Clicker
Personal Response System (PRS)
User Guide
Contents
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Prepare Questions in PowerPoint ................................................................................................... 2
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Adding the Response software to each Question in PowerPoint ........................................... 3
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Activating the Response Receiver ................................................................................................... 5
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Activate the Clickers........................................................................................................................ 9
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Running the Quiz in the PowerPoint Presentation ....................................................................... 10
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Retrieving the Results after the Questions have been completed. .............................................. 12
Appendix: Using Blackboard to associate the Clickers with the students UserIDs............................... 15
Pre-requisite: This user guide assumes you already have the Interwrite response driver installed.
If you do not have the driver installed, you will need to download and install the driver for the
Interwrite Response Receiver, available at this link:
http://www.turningtechnologies.com/software/downloadForm.aspx?AssetId=568
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1 Prepare Questions in PowerPoint
1. Open up the PowerPoint application
2. Write the question in the title of the slide and place the answer options in the body of the
slide.
3. Ensure to have each answer option identified with either a letter or a number as below.
Example:
PowerPoint Slide 1 has the answer options identified with numbers
PowerPoint Slide 2 has the answer options identified with letters.
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1.1 Adding the Response software to each Question in PowerPoint
1. Ensure the Response toolbar is added to the PowerPoint application. Locate the eInstruction
folder on your PC and click on the Response folder. Click the Register PowerPoint Add-In
option.
2. In PowerPoint 2003, you will observe the Response toolbar located on the top left under the
tool bar.
3. In PowerPoint 2007, On the PowerPoint Ribbon there is a tab called ‘Add Ins’, click on this
Tab. The Response toolbar should now become visible as below.
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4. On Slide 1, click on the ‘New Question’ Response icon. The ‘Question Name’ field will
automatically be populated with the question.
5. Adjust the fields in each of the drop down menus to correspond with the question and click
OK.
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You will notice the Response Icon will appear on your slide as shown below.
7. Scroll through to the next slide and activate each question with the ‘Response’ software by
clicking on the ‘New Question’ icon and filling in the suitable fields for each response.
8. Finally, save your presentation with the ‘Response’ activated questions.
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2 Activating the Response Receiver
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Plug in the USB receiver into a USB port on your PC/Laptop.
Wait a few seconds until the driver is installed and the receiver displays it’s activated.
You should see the icon for the receiver displayed on the bottom right of screen
Click on the icon and select the option Response. This opens up the Response application, be
patient it can take a minute or two to open up.
5. A user guide appears on the launch of the application , you can exit out of this guide.
6. The Response application will then be displayed with a number of different options. Click on
the ‘Setup My Hardware’ icon to check the RF receiver is active.
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7. The Response icon should be displayed with a green tick indicating it is active.
8. Exit out of this window and return to the main Response application window.
9. Click on the ‘Create a New Class’ option.
10. A wizard is activated with a few steps. Click on the next button and give the class a name
such as below.
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11. Click on the next options until the Clicker type window is activated. Select the Cricket option
and click ‘Next’.
12. A Create Roster window is activated , this enables you to associate each Clicker ID with a
student ID. We will skip this step.
13. Click next and then finish to exit out of the ‘New Class wizard’.
14. Return to the main Response application window and click on the ‘Collect Responses’
option.
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15. A session is activated, ensure that your particular class which you have created is displayed
and click OK.
16. An Impromptu Options window appears, click OK.
17. The Session toolbar is activated as shown below.
18. After 60 seconds, the Session toolbar will display a Radio Channel for the session, channel 45 in
this example.
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3 Activate the Clickers.
1. Ask the audience to turn on the clickers by pressing the on off switch for 3 seconds.
2. The second light from the left should be flickering.
3. Now ask each member to tune the clicker into the radio channel by clicking the channel.
In this example, each audience member will press 4 and then 5. Now the third light with
the tick on it should light up for a second.
4. The Session toolbar will also indicate how many clickers have been tuned in. In this
example below we can see one clicker is tuned in.
5. This number should increase as more people press the channel on their clickers.
6. When you are satisfied that everyone has tuned into the channel, you can start the quiz.
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4 Running the Quiz in the PowerPoint Presentation
1. Return to the PowerPoint presentation with the quiz.
2. Display the presentation in ‘Slide Show’ view as shown below.
3. You will be prompted that you have the questions running with the Response software, click
OK to confirm this is OK .
4. Now you are ready to run your questions. To play a question, click on the green arrow.
This activates the timer for the question which will start decreasing as soon as you play the
question. As the audience response to the question you will see the question response
indicator increase. At the end of the question if all audience members have responded to
the question, the number should in the response indicator should equal the total number of
clickers tuned into the channel.
In this example, only 90 of the audience members have responded to the question.
5. When the time has elapsed, a chart is displayed showing the results to that question.
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6. Navigate to the next PowerPoint slide by clicking on the faint grey arrow below the response
icon on the slide.
7. Click on the green arrow on the Session toolbar to activate the question.
8. Repeat these steps for each question.
9. When you have completed the quiz, close the Session toolbar by clicking on the exit icon.
10. A window is displayed prompting you to End the Class, click on this link.
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5 Retrieving the Results after the Questions have been completed.
1. Activate the Response Application if not already activated.
2. Click on the option Manage my Data.
3. Click on the Reports button.
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4. In the Report Type drop down menu, select the ‘Session Details by Question’ option.
Select the particular Class session of interest
Click on the Create Report Tab.
5. A report is generated with each question showing the statistics and chart for each question
as below.
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6. Finally, you can click on the disc icon on the top left to save the file onto your computer.
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Appendix: Using Blackboard to associate the Clickers with the
students UserIDs
Some Instructors may use the Clickers frequently on a course module. It can be useful to keep track
of the clickers and which student is associated with each clicker. This way you can monitor which
student answered certain questions correctly etc.
To register the Clicker with each student within a course module on Blackboard, follow the steps
below:
1. Click into the Course Module in Blackboard and ensure the Edit Mode is on.
2. Ensure the Personal Response System - PRS Roster tool is available with the Course Tools
drop down menu in the Control Panel within the Course Module in Blackboard.
This PRS Roster link will need to be made available in the main course menu in Blackboard
for the students to access.
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3. To add the PRS Roster link, click on the + Symbol on the top left of the course menu.
4. Name the link an appropriate name such as Clicker Registration, and then associate the PRS
Registration Tool Link with that name. Ensure the link is available to the users for the
students to see.
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5. Now the link is available for the students to access and register their clickers. The students
then click on the Clicker Registration link on the course menu in Blackboard.
6. The Student then enters the number which is written at the back of the clicker, selects the
RF radio button option and clicks on the Submit button.
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7. From once all the students have registered their clickers, the instructor can access the
registration data by clicking on the PRS Roster link with the Course Tools menu in the
Control Panel.
8. The results will be displayed as below.
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