How to Use the Turning Point Clickers

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1 How to Use the Turning Point Clickers INSTALLING SOFTWARE 1. Before you can use the Turning Point clickers, you must first install the software. The directions and software are located inside the: ORHS PLC icon, Downloads for Classroom icon, Clickers Software & How To s icon, and Turning Point Clickers folder. 2. After you install the software, plug the receiver (looks like a white usb drive) into the computer. OPENING TURNING POINT 1. Double click on the Turning Point icon to open the system. 2. The Turning Point clicker system actually opens in PowerPoint, the only difference you will see is a Turning Point Tool Bar 3. You can create a PowerPoint just like you normally would, only this time when you want to insert a student question on a particular slide you need to follow the directions below.

2 CREATING QUESTIONS ON POWERPOINT SLIDES 1. INSERT SLIDE: To create a question on a PowerPoint slide, you need to click on the Insert Slide drop down menu and choose the type of question you want. By type of question, I mean multiple choice, true or false, yes or no, or a likert question. The picture below shows the types of questions. NOTE: The slides that say vertical, horizontal, 3D pie, etc that just means after they answer that will be how the class responses are displayed. (NOTE: At any point you can add a regular PowerPoint slide if you want to add pictures or notes to your presentation. To add a regular (non-question) slide, just click on Insert at the very top of your screen and click New Slide. ) 2. TYPE QUESTION AND ANSWER: Now that you have chosen a question slide, you simply just type in your question and the answers where it says Enter question text and Enter answer text. To create more than one answer choice just type on beside the number 1 and when you are done hit the Enter key so answer number 2 is created.

3 3. CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER: Now that you have given the students several answers to choose from, you need to actually assign the correct answer. To do this follow the steps below: a. Click on the Tools drop down list and choose Settings b. You will now see the questions and answers displayed on the left side of the window. Highlight the correct answer by clicking on the correct answer so you can see the Answer Settings. From the Answer Value drop down menu choose correct. For questions where there is not a definite correct answer (like question 1 below) you don t need to do anything for it. It will automatically be given no value. c. Click Done when you are finished picking all of the correct answers.

4 4. ASSIGNING POINT VALUE TO QUESTION: a. Right click on the thumbnail picture of a slide and choose Set Default Correct Value b. Enter in the value of points for that question and click ok. Below shows that my question is worth 10 points. c. Follow steps A-B for all of your question slides. If you 5. INSERTING OBJECTS a. Inserting a Countdown timer to end polling for that question: i. Click on the Insert Objects drop down list. Choose Countdown, then choose any countdown timer you d like.

5 ii. Once the countdown picture appears in your slide, you can move it anywhere you like. To change the time on it, just click on the number and type any number from and click OK. NOTE: When you are presenting this PowerPoint slide show, the countdown timer will not appear until you hit the Enter key. iii. dfd b. Inserting Correct Answer Indicator: To place a picture next to the correct answer when you are done polling, click on the Insert Object drop down menu, the Correct Answer Indicator menu, then choose one.

6 i. The picture you chose will now show up next to the correct answer. (Don t worry it won t show up until you are done polling the students.) c. Insert Response Table (So you know who answered and who didn t): i. Click on Insert Object, choose Response Table, and choose either Fixed Table or Rotating Table (doesn t matter which one). ii. You will see a grid appear at the bottom of your slide. When a student answers, his/her number will turn blue. This way you can tell who has or hasn t answered the question.

7 6. HAVE A TEST RUN: At this point I would run the slideshow to see how the questions, timer, answer, and chart will pop up on the screen. CREATE PARTICIPANT LIST AND ASSIGN REMOTES 1. To create a participant list, click on the Participants drop down menu, then choose Participant List Wizard. 2. Select Education Template, then click Next. 3. Decide what information you want to enter in about the students by altering the Selected Fields. (I go with the default.) Click Next. 4. Create groups or teams of students (Red Birds, Black Birds, Buzzards, etc) by typing in the box and clicking Add. Click Next when done.

8 5. Name the participant list you just created (Period 1, Period 2, etc), and click Finish. If a window pops up that asks if you d like to save the template you just used, like YES or NO (I click NO b/c I just used the defaults). 6. A window will pop up where you can type in your students information. Click Enter twice to get a new line for another student. NOTE: You must type in the Device ID number found on the back of each remote (e.g. 21F86D, or 21F96D). To make it easier on myself I just put the EASY clicker number where it says Student ID (1, 2, 3, etc). Once you type in all of the information, you must save the list, by clicking on File, Save As and type name of period (Period 1, Period 2, etc). Click Done.. When you pass out the clickers, make sure you give the students their assigned remotes (1, 2, 3, 4, etc).

9 7. Now before you begin your PowerPoint/quiz, you need to choose the participants. So, where is says (Auto) click on the drop down menu and choose the group. NOW RUN YOUR SLIDESHOW AND GIVE THEM THE QUIZ!!! ***At any point during the quiz you can pull a report to see how individual students answers. When running the slide show click on the Display Participant Monitor icon to see how they are doing. Below is a picture of what it shows.

10 ***SAVE SESSION IN ORDER TO SAVE GRADES!!! After you run through the PowerPoint slide show you need to save that session so that those students grades will be saved. Here is how: 1. Click on the blue SAVE button on the Turning Point toolbar. 2. Save the session with the period and quiz name. Click SAVE.

11 ***RESET SESSION BEFORE YOU RUN THE POWERPOINT/QUIZ FOR ANOTHER CLASS Before you run the PowerPoint/quiz for your next class, you must reset the session so it will delete the previous class answers (Don t worry, you should have already saved their session see directions above). 1. On the Turning Point tool bar, click on the Reset drop down. Choose Session. 2. If you haven t already saved the session from the previous class it will ask if you want to save it. Click Yes, then follow the steps above for saving the session. VIEW REPORTS AND SEE GRADES 1. After you have run the PowerPoint slideshow and given all of the quiz questions, you can run reports to see how your students on each question and/or their grades. First click on the Tools drop down menu. 2. A list of all of the saved sessions will appear. Double click on the session you want to look at. 3. Check the boxes of the information you want to see and click Generate Report. I usually choose the three shown below.

12 4. The report will pop up in Excel (if it doesn t pop up check the bottom of your computer screen for an excel tab. You will get results for everything from 2/3 correct, to percentages, to their answer on a specific question. REMEMBER: If you need help in figuring something out click on the help button.