-: During the committee for student response system review
on the UVM campus
and I invited the Turning Technologies
folks to be with us today.
And I'm going to also let Jen introduce herself
as the co-chair of the committee.
-: Hi everybody, Jen Garrett-Ostermiller with the CTL at UVM
really glad to have you all here and I'm interested
to learn more about Turning Technologies.
-: Thanks, Jen.
So just to let everybody know the format,
there will be a demo and presentation component
by the folks from Turning Point,
and then we will leave some time towards the end
for general questions.
I wanna make sure all our guests can see the chat
are you all able to see the chat
and respond in chat, Katie and Sophia, Rich?
Yes, okay.
-: Yes, I am able to see the chat.
-: Okay, so it's also possible
to ask a question during the demo in the chat
and several of us will be monitoring
that including some of the folks from here.
So I'm from TurningPoint so please,
if you have a burning question
that can not wait until the Q&A part
you may post it in the chat but we'll try not to disrupt
the person who's actually presenting
and I'm gonna let you folks
from TurningPoint introduce yourselves.
-: Sure thing, I'll start.
I'm Katy Grubbs.
I'm the Senior Director of Higher Education here
I've been with Turning Technologies for 11 years now.
So, I'm really excited to show our product to you
I've been working with Kevin and Rich for a very long time
Sophia is newer to our team but she's really enjoyed working
with all of you and in this opportunity
so we just wanna say thank you for inviting us
I'm really excited to be a part of it.
Rich, if you wanna go ahead.
-: Hi, I'm Rich Britton I've been with TurningPoint
about 13 plus years, I'm the, I guess you would say
the enterprise solution, Brett for the East coast.
I worked a little bit recently
with your medical school, their enterprise as well
I've mainly been in the South.
I lived down here in Florida for the last 13 years
but my role has expanded and I look forward
to hopefully working with you guys eventually.
Thanks for having me.
-: I'll just introduce myself again really quick.
-: I'm sorry, I should have pass it off to you, miss.
-: No problem (laughs) if anyone wasn't on the call,
but I'm Sophia
I am newer to the company but yeah, I'm really excited
to be here and thank you for inviting us to your meeting
and I will pass it off to Kevin
'cause I believe that's who's left.
Kevin: Hey guys good afternoon Kevin Herrholtz here
and pleasure to be with you today.
I won the price actually I don't Rich you've been here
longer than me but almost 13 years.
I thought I won the prize but I came in a close second
but a pleasure to go ahead and take you through
our 30 points offer today and again, thanks for having us.
-: Thank you very much are you able
to connect and share your screen?
Kevin: I believe that's me,
yeah so let me go ahead and do that.
So I'm just trying right now to go ahead and share.
Sorry guys little less familiar if not I used teams
but it's been awhile.
I think you guys can all see my screen right?
-: Yep, we can see your PowerPoint yep.
Kevin: Super guys so before we even go ahead and begin
I would love it if you guys could go ahead and join
my session to allow you participate as your students would.
So you can make your way, one of two ways you can either go
to the URL that you see on the screen, which is ttpoll.com
and put it in a session ID of Kevin 123
but we also have an app for the iPhone and Android device.
So you can download the app and when you download the app
again you're gonna put in the session ID
of Kevin 123.
So again, ttpoll or go to the TurningPoint App
either ways session ID will be Kevin 123.
And before I speak any more
I'll go ahead and give you guys an opportunity to do that.
And of course, guys I am here
for any questions you might have.
-: I just logged into the app so anyone else
if you're in the app you can always just click on guest
and just join as a guest for this presentation.
However, typically students would have their own account
and be signed in and it does remember them
if they want it to, so that way they can
just get back into the app easily.
Kevin: All right, guys anybody need any additional time
to go ahead and make their way in?
All right, fantastic so guys, keep in mind this.
I'm opening up the app with PowerPoint Polling
and PowerPoint Polling
is our native integration with Microsoft PowerPoint
where an instructor would have the ability to go ahead
and take existing PowerPoints
or build brand new PowerPoint presentations
and using our direct integration with Microsoft
you can build interactive slides
wherever you want within that presentation.
However, this is just one of the many polling options
that we have within TurningPoints
then I'll go ahead and expose you to today.
Now there's no question that this is where the bulk majority
of our instructors like to spend their time
but we have equally great solutions
outside of the PowerPoint application.
But within the TurningPoint software there are many
different ways to engage students in test students
the PowerPoint application is going to be just one of those.
Now, as we go throughout today's presentation
obviously we're gonna expose you to the PowerPoint
we have the other applications that you'll go ahead
and get exposure to as well including our Anywhere Polling
our testing application which is self pace.
All these applications they're supported
by clickers and mobile devices and browsers such
as we're using today, regardless of what it is
an instructor would decide to go ahead and use
as you see right there in the middle of my slide
same exact participant experience.
It's just gonna be the discretion and preference
of the instructor of what it is ultimately
they would like to use.
Now within the PowerPoint Polling and this is true for all
of our different applications that we have a variety
of different Question Types.
So you can see multiple choice, we have numeric response
we have something called a word cloud where we can go ahead
and respond to open-ended questions
and it puts all the responses in a cloud format.
Hotspot gives the instructors the ability to go ahead
and upload an image and on the image
or a students would click on it
either for right or wrong or just for engagement purposes.
You can also see something called demographics.
Demographics gives us the ability to go ahead
and group the students for reporting purposes.
Maybe I wanna see how all my graduate students
are answering versus the undergraduate students.
That's what demographics gives me the ability to do so.
And then you see finally competitions
in some of the other ones that we have.
