Abstract: An audience response management system including a computer software program utilized to collect, analyze, summarize, present and distribute responses, evaluations, opinions and votes from an audience using audience response hardware. The software allows configuration of the appearance and behavior of the polling system, testing of the connections to audience response hardware (required as the source of the polling data), organizing of multiple sets of data into user-defined groups of presentations, and exporting and printing of data in its raw form or in any of a selection of desired compiled formats for the purposes of further analyzing and presenting the data.