains

DialogLoop™ PowerShare


Which DialogLoop™ PowerShare version do I use?
✓ Latest Add-in Version: 1.0.1.111
✓ Version number available in the PowerPoint Add-in > DialogLoop Ribbon > How to DialogLoop icon > About DialogLoop™...
✓ When released, a "New Version Available" icon appears at the right of the DialogLoop Ribbon.
✓ Add-in Updates require to be downloaded and installed.
✓ However, server-related updates are automatically done.
February 2022 - v1.0.1.111
✓ IMPORTANT UPDATE for every user to continue to access DialogLoop Server after March 1st, 2022.
✓ Updated Expiry, Security Key, and Installer certificates.
November 2021 Update
✓ Misc server, performance and survey technology improvements and optimization.
April 2021 Update
✓ Bug Fix:
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Reset of the Anonymous Login
✓ Server Performance improvements




March 2021 Updates
✓ Release Add-In version 1.0.1.108
✓ New Features:
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Improvement to Star Rating
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New Reporting Feature, and Export to Excel
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Support for Likert Scale
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Improved support for Anonymous Users as attendees
✓ Bug Fix:
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Survey Stopping when Start On Slide Enter and going backward
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Reconnect Status UI automatically disappears when completed
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New User Setup was moving too quickly through Account Summary.
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'Contact Support' now launches email program
July 2020 Updates
✓ Release Add-In version 1.0.1.89
✓ New Features:
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Dynamic User Interface: icons appear/disappear when you need them.
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'How to DialogLoop' content.
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Auto Poll: Auto-recognition of text to create a poll.
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Quick Poll: Quick access to the single poll creation window.
✓ New Polling Features:
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New user interface: more space for questions and cosmetic changes.
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Rich question formatting: font type, text size, bold, italic...
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Add photos, links, videos to the question.
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Add a prefix (A/a/1) to answers automatically.
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Define a maximum number of answers for Multi-choice questions.
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Tiles view for answers (appearing on the web app).
✓ New Web App Networking Features:
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'Green Dot' presence notification.
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New Extended Profile form.
✓ New Live Q&A and Discussions Features:
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New icons in the ribbon: Moderator, Question list and Delete Questions.



Earlier Updates
✓ Feb 2020 - v. 1.0.1.72
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IMPORTANT BUG FIX - Real-time survey results were broken.
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IMPORTANT Bug fixes for Live Surveys - Real-time results were broken
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Real-time survey results were not populating on the Slide.
✓ Jan 2020 - v. 1.0.1.70
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(Iteration #2) Important change to the expiry of the Add-in. Minor bug fixes.
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Minor usability adjustments to the Addin Toolbar.
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Support for Servers and Data Storage in Canada
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Bug fixes for Live Surveys
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Minor improvements and bug fixes to DialogLoop Survey Technology.
✓ Nov 2019 - v. 1.0.1.67
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*NEW* One-Time single presentation event
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*NEW* Question types for your Surveys and Polls
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Support for Single Answer, Multiple Answers, Word Cloud, Rating, Yes/No, Rank/Sort, Free Form, Custom Form
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Improvements to the New user setup, My account management, Localized languages
✓ Oct 2019 - v. 1.0.1.61
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Reorganizes the columns available for the Export Survey Data feature.
✓ Sept 2019 - v. 1.0.1.60
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Usability and stability improvements
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Session Setup - all changes are applied by clicking the 'Apply and Close' button
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Session Reports are now available in the Manage Events user interface
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Presenter profile image upload management.
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Logged-in users can now update their profile information including linking to Social Media Networks within the 'My Account' user interface.
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Multiple Bug Fixes to improve the stability of the Add-in, including DRM settings not applied when updated before start sharing of presentation
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Localized strings were updated (all supported languages)
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✓ July 2019 - v. 1.0.1.56
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Potential bug fix for changes in latest Office Updates where UI does not appear sometimes.
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Pricing changes.
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Other Bug fixes
✓ May 2019 - v. 1.0.1.52
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Support for setting access codes for events.
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Improvement to Reconnection options.
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EU languages/Localization update.
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Bug fixes
✓ March 2019 - v. 1.0.1.46
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Support for High-Resolution Screens.
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Minor productivity enhancements.
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Multiple Bug fixes
✓ Jan 2019 - v. 1.0.1.36
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Word Cloud for Survey Open Text question
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Moderation integration
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Export survey data to Excel
✓ Oct 2018 - v. 1.0.1.33
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Minor bug fixes.
✓ 28 Sept 2018 - v. 1.0.1.24
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Minor bug fixes.
✓ 01 Sept 2018 - v. 1.0.1.19
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New User Setup/Onboarding changes.
