-: Okay.
Welcome, everybody.
So hopefully you have been able
to open the PDF file,
and we're going to have you participate
through a student account on the Reef app.
So this is gonna take a few minutes to get us set up
so that we can engage in this way,
but then you'll get a sense of
how it is for a student to set this up
once you have your account set up,
and Laura is also going to be going over
from the instructor perspective how the settings look.
So I'm Holly Buckland Parker.
I welcome you here today.
And I have a co-facilitator with me
who's also one of our faculty associates at the CTL.
I'll let Laura introduce herself.
-: Hi, I'm Laura Almstead.
I am a Senior Faculty Senior Lecturer
in both biology and also nutrition and food science.
And I've been helping to run some of these CTL workouts
as part of my role as a Center for Teaching and Learning
Faculty Associate this year.
And I'm trying to-- -: Thanks, Laura.
-: Elizabeth and Shelley,
I just sent you the PDF
by email.
-: Looks like Julie's having trouble too.
-: So.
-: I was in, I think.
-: What, Jackie?
-: I checked in, so it seemed to work for me.
-: Excellent, I do see two people are checked in.
Jamie and Jackie.
-: Okay.
-: And Julie, do you still see it?
-: Sometimes we've sent this to people ahead of the workshop
but then not everybody has a chance to do it.
So we're just taking this few minutes
to get everyone in there right now.
And I apologize for the trouble with the document.
Normally, when you upload something into the chat,
it will give permission to everyone
who's signed into the meeting.
I don't know why that wasn't an automatic thing today but
we just sort of go with the flow when these things happen.
So thanks to my co-facilitator Laura
for emailing that out to folks.
Megan, are you able to get things set up?
-: Holly, I think I need help too.
I'm sorry, so you want us
to log into iClicker as if we were students
and create accounts and all that?
-: Correct, yes. -: So Shelley.
-: I think it's working for me. -: Need to create your account.
-: I need--
-: So you don't need a password.
You need to create your account.
-: Oh, okay.
-: If you have a PDF at this point,
you should be able to follow the directions
as to how to create the account,
and then you'll look for the iClicker Workshop class.
So far, I still see just Jamie and Jackie as
checked in.
-: I got to an expired
'cause I took this class before, maybe that's why.
-: Julie, just try using
a Gmail account or something if you have one.
-: Oh okay, it signed me in automatically.
But let me try again.
-: Mine worked with the UVM account, just FYI.
I haven't had any trouble.
-: And if you have taken this workshop before,
you're correct, you probably already have an account.
But I made a new class called iClicker Workshop.
Before it was just CTL Workshop, I believe.
So you want to do a new search,
just like the PDF indicates for this particular workshop,
with my name attached to it.
-: And if they took it more than two weeks ago,
their student account will probably have expired.
-: That's a very good point. -: That's right.
-: So if that has happened to one of you,
you can try a different email.
And create a different account.
So now I see Elizabeth is signed in.
I see Debra's in.
Is there anyone else who needs some help getting in?
-: Yeah, I'm signing in.
Participant: Let me do it.
Can you hear me, sorry?
-: Yes.
Participant: Yeah, I used the Reef
with the same as the Cloud.
I have iClicker Cloud account.
-: Do you have a student account?
Participant: I have a iClicker account,
but I can click just to take attendance.
Or no, that's not right.
So I need to create a student account.
-: Yeah, to participate in the workshop as a student.
Participant: Can I use my instructor account?
-: No. -: Yeah, you should be able to,
Holly?
-: What's that?
-: You should be able to log in as a student
using your instructor account.
-: I can, right? -: Using instructor account.
Participant: I do not have to create
another account, right?
-: As far as I remember, yes.
Participant: So how can I find this workshop?
I cannot find it.
-: So you need to log in from the iClicker Reef site,
not from the instructor site.
Participant: No, I use iClicker Cloud.
-: No, no, no.
So if you are logging in as a student,
you need to go Google iClicker Reef.
-: Okay, so it's a different-- -: And that will be there.
Yes, it's different. -: Yes.
Participant: Okay, I will do that.
-: Laura, I'm having trouble too.
I am at the Create Account page, which is good,
but I filled the whole thing out and I checked
I agree to the privacy notice,
but Create Account is still grayed out.
There's nothing to push or press.
-: That is odd.
-: I put a link to the Reef website
in case anyone's going to the wrong place.
If you're going to the Cloud website,
you probably are getting different prompts.
So check the chat window
and make sure that you're clicking on the Reef app.
-: No, I definitely am on the Reef app.
-: What email did you use, Julie?
-: A Gmail.
-: Yeah, try just changing the Gmail.
I ended up,
you can basically pretend whatever you want
for an email account.
-: Okay.
-: It doesn't have to actually be an existing one.
-: Okay.
-: I also, you know how you can type
your UVM account in two different ways?
I did that as my instructor account and my student account.
I just used Holly.Parker for one
and HB Parker for the other.
So you have to search for the course
and it's called iClicker Workshop, Megan.
And then you should get a button
like it says on this slide that asks you to join.
