Tracking Attendance and
Competitive Online Games to
Engage Students
“MyAttendanceTracker” and “Zondle”
By
Nikia L. Robinson, M.B.A.
Associate Professor
Computer Information Technology Department
Tips & Tools for Success
Friday, September 4, 2015
1: 30-2:30pm
(followed by open lab)
Indian River State College
V125
Nikia L. Robinson, M.B.A.
• moved from New York to Florida in 1987.
• previously worked in the Management, Legal, Medical and Educational realms and a
graduate of FAMU (A.A.), FAU (B.B.A.), Ashford University (M.B.A.), and has obtained
A.B.D. status with 36 credits toward a Ph.D. in Business Administration with (20 of those
credits toward) a specialization in Management Information Systems.
• currently an IRSC Associate Professor (having taught at IRSC since 2007).
• certified by the District Board of Trustees of this College to teach Office Systems
Technology (technical specialty level), Employability Skills (technical specialty level),
Business Management (baccalaureate level), and Computer Science (pre-baccalaureate
level). Also certified by the Florida Department of Education in Business Education.
• married and have one daughter.
• interests include technology, swimming and rollerblading , enjoying people, and
travelling.
“Technology won’t replace teachers…
…but teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.”
http://photo-gedeed.in/tag/best-technology-quotes-photos/
*If you are interested in a quick attendance tip for live classes or want to
learn about a new tool to engage students in class discussion and develop
games for students to prepare and compete for exams and class success,
please join me. This presentation will share/discuss information on using a
free website to take and track your class attendance and using a free website
to create and use a competitive game approach to engage and assess your
student’s course material.
Participants will:
1) create courses within the attendance website using students from
personal class rosters,
2) be able to take and track attendance on the attendance site,
3) add personal course questions on a game based website,
4) be able to use those questions to launch a game for use in respective
courses, and, most importantly,
5) actively engage in discussions with the facilitator to further develop an
engaging classroom environment using these tools designed for student
success!
Plan of Action
1. MyAttendance
Tracker
2. Zondle
3. Open
Lab Time
4. Wrap-Up
MyAttendance Tracker
• What is MyAT?
• Signup for an account.
• Set up course using your course
information.
• Enter or import student data.
• Editing or removing students.
• Take attendance during classes
via computer/device by clicking
or tapping on Present, Absent, or
Tardy.
• View Historical Data or Create
Customizable Individual or
Course Attendance Reports.
What is MyAT?
• MyAttendanceTracker (MyAT)
• “MyAT is much more than just
began as a free online
attendance tracking! Teachers
“attendance entry software”.
and instructors can report
grades online, track student
• “For Teachers, Schools, Students,
progress,message
Employees and More”
parents, manage classes and
more, all in one FREE online
app.”
(https://www.myattendancetracker.com/about)
Signup for an account:
1. Go to
www.myattendancetracker.co
m
2. Click “Sign Up For Free!”
Signup for an account(cont.):
3. Fill in the requested
information for your account.
4. Click “Get Started”
Setting up your course:
1. Enter your “Class Name” in the box*:
• I use identifiers such as term, reference #,
and days and/or time of course in addition
to course name or number. (i.e.
Fall2015_CGS1060_MW11_206798)
2. Click “Next”
*If you didn’t get the pop-up screen to the
right, from the Home page, click “Click
here!” instead to get to same screen.
Enter or import student data:
1. Add your students:
• Either one-by-one using the given
boxes OR by importing a list of
students at once later (as a .csv file).
2. Click “Next”
3. Click “Submit”
Enter or import student data:
(To import a list of students)
4. Click “Tools”.
5. Click “Import/Export”
6. Click “Students” tab
Enter or import student data (cont.):
(To import a list of students
-cont.)
4.
Click “Examples”.
5.
Select student names on your roster in mariner or
Users section of blackboard to export (or Copy and
Paste) names to an Excel Spreadsheet. Save your file
in a known location (as a .csv file; video on saving as
.csv file: https://youtu.be/G3Bu2wNWVd0).
(I recommend only adding three to test if corrections are
needed in your template; because it is a tedious task to
delete students one-by-one after added to your course.)
Video on using Flash Fill in Excel 2013 to simply process of
converting names into two columns:
https://youtu.be/_mkh5LrkcRI
4.
