i>clicker Help
Overview
Iclicker is an electronic polling system. It consists of any number of clickers, or remotes, and a base station, or receiver. Each remote has six buttons: one to switch it on and off, and five representing the letters A to E. An instructor can thus pose a mutiple-choice question in class and have students submit their responses by clicking the appropriate option on their remotes. The base station, which is connected to the instructor's laptop (or classroom desktop) by a USB cable, receives the votes and transfers them to the instructor's USB stick or hard drive.
A small piece of software, also called iClicker, is used to control polling sessions (i.e. cause the base station to start or stop receiving votes), as well as to display and hide polling results.
A second piece of software, called iGrader, can be used to view and export polling data to csv files. With igrader an instructor can see at a glance whether or not a student voted during a specific polling session, as well as how they voted – unless the polling session was anonymous.
Detailed information
For instructors
- What pedagogic purposes can iclickers serve?
- Where can I find short videos of UVic instructors using iclickers in class?
- How can I try out iclickers (before I commit to adopting them)?
- What do I need to do to “officially” adopt iclickers (i.e. make them an integral part of my course)?
- What essential information do I need to remember in order to use iclickers in class successfully?
- Where can I download Iclicker software (i.e. the Iclicker and Igrader applications)?
- How do I configure the Iclicker application?
- How do I use iclickers to assign marks?
- How do I obtain iclicker “roster files” for my classes?
- What's the best/proper way to publish iclicker marks?
- How do I configure the Igrader application?
- Where can I get further pedagogical and/or technical assistance (from an actual human being)?
