Speaker: You know, (indistinct) degrees
in Vermont in March when I am this punchy.
-: All right, why don't we get started?
Welcome everybody to our fourth
student response system demonstration.
This one is the iClicker system.
And we've got several guests from iClicker here
who are going to be doing the demonstration.
Obviously they'll also be taking questions.
So as we've done before,
the demonstration will be 30 to 40 minutes probably.
And then we'll have time for questions at the end.
And if questions come up for you during the demonstration,
feel free to put them in the chat.
Several of us are monitoring the chat.
I will introduce myself.
My name is Jen Garrett-Ostermiller
with the Center for Teaching and Learning.
I am co-chairing the student response review committee
with my colleague and her miniature horse.
Holly Bucklin Parker, how are you?
do you want to introduce yourself?
Parker: Thank you, Jen.
And my horse is shy, so he won't be on camera right now,
but yes, I'm Holly Bucklin Parker
from the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Co-chairing the SRS committee with Jen
and we're very happy to have you all here.
I see Laura has a question in the chat.
Do we have to create an account to join the clicker session?
-: Yes, you do, but it should take you to a really short form
and it should be just one step for you to get
into there once you create that account.
Great. Thank you.
-: Participation is optional.
We will be showing the full student experience
if you want to interact, it's great.
We'd love that, but it's not required.
-: Great
The other thing I will mention is that we will have
a brief survey just to collect your reaction and feedback.
We'll post that in the chat
and also send that out the email after the session.
So without further ado, I will turn things
over to Steven from the iClicker product.
-: Great. Thank you.
And thank you for the virtual invitation
to the University of Vermont.
I am Steven Ray.
I am the Vice President of Enterprise Solutions
and also the General Manager for iClicker.
I am joined today by Krissy Treadway
who is the Director of Product for iClicker
and David Maltby is your Account Manager.
You're an Enterprise Solution Specialist.
Unfortunately, David Maltby had a family emergency
so he won't be able to join us today.
But Stephanie Brag is joining us
and she is the Customer Relations Specialist
for the University of Vermont.
So the questions come up around customer support.
Stephanie can fill this for us.
This is our agenda for today.
We're going to give a very brief overview of iClicker.
It's a brief history and kind of what makes it special.
We will spend the vast majority of our time
in demonstrating the product and the instructor
experience showing the student experience.
We'll talk a little bit about integrations
and the analytics that we offer, our onboarding and support
and as mentioned, we will be available to fill questions.
We can take this at the end
or Krissy is going to be monitoring the chat
so she can answer questions as they come in.
Krissy you will also stop me if necessary
and help to answer those questions.
So a brief overview of iClicker.
iClicker began in 1997 and was founded by two physicists
who were trying to solve an educational problem.
They were teaching large physics courses.
They found them to be not as engaging as they liked.
They wanted to try peer instruction.
And at the time Student Response Systems were...
they did exist.
They were available.
But they found that the systems that were currently
available were too complicated.
Too complicated for themselves
and too complicated for other faculty
that they wanted to be able to participate as well.
So they invented their own system, which became iClicker.
The 'i' for iClicker actually stands for Illinois.
In 2005 MacMillan learning acquired that product
and continued to work with Tim and Matt who are consultants
for us today .
In 2014, this was important year
because we transitioned the entire product
from a physical device clickers
to a cloud-based solution that works
with mobile devices and laptops.
Within a year, we started to win awards.
We're very proud that we have won the platinum or gold award
for the reader.
Campus Technology is reader's choice award
for the last five years.
That is the award that still that instructors give
when they choose their favorites products in the market.
And today we have over 1200 institutions using an iClicker,
11,000 instructors and 10 million students.
Oh, we're very proud that we've been able to be successful.
And we have a lot of users.
The mission of iClicker has not changed since its inception.
The goal is to be simple, flexible, and effective.
We create products that are innovative, they're proven
and that they're approachable and usable by everyone.
So simplicity is a key pillar for us.
You'll also see that iClicker supports
as a student experience with laptops, mobile devices
and we offer clicker solutions
all of these work interchangeably
and can be solutions in the classroom.
For example, a student could use a clicker in the classroom
and then go to another class and use a mobile device.
Or you can use them interchangeably.
If you're using a clicker and you decide, for some reason
you want to switch it to a phone, you can do that.
And if everything works seamlessly.
So one of the hallmarks of iClicker is the fact
that it floats on top of other applications
which I will demonstrate to you.
And this gives a credible amount of flexibility.
I visit a lot of campuses.
So I'm sitting in the back of classrooms a lot.
And one thing that I have seen
is that new two teachers instructors teach
like they use different products
and different teaching approaches.
So we developed a system that compliments
what they're already using.
For example, an instructor might be using Google
or Apple or Microsoft for PowerPoints or documents.
They might use Prezi for presentations.
They might be using content
from OER sources like Khan Academy
or major publishers like Pearson or Macmillan learning.
I've seen instructors who teach
with Google maps and YouTube.
They use PDFs, they use 3D animations.
And in the bottom right corner,
we are all now using some type of web conferencing.
