Apple i-clicker Mouse User Manual

Macintosh User’s Guide Congratulations on your adoption of i-clicker, the easiest-to-use classroom response system available! The following guid

New upgrade! Floating Menu bar OPTIONS The floating menu bar now is revised to have three functions: start/stop, hide/display, and OPTIONS (marked wi

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 wa

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, anony

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:

i-clicker offers you three straightforward registration options: an in-class option (for your entire class), a manual option (for individual students)

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 sc

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 t

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 si

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 loa

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

i>clicker User Guide (Macintosh Application) (08/08) Table of Contents Section One – Using I>Clicker: How To Poll Your Students In Class ...

Tip: If you choose Resume Last Session from the Welcome Screen, your additional polling data will be included in the previous session (thereby elimin

Example: In the screen below, a student tried to register his i-clicker online (remote ID 11AA6BD0) with a student ID (bstudent001) which was not in

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 belon

The View and Select Unregistered Clickers screen allows you to quickly see votes from only those clickers that have not been registered to any student

i-grader Functions From the main screen of i-grader, you can edit student registrations as well as session and scoring information. Editing a Stude

Setting Session Scores i-grader scoring tools allow you to designate correct answers and set scoring options for each individual session. However, y

Participation/Attendance Points are used to credit students for attending class and for participating in the voting activities. Participation points a

You will now see the following adjusted scores: Notice that i-grader has updated the summary for this lecture and the column of averages.

The Student Voting Data report contains grades for your individual students, by session and by question. From here you can also access a report of Cum

To view more detailed session information, click on Session Summary and Question Data for any session, to display the Session Summary report.

o CMS (Course Management System) in Use ... 38 o Web Registration...

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 n

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 repo

Export Selected Session(s): This function allows you to select specific sessions to export. In the below example, Lecture 1 has been selected by chec

Note that you can include additional student information or your file may be saved/named slightly differently if you are using i-clicker w

To customize our system to meet your specific teaching goals/needs, locate and select Your Settings and Preferences from the main i-clicker Welcome Sc

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

you may also need to coordinate frequencies with your IT administrator. They may have already assigned channels to each classroom. If you change your

moves between slides in your presentation software, allowing you freedom to move around the room while conducting i-clicker polling sessions. Rather t

Registration/Export: Settings and Preferences 1. Roll Call / In Class Registration: This setting modifies the way that stude

3. Web Registration: Earlier versions of i-clicker required instructors to request and enter a code specific to their institution. This requirement ha

Section One-Using i>clicker: How to Poll Your Students in Class 1. Connect the i-clicker receiver (or base) to your computer through the USB port.

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 sto

Confirmed Vote Receipt Only (shown below) displays the ID of each participating clicker. The color automatically changes from blue to green each time

Scoring Settings and Preferences In this section, you can to establish the point values students can earn for actively participating in class and for

2. Participation Requirement: To earn the point value established above, students must respond to a certain percentage of questions in a session.

Section Five -Resuming Your Last Session In addition to “Your Settings and Preferences” on the main Welcome Screen, you also have the option to “Resum

Section Six –WebUpdater: Updating Your Software Occasionally, we will make improvements made to the Macintosh software. These updated versions can be

Section Seven -Pre-Assigning Question Titles and Correct Answers: Questionlist.csv If you’d like to assign titles to your questions (and the correct

Creating a Questionlist.csv in TextEdit 1. From the Applications folder, locate and open TextEdit. 2. Enter the title of the question followed by

Tip: i-clicker software can be copied to another computer (or computers) rather than residing only on your flash drive. For example, many institutions

7. Click on Start Session in the center of the Welcome Screen. The Welcome Screen will disappear and you will see the following floating menu bar appe

Tip for Keynote users: In order for the i-clicker menu bar to float over your presentation, be sure Keynote is set to allow other programs to share th

9. Click on the STOP button on the menu bar when you feel that enough time has elapsed. New upgrade! The floating menu bar will be restored to the s

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 mo