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Web Site Classroom Clickers

Introduction to Using Turning Point Clickers

Points covered in training session

  • How to Connect to a Channel
  • How to use a clicker
  • Tour of the toolbar
  • How to create slides
  • How to create a participant list
  • How to run a presentation
  • How to add slides on the fly
  • How to view respondants during a presentation
  • How to save your data from the presentation into a session file
  • How to run reports from a session file
  • Some basic Display Settings
  • Parsing (converting quizzes from Word and converting PowerPoint slides to Turning Point slides)
  • Who to contact for help
  • What your students need
  • How to join the clicker listserv
  • Checking out the clicker website

This training is lockstep and later portions of the training are built upon earlier topics. It is recommended to come at the beginning of the session and stay through the end. This is a single training session and will be repeated each semester. Feel free to attend a portion of another session if you would like more practice with a particular area.