We have a wide variety of different ways
to engage and assess the students
and we're gonna see a lot of those things right now.
Starting with who's ready to run a competition.
Okay, so right out of the gate, guys
I'm actually going to go ahead and assign it to a team.
So we have Vermont's and we have Catamounts
I guess I should've put an S on the end of Catamounts
to make a Catamounts but at this time you're more than
welcome to go ahead and put yourself on either team
turning team please as always play along if you wish.
So this is something guys called a team assignment slide.
And this again is a feature that we have right
within the PowerPoint Polling that allows you to go ahead
and put students on two teams.
Now we can pre-assign teams and we wanna go ahead
and do it for them or as we're doing right now
we're just assigning it in the moment.
So we can see, we have Vermont, we have Catamount as soon as
I close polling on basically this PowerPoint slide
and that's what you got to think of this as
is just interactive PowerPoint.
You can see that we have the breakdown of the team.
All right, so I hope you guys know your Vermont history
'cause that's what my presentation is all about guys.
So how about this one, Dummerston is the home of this famous
author of the jungle book,
okay, so what do we think
about this when we have A through D okay, so you notice
in the upper right-hand side my polling is open
I could see responses coming in in real time.
If I wanted to, I could see who's answered
who hasn't answered so I could see currently I'm waiting
for Jenna and I'm waiting for Bree okay.
So now this is time to bring out the call you out
by name there but again, this is just showing
some of the great tools that we have,
where we can see who's answered
who hasn't answered before we go ahead and move forward.
So once I go ahead and close my polling again
one more time, it's gonna go ahead and show the results.
79% of you know your Kipling absolutely that's the correct
answer and as we advance here, we come to something called
a fastest responders line.
So fastest responders line, not a scoreboard slide
but we'll show who was the fastest as well as correct
and actually give yourself a pat on the back
'cause you got that question, correct in 11.137
exactly in seconds Nate, not too far behind.
Moving onto the next question.
So this one is short answer question okay.
So unlike the previous one, which is multiple choice
this is gonna allow you to go ahead
and put in some type of open-ended response.
And this one is a numeric response I stand corrected.
So this one's gonna allow you to put in an open-ended
number okay, so Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson
is a Burlington native the first drive
and automobile across the country in this year.
Okay, that's going back right got to go back a little bit
if we're talking about a cross country trip
with the old automobile but again I can see
in the upper right-hand side how many responses I have in.
We have some other tools up here too
so I can actually see you in a real time at if I wanted to,
how students are answering okay.
So I can go ahead and click that to see precisely
how students are responding in real time.
I can also go in and put in a countdown timer.
So the countdown timer is gonna go ahead
and be my motivational tool.
So this is gonna set a limit to how long my students
have left to answer the question as you can see I can add
five seconds and subtract five seconds as well as pause it
but ultimately when that timer reaches zero
it's gonna automatically close polling and at that time
we're gonna be able to go ahead and see the results.
All right, so my polling is now closed
and as I advanced, we can see a little bit of a ratty
right, 1902, 1906 I will tell you the precise correct answer
is 1903 but I put a range in here if you put anywhere
between 1900, 1910 you would have been counted as correct
which are three people three people had the correct answer
they're not 1982 but not quite all right.
So moving ahead, Vermont is the leading producer
of this delicious addition to any breakfast.
Come on, I'll put this one on the T right?
This is an easy one over this one of course we have a short
answer question, so this is gonna allow your students
or if it's a non-academic situation your peers
or faculty members to go ahead and put
in any open-ended response
that they would like to.
All right, some other great tools that we have
within TurningPoint again all while the presentation
is going on, I'm got to have a messaging okay
so I can see in real time any messages that are coming to me
I have an opportunity to communicate directly with students.
So if I wanted to say hello to Holly directly
I can go ahead and so now Holly is gonna receive
that message and nobody else but I can also
go ahead and do an open chat.
Students, have the opportunity by default to chat directly
with me as the instructor or they can chat
with the instructor and all the students.
Notice I didn't say student this student
without the instructor being on there.
So that's a great tool I will tell you too you can see
when students are not actively engaged, check this out.
So I'm gonna click on Katie Grubbs and I see
that Katie Grubbs has left the app a number of times.
Okay so I can see when students are no longer
on the active screen and I can see that with a little batch
that we have next to the name Ashley
I'm gonna pick on you here so I can see Ashley left at 3:15
and exactly 19 seconds but very quickly re-answered.
So another great tool that you have within the presentation.
All right, so as I close polling here if you said either
syrup or maple syrup, you would have been counted
as correct I could put as many combinations
of a correct answer as I want to for this
and I can always go back and add additional ones afterwards.
There's my team scores,
so the Vermont team is just barely
leading the Catamount team.
Here's my participant leaderboard, Nate's up there was 79.95
points Jen's right there and Ashley's right there as well.
How about this one guys?
Select the Oscar winning UVM alumni.
Okay, so they both won an Oscar, right?
Same movie, Good Will Hunting.
How about Them Apples, but which one of them is a UVM alum?
Now, this is a hotspot question.
So this is going to allow you to go ahead and click
on the image either with your touch screen or your mouse.
Again, it could be just for engagement purposes
or it could be for a right
or wrong answers such as this one.
So again, we'll give it just a few more seconds
before I go ahead and close my Pollling so two, one
and as I closed we're going to see the outcome.
And if you said ... see with the green dots
you would have been correct.
All right so not a competition question here,
but this again highlights another question type that we have
and this one is a word cloud.
Okay so a word cloud is gonna go ahead
and populate all the responses in a cloud format
with the most popular responses being centrally located
in the Cloud and also slightly larger text.