Microsoft teams today, certainly Zoom is popular
and Google meet.
iClicker works seamlessly with all of these,
with no additional integrations necessary
which I'll demonstrate today.
iClicker focuses on efficacy.
We are an education company.
Our goal is not to provide tools
but to buy tools that are actually proven to work
in the classroom.
We have a number of research articles
published ourselves @learningiClicker.com/results.
Our research shows that students who use iClicker
are more prepared for class.
They're more engaged
and they achieve better student results.
And these are independent studies by PhDs in our company.
Recently, the Gates Foundation created a product
called Course Gateway, where they evaluated all
of a number of different products
for efficacy, equity, functionality, and systems.
And we were pleased to see that iClicker
on scored the highest and efficacy and equity
for student response systems, as well as affordability.
And lastly, iClicker is a student engagement system.
It's not a courseware product.
We do however partner with major coursework products.
We have integrations with Achieve
from Macmillan learning and LaunchPad.
We have a partnership and integrations
with WileyPLUS, OpenStax, and PerusalL
and iClicker works without any integrations
with all major publisher content as I mentioned,
such as Pearson and Cengage.
So with that, I will jump into our product demonstration.
I'm going to start with this setup.
I wanted to make sure that you should...
I show you the setup so that you understand
what instructors need to do to get up and running.
And we can get both instructors and students
up and running in under five minutes.
So let me jump out
of my presentation and let's go into a web browser.
So as an instructor to get started with iClicker
you would go to iClicker.com
and you click create an account.
You choose instructor
And there's a small fee form that you complete.
This is pretty basic information.
Your institution, your discipline, first name
last name and email.
Not going to take the time.
It takes about a minute to fill this out.
I already have an account created.
So let me just go ahead and get out of here.
And I will, after account is created
I choose sign in as an instructor
I enter my email and password
and I enter the courses home page.
Now I've already created a course for this presentation,
but if I had not I can choose create a new course.
We have two options when you create a course.
You can create a course with polling,
quizzing and attendance
or you can choose just to take attendance.
And this case we're looking to do all
of the engagement solutions.
You would choose your institution.
Let's just type in Vermont.
Let's see the University of vermont shows up.
You here's your course discipline your course name.
You enter a start date and end date.
Optionally, you can add a course ID, a term,
You can set the meeting times to say it meets
on Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 8:00 AM.
This is all optional information.
Once this is set up you hit create
in order to avoid having two courses.
I'm just gonna go ahead and cancel.
That's the entire set of process for the instructor.
Create an account, create a course.
It takes a couple of minutes.
Will you do not need to meet with an engagement specialist
or any type of employee at atom.
iClicker or Macmillan learning to get set up.
Any instructor can get themselves set up.
Now, let me go ahead
and click on the course that I just created.
And you'll see in the instructor dashboard
we have a number of options.
We heart call it class history.
We have not yet run a course.
So we have instructions to get you started.
We can offer and create assignments.
We have a list of all the people
that have joined the course.
And this is a nice list.
Thank you all for joining.
We have our grade book, which has not yet populated.
Our attendance information and our settings.
So let me go ahead and change some settings
and show you some of the options we have.
So one thing you can do is you can decide
what you want in your course.
So here I am, I have my mobile devices.
I can say, I want mobile devices and clickers.
And this case, since we're remote,
I'm gonna say mobile devices only.
I could choose to only allow for clickers.
And we do have installed some instructors who say
I don't want devices in the classroom.
I only want clickers.
And so they would choose iClicker remotes only.
The other option is to turn on focus mode
which I have turned on.
For the intention of focus mode is to help
to avoid distractions in the classroom.
I'm sure you're all aware that.
And there's research to support this,
that bringing laptops and mobile devices into the classroom
causes distraction and distraction
will actually bring down grades.
So we've added a function called focus mode
which allows when turned on, which is optional
for the students to be able to see at the end of the course
how often they left the application
and how and for how much time
in order to motivate them to stay focused.
The information is also available to the instructor
and I'll show how that works.
For attendance, we have a few options.
One of them is that I can require
and set location for attendance.
So if I click this button, what it will do is I
can set the location of my course.
And I can say that students need to be within
a certain range.
In this case, I set it to 150 feet of my course.
Now this is my personal home.
Obviously I'm not teaching here,
but if all of you were invited to join me at my house
for a class, you would need
to be within this blue circle in order to be able
to participate.
Now for remote courses
it's just a setting you would want to turn off.
We also have options for polling where we can change
the number of points.
There's a lot of flexibility here,
changing points for quizzing,
and we offer integrations.
In this case, we'll be choosing Blackboard.
I and Krissy, will talk a little bit about that later.
So all my course settings are in place.
I'm going to quickly show you
how you would create an assignment in iClicker.
Now the assignments feature in iClicker
is designed for asynchronous teaching.
It's something that you can use before or after class
for pre activities or homework, post activities.
I'm gonna demonstrate how you would do a pre-activity.
So in order to create an assignment, I click create
I'm gonna call this assignment first day of class
To make it available, starting today and ending tomorrow
I can set my points.
I'm not gonna make any changes here.
And the next thing I have to do is add content.
What you'll see with the iClicker system
is that we do not include an authoring system
inside of iClicker.
