Transcript Startup Procedures: First Tasks Gerald Bergtrom, Ph.D. Learning Technology Center University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee October 2005 Edited by Tanya Joosten, Alan Aycock, Susan Gifford.

Startup Procedures:
First Tasks
Gerald Bergtrom, Ph.D.
Learning Technology Center
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
October 2005
Edited by Tanya Joosten, Alan Aycock, Susan Gifford
This Tutorial covers a series of steps to perform
before starting your TP presentation
Either Express Startup Procedures
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Launch TurningPoint
Students set clicker channel (transmission frequency)
Select a Participant List (class roster).
Or Full Startup Procedures
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Launch TurningPoint
Students set clicker channel (transmission frequency)
Close the opening default presentation.
Do a polling test.
Reset your session
Select a Participant List (class roster).
Use full startup procedures if the express procedures fail. If both
procedures fail, see applicable trouble shooting tutorials
1. Launch TurningPoint (TP):
Double click the TP icon.
We suggest that you close the default presentation
before opening your own TurningPoint presentation.
Running two presentations simultaneously
may cause problems during polling.
2. Browse, find and open your presentation.
3.
Have students set clicker channel
The classroom channel number is posted
on the podium. This number must be set
on each clicker at the start of class…
To do this, students press GO - # - # - GO -1
For example press GO-7-3 for channel 73.
The clicker LED will glow red and green
during this procedure, glowing green for
about 2 seconds at the end.
It’s a good idea to start each class with a
slide like the following one:
Important Reminder
Please key in the following on your
TurningPoint Clickers:
‘GO - 7 - 3 - GO - 1’
This synchronizes channel 73 on your clicker with the
same channel on the computer at the front of the room.
4. Load your Participant List (class roster).
See Tutorial 4 for details of this procedure
Select the participant list: click the arrow
next to the (auto) indication, highlight and
click on the appropriate Participant List…
The selected Participant List appears in the box.
You are ready to begin your TP session; when
you poll students, their answers will now be
recorded.
Steps 1- 4 are the express start-up procedures.
Include some or all of the following steps for a
more thorough or a full start-up.
5. It is useful to start each class with an F7
grid check of clicker function.
This is especially useful at the beginning of a
semester, until you have confidence that
your students know how to set their clicker
channel and can recognize a clicker
malfunction.
Create a simple interactive (question) slide…
Click on the grid icon circled on the
showbar, or press the F7 key.
As students press any answer, the box with their name
will change color, indicating that their clicker is
functioning correctly. This test can be repeated with any
interactive (question) slide at any time during a session
Reasons why a student’s name won’t change color in an
F7 grid check:
Problem:
Solution
1. Clicker is malfunctioning because
-student forgot to remove battery tabs
-student did not set channel correctly
-clicker is broken
remove ‘em
re-set channel
exchange at bookstore
2. Student did not register clicker
edit the participant list
3. Student registered clicker, but entered
an incorrect clicker ID number
edit the participant list
6. After a few weeks of F7 grid checks, students
will know that their clickers are working. At
this point, a quicker way to check if clickers
and receiver are communicating is the polling
test…
Notes:
1.
a polling test puts the onus on students to know when their
clickers are malfunctioning, i.e., their responses do not elicit a
sustained green glow.
2.
Use the F7 grid check before any multi-question quiz or exam.
Do a polling test. This test is
advisable at the start of each class
to check that clickers and receiver
are communicating.
Click on the lightning
bolt on the TP toolbar
Click on Run Polling Test.
Press any alphanumeric button on a
clicker (or have some of your
students do this).
Communication between clicker and receiver is
confirmed by clicker info appearing in the window,
click Finish.
You are returned to your
presentation.
If the polling test fails, run the Response
Device Wizard from the lightning bolt on the
TP toolbar (see Troubleshooting II: All
clickers fail tutorial)
…or contact Classroom Support.
7. To reset your presentation (Session),
click on reset, then session.
This clears data from a previous presentations of
offering of this session, including simulated data you
generated when you were preparing or editing the
presentation.
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