I see you now, Megan has checked in.
-: So how are we doing on people checked in, Holly?
-: One, two, three, four, five, six people are checked in.
So I think we're waiting for Julie to get checked in.
And Shelley.
And Ashley, I don't see you checked in.
-: I just added it.
-: Okay. -: Perfect.
Okay, Shelley thinks she's in.
(mumbling)
-: I can barely hear you, thank you.
-: Okay, can you hear me?
-: Not very well, can you hear her, Laura?
-: No, but it sounds like you're saying
your thing is expired.
So.
My suggestion is follow along for now
and we'll catch up at the end and fix things
so you can see what it looks like.
-: I got,
I'm in, I think, but I don't have any courses.
It says to add a course.
-: Yep, hit the plus button and search for iClicker Workshop.
-: Okay.
(coughing)
-: Did you find it, Julie?
-: I did, I think.
-: Okay, great.
So now comes the test. (laughs)
Where I'm gonna start a poll
when we go to this next slide
and we'll see if folks can participate.
So we're gonna start that poll.
And what it's doing is it's just telling me on the screen
that it's starting up
and just give it a second.
Does anyone see the poll yet?
-: I just see you're checked in.
-: That's what I see. -: Me too.
-: Oh okay, let me see.
-: I see the poll on the Teams page
but not on the iClicker page.
-: Yep, just bear with me.
I'm just making sure that I have
everything open here correctly.
-: So once Holly starts the poll,
what you'll see is the iClicker Reef--
-: So annoying.
-: The iClicker Reef will send a screenshot
of the poll that you see up on the screen.
And then there'll be options where you can pick A, B, C, D.
There's also an E option,
much like there is on an iClicker, actual physical remote,
but obviously there's no E option for this question.
Holly, do you have it up and running yet?
-: Almost there. (laughs)
I thought I had the app, but I think that's the problem.
So you have to have the--
-: Yes, so you have to run polls through the app
and I'll walk through that later.
-: And I thought, as I said,
I thought I had installed it, but this computer's new
and, in fact, I had not.
-: So for the sake of time,
do you want people to just chime in here
and then we can move on?
Or is it almost installed?
-: It's all set.
Do you see it now?
-: Just checked in.
-: Okay, so some people are seeing it.
-: Great.
So what you can try to do is enter your response.
And one thing I recommend trying,
so you can see what it feels like on your end,
you can change your answer as many times as you'd like,
and as whatever your answer is set to,
that will be the answer that submits
when Holly stops the poll.
So if you want students to think about a question,
you want to help students through a question,
they do have the ability to change their answer
even after they've entered it,
up until when you stop the poll.
-: Okay, so I see seven folks,
eight folks have responded now.
Think that's everybody.
Does that sound correct, Laura?
-: Mine's still sending.
-: Again, mine said it's expired.
-: Yeah so why don't you follow along for now
and we'll catch you up.
-: This means students have to pay?
-: Yes. -: Correct.
-: So we'll talk a little bit more about that in a bit.
-: Okay.
-: Okay, I'm gonna stop the poll.
And what do you see on your student screens
now that I've stopped the poll?
-: A little blue button with results and my answer.
-: Excellent, okay.
So that is exactly,
if you just run the poll the normal way,
that's what the students will see.
So it takes a little screenshot
of whatever slide you have that you're running,
and then you'll be able to save those screenshots
if you want to create a study guide
for students after the fact.
Also, they will see,
if there is a correct answer,
you can mark an answer correct.
For students, in this case,
there isn't necessarily any correct answer.
I see five of you selected A
and three of you selected C.
So that's just on the spectrum
of what folks have joined us to learn about today.
Those two things seem to be the most popular.
If there was a particular correct answer,
I could let iClicker know that
and then you'd see if you got it correct or not.
-: And I'll talk a little bit more about grading in a bit.
-: Okay, so we're gonna go on to
this one here.
So I'm going to start the poll,
and this should allow you now to type an answer into a box.
Which if you've used Classic,
as I see at least three of you have,
you realize that in before times
when you had a manual clicker in your hand,
you only could choose a multiple choice answer.
Now with the Reef tool,
you can use short answer, multiple answer, numeric.
And so there's a lot more choices that are available to you.
So I'm gonna start this poll
and go ahead and type your answer.
-: And one thing to note about short answers.
When you hit the Submit button for your answer,
you'll see your answer.
If you wish to change your answer,
if you click on it again, you can change your answer.
Your answer will appear there.
If there was a typo, you can fix it.
And again, you can modify it as many times as you want
until Holly stops the poll.
And there is 140 character limit.
So this is not a way you can get students
to submit paragraph answers.
On the other hand, if you're looking
for students to reply succinctly, it's kind of helpful.
-: So I see six responses now.
Seven.
Oh eight, okay, great.
So I'm gonna try to take,
there is a little word cloud that comes up,
and I'm gonna try to take a screenshot
and put it in the chat.
Maybe that'll work, Laura.
(laughs) We'll see.