And the reason for that is flexibility.
Rather than authoring and writing questions in iClicker,
What you can do is open up a PowerPoint or word
and create your own assignment.
So in this case, what I did was I created an assignment
in PowerPoint, and I just exported this as a PDF.
I have a question for each slide.
Once I have this content available and in place,
I'm going to open up my content, find it here is my desktop.
And I'm just gonna say, here's my PDF.
I'm gonna drag it.
And it's available.
Now I click next and it uploads all of the questions
that are in that PDF.
The next thing I would do is choose my question type.
So this first question is a short answer question.
I can put it a correct answer and if I want.
There's no correct answer for this.
The next question is a target question.
And the last is multiple choice.
That assignment has now been uploaded
and created using basic tools,
PowerPoint and exporting as a PDF.
Okay, so the instructor has set up.
We've gone through settings.
We even posted an assignment.
Let's move over to the student.
And the way a student would get set up
is also going to iClicker.com.
And in this case,
when you create an account, you choose student,
choose your university and then fill out a basic form.
Just like you did with instructor.
First name, last name, your university of Vermont email,
confirm the email, et cetera.
Once that's in place
the student is going to come back, say sign in.
And then if the course hasn't been added,
hit the plus sign to locate the course.
I've already added this course.
You'll see that I have three teachers
who are all seeing teaching.
I'll click on the course for the student
and I can go right away to my assignments.
And that first day of class assignment
that I just created in front of you is now available.
So let's go ahead and answer this as a student.
The preclass is what grade am I hoping to get in the class?
I hope to get an A.
How confident am I that I'm gonna achieve this grade?
I'm feeling pretty confident.
And is this recourse required for my major?
It is not.
So I'll review and I will submit this assignment.
Now the instructor has all of this information.
Preclass from the students to be able to begin the semester.
Okay, so we have set everything up.
The student is now engaged in class or signed up.
The instructor is ready to go.
So let's begin class.
I'll just start class.
I'm gonna come back to my PowerPoint
and I'm going to open up the iClicker application.
iClicker classroom experience
requires a desktop application.
You download a windows or Mac application,
login and then you choose your course and start class.
Once you do this, the iClicker toolbar appears.
The iClicker toolbar is a very small.
It can be collapsed down even to just this
blue little circle can place it anywhere you want.
And this is how you engage as an instructor
with students during class.
So I'm gonna start my presentation.
I'm gonna show you
that we have a number of different question types.
We offer short answer and multiple choice,
multiple answer, numeric target, and exit poll.
These question types are also extremely flexible
and can be used short answer,
for example, to be a word cloud,
multiple choice questions can be yes, no, true, false.
Multiple answers can become surveys or icebreakers.
You can do scientific notation.
With numeric target questions can be used
for graphs and charts and scales.
And our exit poll identifies the muddiest point.
And I'll demonstrate these different question types.
But know that these six question types
can actually be expanded
into a number of different question types.
So let's start a class and ask some questions.
So this first question I have is a physics experiment.
And to ask this question, I'm gonna open up
my polling toolbar, and I'm gonna click on polling.
So the question I'm asking, all of you,
if you can participate is, if you have two identical bolts
and they're placed together so that the grooves
intermesh what happens?
Will the bolts move inward, will they move outward
or will they remain the same distance?
Now with iClicker, you ask a question
by clicking a green button.
As soon as I click that green button as an instructor
the poll opens up.
And I'm gonna toggle over to my student.
My student experience now says I can join the class.
So I'll join it.
It tells me this is a focus class.
So I'm gonna continue in focus mode.
I immediately get indicated
that success I've checked in for attendance
and my question is available.
And I'm gonna answer my question by clicking 'A'.
Now notice what you'll see here,
is that each time I click this green button
what we're doing is grabbing a screen capture
of what's on the screen.
And this will allow as I'll demonstrate for instructors
to be able to teach using any tools that they want.
If I come back to my Power point,
you can see that responses are coming in.
I have nine.
In the interest of time,
I'm not gonna wait for all responses.
So 10 feels pretty good.
I'll stop the poll to show the results.
I click on this little icon and the results panels open up.
So the results came in and I can see
I have a mix of A, B and C answers.
So now I have a decision point as an instructor.
And this is one of the powers of active learning.
I can continue teaching,
not recommended given that students
do not clearly understand this concept.
I can...
This would be a great opportunity for peer instruction.
I could pair people up and they could discuss it.
But in the interest of time
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna continue teaching.
And I'm gonna give you all a hint.
I'm taking the basic pen tool and PowerPoint
and I'm gonna draw this little stick figure
with an escalator.
And explained to my class that this concept is the same
as someone who's walking up a down escalator.
And I'm going to start the question again.
Just went to my student view,
you'll see I'm now on question two.
The annotation that I just did with a pen in PowerPoint
is captured.
The students now see this hint.
It's fairly clear.
Most of us have tried this or seen someone do it.
I'm gonna switch my answer from B to C.
Let's come back.
I'm gonna get to 11 responses this time.
I'll stop the poll and let's show the results.
The majority of the answers have now moved to C.
