How do I track student responses?

• Author: Andy Ramsden (a.ramsden@ucs.ac.uk)


• Date: 22nd December, 2010


• Technical Keyword: Clickers, Classroom Technologies,


• Learning Keyword: Feedback

Introduction (Description)

The aim of this How to Guide is to describe how to set up a way of tracking the student and the response device for your classroom interactions. For instance, you might set a test where you want to give individual feedback and monitor progress. In this situation anonymous responses are adequate. The solution is to use Participant Registration Tool. Given the set up time in class, I’d suggest this would work very well for small numbers. For large numbers (say above 30) please contact the ELEVATE Team to discuss potential strategies.

Steps

Step 1: watch the screencast video by TurningPoint

• http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/producttraining/onlinetutorials/onlinetutorials/index.cfm?tutorialid=28

Step 2: Implementation suggestions

From a practical perspective, design in time for the following;

• Create your participation list beforehand and save to your desktop.


• Get into the lecture room a few minutes beforehand for the set up


• Contact the ELEVATE Team to walk through the process beforehand
  

Where Next

• For more information on how you might use this technology to enhance the student learning experience please contact us via email wolsey@ucs.ac.uk.


• TurningPoint provide a large number of accessible support videos. These are available from: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/producttraining/onlinetutorials/


• To booking form for the clickers is available from, http://tinyurl.com/ucsclickers

Creative Commons & Open Educational Resources

The Enhancing Learning Through Technology Team embrace open educational resources. Therefore, this resource is available under the following Creative Common License.



(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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FAQs for Clickers

These questions and answers are from sessions we've run at UCS. They are all user generated, and in no particular order. You are recommended to see our How to Guides, and the online tutorials provided by TurningPoint >>>(http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/producttraining/onlinetutorials/)

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Question >>> How do I book the clickers?

Answer >>> Complete the form at http://tinyurl.com/ucsclickers

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Question >>> How do I add an interactive questions to a powerpoint?

Answer >>> See our How to Guides

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Question >>> How do I change the chart type once I've written the question?

Answer >>> highlight the chart you want to change, click on Insert Object, Select Chart Type, select the chart type

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Question >>> If I had 10 minutes and a coffee and wanted to getting an idea of the what it can offer, where should I start?

Answer >>> I'd suggest reviewing the online (video) guides provided by TurningPoint (http://trainingportal.turningtechnologies.com/turningPoint.cfm)

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Question >>> how do I not display the answer chart for a particular question?

Answer >>> select settings, and it will list all the interactive questions within the presentation. Select the question, and set display to No

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Question >>> can I use images in the question?

Answer >>> Yes (to a certain degree). The question slides are normal powerpoint slide so you can add any content (images, table of data etc.,). Therefore, you can add an annotated image.

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Question >>> how do I add questions on the fly (during the lecture)?

Answer >>> To include a question and set of answers on the fly (during a lecture) to clarify a point etc., is straight forward. On the question display menu (top right hand side), select the <> icon. This will open a question template. Simply type the question and answer options.

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Question >>> how do I clear a poll question during to get them to re-vote?

Answer >>> on the question display menu (top right hand side) when presenting, click on the circle icon (x from the left) This will clear the poll for the question on display, and allow you ask participants to re-vote

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Question >>> how do I not display the results as a percentage, but as the actual number of votes?

Answer >>> one method is to click on the toggle percent icon on the question display menu (top right hand side) when you are presenting the results.

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Question >>> can I combine both sets of clickers so I can have more than 40 people vote?

Answer >>> yes, we've set the channel to 41 on both our sets of clickers. Therefore, you can use any handset from any bag :-) However, if you are using both bags, please could you sort the handsets at the end of the session into bag A and bag B.

How to set up the Turning Point clickers in our teaching rooms

• Author: Andy Ramsden (a.ramsden@ucs.ac.uk)


• Date: 6th December, 2010


• Technical Keyword: Clickers, Classroom Technologies,


• Learning Keyword: Feedback

Introduction (Description)

The aim of this How to Guide is to describe how to set up the audience response system in the teaching space and provide advice for you post the teaching event.

Steps

Step 1: At the start

* Start the computer

* Plug in USB receiver

* Open Up turning point software

* Open up PowerPoint (with questions)

* Click on Reset option on the task bar and select session

* Start Slideshow

* Minimize the smart board software (right Hand side of display screen) if you aren't using the symposium tools

Step 2: At the end of the teaching event

* When you have finished the lecture save the PowerPoint with a new name. Perhaps upload it to your course in Wolsey so students can revisit it later

* Close the turning point software ... You are recommended to save the session date (so you can run further reports if required). Save this to your desktop, and store the file later

* Collect the clickers and the USB receiver



The Timer will display on your powerpoint slide. Move this display, and to change the duration (seconds) double click on the timer and enter the time you’d like.

Where Next

• For more information on how you might use this technology to enhance the student learning experience please contact us via email wolsey@ucs.ac.uk.


• TurningPoint provide a large number of accessible support videos. These are available from: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/producttraining/onlinetutorials/


• To booking form for the clickers is available from, http://tinyurl.com/ucsclickers

Creative Commons & Open Educational Resources

The Enhancing Learning Through Technology Team embrace open educational resources. Therefore, this resource is available under the following Creative Common License.



(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

• Permanent Link (URL)


• Permanent Link (Word Doc) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12497737/ELLT%20HTG/Setup%20for%20clickers%20in%20classroom%20HCT002.doc


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Feedback in Gradebook assigned to Incorrect Students

Issue: Submitted feedback appears to be assigned to wrong students in Gradebook using SafeAssign tool

Description: When adding feedback (attached document) to students via SafeAssign, all appears to be correct, lecturers are reporting they added the documents to the correct students, only to go back at a later date to find either one students feedback assigned to all students or feedback spread randomly amongst students.

Status: Open - Reported to Blackboard.  Both Blackboard Support and ELTT Team unable to replicate problem.

Fix: Currently there is no fix

Work-around: After discussing this with a lecturer it was suggested to them to add the feedback document to one student, then return to the Grade Centre screen, select the next student and add their feedback.  Move through the students one at a time and return to the Grade Centre screen in between each.

This worked for this lecturer/module, they were also adding feedback from home, one train of thought is there may be a problem with caching on the external Wolsey server.

Are you a lecturer about to add feedback?

If you are, we ask that you email wolsey@ucs.ac.uk and let us know, Blackboard have asked us to gather evidence of this problem by recording screen captures of the process that lecturers take when adding feedback.