-: And I will also demo how you can use
iClicker Reef during class and show results to your class,
including word clouds, which have been kind of fun
way if you are asking informal questions
or polls or looking for themes
maybe that you're pulling out of a reading.
So Jackie asked, do students see open answers
summarized on their own like we did when we did,
like we did with the poll results?
If you, I'll show you the settings.
Students will not see everyone's answer,
but I can tell you what they see on their end
and tell you a little bit about the settings.
You can also, as Holly has done,
choose to share with your students a word cloud,
which is kind of fun.
-: Yeah, that's my favorite option is a word cloud
because sometimes it can be really helpful,
depending on what questions you've asked
for folks to be able to see the word cloud.
So I've stopped the poll and
I see Jackie's asking a question.
-: Yeah, I answered one of them and she just saw,
that you see that your own responses
and the number of responses.
After it's graded, Jackie, if it was a graded question,
you could also see
a best answer that the instructor has selected
as a correct answer.
And again, I'll talk a little bit more
about that in a second.
-: Okay, great.
-: But first I wanted to tell you a little bit
about using iClickers in class.
So I have used iClicker Classic
up until this year since I started at UVM.
So I used it for nine years.
This is my tenth year teaching.
So this is, I had to switch to iClicker Cloud.
And as with all technology,
of course there's some little bumps in the road,
but I have been very happy with how it's worked
and am most likely to continue to use iClicker Reef,
is what they call the student app,
Cloud is what they call the instructor app,
but use this platform moving forward,
even when we go back to in person,
just because of the increased flexibility.
So there are a bunch of different ways
you can use iClickers in classes.
I mentioned a couple just now.
You can use things like if you're having students
do readings prior to classes
and you want them to pull out some common themes,
you could ask a short answer question
for some keywords or themes
and then show your class a word cloud of their responses.
Personally, I use it in my classes
for a bunch of different things.
Say at the beginning of class
I will have students review their notes from the last class,
ask them a couple of specific questions
and they're supposed to write it in their notes,
and then typically we'll have a follow-up iClicker question
that hits at some of what I asked in the initial prompt,
and that really motivates students to say,
hey, Professor Almstead is probably gonna
ask us a question about this.
So I should probably actually review my note.
I've also used it as just a quick knowledge check-in.
They're awesome if you want to try
some application questions.
Give some students some low stakes practice
with applying the knowledge that they're learning.
And you can also just do some opinion polls,
get some baseline knowledge and stuff like that.
And I'll talk about the different ways
you can score iClicker questions
depending on how you want to use iClickers
overall in your class
and then specific scoring options for individual questions
if you, like I do,
want to use a mix of questions that have correct answers
and questions that have no correct answers.
-: So several of you have indicated
that you used to use Classic iClicker,
and we just put together this chart
to give you a sense of some of the differences
and similarities in the tools.
So you probably remember, when you used Classic before,
you had an actual physical thumb drive
that you would save data to
and sync that with Blackboard course space.
Now your data is in the cloud.
And so it's accessible anytime
that you log into the Reefs app
and the iCloud app,
which is also run on your computer.
So it's all saved within your account
that you create as an instructor account.
And you're right, for those of you who
may have already created an account in the past,
the instructor account is free.
The student account, you need to pay for
to be able to access that application.
So, and we'll talk about the prices in just a moment.
You also have probably noticed that there's
only multiple choice questions with the Classic version.
Now there's expanded different questions
that you can use.
The image hotspot one is available,
but we've had sort of varying success with that.
So I would definitely recommend testing that out
before you deploy it on a quiz or anything
because we haven't always had 100% accuracy
with that particular question type.
-: It seems to be linked to the type of devices
student is using and how they're inputting.
So the iClicker people are working on it.
I think the hotspots could be totally workable
as long as you didn't count them for,
mark answers correct or not.
So most students should be able to respond,
but just in case.
-: Thanks, Laura.
As far as running your polls,
before you needed to have an actual physical base station
to use the Classic version of iClicker,
and you needed the software
that was on your thumb drive or on your laptop.
Now it's a little bit different because again
things are in the cloud.
So you do still need some software.
That was what I thought was on my machine
but I just had to quickly download.
At least it only takes a few seconds to do that.
So that should also, if any of you are doing
a hybrid class where you're in person some of the time
and you have some students connecting remotely,
there should be the iClicker Cloud software
on the machines that are in the classrooms.
And those should be up to date as of this past fall.
And I think also,
the final thing that we have listed here is that
the student data is synced through
the Blackboard Grade Center.
And here in the new version of Cloud,
students can see information
through their Reef account on the webpage,
as well as it's possible to sync it also
with the Grade Center.
So students can join your class
either on a app on their smartphone,
they can go to the web browser on their laptop,
and if you had a hybrid class,
they could also use the older remotes
if you're actually in a physical classroom.
So those are all the options that can occur.
The thing is obviously with those physical remotes,
students are limited to only being able
to answer the multiple choice questions
with the old remote.
So just keep that in mind.
And so these are purchased with,
so I think
we were able to have students
purchase the handheld clicker through the bookstore
and also get a free six months of Reef,
but I'm not sure that that is still the case.