And this is the power of peer instruction.
If you do this activity, you will see that students
will talk to each other and they will arrive
at the correct answer on their own.
To grade an iClicker, you click the correct answer real time
You can do this after class or during class.
So now what I've done in a matter of minutes,
I asked a question.
I identified misconceptions.
I retaught using the basic pen tool
and I was able to get the majority of the class
to the correct answer.
Lets jump to another example.
This is an anatomy example.
But I want to show you how you can get
out of PowerPoint with iClicker.
So what I've done here is I took a screen capture
and I dropped it into PowerPoint of the human skull.
But let's go to a different product.
This product is called essential anatomy.
And what iClicker is doing is it's hovering on top of this
which gives me as an instructor, the ability to manipulate
all of these models, right.
I did not have to enter this into iClicker.
What I'm doing is using the native application
which has these beautiful high res images.
And I'm gonna ask a question.
I'm going to say to my class, what bone is this?
And I'm gonna ask you to all identify this.
Now, this is a short answer question.
So I choose short answer as my question type.
And again, I hit the green button.
Switching over to my student.
The question is now captured.
You can see it as a high res image.
If you're using this on a phone you can pinch and zoom
in order to make the image larger.
And I'm going to answer this question
And I'm going to enter Jawbone as my answer.
I have 11 responses, so I'll stop there.
Let's open up the results.
Now the results can be viewed in two ways.
One is a scrolling list.
The other is we offer a word cloud.
You can make this word cloud larger if you want.
Now, this is not a particularly interesting word cloud
given that there is a correct answer.
But in cases where you're trying to facilitate discussion,
word clouds are fantastic ways of getting a lot
of information together and visualizing them.
But I'm going to go back to our responses
and I'm gonna scroll through.
And I'm gonna begin grading this.
Now, one of the reasons why we grade after the fact
is the fact that mandible is actually hard to spell.
It is the correct answer.
The correct spelling is right here with an eye.
But as an instructor, I can decide if I want to give credit
to someone who clearly understood the answer
but used an 'A' and 'C' instead of an 'I' and 'I do'.
If I had tried to pre grade this,
what I would have to do as an instructor is anticipate all
of the possible misspellings, which is really difficult.
So we grade after the fact
once you see the results coming in,
as an instructor you can make some decisions.
You can also use these stars to say, yeah,
there's two correct answers,
but this one with the star is the best correct answer.
Let me jump to another question.
Of essential anatomy and let's go back to PowerPoint.
I was recently asked
how do you do formulas and complex equations in iClicker?
And the answer is, again you can use anything that you want.
So what I did here was I went to a math ML website
and I created this formula.
And then I just imported it into PowerPoint as an image.
It was very simple, but one of the best ways
to do math questions is actually to write them.
So I'm going to show you how I can open up
the whiteboard in Microsoft.
This is built into Microsoft windows.
Let me open this up.
And I'm just going to write this formula.
In this case,
I'm gonna ask the students to solve for the box.
And the formula is
volume is equal to what over three pi radius to the third.
This is a numeric question.
I switched to numeric, I'll hit this green button.
The question is now saved.
Let's move over to my student view
and you'll see we're on question four.
And my handwritten formula is now available.
And I'm asking us
if you can remember when I showed this, what is the formula?
What number goes in there?
My student doesn't remember.
So I'm going to enter four.
This was a large number
I could answer it in scientific notation.
Coming back as an instructor,
my results are coming in, 11 responses.
Let's go ahead and stop.
I'll open the results and I'll give the correct answer
right here very quickly as four.
So the last question type I want to show you
is our target question type.
And I was recently...
My daughter is now out of the Ohio State University.
I was recently attending their freshman orientation
and they use clickers in their freshman orientation.
And one of the things that they did was they asked students
to identify and tell where they are...
Where are they located, where are they coming from?
Cause they were coming from all over the world.
Now what you could do, they could...
they didn't do this
but what they could have done using a target question
is to say, all right, I'm actually going to open up
Google maps here rather than use a static image.
And I'm going to zero in on the United States.
And I'm going to ask each of you
not where you came from as a student
most of you right now are located in Vermont,
but where were you prior?
Were you always living in Vermont
or where are you for those of us who are remote?
Where are we located right now?
So I'm gonna open up this question.
And come over to my student view,
actually, it's right in here.
And I personally am located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
So I will drop my dot right there and I will hit send.
I can see the results are coming in over my Google slide
and my Google map, which is right here.
Let's go ahead and stop.
I'll give you the results.
Now I can make this much larger
And I can grade this.
There's no correct answer here, but I'm just gonna go ahead
and say, if I just demonstrate
if I wanted the correct answer to be right here.
Give me this over and say, here we are.
The correct answer is in this area right here.
And I saved my correct answer.
Okay, so I've demonstrated now most of the question types
and I was able to show you how it's very easy to get out
of PowerPoint and to use iClicker with any application
including 3D models, Google, et cetera.
Krissy, this will be a good time to check
to see if there are any questions.
Before I jumped over to quizzing
-: So far, you're all set.
We've handled all the questions that came in.
-: Thank you.