Click “Choose File” button to choose your saved file.
Take attendance during classes via
computer/device by clicking or tapping on
Present, Absent, or Tardy.
1. Click “Take Attendance”.
2. Select course from list (click
box and dropdown list of
courses will appear).
3. Click to select attendance
status (Present, Absent, or
Tardy) for each student.
4. Ensure the correct date is
selected on calendar and
Click “Save” button to save
your attendance.
Take attendance during classes via
computer/device by clicking or tapping on
Present, Absent, or Tardy.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Copy the URL for your course
attendance page
(https://www.myattendancetracker.c
om/attendance )
Log in to your blackboard course
shell.
Add a Web page link; paste the URL
from your MyAT course attendance
page. Name the link Attendance (in
BB you can click arrow to the right of
the Attendance link and select
option to set link to open in a new
tab).
From now on, you can click this link.
Enter MyAT Log in and Click to select
attendance status (Present, Absent,
or Tardy) for each student.
Ensure the correct date is selected
on calendar and Click “Save” button
to save your attendance.
View Historical Data or Create Customizable
Individual or Course Attendance Reports.
1. Click Additional Reports
2. Click General
3. Click a Report option
(Daily Attendance or
Class Monthly).
4. Select your desired
course (and any other
parameters given).
5. View, Save, or Print your
Report.
• You can customize saved
report as desired.
Demonstration of another
option on Canvas:
Canvas “Roll Call” feature:
• Canvas is also free: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/canvas
• You can import your bb course shell to have students automatically added
• To gain access to Roll Call feature, you do have to submit a support ticket to
Canvas requesting it.
Zondle
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What is Zondle?
Sign up for an account
Create Questions
Deploying Team Play Game
Playing Team Play Game
What is Zondle?
• Link to video explaining Zondle:
http://www.zondle.com/v.aspx?
v=66
Signup for an account:
1. Go to www.zondle.com
2. Click “Join now!”
Signup for an account(cont.):
3. Click “Im a teacher”.
Signup for an account(cont.):
3. Fill in requested information
for your account.
4. Check the box to agree to
terms of service.
5. Click “Continue”
Create Content/Add Questions:
1. Click “Create your own
content”
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
2. Click “Create your own
content”
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
3. Click within boxes to add your
topic name and tag information.
• Topic example: CGS1060 Ch1 Obj.1.4
• Tag example: Input devices
• Spaces will be removed for the tags
entered.
• See below for adding additional tags.
4. Click “Add Tag” to add additional
tags.
• Delete prior tag in box; and type new
tag to be added
• Should you make a mistake, click “-”
to the left of the green tag that was
added.
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
5. Click “Continue”
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
6. Adding Content/questions:
• Click the tab “add/edit questions”
to type questions and answers,
• Click the tab ”import” to click link
for download template to add
questions to template and import
them into zondle all at once.
• Click “question references” to add
images, text, or video references
that will appear with questions in
student games. After you add, you
will be given opportunity to assign
it to a question in the “add/edit”
area.
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
7. Once questions for the current
topic have been added, return
to “Add/edit questions” tab to
edit questions or add
additional questions by
clicking “add new question”:
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
8. After clicking “add new
question” you will see a
chart that outlines what
question types are
available and what
features on devices are
best suited for that
question type:
• I use all multiple choice to
use team play feature.
9. Click “Create Question”
to add your question.
Create Content/Add Questions (cont.):
10. Type your Question in
the “question” box.
11. Type your correct
answer in the “correct
answer” box
12. Type the incorrect
answers on separate
lines in the “incorrect
answer(s)” box.
13.Click “save question”
button to add your
question.
Deploying Team Play Game:
1. Click “games”.
2. Select a topic for
questions that should
be used in the game
Deploying Team Play Game:
2. Click “Game Show”
image to the right of
Team Play.
Deploying Team Play Game:
3. Use “up” and “down”
arrows to select
number of teams.
4. Click “Register Team
Play Remote Devices”.
Deploying Team Play Game:
5. Designated team’s
leading student will go
to www.zondle.com/tp
6. Team’s leading student
will enter Session ID
and Session Password.
7. Team’s leading student
will select a team.
Deploying Team Play Game:
5. Once teams are
allocated, instructor can
click arrow to begin
game.
• Click unallocate if a team
needs to change their
team selection.
