Classroom Response System Basics

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Classroom Response System Basics

• January 12, 2007
• Morrie Schulman
• schulman_at_mail.utexas.edu
• 475-6057

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Objectives of Todays Session

• Whats new with CPS?
• Answer questions with CPS (student role)
• Discuss question writing and CRS techniques
  (instructor)
• Demonstrate understanding of instructor start-up
  procedures
• Identify basic elements of CPS software
• Create your class in Blackboard
• Import to CPS
• Add a student
• Test your system
• Review student instructions
• Ask a CPS question with Four Clicks
• Discriminate between Power Point and CPS for
  Power Point
• Discover where to go for help

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Alphabet soup How many can you identify?

• CRS
• CPS
• PRS
• ERS
• IR
• RF
• Gen2

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CPS RF Gen2 Clicker

• LCD Screen
• Auto Join
• Channel shown
• Pad shown
• Battery strength
• Signal strength
• Two-way communications Confirms Answers
• Handle numeric input
• HAVE YOU ORDERED CLICKERS FROM THE CO-OP??

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Ice Breaker

• Tests equipment
• Takes attendance
• Sets tone of class
• Starts students thinking

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Are we alone?

• Yes
• No

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CPS is primarily an electronic hand raising
system.

• Agree
• Disagree

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I am comfortable using technology in my teaching

• Very Uncomfortable
• Somewhat uncomfortable
• Somewhat comfortable
• Very comfortable

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What is your experience with CPS?

• Have heard about it
• Have played with it
• Have taken online or live training class but not
  used
• Have used it to take attendance
• Have used it to ask verbal (on-the-fly)
  questions
• Have used it to ask questions written in CPS
• Have used it to ask questions in Power Point
• More than four items above

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1 1

• 2.0
• 0.1

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How do initial questions like these help
instructors and students?

• Serve as icebreaker
• Help instructor define audience and level to
  teach
• Give students feedback on how they stand with
  respect to other students
• They create interactivity and a sense of
  community
• Start students thinking about the material and
  how it applies to them

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Why use a CRS beyond initial questions?
Enhances Attention Q/A pauses

• Breaks the monotony of a straight lecture.

• It helps to emphasize important points.

• It shifts gears and further captures
• students' attention.

Participation Increases interactivity

• Allows all students to participate. Not just the
  dominant ones.

• Anonymous input. Helps monitor individual
  participation
• without embarrassment.

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Whats new?

• RF More portable and stable
• LCD Pads - response confirmation battery/signal
  indicators auto-join numeric capability price
• Better Blackboard integration rosters and
  grades
• Data Slicing Content available
• CPS for Power Point (PC only)
• Mac version improvements Blackboard, Intel chip
• Physics IClicker, CPS IR, Turning Point pads
• Pharmacy/Law School Turning Point

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Meat Potatoes (for Students)

• Students purchase pads at CO-OP (20)
• Students log on to Blackboard
• Select their course
• Select Course Tools
• Select CPS Connection
• Follow the wizard. (Add serial number from pad
  and pay registration fee 13/semester Max 3
  semesters)
• Tutorial at cps faqs 8

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Meat and Potatoes for Instructors

• See cps faqs5
• Create your CPS class in Blackboard
• Remember your CPS user name password!
• Create your CPS Database
• Import and sync your CPS class
• Test your system
• Sync at start-up Classes?Select
  Class?Edit?Online Class Options Tab
• Select Automatically Upload from engage screen
  to send grades to Blackboard

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Ask a Question with Four Clicks

• Click Verbal
• Click the answer type from the pull-down menu
  (Multiple choice or True/False)
• Click End after responses show on grid
• Click Close after discussing histogram

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CPS for Power Point (New Software) vsAdding a
Power Point file to previous version

• Traditional software
• Lessons Tab ?Add File ? Power Point File
  ?Select/Engage
• All questions are Verbal so reports show screen
  shots of question
• Questions arent identified when charting
• New Software
• Appears as a toolbar in Power Point
• Simplifies question creation
• Creates questions native within Power Point
• CPS for Power Point tutorial is at cps faqs 5

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Grading Schemes

• Attendance only
• Performance only
• Combination of performance/attendance
• No grades at all
• Extra credit or of final grade
• Uploading Grades to Blackboard Tutorial in
  Process

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CPS Resources

• eInstruction http//www.einstruction.com
• 1-888-707-6819 (Toll Free)
• College technology support
• ITS Help Desk FAC 2nd floor 475-9400
• DIIA http//www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/services/
  cps
• Previous CPS Users
• Morrie Schulman schulman_at_mail.utexas.edu
• 475-6057 MAI 2202

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Technology Classroom Contacts
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Beyond The Basics Class

• Create/Upload questions in CPS
• Reports
• Data Slicing
• Grade book
• Weight Grades
• Upload to Blackboard
• Import Content
• Tests

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Were these objectives met?

• Whats new with CPS?
• Answer questions with CPS (student role)
• Discuss question writing and CRS techniques
  (instructor)
• Demonstrate understanding of instructor start-up
  procedures
• Identify basic elements of CPS software
• Create your class in Blackboard
• Import to CPS
• Add a student
• Test your system
• Ask a CPS question with Four Clicks
• Discriminate between Power Point and CPS for
  Power Point
• Discover where to go for help
• Yes
• No