So another thing I want to demonstrate to you
is how you would do a quiz on iClicker.
iClicker has a function called quizzing
and think of this quizzing as similar to a scan-tron.
What you can do with quizzing
is you can replace a scan-tron forum
and have students answer their quiz or their tests
using a clicker or a mobile device or a laptop.
And the way I would do this
is I'm going to say this is my first quiz.
This quiz one it's very simple, has two questions.
And it's one point per question.
Now, the content, as I mentioned before
is not added to iClicker.
It actually, you pull the content from other locations.
So in this case
what I'm gonna do is I'm going to use an activity
from one of our textbooks, a Macmillan learning.
This is the chapter two PDF.
From on demand thinking like a buyer,
I'm going to move this over here.
And I'm gonna come back and show you my student experience.
And once I start this quiz,
the students are gonna switch into quizzing mode.
If I come to my content, let's drop it over here,
so you can see both at the same time.
Here I am.
Imagine the student has a piece of paper
with their quizzes.
I can also put these questions up on
in a PowerPoint or up in a PDF as I'm doing right now.
I can move this with responsive design
and the students will answer the questions
by looking at the test.
So here's the quiz.
I'm on question one.
I'm going to say correct answer for note.
Number one is A.
I'll switch to question two, the correct answer is B.
I'll review my quiz.
I'm happy with my answers.
And I will submit.
Before I submit I'm asked to say that I didn't cheat.
I submit the quiz.
And if you look around the top left corner, you can see
that the instructor is able to monitor the number
of quizzes that are coming in, the submissions.
I can stop at any time.
And I'm gonna go ahead and just say, this quiz has ended.
I'll stop right here and end the quiz.
The last thing then I would want to
show you is that class has ended.
Thank you. Krissy just sent me a reminder.
There is a polling type that I did not mention.
And that is the anonymous polling question type.
If you are teaching.
And I want to ask a question that is somewhat sensitive.
This might be something political
or if you're teaching sexual education
anonymous is a great option.
I simply click this toolbar and say
I want to make this an anonymous question.
When I do this, the toolbar changes the student's answer...
But their answer is not associated
with their name or their account.
Okay, let's come back.
I have now asked a number of questions.
I just give a quiz.
It is time to end the class.
To end class in iClicker, I just click the X.
And when I do this, I'm asked as an instructor,
If I want to end class with an exit poll and I do.
So I'm gonna click this button, class has now ended.
I close the windows application and I head back.
Eventually once we're in person back to my office.
Now let me show you what happened to the student.
As the student is participating
we're collecting a lot of information.
So the first thing I can show is from my student
I had a 42%, 43% in this class.
And my attendance score was a hundred percent.
Now I haven't graded the quiz yet.
So there's some missing information
but you can see that the student can see their score.
The class history is captured.
Everything that you do every time you run
an iClicker session is captured automatically
for the student.
The student can see that he in this case
received attendance credit.
I can click on my session.
Every question is captured and saved.
And remember the instructor did not have to
upload these questions.
All the instructor does is press as a green button.
Now the student has the ability to review every
question that's asked in class.
It can also bookmark it.
So I'm gonna go ahead and say
there's a few things that I want to study.
I want to study this anatomy question
in this formula question and this question as well.
once I bookmark these, I'm then able
to go into study tools.
And with study tools,
I can see that I have flashcards and practice tests.
Everything that I bookmarked becomes a flash card.
And by clicking on the flashcard,
I can see the correct answers and I can use these to study.
All of this is completely automated.
I did no preparation prior to starting this course.
You saw all of the activities that I did.
When I click the green button and I select a correct answer,
these flash cards are automatically created.
As a student, I can also use these to take the test again.
I can say, okay, I'm gonna say
I'm gonna answer this as four.
I got it correct.
I go to the next question, mandible.
Got it correct.
You get the idea.
I can practice these again and again.
So these study tools are really powerful.
And the last thing I'll show
for the student is the exit poll.
There's an alert up here that says my instructor
wants feedback.
I ask the question and this is all automated.
Rate your level of understanding of today's class.
I'm gonna say a four.
I understood it pretty well.
But it's and then the question is,
is there anything from today's class
you'd like to be explained further?
I'm gonna say formula for volume.
That one confused me.
This information is then sent to the instructor
who can review it prior to the next class,
identify areas where the students were not clear
from the previous class
and decide if they want to cover that content again.
This is a really powerful tool.
Now for the instructor, I'll come back
and show you everything that happens after class.
The class history, which was blank is now populated.
The instructor can see the class attendance.
They too can see the session results.
Every question is captured.
The instructor can come back and grade again.
So here I did not grade this one in class,
but I am gonna give credit for this.
I will also give credit
for those that got it right with a hint.
So that one's covered.
Let's go to question three and I can actually
make this easier by using the arrow up here.
You can see that this is already thing
but I'm going to change my mind and say
I'm not going to give credit for misspellings.
And there's really no correct answer for this one.
So I changed my grading.
I can look at the grades as by the class who joined
and how they scored on this particular session.
I can go to the quiz and I can quickly grade this quiz.
So here, the correct answer is A,
correct answer is B.