So we'll have to check on that
if anyone is still buying those handhelds.
Otherwise, this is the price range for the app itself.
So six months for 15.99, a year for 24.99, et cetera.
And if you only are using the Reef app to take attendance,
then there is no cost to the student.
So the cost is associated with asking them
to actually log in and answer questions
and you're gonna be tracking those question responses
for some kind of grade.
Whether it's correct answer responses or just participation,
it would be tracked throughout the whole session,
versus attendance is just taken,
I think typically at the beginning, is that correct, Laura?
-: Yeah and so my recommendation is,
especially for using Teams,
you might as well just download the Team's roster.
If you're just using it for attendance,
it's another piece of technology that is not necessary.
-: Very good point.
(laughs)
So this is just a little bit to show
what a faculty member would do
when engaging with the polling
versus what the student has to do.
So opening the iClicker Cloud application on the computer.
Also, if you're in person,
you would activate the base station
for any handheld remotes in the classroom.
And then the students will go to their mobile app
or their web browser
or their handheld remote if they're in person.
And so you put your questions onto a PowerPoint slide.
You can also use a Word document.
I generally just integrate it
as you're seeing within the PowerPoint.
And then the app will take a screenshot
of the PowerPoint question on the slide.
Which means we'll be able to see that.
And then you can mark correct answers if you want to
for performance points,
or you can just give them
points based on their participation.
So that's something you get to decide.
And you'll be able to see the results
on the browser page as well as
you can sync it into the Grade Center.
And same for the students.
They can see it through the Reef app in web browser,
or if you do the synchronization with Blackboard,
they can also see their grades available in Blackboard.
-: So I, as I said, use iClicker Reef
in my classes this fall.
So to give you some sense,
one was a nearly 200 person fully remote class
and the other was about 50 people and it was mixed.
And this is data from my fully remote class
survey that I did part way through this semester.
So I was curious to know how their
use of iClicker Reef was going.
And as you can see, most students will either
use a phone or a laptop to login.
Few use a tablet.
And I can tell you some tricks for students
who are using a single laptop
and navigating between Teams and iClicker Reef
when I show you how I run polls.
My recommendations, and Deb, I see your question
and Holly may be replying.
So I taught 50 minute classes
and generally have found that
about two to four questions per class works well,
depending on sort of the nature of the question
and how long it will take them to answer,
but that's typically about right,
and students seem to think so too.
I also found that students really didn't bother
logging into Reef outside of class time.
When they initially log in,
they immediately see sort of their score.
So my guess is people just logged in when class time was
and that was about it.
And in terms of my motivation for using iClicker Reef,
first of all, I'd used iClicker Classic
because I find it such a valuable tool
to get immediate feedback from students
in terms of their understanding,
to help them review stuff, and again,
to give them low stakes practice
answering questions like they might have to answer
on that exam or their homeworks.
And so I wanted to know,
I felt that during class
it was increasing people's engagement,
and students generally agreed.
You can see vast majority said yes or at least somewhat
in terms of increasing engagement during class time.
And also, you can see the vast majority
said they'd recommend using iClicker Reef next semester.
So I have chosen to use it in
the one class where it's applicable.
So we'll be continuing with that.
So now I'm gonna take some time
and I'm actually going to take over
here and share my screen.
Walk you through some of the options
for setting up on the instructor end.
Setting up your course.
Show you what it looks like to run polls
from the instructor ends
and talk a little bit about grading.
And I might flip the last two
and show grading before I show polling.
So.
I will,
I think I should be able to do this over you, Holly.
There we go. -: There you go.
-: Okay, so.
So you guys can hopefully see my screen.
-: Yes. -: And wonderful.
So I've played around a lot with iClicker, as you can see.
So I have a bunch of test classes.
But I'm logged in on my instructor account,
which you create using Instructor Cloud.
So that's the instructor side of things.
So I've logged into my Instructor Cloud account.
And if I go to my class where I used to demo class settings,
you click on your class and you can go to Settings.
And some of this you can set up initially
when you actually establish the course or create the course.
But you can go in and under Course Details,
if you're using it,
and again, I recommend if you just want to take attendance,
you might as well download a roster
rather than adding piece of equipment,
a piece of technology.
So you want to leave to run polls,
quizzes and attendance up here.
And this is information you'll put in
when you first set up your course.
You have the institution.
You can select from a dropdown, course discipline.
Give your class a name.
Set a start date and end date.
You can add some additional information like course ID
and say spring term.
The other thing I found helpful for making
students confident in knowing that
they have joined the appropriate class
is you can actually set meeting days and times.
You can go in and make this 8:15 in the morning,
Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, whatever you want.
In terms of devices,
if you are not using iClicker remotes,
I recommend just selecting mobile devices only.
Makes things simple.
This is something you always want to turn off if,
for our case, if you're using Teams,
because this monitors the time that students
spend away from the app.
And obviously if they're using Teams
and paying attention to you in class,
they will be spending lots of time away from the app.
So you want to leave that off.
And the default is off.
Going over to attendance.
