How to Use the H-ITT Analyzer Version 2.4.4 I. Preparing to Use Analyzer: Adding Your Class II. Introduction to the Analyzer Interface III. Sync Your Class Roster in Analyzer IV. Update Your Class Roster in Analyzer V. Sharing Clicker Results With Your Students 1. E-mailing 2. ilearn Table of Contents: I. Preparing to Use Analyzer: Adding Your Class 1. Be sure that you re using the most current version of H-ITT s Analyzer software: 2.4.4 (As of Aug 2014). If you re running an older version, like 2.2, then go to the H-ITT website (http://www.h-itt.com) and install the new version. Otherwise, there may be problems calculating your data sets. 2. Create a folder on your computer to store all of your H-ITT clicker session data sets that were e-mailed to you as attachments. Put the emailed data sets for the class in the folder for that class. If you are using clickers in several classes, create a separate folder for each class. 3. Open Analyzer and click Add a Class in the navigation pane. You ll be prompted to navigate to the class folder containing the data sets for that class. Select the folder and click OK. 1
Note: After creating the link in the Analyzer to that folder (using Add a Class ) through the Analyzer software, the folder must remain in its designated location on your computer. If you move a folder after making the connection, Analyzer will no longer be able to retrieve your data. 4. Your class will become listed on the Homepage of the Analyzer interface. II. Introduction to the Analyzer Interface Return to Table of Contents 1. When you click on the previously created link under Class Name in Analyzer, information from all the data sets will populate the Analyzer, and you ll see the main interface defaulting to the Answer Key tab, with sessions numbered on the far left by date: 2
2. If the Correct Answer(s) column reads {empty} as shown above, then you can either click the word {empty} or a question number for the session under the Question column to indicate through the resulting form what the correct answer should be, or to check the option to Ignore this question: Note: The Ignore this Question option removes any credit toward a cumulative total while still allowing the system to record that the clicker was used. 3
3. You can edit the default Point Values and which information is displayed in the Answer Key tab through Settings in the black bar below the tabs. You can also access each session s point values by clicking either the Edit option beneath each session listing, or the link to individual questions within a session: 4. View a summary of student responses by clicking on either the Student Responses tab, or click on Show Students in the black bar within the Answer Key tab, pictured below. 5. The Student Responses tab summary lists each student s clicker number along with answers to every question that the student responded to for each session: 4
6. The Show Students option on the Answer Key tab reveals a new grouping of columns to the far right side of the screen, where you can see details about a single student s answers to all questions for all sessions at once, along with associated point values and the Year-To-Date cumulative total points. Click through results for each student by clicking on the <<Prev. Student and Next Student>> options. Revert to the original display by selecting Hide Students. 7. View a histogram of student responses for each question either by clicking the icon of a histogram in the Question column of the Answer Key tab or by going directly to the Question Analysis tab. 5
1. 2. 3. 8. As pictured above on the Question Analysis tab, you can view various types of information about each question for each session. The top of the window shows graphical representations, including: 1) on the upper left, an enlargeable picture of the question and responses as presented in Acquisition (if the question was originally loaded into and presented from within Acquisition), 2) the percentage of responses for each answer option, and 3) the time distribution of answers given over the allotted answer period. Below, more of the same information is charted in a numerical format. Note: In the above example, no answer option has been designated as the correct answer. An instructor can assign the correct answer at any time. An instructor can also change the associated point values for possible answers at any time (see Section II, #2 above on p. 3). 9. Click the Student Points tab to view a list of all students and total points earned by each, based on the Raw number of questions answered, the Max possible questions answered, the Percent of questions answered, and what Fraction of the percentage the answered questions equal. 6
Note: In the Student Points summary pictured above, you don t see students names associated with the clicker Remote ID numbers. In order to add a column containing student names, 1) students must have registered their clickers online at the following url: https://clickers.ucr.edu/clicker/login, and 2) the instructor must sync the class roster with the data set folder. (See Section III on p. 8 for details). 10. If you re using clickers to help with maintaining records of attendance, then you might want to add a column for Sessions Attended to the Student Points tab. To do this, click Settings in the black bar to see the dialogue box of Columns - display options. There, you ll need to mark the checkbox called Sessions Attended and then click Ok. You ll see the new column called Classes Attended added to Analyzer in the Student Points section. Note: As you add data sets to your folder, the column numbers change to reflect updated attendance records. 7