Okay so in your opinion what is the best aspect of living
in Vermont the maple syrup, right?
Man, for me it has to be that I'm imagining the nature.
You know, I've never been to Vermont guys
one of the few States I've not been to.
But yeah, fresh clean air nature
and that's what I'm thinking of after we're activities.
It's more, I'm all about and of course the maple syrup.
All right so, just another one way to go ahead.
Once again, engage the students get the students to think
critically engage them get them focused in
on the presentation and feel part of it less one way
transmission more collaborative type style.
All right, so we'll close the polling move forward.
This is our last competition question coming up
but before let me remind you of the team scores
Catamounts are now in the lead was 72 points.
Here's my participant leaders.
Okay, so we've got Nate and Jen and Ashley right there.
Now this one, a little bit different, right?
This is your wager slide so this is going to allow
us to go ahead and wager a certain percentage
of our current points
on the very next question so 0% through a 100%.
Okay, so you can see polling open at this time
so you're able to go ahead and response.
We feel unlucky on the next question.
If so, go ahead and put in E for a 100%.
This time when I close polling it's not gonna show a chart.
It's just gonna go to the next question.
How about this one, this is Vermont's tallest building
at 124 feet or 11 stories.
Okay, I was actually pretty surprised
about the very reliable website that I found this on.
That is only 11 stories high as Vermont's tallest building.
So we have Stambaugh Tower, Decker's Tower Haskell Library
and the Vermont State House.
All right so again, responses coming in up now
to my 13 responses, just barely so we'll give it just three
more seconds and let's see who we're waiting on
and hate to pick on people here
but Katie Grubbs, we're actually waiting on you to response.
Katie, we're gonna go ahead and skip you in on you there.
All right, so we close it if you would've said Decker Towers
you would have been correct so nice work everybody.
And as I advanced, we could see there's my team scores
my participant scores, look at Laura coming out of nowhere
to go hit and win this game, nice job Laura.
And we can see the team MVP so every team has an MVP.
It's always the individual who scored the most points
for the team and that's why we see Laura
and that's why we see Ashley's so whether the team came in
first place or second place it's always the individual
who scored the most points.
Now, as you can see as I escape out of here
I'm just in PowerPoints okay so attorney point
as far as our PowerPoint integration is just simply
an add-in within the existing PowerPoint
that you're already using.
So you can take your existing PowerPoint presentations
and if you open up TurningPoint first
and go through our PowerPoint Polling, you can now go ahead
and open up any presentation you want to
and start building interactive slides.
So it's as simple as this.
Let's say that this was my existing PowerPoint
from two years ago, but I want to add interactivity.
I just open up the PowerPoint
and now I have my add-in in here called TurningPoints
so I'd click on it from the far left hand side
I click on new and we've seen a lot of these questions
we saw multiple choice,
short answer the word cloud, the hotspot
but if I want a multiple choice and just click on it
it's gonna build it right into my presentation
and I really just need to do two things.
Type in my question and put in my possible answer choices.
Okay, so what is the answer, we'll put it in yes and no
and at this point I am technically
all done with this question.
This is now an interactive PowerPoint slide.
Now I can do additional things with this including setting
a correct answer, I can adjust how many points is worth it
but I'm using it to track student performance
various polling options such as
when do I wanna show results I can do during polling
the default is after polling
I can also choose to not show results whatsoever
and I can also allow for multiple responses
amongst many other things
for every single one of these questions.
So a number of things that we can do, you can even see
with the competition features that we just went through
we have all of our scoreboard slides included
within the starting point toolbar.
So as I'm building this presentation,
I decided you know what,
this is a wonderful time to show a team leader
or board I just click on it and just like that
it's gonna go ahead and build it directly
into my PowerPoint and this populates in real time.
Now guys, there's a lot of other things that we can do here
within there, so comparative lengths
we can go pre and post analysis
so maybe one wanna ask the students a question
in the beginning and we wanna compare it
to how they answer the same question at the end
so maybe entry knowledge and exit knowledge or maybe entry
and exit opinion that's where a comparative link comes in.
Convert the picture allows me to go ahead and use images
as answer choices, we have demographic comparisons
so we can see in a real time how different demographic
groups answered every question in a large variety
of other questions types including ranking questions
and we can see that we have basic icebreaker
in lake request style questions as well.
Ultimately, when we're done running any of these
presentations we can save data and that's what I'm gonna do
at this time, so I'm gonna go ahead and save my data
as we call the data a session file.
I go ahead and name it and click save.
Now, when I exit at this PowerPoint, you're gonna notice
that I'm brought right back into TurningPoints.
So I started from TurningPoint, I know you guys
didn't see that but I started within TurningPoint.
And when I started within TurningPoint I opened up
the software and I just clicked on PowerPoint Polling
that initiates Microsoft PowerPoints.
So the only difference between running regular PowerPoint
and running TurningPoint PowerPoint Polling
is how you get into PowerPoint.
So if I just click on PowerPoint Polling
that gives me the add-in.
So now when I click on it, the add-in is there
as you can see at the very top from here
I could build a presentation from scratch
but there's no reason why I can't go ahead and pull in
an existing presentation from here as well.
So you can see extremely easy to use
if you know how to use PowerPoint using PowerPoint Polling
it's native to PowerPoint, so it's just a simple extension
on top of the existing knowledge
that we already have for PowerPoint.
Now, as you can see we also have two other applications
within TurningPoint, we have Anywhere Polling
and Self-Paced poll, Anywhere Polling which would take
a look at it in a minute here allows us to go ahead
and ask questions on the fly, pull over top of another
application or much like PowerPoint,
we can pre-build content in advance.
