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Tip: You may designate one answer in the graph as correct by simply pointing your mouse to and clicking on the correct letter that appears when you mouse-over the graph. This will change your selected bar (i.e. the answer you’ve designated as correct) to green and the remaining bars to red to clearl...

New upgrade! Floating Menu bar OPTIONS The floating menu bar now is revised to have three functions: start/stop, hide/display, and OPTIONS (marked with ). Roll your mouse over and select the to review and use the menu bar OPTIONS. Currently, there are three options you may access: 1. By selecting Lo...

When your class is over, click on the small white square at the top right corner of the menu bar to exit i-clicker. You will be asked if you really want to quit i-clicker and, if so, click on OK. Each student’s response to each question will be saved in your course folder. Remember: You must run the...

Section Two - Registering Your Students: How To Give Your Students Credit The i-clicker system may be used as a simple tool to give you instant, anonymous feedback in class, in which case no registration is necessary. However, if you (like most instructors) want to go a bit further and give credit t...

The TextEdit.app application (or any other plain text editor) can be used to easily create the Roster.txt file. To create a txt file using TextEdit: 1. Go to the “Applications” folder and open“TextEdit.” 2. Enter the student information, or Copy and Paste it from an existing roster file into TextEdi...

i-clicker offers you three straightforward registration options: an in-class option (for your entire class), a manual option (for individual students), and an “online/web” option. Minimal information is required of your students and all registration options are tied to your class roster. There are n...

The ROLL CALL screen will appear as below. Your student’s information (from the Roster.txt file you have placed into your course folder) will begin scrolling as shown below: The instructions for students to register are outlined on the screen and are easy to follow. 1. Step One : The student locates...

Tip: If a student accidentally registers his/her clicker to the wrong name, s/he should push the D button on his/her i-clicker remote twice to clear the incorrect registration and restart the registration process. Option Two -Web Registration: Your students can also register through a simple Web reg...

Tip: Students can use one i-clicker remote for multiple classes, and only need to register on the web once. If the student makes a mistake they can simply register a second time. Tip: i>clicker offers institutions the option to host their own registration site or use their own LDAP authentication...

Loaning a clicker (Temporary Registration) If a student forgets his/her i-clicker remote, you can loan one for a single lecture. To associate the loaned clicker with a student for one lecture only, you should perform a temporary (or loaner) registration. To do this, follow the exact same steps as ou...

Section Three -Using i>grader After Class: Assigning Credit for Sessions and Questions Note: You may want to take the time right before starting i-grader to check for updates to the software. This process is quick and free of charge, and can be done by using the WebUpdate application in your cour...

Tip: If you choose Resume Last Session from the Welcome Screen, your additional polling data will be included in the previous session (thereby eliminating the second session in our example). Synchronizing Web Registrations Let’s suppose you have chosen to have your students register through the Web ...

If any unassociated clicker ID’s remain after this step (i.e. if you continue to see any red clicker ID numbers in the left column), they likely belong to students who have not yet registered online. Check with your students and synchronize again later. If there are problems synchronizing only one o...

i-grader Functions From the main screen of i-grader, you can edit student registrations as well as session and scoring information. Editing a Student This feature allows you to modify which remote IDs are associated with a particular student/student ID. 24 Questions? Contact us at [email protected]...

Setting Session Scores i-grader scoring tools allow you to designate correct answers and set scoring options for each individual session. However, you can save time by setting default scoring settings for all sessions in your course using the i-clicker Settings and Preferences, described in Section ...

You will now see the following adjusted scores: Notice that i-grader has updated the summary for this lecture and the column of averages. Deleting a Question: To delete a question, open the session (by clicking the session name or date) containing the questions you wish to delete. Use the Previous a...

To view more detailed session information, click on Session Summary and Question Data for any session, to display the Session Summary report. The Session Summary data is displayed at the top of this report, followed by information about individual questions. Scroll down, or click a question title, t...