I, because for my purposes,
attendance is not what I care about.
I care about their responses, their participation,
their answering the question.
So I actually turn attendance off.
And that's an option you can do.
And then students don't see two scores,
an attendance score and an iClicker points score.
So I choose to turn it off
and that just simplifies things on my end.
Also on the student's end.
And then go into polling.
So you definitely want to send
a picture of your screen to student devices
when polling starts.
As you saw, when Holly ran her polls,
you automatically saw the question that was on her slide.
And so that's a way,
you don't have to pre-populate iClicker with anything.
You take a screenshot,
you can do a question on the fly if you want.
And if you send the screenshot,
students will have that question
right in front of them in their iClicker app.
I actually, I don't send
class results to student devices.
By and large, most of my questions have correct answers
and I don't mark correct or incorrect during class.
I do that after.
So sending results is not particularly helpful.
Instead, if there are particular questions
where I want students to see the results,
I choose to show it to them.
And that's an easy thing you can do,
and I can show you how to do that.
And then you've got lots of flexibility
in terms of how you want to award points.
How you want to use iClicker in your class.
For my purposes,
because most questions have a correct answer,
and I also just value students being there,
participating, putting in an answer,
thinking about it,
for my purposes, I give one point
for simply submitting an answer
and an additional point for the correct answer.
So every iClicker question is worth two points.
So you can set it up in a lot of different ways.
I don't give bulk participation points.
So I just set this to zero for my purposes.
And for the grading I described,
this is what it would look like.
One point for the correct response
and one point for responding.
This will set a sort of bulk grading policy
for your whole course.
There is the option,
when you go into grade individual sessions,
you can actually modify the grading scheme
for that particular session and only that session.
So if there's a day where something went wrong,
you just want to award participation points,
you want to give bonus points, whatever,
you can actually modify sort of
on the fly individual sessions.
So that's what that looks like.
You also have the option where you just
say every class is going to be worth five points
and it will split points among individual questions,
if you just want every class to be worth the same amount.
And then you have two options for a toolbar,
and I'll show you what that looks like
on the instructor ends when you run it.
I recommend counting up,
simply because I never know quite how long
students are gonna need to answer a question
and it's just nice to have a count up.
You also have the option to run quizzes in iClicker.
In this case, essentially what you're doing
is giving students a multi-question activity
that they can respond to at their own pace.
I personally didn't see a use for it in my class.
If I wanted to run a quiz,
I would put it on Blackboard or something like that.
So I have not played around with quizzing much.
But you do have the option to give students
a question list that they go through
and respond to at their own pace.
And then integration.
You don't have to integrate with Blackboard.
You can certainly lead everything in iClicker,
and this is what I did last semester.
Periodically, I would download the results,
I'd post them on Blackboard.
But students can always see their iClicker point average
when they log in.
I didn't see a reason to feed it back to Blackboard as well.
It is certainly an option that you can choose to do.
And if you want to talk more about that,
there are definitely people at CTL
that can help you get that set up
to make sure you have it done correctly.
And once you got all your course settings done,
you hit Save and then you are all set to run polls.
Now, in terms of running polls on the instructor end,
you can think of iClicker Cloud the website here,
which is what you're looking at,
as the place where you manage scoring,
after class you put your settings in,
you download your points, whatever,
but it's not where you run polls from.
So to run polls, you want to open
an iClicker Cloud app, and it's, as you saw,
Holly was able to download it fairly quickly
to her computer.
So you'll have, on whatever device you're using to teach,
you'll have your iClicker Cloud.
And I'm not going to update immediately.
So it will load.
Come on.
And then you log in with your instructor account.
And I would always get this set up before class started.
And then you choose the class that you want to start.
And what you will see,
similarly to those of you who've used iClicker Classic,
get a little toolbar in the corner.
And you can move that toolbar around wherever you want.
You can also, if you click on the cloud,
it minimizes so you can shove it way out of the way.
When you want to,
so this is where you go to run a poll.
That's where you can go to run quizzes
and this is where you could see number of participants.
So if I go to Poll,
I now have the option to run a multiple choice,
a multiple answer, a short answer, or a numeric.
And again, you can run target questions with the caveat.
There are some issues with students
who have touch screens and mice
in which they use to input their answer.
But I can change it to a short answer question
or multiple choice question.
And this is where you can start and stop it.
So when I hit Start,
you can see it counting up a number of responses.
And during class, I chose to share my screen
rather than uploading say a PowerPoint to Teams,
because then students could actively see
this little toolbar running.
They knew when iClicker was running.
And one thing I found very helpful during class,
for students who are navigating
between Teams window and their iClicker Reef on a web page,
is to say, okay it's an iClicker question.
Everybody go to their iClicker app.
And then I give them the heads up.
Okay, I'm gonna stop it.
I've stopped it.
Had everybody head on back to Teams.
And they seem to appreciate that sort of, okay.
Professor Almstead is confirming
where I'm supposed to be looking right now.
So you can start it and stop it here.
And you can run polls.
You can also choose to show students' results.
So this was a multiple choice question that I ran.