So for the purpose of it says hey, listen I really wanna
engage my students but I don't really use PowerPoint
Anywhere Polling is an excellent solution for that.
We also have a testing application
called Self-Paced Polling.
So the testing application allows me to go ahead
and run more summative exams for my students
and we're gonna take a look at this one too.
Before we jump into any more polling
let's talk about managing data.
So it doesn't matter if I'm using PowerPoint Polling,
Anywhere or Self-Paced Polling
once I run a session and I wanna see the data
I can jump over here to my Manage tab.
When I go to manage, I have an opportunity
by clicking on the session file to generate reports.
So when I click on reports from here it's gonna generate
my first report which is a results by question report.
So the results by question report as you can see
is basically giving me a breakdown that the PowerPoint did
okay so the same thing the PowerPoints show me the results
by question report will also display.
All these reports you can generate
within TurningPoint by the way, can be exported
to a CSV Excel or the current format, which is HTML
and we can also go ahead and print it
over to our local printers.
Now, the change report types in the upper right hand side
I can change it over to results by participant for instance.
So if I generate results by participants
I can see my students' names, there's Jenna right there.
I can see total points, total score and I can see precisely
in this case, how Jenna answered every single one
of these questions right or wrong.
And what I truly love is the add-in option
such as response history, I can see your students
are changing their answers or I can even see
how long it took students to actually respond to a question.
And I would have that for every
student within the presentation.
Now, if I really wanted to, I click print
not that we're advocating killing trees up there in Vermont
but this could print every student
onto their own separate page.
In other reports side that I like to show off
is a result detail, results detail is very similar
to the results by participant but this gives me just
necessary info, was it right, was it wrong?
How the answer total points in score?
In addition, we also have attendance reports.
Okay, attendance reports is something that we can go ahead
and send back to your LMS as well, results by demographic.
Okay, so we talked a little bit about demographics.
I can use demographics by the way with or without team
competitions, so let's say I wanted to go ahead and track
my students by graduate versus undergrad or in this case
I put you on the teams.
Okay, so I want to see how the Vermont team answered
versus the Catamount team for every question.
We can always go ahead and run demographics without
doing competitions and technically you could put students
into demographic groups without them ever knowing the group
again not advocating secrecy here but it is a possibility.
And then the final report I'd like to go ahead
and show off your actually two more.
How about a comparative result?
This gives me an opportunity to go ahead and compare
two questions now, typically these would be two of the same
question but I see how students
in the report answer the first time compared to the second
if it was a light question and then the final report
I'd like to show off is the session log.
The session log I love this one
because it was show me every single activity
that ever took place in the session by a timestamp.
So I can see for every slide when I open and close polling
when I advanced on a PowerPoint slide
and on the right-hand side, I can go ahead and change it
because it's by session participant events or messaging.
Okay, so I can see for every single student.
Now I can tell you how I love to use this one
is because when I use the teacher's an adjunct
that I had a student come up to me every now and again
and they say, Kevin and I actually attended the class.
Let's just say the student's name was Jim Smith.
I can go right down the list and say, Jim you're not in here
you actually never joined okay, 'cause it would show up
in my timestamp if you join my session
and I can also see the messaging in here too.
Okay, so we can see what the messaging everything that took
place so we can see that isolated each individual option
and we can also see the options all at once.
Now, if I could guys can, let me ask
are we interested in utilizing an integration
with your learning management system at this time?
Woman: Definitely.
Kevin: And which LMS is that can I ask?
Woman: Blackboard learn is what we currently have.
Kevin: Super, so we're gonna
take a look at how the integration works
but basically with the integration
we have an opportunity to go ahead and bring your roster
directly into TurningPoint from Blackboard
and we also have an opportunity to go ahead
and send results back over to Blackboard.
Now, if this American history 201 class
was with a Blackboard integration right next to update
would be an upload raise button.
And when I click on upload grades
I can select the results that I wanna send
and using our direct integration that would automatically
send 80 grade column back to Blackboard that for each
student would show points earned at a points possible.
Getting the roster into TurningPoint is equally as easy
when I jump over to my account
I will show you how that is done.
All right, guys so let me, and I know I'm cruising
through this but again, there's a lot of great
things in TurningPoint not that instructors have to utilize
all of these things but I wanna make sure I do a good job
of at least on record getting everything on there.
Let's move to the Anywhere Polling next.
So the Anywhere Polling as I mentioned is a great tool
if you're not using PowerPoint but you still want day-to-day
formative assessment and engagement with the students.
So with any we're polling, I have an opportunity
from here to go ahead and ask questions on the fly
pull over top of other applications such as web pages
or documents but much like PowerPoint Polling
I can also build content in advance.
So if I click on any Anywhere Polling from here you notice
that it brings up this little show bar.
We call this the floating show bar because it will appear
over top of any other window I have open on my screen
And then from here I can just start
asking my students questions on the fly.
So if I wanna ask my students a multiple choice questions
such as did you study for today's test
hit A for yes B for no
just let Anywhere Polling know the type of question
and now as you can see back on ttpoll.com
or your TurningPoint App polling is open
and it says, question one answer choices A and B.
So from here, you're able to go ahead
and respond to that verbal question.
Or maybe the question is on some type
of document that I have in the background.
Maybe I've already created a word document
and that's up on the screen,
that's a possibility as well.
So I could see, I had my seven responses in,
much of those tools that I had within PowerPoint Polling
I have in PowerPoint pollingincluding my response grid.
So I can see which of my students have currently answered
I can also see how my students answered
and also love that I can see real-time results.