Please note that when you copy or upload a report to a new location using this method, the links to other report pages will no longer work. You will need to be sure that any data you wish to share is on the report page you are viewing. Your Student Voting Data report will be very similar to the Term...

Tip: If you are using Internet Explorer to view the HTML reports, you can right-click (control click) on any blank space within the table in your report and select “Export to Microsoft Excel” (provided Excel is installed on your machine). This will open an Excel worksheet containing information from...

Note that you can include additional student information or your file may be saved/named slightly differently if you are using i-clicker with your campus course management system (and have followed the steps required to enable i-clicker files to be formatted for your particular course management sys...

To customize our system to meet your specific teaching goals/needs, locate and select Your Settings and Preferences from the main i-clicker Welcome Screen . The default settings for both the i-clicker and i-grader applications are chosen to make this classroom response system easy to learn and use. ...

1. Enter Your Course Name: The course name you enter here is used in i-grader, HTML reports and on the Welcome Screen of the i-clicker program. It does not have to match the name of your i- clicker course folder. ( Note: Entering a new course name is not the same as creating new i-clicker folders fo...

you may also need to coordinate frequencies with your IT administrator. They may have already assigned channels to each classroom. If you change your frequency from the default, your students will need to change their remote frequency at the beginning of each session. When you begin polling, an aler...

moves between slides in your presentation software, allowing you freedom to move around the room while conducting i-clicker polling sessions. Rather than counting the five choices (A, B, C, D, E,) as student votes, the buttons control certain functions of the i-clicker polling software. The image be...

Registration/Export: Settings and Preferences 1. Roll Call / In Class Registration: This setting modifies the way that student names appear on the Roll Call screen for in class registration. This option does not modify the format of your roster or Gradebook file. For more information about the Roll ...

3. Web Registration: Earlier versions of i-clicker required instructors to request and enter a code specific to their institution. This requirement has been phased out of the software. If your students are registering in class or on www.iclicker.com , leave this space blank. The security code is onl...

Tip: In the countdown mode, the “+” and “-" buttons to the left of the timer allow you to add or subtract 20 seconds as needed. You can still stop polling (even if you selected the “count down” option) by pressing STOP on the floating menu bar. 2. Chart Display Options: During polling, a graph i...

Confirmed Vote Receipt Only (shown below) displays the ID of each participating clicker. The color automatically changes from blue to green each time a vote is changed. So, in the example below, remote ID 0028E7CF has voted but has also changed his/her vote, while remote ID 11AE05BA has voted once. ...

Scoring Settings and Preferences In this section, you can to establish the point values students can earn for actively participating in class and for answering questions correctly. You may choose to set these preferences for the entire term (course) or session. Your choices and selections on the Sco...

2. Participation Requirement: To earn the point value established above, students must respond to a certain percentage of questions in a session. New upgrade! Two new levels have been added to the Participation Requirement; you may now choose levels of Very Lenient (one question answered) and Very S...

Section Five -Resuming Your Last Session In addition to “Your Settings and Preferences” on the main Welcome Screen, you also have the option to “Resume Last Session.” This allows you to resume a lecture, rather than starting a new one. This option is useful if you accidentally exit the i-clicker app...

Section Six –WebUpdater: Updating Your Software Occasionally, we will make improvements made to the Macintosh software. These updated versions can be downloaded free of charge using the WebUpdate application which you will find in each of your course folders (see below). Simply double-click on the W...

Section Seven -Pre-Assigning Question Titles and Correct Answers: Questionlist.csv If you’d like to assign titles to your questions (and the correct answer) before your lecture (instead of the default Q1, Q2 assignments given by i-clicker ), you may create a Questionlist file and save it in your cou...

Creating a Questionlist.csv in TextEdit 1. From the Applications folder, locate and open TextEdit. 2. Enter the title of the question followed by a comma and then the correct answer. 3. Select “Save As” and name the file “questionlist.csv.” 4. Under “File Type,” select “All Files” and click Save. 5....