I can provide feedback if I needed to,
especially if I saw that there was an area
where a student missed a question,
and I see that they went with a distractor.
I can tell them...
Some I'll tell them why it was incorrect.
I can also look at my focus report.
This shows that the entire class was in session.
They were in the app for 14 minutes.
There were 13 and 16% participants.
And their...
The class, I'm sorry...
The class session was 14 minutes.
And their average focus time was six minutes.
And I can individually look at each
of these students to see who was in focus is not.
A lot of information that's captured right after class.
My assignments are right here.
I can see how many have been submitted.
So three of 16 had been submitted.
I now have a populated grade book.
If I wanted to narrow in, on someone.
So let's take a look at Ray Harper.
And let's say that Ray Harper was coming to me
for office hours.
I can click on Ray and I can see his attendance,
his performance, his participation and his focus time.
And what I can see from this is
Ray coming to class, he is participating.
He's leaving the app a lot.
He's looks like he's distracted and not surprisingly
his performance is at 50%.
So these are discussion points I can now have with Ray
to make sure that he's staying on track.
There's a standard grade book that you can use
with basic information or switch to details.
Everything is captured.
So this will build out.
It was automatically integrated with your L.M.S
or it can be exported as a C.V.S file.
And finally, we have our attendance.
Every one who didn't attend this automatically shows.
And I'm going to say, Jim Dandy here was absent
but Jim contacted me and had a family emergency.
And so I'm going to say family emergency
and make this an excused absence.
The attendance data can also be exported as an Excel file
and easily sent if you're responsible for reporting
for any freshmen who for example, are on financial aid
or are athletes.
All of this data can be sent
to whomever it is required to see it.
Okay, so I have now covered the in-class experience,
the after class experience for the student,
the after class experience for the instructor.
I believe I've shown you pretty much
all of the functionality or the basic functionality
of iClicker.
So let me now switch back to our presentation.
And Krissy again, I'm gonna stop to see,
were there any questions that came in
that I should fill.
-: Now you're all set.
-: Okay, great.
Well then I'm gonna hand to you.
I've been speaking enough to hand over to you
for a fresh voice and lets you talk a little bit about
our integration options.
Krissy: Sure.
Yeah, and so the great thing about working with iClicker
with the University of Vermont
is that you guys are actually already set up
for one of our better integrated experience.
It's our deep preferred integration
that we call roster and grade sync.
It allows you to sync over your roster from Blackboard
for every course and automatically emails the student
on their behalf or enrolls them
if they already found with an iClicker reef account.
And so we're able to automatically pull from the LMS
your course roster populate it, enroll them.
So it really takes the onus off of the student
from having to search and find a class
or use the quick join link for that regard as well.
You do have some options on session points.
Being able to sync those over as individual columns
or a total core score.
Since this is already available to you all,
I'm hoping that you will explore it,
but we are not gonna show it today due to time constraints.
So commitments to our community.
We beyond what Steven had mentioned for
making sure that our products are easy to use
simple, effective.
We have some core competencies
that we really want to promote within the community
of higher education.
And those are accessibility, making sure that our products
can be used by everyone.
And to do that, we make sure that we partner
with some third parties who are experts
in the accessibility field.
So we partner with a company called tech texture who
actually does audit us yearly and gives us a V Pat output,
that helps us identify any areas of concern and where
we might remediate that team.
And our internal McMillan accessibility team
provides ongoing training and helps us as we build
out new products consults, for the best the way to do so.
So we have a really great opportunity to collaborate
with experts on how to build the best products
for all users.
We also have that same type of focus for privacy
and security.
We have an internal McMillan team dedicated to privacy
and security.
We make sure that our data is encrypted
and follow the best practices.
And we have external scans that are happening as well,
making sure that we, if there are any issues, find them
and remediate them before they become a problem Similar to
our accessibility team.
We do get
some ongoing training across our team around security
best practices
including industry leaders like Amazon web services
and diversity equity and inclusion.
This is obviously coming up a lot right now.
It is something that Macmillan learning
across the board is really focused on
in trying to ensure that all of the products that we create,
all of the content, our engagement
with the higher ed community, is diverse and equitable
Making sure that we can represent all
of our students instructors and admins
in the best ways possible.
So for those of you who are administrators on campus
we do have some tools for you as well.
One of which...
I think I actually saw Justin on here
we have a federated identity management solution
called Shibboleth.
Justin at Vermont actually helped us set this
up for your campus and get it approved.
And so we are looking forward to turning that on for you
at the end of term.
We provide some tools to you as well
if you do want to do any of your own internal tracking
for how iClicker is being used on your campus.
You can get reports on instructors that are
using instructors that are creating accounts.
If you want to provide pedagogical resources to them,
how many students are enrolling in courses,
which courses are actively seeing usage, polls, quizzes
et cetera, as well as a support tool.
So if you do wanna check in on your own instructors,
help troubleshoot with students
we do provide a tool that would allow you to do that
as a first line of defense for support.
We are so...
(laughing)Oh, sorry
It's okay. So we also provide data integrations.
So you'll see some of the, iClicker insights
up on the screen here, as well as a caliper event
feed that provides data to you as an institution.