Okay, so I can click on MyChart and I can see in real time
how my students are responding to the question as well.
When I close the polling, I get the static results
and we're able to go ahead and see the outcome.
Now I also have an opportunity
with this to set correct answers on the fly.
Okay, so if I wanted to click the check and the X and say
you know what, the only correct answer for this is A,
that you did study for the test and you could see
from my dropdown we can ask any type of question we want.
If I wanted a short answer, just click on short answer
maybe I ask where's your favorite vacation destination.
Okay so again, it's a short answer question.
So you're able to go ahead and put in an open-ended response
and in the open ended response then I close polling
I have a variety of ways that I can see it.
I could see it like a word cloud
I could see it listed such as a short answer
it gives me a lot of flexibility in that regard.
But again the key thing, theme, excuse me
with Anywhere Polling in this place is that I'm running
everything on the fly, I'm not pre-building any content
I'm just asking you questions that will go with the ultimate
agility in the classroom or I'm not tied to a presentation.
So there's time when I close the polling, you can see
that it gives me a nice little breakdown of a word cloud
and I can see it in different views in case if I wanna see
it more of a list view I can go ahead and do that.
And I can also go ahead and see it's,
in the histogram view as well.
All right, again, just PowerPoint Polling you can generate
those same reports, so I can go ahead and save my date
when I save my data after I had that my answer choices
were yes and no and I've already set the correct answer
which you can see but if I didn't, I can set a correct
I can adjust the point totals
so I'm just retrospectively adding this information.
Keep in mind too, that if I already did set a correct answer
and I've already assigned points back and see for this
particular question maybe it was poorly written
or all the students got it wrong, notice in the upper
right-hand side that it can exclude it from grading.
So it was no longer part of grading.
So when I send these results back at the Blackboard
it eliminates this question from being
added to the overall grade,
if this was Anywhere Polling
and I don't quite remember what I was polling over top of,
I could always click on screenshot
in the upper left-hand side and can say, ah, that's right
I was polling over top of that document
and this is what the question was.
So again, the edit session doesn't have to apply
just for the Anywhere Polling.
It ultimately allows me to change anything about the session
with the exception of how students answered.
Remember again, all happening retroactively.
Now, before we move on to self-paced
one more thing with Anywhere Polling
if I wanted to ahead of time I could create content
for Anywhere Polling in much like my PowerPoint Polling
I can go ahead and add information in advance.
Okay, so when I click on my content COVID-19 quiz
and click on Anywhere Polling bling, this time
when I opened up polling I have an opportunity to show
my students the question, so just like PowerPoint Polling
they now see it through ttpoll
they also see it through a TurningPoint App
and actually they see it if they're live in the classroom
or through teams or whatever the meeting sharing
device might be as well.
I love this tool because it truly gives me flexibility.
Pre-loading contents asking verbal questions
pulling over top of something where they could see
the question ultimate flexibility with this.
And again, close the polling we can go ahead and see
the outcome and if I reopened the polling
I'm moving on to the next question.
So again, a lot of flexibility with the tool here.
All right guys, as keeping out of the clock
I really do wanna go ahead and get done here no later
than 3:50 okay, to allow some time for some Q&A
but before we go ahead and make our way across
the finish line here I do wanna discuss Self-Paced Polling.
So Self-Paced Polling is our testing application okay?
So unlike the PowerPoint and Anywhere which are instructor
led I control when students answer questions
Self-Paced Polling true to the name
is self-paced for the students.
So some students might be taking a test they're on question
three others might be on question six is truly self-paced.
Now with this I need to create content ahead of time
which will be my test okay, so if I create content
let me just quickly jump into the content creation
so use some of the flexibility.
So this is my question list for my tests that I've already
created but if you notice with this
I can create multiple versions of this test.
In fact, I can have up to 10 different versions of this one
test, if I needed to I could print out hard copies
of the test student copy, teacher copy
or just the answer key and I also have an opportunity
to go ahead and add any additional things that I want
to the right hand side, I can make it where they can't
change their answer I can put in correct answer indicators
countdown timers have a lot of flexibility
in what I can do with this particular testing content.
So when I'm ready to go ahead and use the content
click on, select Self-Paced Polling
I'm gonna accept my sign-ins when I do this I can determine
for this test do I want to set it by duration or end time
or do I want to control when the test is over?
And what I really love is I can go ahead and even show
the students how they scored the moment
they're done with the test, so maybe I wanna show them
their points, total and percentage
as soon as they're done, I can do that.
Once I press okay it's now I'm gonna go ahead
and populate all my students into the test.
And if you notice now, when I click on start polling
in the upper left hand side it automatically brings you
into the test, mow just like any other tests
you have an opportunity to go ahead and skip questions
go back, change your answer choice
and we can have a variety of different types of questions
it doesn't just need to be multiple choice.
So the same questions you saw
within the PowerPoint and the Anywhere,
we can also go ahead and have within Self-Paced Polling.
Now I can see on the right-hand side my status
where my students have been gone
I can see that Jen has actually finished the test
'cause it says test receive
and what I really love about this
if you view back my screen I can click on live results
and I can even see in real time how my students
are performing in the test.
So I can see that Ashley got all of the correct
because she has a green check mark for each one.
I could see Sophia got one correct
but if I hover my cursor over top of the X for number two
I can see that she got that wrong
because it should have been A instead of B
and I could see this happening in real time.
So I could be sitting back, my students were taking the test
I'm not sharing my screen, right
but I am looking to see how they're performing right now
and even go ahead and click on overall progress
and see maybe I didn't do a very good job
because my students are scoring
in real time of 42% on this test.