You can show it while it's running.
You also have the option to show it after,
and you can actually click back
and if there are people responding,
you see I'm switching between question one and question two.
If you, like I do, like to see
the students' responses coming in,
like say you're running a multiple choice question
and you want to know, okay, who's getting it
and are they getting in the right direction,
do I need to give them some direction, what's happening,
you can't do it through this app,
but you can do it, and it's hard to show it,
but you can do it through
an app on your phone, or this is my iPad.
And you can use this just like a remote.
So I have this class on here.
So if I hit Stop,
if I can actually touch my screen appropriately.
See if my wifi will cooperate this morning.
This should stop.
You can also use it to actually actively
see the answers that students are inputting
as they're answering the question
without the students seeing it.
So I can start a question.
For some reason, my app, oh.
My iPad's low on battery.
It's been awhile since I used this.
-: Of course it is. (laughs)
That's okay.
-: But you do have the option here.
You can go to Results
and you can actually see the results coming in.
If there are people responding,
you could see them here, and it's hard,
but you could see the multiple choice.
You can actually also tell it to
open up the results on your desktop.
So there's lots of things you can do with this app.
Something you can get on your phone.
My co-instructor used it on her phone.
I used my iPad.
But that's a little bit how it works to run
iClicker during class.
Now let's say after class,
and I'm actually going to switch to showing you,
I'm gonna show you how I stopped,
well, I stopped the poll.
Show you how I stopped.
You can end your class session.
And I always end class just by ending class.
I don't end with an exit poll.
You can ask an exit poll,
but my recommendation is ask your own.
The exit poll asked students what they found most confusing
and other questions like that.
But students have the option
to answer the exit poll at any point.
That day, two weeks down the road,
a month down the road.
So if you want to ask students a muddiest point question,
just ask them a muddiest point question
at the end of your class.
So I just end class without the exit poll.
I'm gonna close out of this one.
So now I have switched over to,
this is actually, this was my fall course.
I taught Bio 1.
And you won't see any students' information here.
So this is okay to show.
But I wanted to give you guys a sense
of what it looks like after class
with a decent number of responses.
So my testing class has one response
where I was playing student.
So here's an example that has
both a multiple choice and a short answer.
So you can go to that session.
This happened the 7th of October.
And if you wanted to adjust points for
simply that particular session, you can go to Poll Settings,
and here's where you could change points
for one particular session.
And you can also delete questions
if you want to get rid of them
using these three little ellipses.
So this was a multiple choice question.
It was comparing DNA in prokaryotic versus eukaryotic cells.
And so this is what the students saw.
The screenshots that got sent.
And as you can see, about 80% got it correct.
So after class, what your responses will look like is this.
It's prior to grading.
You can see that everybody's purple.
In this case, E was the correct answer.
So if I click on it, it marks it green and E as correct.
I could also choose to mark multiple answers as correct.
I can't click twice.
So you could also mark multiple answers
as correct if you wish, even for a multiple choice.
If you click again, it unmarks it.
And you can see the points changing here
because of my grading scheme of
everybody gets a point for responding
and you get an additional point for being correct.
You can also go in and individually manipulate
the numbers of point in each question.
So you have a lot of flexibility on your end for grading.
And then this was a short answer question.
So it was asking them to write one way
the structures of the DNA and RNA are similar.
And so you can go in and iClicker, in some ways,
sorts them so that similar answers appear together.
And so you can scroll down
and you just literally click on answers that are correct.
You can unclick them to make them not correct.
And I mentioned a best answer.
So after class, if you want to go in
and put in your own answer,
this is an answer I inputted.
You can, there's an other box that you can
type in as an instructor.
And then I marked it as correct
and I hit this little blue star to mark it as best.
So when students on their end
go into their iClicker Reef account
and look at the question and the correct answer,
they will see my answer, not anyone else's.
Just their own and mine.
So as you can see,
it's pretty flexible in terms of grading
and you can manipulate points
on individual questions, individual sessions,
and then you also set the policy for your whole class.
So with that,
so Jamie, the CTL have recommended
syllabus language for iClicker Reef,
or is there an ETS page we can direct students to?
I actually have documentation, Jamie,
that I've sent out to other workshop participants
that has the instructions
for getting yourself signed up,
a little bit how to use it.
And I'd be happy to share my syllabus if you're interested
for iClicker Reef,
in terms of how I describe it to students
and how I use it in my classes
and how I tell them about grading.
And if anybody else is interested
in that information, let me know.
I'm happy to share.
Are there any questions?
I see a few people seem to be typing in the chat.
Can you have a TA do the grading?
Yes, Megan, you can.
I actually, we had one TA for the two sections of Bio 1
and we'll have it for Bio 2,
since there are about 400 students in the class.
And we had the TA grade short answers.
Multiple choice is easy because it's one click,
but we had the TA go through
and grade the short answer questions
and then give us a sort of short summary.
And I'm happy to talk to you a little bit more
about how to get a TA set up
and prep them for grading.
It looks like a fair number of participants
would like the syllabus and the sort of
documentation that you could send to your students
modified for your class.