11. It s recommended that you go into Analyzer and set the program to show student names in order to see which students responded and how they answered. This is under either Settings in the black bar, or Sections > Options on the file menu. On the Student Points tab, check the box for Student name in Columns display options. Note: Student name (and others pictured above) will not be listed among the Columns display options until a roster has been synced. (Detailed below in Section III). Activating Student name in the Columns display options will allow you to see all the names of students in your course listed who have registered their clickers. You ll also be able to see clicker Remote ID s that have no student names assigned to them. Using this information, you may be able to determine which students are enrolled who have no data in the system so that you can contact them with a reminder or instructions on how to register their clickers. III. Sync Your Class Roster in Analyzer Return to Table of Contents 1. You ll need a current version of your class roster to sync with Analyzer data sets. To get this, go to the Instructor Login page at the UCR clicker registration website: https://clickers.ucr.edu/clicker/login. Then click Login and you ll be prompted to enter your NETID and Password through UCR CAS. 8
2. Once logged in, click View Course Rosters, and use the drop-down menus to identify the correct quarter term, subject area, and course number/ section. Click to download a copy of the roster file in.csv format. 3. Save the roster file on the computer that s running Analyzer to the same folder that all the data sets for your course are in. 4. Go into Analyzer to link the data file to the Roster file. To do this, click Roster > Load Roster in the file menu. You ll be prompted to select the roster format. Choose the last item on the list and click Ok: 9
Note: If you get the error message pictured below, click Ok then try again, but this time, select the 4 th option down instead (above Blackboard Quiz Output ). Note: It s important to note that UCR Extension students cannot register until after the official students add/ drop period has passed, and that those students not officially enrolled in the course can still engage with the course until they are officially enrolled. Also, because some students may not register their clickers until the end of the term (if at all) you may want to sync you class roster again after week five of the quarter, before final grades are calculated. IV. Update Your Class Roster in Analyzer Return to Table of Contents In order to update a roster associated with your course in Analyzer, 1) Go into Analyzer and click Roster > Remove Roster, 2) Replace the old version of the course roster with the new version in the data sets folder, and 3) Go back to the Analyzer file menu, and click Roster > Load Roster. You will be prompted to navigate to the new file. V. Sharing Clicker Results With Your Students 1. E-mailing Return to Table of Contents Syncing your class roster to Analyzer enables the e-mail functionality from within the program, which allows an instructor to e-mail students notification of their status in terms of what they clicked and their cumulative totals. However, if a student registers their clicker with an incorrect e-mail address, then the student will not receive the correspondence. To correct this, you ll need to manually change the e-mail address within the class roster after it has been downloaded and before it has been synced. BUT each time you download and sync a new, updated version of the roster in order to include students who have more 10
recently registered their clickers, then those corrections previously made to e-mail addresses will need to be made again. The only way to permanently correct an e-mail address associated with a clicker on a class roster is to have a student log into the UCR clicker registration website (https://clickers.ucr.edu/clicker/login) to unregister their clicker, and then re-register their clicker again with the correct e-mail address. The correction would then be reflected in the class roster, and an instructor would need to sync the updated roster again with Analyzer. (See Section III on p. 8 for details). 2. ilearn Return to Table of Contents It s possible to post a spreadsheet of clicker results exported from Analyzer for students to view in ilearn. This approach to sharing clicker results may be easier than e-mail, and it drives students to ilearn, where they re likely to see other important information, including course materials and instructor announcements. 1. To do this, first click on either the Student Points tab or the Student Responses tab. 2. In the black bar underneath the tabs, click on either Export to clipboard or Export to file, whichever you prefer. Export to clipboard copies the data onto your computer s clipboard, allowing you to simply paste it into a spreadsheet or other document. Export to file allows you to navigate to a location on your computer where you d like to save the information. Note: Blanks in columns may indicate that students have not registered their clickers, and withdrawals from your course may leave residual activity of non-active students, but these things can be cleaned up manually. 3. Once the document has been created or saved, open it to remove any identifying information about your students, such as the Student name column and the Student ID, so that you remain in compliance with FERPA. Columns that can remain on a document posted to ilearn include Remote ID, Classes Attended, Raw, Max, Percent, and Fraction. 11
4. In ilearn, create a space for all clicker results and be sure to title each results document by date, i.e., Clicker Results as of 11.12.14 to indicate the most current results. Note: ilearn Gradebook integration of clicker results is possible, although it is a manual process, and you may have to re-integrate results periodically. Return to Table of Contents University of California, Riverside Faculty Technology Support 12