And you can see as they answer this score also updates
I look at that we're already up to 51%.
All right, so when we're all done we go ahead and save
the results, once we save the results
and we ultimately name it and I'm gonna go
with my V-U-V-M three this time click save
and just like with PowerPoint just like with Anywhere
and now Self-pace, we can generate those same reports
and we also have an opportunity to go ahead
and get the results back over to Blackboard.
All right, guys so that is our desktop application
which of course we have the PowerPoint
Anywhere and Self-pace, it is worth noting too
that we also have a Web-based application.
Well, Web-based application that's simply
called TurningPoint of web that gives you much
of that flexibility but with the opportunity
to be all web-based and with the added bonus
of being able to go ahead and schedule homework.
So in our Web-based application, first of all
before we start going into the Web-based application
let's complete the process of syncing
your courses from Blackboard.
Here's how simple this is.
So, right now I have active courses and right next to it
you can see, I have a bunch of different LMSs
the only thing that you would see is ultimately Blackboard
you wouldn't see all these other items.
But let me go ahead and delete this one course
'cause I'm gonna show you how I can sync it.
So, if I want to bring a course over from Blackboard
to TurningPoint in this process that I'm gonna show you
is true for TurningPoint Web and TurningPoint desktop
from here I just find my Blackboard and click on it
now I have an integration with Canvas
so I'll go ahead and select that.
From here, since I have a single sign on it skips over
the sign in process if I didn't have single sign on
it would take me to my UVM login page for Blackboard
I put in my username and password.
Once I clicked submit, it brings me right back to this page.
We bring over every course that is tied
to you in Blackboard, any course that you want to use
in TurningPoint all you have to do is click add.
Once you click add that course is now added
to Turningpoint Web and noticed this,
and is automatically been added to TurningPoint desktop.
So I can go into TurningPoint on my desktop
I can click on the course and I can see all my students.
Now this is nightly synced so every night we update
your course with no interaction by the instructor.
So we will check back to your servers in Blackboard
to see if there's any updates, any ad drops
is the roster to the same, the students have accounts
do students have subscriptions, and ultimately
that's reflected the next time the instructor logs in.
We have been doing these integrations for many years
and we consistently work year by year to improve
the integration and we really feel like it's a pretty
seamless thing at this point with very little steps
Woman: If I can jump in there real quick.
Kevin: Sure.
-: There's an echo.
We do consider LMS integration a competitive advantage.
So just so everyone knows that is it's something that loves
you know love com we hear from our customers all the time
that it is a great process and student registration
is very easy when you have these LMS integrations put in.
So we do have an integration specialist
that helps with all those pieces.
One additional piece I would mention is for enterprise
opportunities, we do take competitor data.
So I know Kevin's just walked you through a lot of different
ways to create content and I know every instructor might
have a different path in doing that, but if you have content
in a competitor's product we will take someone
from our client success team and actually convert
that content over into TurningPoint for you that's no
additional cost we do that for our enterprise opportunities.
So I think that's really important
for you guys to know, 'cause content is very important
and the last thing I wanted to bring up
is Kevin could you just talked about the participation
threshold real quick especially considering
the COVID teaching environments we have.
Kevin: Oh, I would love to definitely say this efficient
threshold so against so many different
great things within our desktop application.
So we do have it built in Gradebook in here and within
the building Gradebook we have an opportunity to go ahead
and add bonus points based on participation.
So we can do that based on our participation threshold
which is basically the percentage
of questions that they answer.
So if I wanna say to my students, if you just attempt
a 100% of the questions, I will give you
one bonus points that is the participation threshold.
And you can see that I have these are fixed students
that I have in here and everybody who joins my sessions
are legitimate people that's why none of my fake students
have scores but if they did, they would now get a point
as long as they answered all the questions.
And then we also have performance points.
Guys so you can see the maximum points is 18
I mean the best somebody can score is in 18 out of 18
but let's say that everybody was averaging
like nine out of 18 lets say well, you know now
I wanna do a little bit of a curve on this.
So I can actually bring this down maybe to 12.
Well, it's possible for somebody to get 18 points at a 12
which means they get greater than 100%
It's definitely a possibility.
But we can adjust the performance points
which is the maximum points that are available
but of course somebody can get more than maximum.
And the participation threshold gives me the opportunity
to add bonus points in here.
And let me just go ahead and complete the process here guys
again, we have a Web-based application super simple to use.
Once you bring a course down from Blackboard
you can enter into the course.
Once you enter in within any course content
you have an opportunity as you can see here to upload
your PowerPoint, you also can go ahead and link videos.
Okay, so you can link videos from external URLs
and you can see the similar interactive questions
that I had within the desktop.
We also have available within the Web-based application.
I can run this live and I also have the ability to go ahead
and schedule it for homework purposes.
Okay, so I can determine my students will have until
this Friday at 11:59 p.m.
The moment I click schedule
my students actually get instant notification on the app.
If they have the DAP downloaded and they also get an email
sent to them letting them know that homework has been
scheduled, you could use both these applications
at once by the way, again, not saying that's the norm
but it is a possibility but here's the good news
going right back to what I said at the beginning.
It doesn't matter if you're using the desktop
or you're using the Web-based application
that the student experience is the same.
They're using the same app the same browser
it's the same Blackboard integration, nothing changes
the only thing that varies is how you run the software.
And with that guys, we covered a lot or at least
I went through a lot, I know I was going super fast
in a short amount of time, in the last few minutes
let me mention this, let me bring up my PowerPoint
once again, if I could because this is a very important
thing that is near and dear to my heart
that I'd like to go ahead and wraping up on
all these presentations but let me again go ahead and jump
back into my PowerPoint bullet.