And we are happy to set those up as well.
This is an example of iClicker insights.
One of the usage reports that I was talking
about it kind of gives you an overview
of how that activity is happening on your campus
for whatever timeframe you're interested in.
I mean each of these comes with a little tool tip
that tells you exactly what's in it.
You know, what are we trying to measure here?
And you can dive deeper by clicking view your report.
So just a quick example of some
of the data that you can access
on your own through iClicker insights.
-: Alright, thank you Krissy.
Speaking of iClicker insights
this is an institutional product
that University of Vermont has access to.
And it includes data on a number of different things,
attendance, engagement
all of the activities that are happening in the classroom.
It includes retention surveys.
These are surveys that we have developed over the course
of decades based using research and expertise
within McNall and learning to identify students who are
in need of additional assistance
and may be are at risk of leaving your campus.
So this can...
data can create a complete student success profile.
As an example, at University of Missouri
the Vice-President provost
of undergraduate studies is using iClicker insights
retention surveys in order to identify students
who are in need of additional assistance out.
And within the first few weeks, of course
and gave us this quote that is and able to intervene
earlier than ever before.
And have been able to successfully retain students
that their current system was not able to identify.
We already onboarding and support.
I will run through this quickly.
So we have plenty of time for questions.
Stephanie is on this call right now.
Stephanie is your client relationship specialist.
We offer for all instructors, private online training
LMS integration, setup, and support.
As Krissy has mentioned.
We have personalized first day class activities
and PowerPoint decks that we can make available
to get help get everyone started.
Yeah, we manage all of our iClicker updates that related
to the LMS software to make sure
that everything is always up to date for you.
That happens on our end.
And with technology occasionally things do happen.
We've had a very good record with iClicker cloud
of not having outages
but we do have a status page available at any time.
And we try to be very transparent that if something happens
you can check that status page and find out
if the servers are all up and running.
And on most days, I'd say our uptime is 99.5%.
That status page will show we're in good shape.
But it's helping there.
A few institutions that we use as references .
Last year Arizona State University became an enterprise site
licensed customer for iClicker.
University of Missouri as an enterprise site
licensed customer as is University of Michigan.
We're happy to put you in touch
with any of these institutions.
We have a quote from Kathy Roberts
who was in charge of the Center for Teaching
and Learning at North Texas when they introduce iClicker.
And we've used this
because it tells us that iClicker is really simple.
It's not just for the instructors.
It has to be for the admins too.
And Kathy is quoted as saying
she's never had a software deploys so smoothly
and she's implemented many on campus wide symptom solutions.
So I'm gonna close by saying
this is why we think that we can be the best partner
for the University of Mount Vermont.
Number one, we're already partners.
We've been partners since 2011.
We value your partnership.
And I believe that we have been successfully helping you
to engage for quite some time.
Our products are all market-tested
and they are proven solutions.
So our goal is not to just engage students
it's to actually improve outcomes.
And we can prove that we are effective at doing that.
Our solutions are easy to implement.
They're easy to use and they are affordable.
Every instructor is able to get set up.
They won't require help from us or there if you need us
but it shouldn't be the first step is that you have to
spend hours working with us.
They're optimized for learning analytics
and data insights that you show with.
We showed you with the grade book, but also with this
and what we can do for campuses.
We've been doing this for a very long time.
We have over 15 years of experience supporting institutions
like yours and iClicker is part of Macmillan learning
which is a privately held company.
And we're an education company.
Our focus has always been and will always be on education.
So we would like to partner with you to continue
in your success in educating your students
and helping to make them more engaged.
So with that, we can stop and open up the questions
-: And folks feel free to use that.
Raise your hand feature or put questions in that chat.
I would like to make one correction.
Yeah for our SLA, our uptime
it averages above 99.5, but we do message
out that our minimum is at least 99.5.
But we generally trend a lot higher than that.
Steven: Thanks Krissy.
Krissy: Laura, I see your hand.
I see your hand.
Laura: I just wanted to follow up
on the idea that you don't have to...
You can have a floating program
and then you have a question associated with that.
So does it just do a screen capture of what you're working
with and that's what ends up on the student's platform?
Steven: That's correct.
So I have seen instructors use this
in lots of different ways
including I've seen instructors who actually use acetates
and they write on pen
and they have that going to their computer
and then it's projected onto the screen
and they're turning those into questions.
-: Okay
-: You can do it with YouTube, you can do with anything.
-: All right great, thanks.
Steven: So, and as a result of that, we don't necessarily
we don't need things like PowerPoint integrations.
The problem with integrations that we've run into
and we tried, this is that they break.
If we do a PowerPoint integration
and you're adding all of your content into PowerPoint
when Microsoft updates PowerPoint again,
those often become problematic.
So we try to make it so that we just work with everything
and we don't have to worry too much about integrations.
-: Other question...
-: I was just wondering if the inside the intention
tool stuff, is that of the clicker?
Like the existing product or a separate purchase?
Steven: A good question.
The enterprise site license of iClicker
comes with the iClicker insights product.
And it will provide you with the usage analytics.
It will provide you with campus wide attendance data
and campus wide engagement data.
That's all included.