Playing Team Play Game:
1. Once teams submit an
answer, instructor can
see the solid filled
circle.
• Teams still deciding have
an open circle
2. Once all circles are filled
indicating all teams have
answered, click the next
instructor circle to move
on.
Playing Team Play Game:
3. Once teams submit an
answer, instructor can
see the solid filled
circle.
• Teams still deciding have
an open circle
4. Once all circles are filled
indicating all teams have
answered, click the
instructor circle to move
on.
Playing Team Play Game:
5. Students will be prompted
to select whether or not
they want to game there
answer (to have an option
of doubling their points)
6. Once teams submit gaming
selection, instructor can see
the solid blue filled circle
for teams who chose to
game their answer.
• Teams who did not game it have
an open circle
7. Once all teams have
determined gaming choice,
click the instructor circle to
move on.
Playing Team Play Game:
5. Instructor can
deducting answers oneby-one by clicking on
them or just click to
select the correct
answer.
6. Once correct answer is
shown, click the
instructor circle to move
on.
Playing Team Play Game:
7. Click the Wheel that
appears; to determine if
students that gamed
will get double or zero
points.
8. Once correct answer is
shown, click the
instructor circle to move
on.
9. After the last question,
trophies will be display
showing the top scoring
teams.
Tutorials/Videos
On Zondle Home page (www.zondle.com),
Click “Support” tab to get to the tutorials or
videos that explain how to use zondle
features.
Zondle Team Play
zondle Team Play enables teachers to use a game-based approach to whole-class teaching. It has been designed for use on
IWBs (interactive whiteboards) or with computer projectors and screens.
zondle Team Play uses any standard MCQ (multiple choice question) zondle topic, but it works best when the topic also
includes teaching materials exported from a PowerPoint presentation.
zondle Team Play session alternates between the teacher using the teaching materials to introduce some new concepts, and
the students playing gaming rounds that test and enhance their understanding of those concepts.
Link to support page on Zondle: https://www.zondle.com/publicPagesv2/default.aspx?page=Support.aspx
1. On Zondle “Support” page, on bottom right, Click “Zondle Team Play”
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Click link titled: What is zondle team play (0:58) (http://www.zondle.com/v.aspx?v=75)
How to use/play zondle team play (using printable shape cards): Click link titled: Using Zondle Team Play (11:09):
(http://www.zondle.com/v.aspx?v=72)
Click link titled: How to use/play zondle team play (using devices): Using remote devices (BYOD) (7:43):
(https://www.zondle.com/publicPagesv2/default.aspx?page=Support.aspx)
Link to video on Adding your Powerpoint slides to your Game as Reference material (4:16): http://bit.ly/T9AHpG
Zondle website: http://www.zondle.com/ht.aspx?mi=72
Zondle Challenge
Link to video on Zondle Challenge Game for “whole Class” use:
http://bit.ly/1gKHHEL
Zondle website: http://www.zondle.com/ht.aspx?mi=72
Wrapping Up:
We are going to1. play a zondle game to assess today’s learning and to demonstrate use of the game.
2. create two walk away projects
3. have open lab for you to continue to create useable applications using today’s tools.
Afterwards, please be sure to –
1. Complete Evaluation
2. Visit Padlet to view today’s PowerPoint (see link below) and post a posting on how
you will implement some of these technologies in your courseroom. (Updates or
comments can be added to this page by double clicking on an blank area of the
padlet page.)
For today’s PowerPoint:
http://padlet.com/nrobinso/toolsforsuccess
Let’s Play a Zondle Team Play
Game to assess today’s learning
On your device go to:
www.zondle.com/tp
Create your walk aways:
• Using MyAT, create a course with at least three (3) students and take
attendance for today.
• Using Zondle, create a topic with at least three(3) multiple choice
questions.
• Time permitting- you can do a practice run of hosting a Team Play session
Remember to:
• Complete Evaluation
• Visit Padlet to view today’s
PowerPoint and post a posting on
how you will implement some of
these technologies in your
courseroom (Updates or comments can be added to
this page by double clicking on an blank area of the padlet page.):
http://padlet.com/nrobinso/toolsforsuccess
Thank You!
nrobinso@irsc.edu
Nikia Robinson
Pruitt (SLW) campus; B111
(772)336-6220