You also have an opportunity to just see how easy it is
to go ahead and bring in the existing PowerPoints.
All right, so as I scroll down here, let me go
to one of my last slides and that's our client services.
So Katie mentioned already a little bit about what we do
we do complete competitor, a transition of all contents
okay, so we'd work with you one on one to make
that a possibility but we also had a client success team
and individually we can have a main point of contact for you
so if you have questions specifically, training needs
technical support needs, general questions
you don't go to a general line, you go to a single person
that you work with at University of Vermont.
In addition we also have very comprehensive on-demand video
tutorials and we do have support open 12 hours a day
so if you prefer to calling into a general line
there's that but we take great pride in making sure
that you are well taken care of from an onboarding
standpoint and continuing training and support
and again, you work with a single individual
on my team assigned just for University of Vermont.
And with that guys, let me go ahead and take a step back
and see what kind of questions you might have.
Woman: At chances as though there may be
some inconsistency with viewing the chat
So perhaps folks would be willing to use the raise
their hand feature if they've got questions
so that we make sure that we are catching everybody.
(indistinct)
Woman: I had asked about the participation threshold
but Kevin covered that.
And the last note I had in there was about the administrator
and student experiences are the same.
So, the instructor gets to pick which one of these methods
fit best for them and that's why, you know
we try to be very, very flexible there
but for the student administrators, don't
it it's really the same experience.
Woman: Right.
Woman: Catherine I see you've got a question.
Catherine: Yeah so, we're currently using TurningPoint.
We know that can integrate with Blackboard
we haven't really done that much at all
although we do have single on
to when they set up their accounts it was super easy.
And they're talking about during attendance
which we don't necessarily think is a great idea
but one thing that's kept us from doing it is that
when you send that data to Blackboard every day
that you take attendance or in our case
there's like different sessions
throughout the day that they want to take attendance
there would be a new column in the Gradebook, I believe
and so I guess my question is there any way to send it
to Blackboard to have it like combine it
like add this to the column that's already there,
or I guess sometime in the future we might schedule a time
to learn more about this Gradebook within the software
that's not in Blackboard that you were looking
at that maybe they could do it there and it would be easier
but yeah, it's tough because we have many sessions a day
like maybe four or five that they would wanna
do attendance at and it just seems like the Gradebook
will get insane there'd be 100s of columns.
Kevin: Yeah you know, it's a good thing to bring up
I mean, keep in mind this already, I believe
but the Gradebook is tied to an individual instructor.
Okay, so when I upload gray columns, it just goes for mine
but the attendance you are right when it sends it up
it creates it as a gray column and puts in parentheses
attendance and a lot of it is just the limitation
of a Blackboard allows us to communicate okay
so we can't send it to a different location as of now
but you made mention of the internal Gradebook
that we have within TurningPoints okay.
And I won't say you're long before we had integrations
we built out this internal Gradebook with the anticipation
that instructors would use it outside of an LMS.
So if I go to results manager which is this internal
Gradebook you could imagine these students for each one
of these sessions that I have would have points.
And a lot of times what instructors do,
is they just export the session in case they say,
you know what, I'm just gonna go ahead and export this right
over to a CSV and they take the CSV column
and either manage it outside the LMS
or they take the CSV column and put it into this LMS.
So the Gradebook that is within TurningPoint is very robust,
I will say that it's relatively underused
because the LMS integrations have taken off so much
but we tried our best to replicate a lot of the things
you can do in the LMS right within the Gradebook
because before we had integrations with things
like Blackboard this is what instructors primarily used.
So would love to in the future go ahead and show you
all the other great options that are within here
because to be honest with you, there's actually a lot more
within this Gradebook you can take advantage of.
Catherine: Great, thank you.
Kevin: Thank you.
-: I have a couple of questions that I would like
to have clarified the first I think is pretty quick.
Is there an option for faculty to allow students
to answer questions anonymously?
Kevin: Absolutely yes, so you can do it by the individual
question or you can do it for the entire session.
So if I do it for the entire session when I'm on my polling
tab notice that I can click this anonymous button okay.
So for every question, we'll be able to see collectively
how the entire class responded but we'll never be able
to actually see how individual student answered
and when we're in PowerPoint Polling or in the Anywhere
or Self-paced for any one of these questions
over on the right hand side, there's an anonymous option.
Okay, so we can do it for individual questions
but we can also do it for the entirety of the presentation.
-: Great another question if after the Self-Paced Polling
I assume that there is an option to set a timer
so that it's like a timed quiz?
Kevin: 100% yeah I'm sorry about the noise.
-: And then I assume there's also a way to set accommodations
for students who have extra time as an ADA accommodation?
Kevin: That is correct too yes
so we do both of those things, so first of all
when I click on accept sign-in I can do test time limit
I can set it by duration, I can set it by end time.
So if I wanna set it by duration and may say this test
is going to be two hours and as you can once I start
polling on this test it's gonna start the count
down to two hours, now let's say that a student needs
three hours okay and they're in this roster.
Once this test is done and I saved the data.
If I want to reopen it for another hour
for that one or two or whatever many students it may be
I come right back in this location I can click on session
I can continue the session okay so I can open the test
back up just for the students who need it and they jump
right back into the test exactly where they left off.
Did that answer your question?
-: Yes, thank you.
Go ahead, Laura.
-: I'm just to follow up with Jen's question.
So it sounds like in accommodating separate students
you can't set them up separately, like in a,
like on another day, like if they, I mean
I guess you'd set up a separate test
but you can't preset one student for three hours
but most of the students for two hours.
Is a manual extension of the exam?