The retention surveys, that piece of it
is an additional charge.
It's not very expensive, it's very affordable.
We could quote that
but it is an extra card charged for that.
-: Gotcha, thanks.
-: Laura.
Laura: So I don't know if this is a good question or not,
but one of the things that we had trouble with in
with click iClicker in the past is the students
not maintaining association with their account.
You know, they'd lose their iClickers.
They'd...
You know, we were always confused as to who's who
and the identities.
And has there been any way of improving
that type of tracking students
in the way that clicker has grown?
-: Yeah, it is.
Thank you.
That is a good question.
The...
For first, if the students are using the mobile device
whether they're using a phone or a laptop
they only have one account.
So there's no way to lose track of your account.
Students are actually pretty good
at not losing their phones too.
So that is typically not an issue.
With the clickers, there's two ways
for students to use clickers.
One is that they purchase the clickers
through the bookstore.
And when that happens, we typically don't run
into problems with association.
Where you can run into problems,
is with rental programs.
Where they're renting
and then they're turning it back in and they're
pulling it back out
and they have to reregister their IDs.
Now, in this case, I believe we're talking
about potential enterprise site license
for the mobile solution.
And if that's the case
then not that problem would completely go away.
-: In terms of account management too, like I mentioned
with Shibboleth,it would help for making sure
that students are registering with a single account,
making sure that they're using the right emails
and allowing you some more visibility
to exactly using what inside your class.
And Steven, to clarify our review.
Meddy is, you know, going to make a recommendation to ETS
in our larger system about whether or not, you know
we would recommend a site license, that kind of thing.
But I don't that that's a decided point at this point
that's beyond our committee's purview.
So we may still be in the position
of having students purchase individual clickers
or reef accounts.
And I think
that that is something we'll be continuing to kind of asses
that on our campus
whether the handheld clicker is a priority going forward.
I know it used to be pre pandemic
that there were some faculty
for whom that was a really important tool to have, you know
not have a cell phone or a laptop in the classroom will be
as part of our survey of faculty will be learning
whether that going forward continues to be a priority.
But just to give you a little more context
we may still be juggling handheld clickers
and reef accounts depending on the class.
Okay. Thank you for that.
And that is fairly common.
We have a number of institutions
where the instructors are concerned
about mobile devices in the classroom.
And as you well know, we do support all of those.
And we will work with you
to get the right solution in place.
Any other questions?
Well, folks that are ruminating, I see someone has to leave.
I'm going to put the link to the survey in the chat.
So if you have a few minutes now and can fill that
out while this is fresh on your mind, that would be great.
Otherwise you can certainly fill that out later.
We'll be sending that out via email as well.
It does require your UVM log
in to access and Laura your hand.
-: So, sorry, I might've missed this,
but I saw that you talked
about LMS integration, but I missed exactly how that works.
I remembered that you have the ability to sync, you know
with the LMS.
Is that the way it works
or is there a different type of LMS integration
-: Don't mind answering that?
-: Sure. Yeah.
So you would have the ability to sync.
It is a core setup
which happens entirely inside of iClicker cloud.
If you're using the iClicker cloud product
and it pulls down two things rosters, well
it pulls down one thing or your roster and make sure
that it's aligned to what is happening inside of iClicker.
It automatically enrolls any students that we find
with the matching account inside that course.
And it gives you the opportunity to send an automated email
to students who either don't have account
or have an account
that doesn't match what your roster is saying.
But what it does on the opposite end is
once you have that roster, synced it down
you can start to send iClicker grades back into the LMS.
And so in this case, Blackboard
you can send individual core scores.
So kind of summary of points
or you could have it sync individual columns
of every activity, every poll quiz
however you choose to have that view.
The great thing about our newest version roster
and grade sync is we've gotten really good feedback
about its ease of use.
Typically, I think LMS integrations have been hard
for people.
You know, we wanted to make sure that it was really a way
for administrators to get things set up quickly instructors
to have the least amount of work
to get their LMS synced up and continue to have it in sync
over the course of the course and in students, you know
we didn't want to have to always have students
who require some action to get into iClicker
and to get that course speaking to your LMS.
And so across the board
we found it's been a really effective way to
to simplify things with an LMS solution.
And we're very happy with it so far.
-: Thank you.
Does that answer your question?
Yeah. Thanks.
I haven't quite figured out how to
on Microsoft teams react to things in the chat
but whoever had posted the little Sebastian comment
I really wanted to thumbs up though.
(laughter)
-: Okay.
-: I'm the newbie to a Microsoft team.
-: Oh, you'd like that you can react.
I think zoom doesn't have that individual reaction
to individual comments.
Yeah, that's a positive feature
in teaching as well as in workshops
-: We use Slack and I think used future
our most used feature is definitely reaction.
-: Exactly. Exactly.
Well, I'm not seeing additional questions.
So I just want to say thank you to the folks
from iClicker for taking time this morning to
share this information with us.
And if anyone has questions that they think of later
feel free to get in touch with me or Holly.
And we can certainly put you in touch
with the iClicker folks or get that question answered.
Thanks everybody.
-: Thank you for your time.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks. Take care.