So Holly, if you send me a participants list,
I will just send it out to the whole CTL group
who are here today.
-: No problem.
Yeah, and I think the person who is missing today
would probably like the information as well.
She wasn't able to make it,
so she's gonna watch the recording.
-: Okay, so just include her on that.
Awesome.
Awesome, any other questions?
Jackie is typing.
And you guys can go ahead and unmute.
There aren't that many of you.
-: Laura, I'm curious.
I haven't taught totally remotely yet.
So I had two small in-person classes in the fall.
What is the advantage of iClicker over polls in Teams?
-: Yeah, and Jackie just asked that question
in the chat. -: Oh. (laughs)
Great. -: So for polls,
you have to get them set,
you have to get them set up ahead of time.
They're also a little more clunky and you have to,
you have to be sure that students
will have access to the chat
if you're posting links to the polls in the chat.
And I had students who were never able to access the chat.
I had no idea, ETS had no idea.
Sometimes it was the same,
and then I had students who couldn't do it,
who couldn't do it one day
but could the other day.
Holly says polls are a little more
streamlined this semester.
The other thing with polls is
scoring becomes interesting.
-: Right, I mean, I see that as
one of the things, Laura.
The advantages for the iClicker Reef are that
the scoring is a lot more straightforward,
it integrates directly with Blackboard,
if you want to do that,
and also if you want to allow students
to save the different questions,
they can kind of use it as a quiz tool later for themselves,
and that just stays right within their own
Reef app on their phone.
I mean, there's certainly nothing wrong
with the polling tool and it is,
I'm testing it today, actually.
I've heard that there's more streamline
availability to make a poll now ahead of time
instead of having to do it on the fly really quickly
and kind of scrambling around
and having to post it in the chat.
So I'm gonna experiment with that today
and hopefully put up some documentation
about how that works.
So I think it's possible.
I think this tool is just a little more
streamlined for interactivity.
-: And students seem to find it reasonably usable.
Obviously there are always some little technical glitches.
Just like with Teams.
Maybe there'd be one student who couldn't
log in right away or something like that.
But that's just like with any piece of technology.
The thing that I did with my,
even my 200 person class,
and it actually worked really well
is I had a mix of questions,
two to four iClicker questions per class,
but I also had a bunch more where I just said,
there was a box on the slide.
Here's the question, type your answer in the chat.
And there would be a 20 car pileup of responses.
I could kind of read them.
So I found that pretty user-friendly,
pretty easy way to ask
questions that I just wanted kind of a quick response
rather than the, okay, everybody do this.
iClicker question's gonna take a few minutes.
A poll would take a few minutes.
This was a way to get super fast feedback.
-: So, and Laura, can I follow up on that?
Did the students seem to flow with that okay?
This is more of like a discussion question.
I'm gonna, give me some ideas about
how this would affect that.
And just live with the chat and it it's not scored.
And so then students were fine
with going back and forth with that kind of thing
and the iClicker piece?
-: Yeah, and I actually, I have to say,
I got some really nice emails at the end of the semester
saying they appreciated the fact that
they did have kind of constant requests
for their input during class.
There were, in addition to the iClicker questions,
there were these type in the chat questions.
And considering I was teaching my big class,
it was always very clear and I have a method.
It's a green text box.
The background is green.
And the question is there
and it says in italics under it,
type your answer in the chat.
So students looking at it immediately knew
what they were expected to do.
Or the question would say, write the answer in your notes.
And they immediately knew
they would write the answer in their notes.
The iClicker questions were always multiple choice question
or if it was a short answer question,
I would also often put a little iClicker Reef
image at the bottom,
and I would always verbally tell them,
and then they have the cue of the
toolbar running.
So they have all of those visual cues,
even if they miss an audio cue.
Anybody else?
Looks like Shelley's typing.
-: Can I ask, well Shelley,
oh, sorry, Shelley's question is there now.
-: Question was, do they fill in a chart?
That I don't think so.
I don't see it.
I don't think there is that complex format.
For something like that,
well, think about collaborative documents.
If it is entering multiple things, that's not a reality.
I don't even think that's possible in polls.
Megan, it sounded like you had another one.
-: I was just wondering,
I'm going to do one of the workshops
on the breakout rooms, the new function.
And I wondered, have you ever tried to combine
breakout rooms and iClicker?
Does that even, or is that too mind-boggling? (laughs)
-: I personally haven't only because
breakout rooms were not really available in the fall.
And with 200 people, I was a little leery of
throwing that many people and coordinating it
and how much time it would take during class.
So I sort of chose my technology
as the in-class technologies iClicker.
And then we'll collect in the chat
and everybody stays within those boundaries.
But I do know that people have been
playing around a bit with breakout rooms.
So I just don't have personal experience since
they weren't really there.
-: I'm trying to imagine how it would work.
And I think,
I mean, it's still possible to do.
I think it could get a little bit confusing though
because you have to be sharing
your screen somewhere for the students
to be able to see it and be able to respond.
And if they're in separate breakout rooms,
there's no common place to see the same screen
because the main meeting that you were in is on hold, Megan.
