TurningPoint (Audience Response System) Quick Start: If any of your students are using the response cards ( clickers ), you will need to use a receiver (AX155, AX161, FH140, FH144 will already have a receiver connected to the computer). You will need to have your students reset the radio frequency of their response cards to match the frequency set for each of the classroom receivers. Classrooms will have a predetermined radio frequency channel number posted on the podium. If you will be using a classroom that does not have a receiver assigned and connected, you will need check out a receiver prior to class, connect the receiver to the computer and set the radio frequency on the receiver to match what is assigned to that classroom. Students using a PDA, laptop or Smartphone will not need to set a channel number. Using TurningPoint: 1. Plug in the receiver (if not already connected) Remember to set the channel on the receiver to the designated frequency if you have checked out a receiver. Remember to have students set the channel number on their Response Cards to match the designated frequency for the classroom. 2. Open PowerPoint this will automatically load the TurningPoint add-in. *To change the channel on the receiver: If you have checked out a receiver to use in a classroom that does not already have a receiver connected and set up, you will need to change the channel on the receiver to match the channel assigned to the classroom. The TurningPoint tab on the ribbon will open as the default. Click the Receiver button. TurningPoint Quick Start 1
The following screen will open and you will see the default channel for the receiver. You can choose to use the default, or may choose another channel that is above channel 10. Please note that if there are other receivers in the same range, it will display those as well which will allow you to determine what may be in use in a classroom nearby. At this point, you may choose to test the polling connections and then Close. The settings will be saved until the session is reset and the receiver is removed (instructions for students to change the channel on their Response Cards is on the following page). TurningPoint Quick Start 2
Student devices need to be set to the same radio frequency channel as the receiver they want to respond to in order to communicate properly. To set the channel on an RF card: Standard and LCD Card XR Card 1. Press the GO or CH button. 1. Follow menu to 2. While the light is flashing red Change Channel. and green, enter the two digit 2. Type in two digit channel number. Channel number. 3. After the second digit is entered, 3. Press Enter. press and release the GO or CH button. The light should flash green to confirm. 4. Press and release the 1/A button. The light should flash amber to confirm. 3. Open the presentation. 4. Load participant list or Import participant list from Blackboard - lists must be loaded or imported before beginning session (see separate instructions for Importing a Participant List from Blackboard). 5. Reset the session. This will clear any saved sessions unless you are adding to previously reported data. TurningPoint Quick Start 3
6. Log into ResponseWare (if using ResponseWare laptops, smart phones, ipads, etc.). *You will log in with the Username (e-mail) and password created when your TurningPoint presenter account was created. This should NOT be your VUNET ID and E-password. TurningPoint Quick Start 4
It is best to Require Login so that you can identify participants as licenses are not registered in Blackboard. Once you choose Login a Session ID will be created. You will see a screen similar to the one shown below. **Note that closing this window does NOT close the session. 7. Run the Presentation. TurningPoint Quick Start 5
8. Save the Session. 9. Generate reports (optional). TurningPoint Quick Start 6