Kevin: Well, you can manually extend it and there's,
I will say this to answer directly and transparently.
There's no way to say in advance that this student
is gonna have three hours or this student's gonna
have two hours but I can always go ahead the next day
click on that same test and run the test again
just for those students for this time for it to be open
for three hours there is is a possibility.
So again, you know, spirit of transparency
I can't say ahead of time but I have flexibility to go ahead
and accommodate those students either by running a separate
test just for those students with the same content
or by continuing the tests that allow me
for the additional hour once the test has ended.
-: Just another question, what kind of technical
problems do the students have?
Kevin: That's a million dollar question, right?
You know, it's interesting because our, the technical side
of things have reported to me for over a decade.
And I would say that we have worked diligently
to address student issues.
If we're talking five years ago it was always student
registration, you know getting students registered
for class, I would tell you now that the student challenges
are minimal at this point the registration is definitely
when we get most amount of questions it's a seamless process
we actually have a registration the step process
is a three-step process for students to become registered
they can do everything within their TurningPoint account.
They can even connect the Blackboard without ever even
going to Blackboard, they do everything in TurningPoint
but even if they do get stuck we have embedded chat
for the students they can chat with us 12 hours a day.
We have a phone line they can call our student support line
12 hours a day and we have email support as well.
So we don't see too many things in terms of like
real technical issues with students
but I think that we all know anytime we're dealing
with 18 and 22 year olds we'll always have questions
but the support services are definitely in place to assist.
Catherine: Yeah, we don't have much trouble
with the students participating in fact they'll help
the faculty and it's a little different than med school
'cause we'll have dozens and dozens of different faculty.
You know, we have people teaching just one session a year
in the med school for a certain course.
And so they aren't always familiar with the software
and so the students are actually helping them, the faculty
and we actually had more trouble with the students
when they were using physical clickers
'cause we would ask them, why aren't you participating?
And they're blaming it on broken clickers
or say they forgot their clicker.
And so now they don't have
that excuse (laughs) so we don't really
hear much from the students in terms of problems.
Katy: Yeah, our number one issue from a student issue
student technical support side this year was we had a lot
of remote students that were overseas
and normally they would be in person
but they were participating from their home countries
so we actually had to make some accommodations
on our web store purchases because they needed
to be able to purchase from their locations.
So that was probably the biggest challenge we ran into
over the past couple semesters and we got that resolved.
Woman: Jen, do you want to ask your question?
-: Sure, Kathy about a handout clickers
and I know that in the past, like pre pandemic,
you know handheld clickers
for some faculty was really important
'cause they didn't want to introduce laptops
or cell phones into the classroom.
What question types can the handheld clickers accommodate?
If an instructor wanted to go that route?
Kevin: I'd be glad to take this one
so every question site with the exception of that hotspot
where you guys clicked on Ben Af fleck.
So that's the only one that it wouldn't support
but the short answer, numeric response, the word cloud
the clickers will support all of those questions
as long as it's the QT clicker
which is the keyboard style clicker.
So we still had to.
-: I was gonna ask if you had a QWERTY keyboard
on a clicker yep.
Kevin: We sure do so if you remember the old
BlackBerries we designed it based off the BlackBerry look,
in fact it looks like a Blackberry and that clicker supports
all of that but hotspot, then we also have a very basic
clicker which also supports multiple choice questions.
-: What are the fees for those Kevin?
Kevin: I'm sorry, I missed the question sorry.
-: The cost for the handheld devices.
Kevin: Katie or Sophia,
you guys wanna jump in on that one.
Rich: I can Kevin, (laughing)
basically the tube that Kevin's
talking about is our RFLCD clicker size of a credit card
and it has 10 multiple choice questions
as an LCD strain on it as well.
And the corny clicker is what you just mentioned.
The RFLCD you know, ranges around $30
and then you can add another $10 to the corny
just because it has more functionality.
-: Thank you.
Rich: You're welcome.
-: And can you run the polling with just the web interface?
Kevin: Absolutely yeah, so the web interface
are you referring to this one right here?
-: Correct?
Kevin: Yep, definitely so the web interface
where I can do live polling could also do scheduling
as we talked about but I can just click this start button.
Once I click the start button
and I can jump right into a live presentation at this time
so students would join the exact same way either
through the app or they can go ahead and use the browser.
And this also supports clickers too, let me go ahead
and add-in and I can plug your receiver in
and supports those clickers.
And then once I start the session again, I can go ahead
and open and close polling on all these questions
just like we do on the desktop.
And it has the integration of course, with Blackboard
and it has all the reporting that you would've saw directly
within the desktop as well.
Okay, so you have all of this reporting in here
and yeah very comparable features.
-: So if you, let me just clarify, if you don't mind, Kevin
so if you are a faculty member and you go into a physical
classroom that has the base station and your students
have some physical clickers some handheld devices
of some sort and laptops you can run what you need to run
from just opening a browser.
Kevin: That's correct yeah, you just open a browser
you don't have to worry about the install
of software and that's definitely the advantage
in TurningPoint Web and just like the desktop
it supports both the clickers and the web
and as always, you can have a mix of that, some students
using clickers and some using the web or their app.
-: Thank you that's helpful.
Kevin: Yeah thanks for the question.
-: Okay, I realize we're a few minutes over time
so I wanna be respectful of everybody's time.
We really appreciate all of you coming to demo
TurningPoint with us today
and we will definitely send you
the link to the recording.
And we hope you all have a good day.
Kevin: Thanks for the opportunity
everybody we appreciate it.
Rich: Nice seeing you guys.
Katy: Yes, thank you so much thank you meeting.