So they can't actually participate in that main meeting
until they come back to it.
-: I see, okay.
Great, thanks.
-: And so-- -: I have a question.
-: Go for it, Julie.
Julie: Okay, thanks.
It would take me too long to write it down.
Last semester when I used Teams,
I had the,
I shared a PowerPoint rather than my screen,
so I could write on it as I lectured.
And I heard you say that you didn't do it that way
and I'm wondering if it's really clunky,
if you actually show the PowerPoint
and then go to an iClicker question.
-: It's not clunky at all.
The students will simply not see the toolbar.
Julie: Okay.
-: That's the only difference.
Is they'll see the toolbar-- -: That's what I was doing?
-: So that's what Holly was doing.
And so you didn't see the toolbar running.
So the students just don't have the visual cue
of when a poll started, when a poll is stopping.
But as long as you're clear, it's not,
certainly not an issue.
Julie: Okay, thank you.
-: It will be more challenging to show students' responses
if you want to show it to them,
but you can always take screenshot of the graph
or the word cloud and put it in the chat,
just like Holly did.
-: As far as being able to set this up
individually for each of your courses,
if you feel like you want some help,
you can certainly schedule a consult with any,
either myself or Laura, Jen,
Garrett Austin Miller also knows how to do this setup.
So there's multiple folks at the CTL
who can help you kind of on an individual basis
through a consultation.
And that's totally reasonable to ask for that.
We don't expect just because you've listened to us
for this past hour that you know everything now
about how to set this up.
And I know it's a little bit confusing,
probably especially for those of you
who used the older iClicker.
This functions quite differently in a lot of respects.
So please feel free to reach out to ctl@uvm.edu.
I'll put that email in the chat.
And just let us know that you would like
an individual consultation and we can schedule that for you.
-: The other thing to give you a heads up,
if any of you would like some help in the near future,
I am scheduled to be in the CTL.
We're trying CTL sort of open hours
and I'm scheduled to be on call, if you will,
from, I think it's one to three
on Thursday afternoon.
And there's information about the CTL open hours
and you can literally drop in.
And if you drop in during that time and ask for me,
there are certainly,
I could take several people at a time
if it's all going through iClickers.
I'm also happy to talk one-on-one.
-: I just posted those hours in the chat, everyone.
So what happens,
for example, today there's hours from one to 3:30
and multiple people are on shift during that time.
So there'll be a live link on this page
that you can just go to this page and click on it,
and then it'll take you into a lobby inside a Teams meeting
where you'll be directed to meet with an individual person.
You just will tell the traffic cop
what your requests are
and then you'll get routed to the appropriate CTL person.
Participant: So are the students obligated
to have that, to use this?
-: So the CTL open office hours are totally optional.
Hop in, hop out if you want.
You can also email to schedule a consult.
So if you want to schedule a specific time one-on-one.
Can I run my office, I like that.
Traffic cop.
What's your question?
Maybe I want to see you.
(laughing)
-: If you enable the lobby, you can absolutely do that.
(laughs)
Did your question get answered about the student app?
Students are only obligated to use it if you're
asking them to do so as part of their grade.
So I think when you see Laura's syllabus,
in it it talks about how that becomes part of their grade
as part of attending class and participating
and being engaged with the work during the class period.
So everybody kind of decides
individually how exactly they want iClicker
to integrate within any sort of a participation
attendance kind of a grade,
or if they are also using it for small quizzing,
which as Laura talked about is a function
if you want to use it for that.
So you have to decide exactly how
you'd like it to be managed as far as the grade,
and then the students would purchase access to the app,
just like they purchase textbooks and things like that.
-: So it looks like...
Oh, Julie, that link for stuff
will be in the instructions that I send to you.
-: Yes, and if they're just posting,
if they're just getting it for a smartphone,
they would just go to the app store
on whatever type of smartphone that they have
and search for Reef
and they'll be able to find it there.
-: It's available on Android and iOS.
-: Okay.
Well I think that's the bulk of what we have to present.
I see there's just a few more lingering questions,
which is totally fine.
-: So Deb, they only have to pay one.
It's an account and it's just whether they're using
an account on the web or an account on their app.
And they can do either, they can switch back and forth.
It just kind of like you have an email account,
you can look at your email on the phone,
you can look at it on the web browser, whatever you want.
-: Exactly.
-: So they have to go in through the web
to set it up and pay.
They can't pay through their phone.
That's the only small caveat.
But that will all be in the instructions that I send.
Julie, the instructors thing to run on your computer
is the iClicker Cloud.
So anything instructor related is iClicker Cloud.
So if you were looking for to search for the iClicker
Cloud app that I was using on my iPad,
you'd search for iClicker Cloud.
I think it comes up as iClicker Instructor Remote.
So that's what you'd use.
Awesome.
-: Thank you, everybody.
I appreciate it. -: You're very welcome, Megan.
Have a good day, everybody. -: Thank you.
-: Also, look for the email.
-: Thank you. -: And I'll get you that
participant list.
You're very, very welcome.