Holly Owens Northern Virginia Community College IS&D AA 337 Welcome to Classroom Performance System (CPS) Training 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

 Part I- Creating a database  Part II- Creating Classes and Adding Students  Part III- Creating a CPS lesson  Part IV-Engaging students in a lesson CPS- The Basics 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

CPS Tabs When working in the prepare tab, you’re in edit mode. You are editing class lists, lessons etc. When working in the Engage tab, you’re engaging your students in the lessons you have created. When working in the Reports tab you are able to generate and view various reports from lesson that you have engaged your students in; keeps record of all lessons. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Part I- Creating Your Own CPS Database 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Creating Your CPS Database Click on the CPS icon on you desktop Choose “Create a new CPS Database” and click OK Title the file and save it where you would like and click “Save” Your database will appear in the CPS system. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Part II-Creating Classes and Adding Students 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Do you like CPS so far? A.Yes B.No 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Creating Class Lists Click on New and Class Choose Other and click Next Choose No and click Next Fill in required information marked by an * and click Next Again, fill in required information marked by an * and click Next You do have the option of creating another class if you need to by repeating all these steps, if not click on Done. Congrats! Your class will now appear in your database as you have titled it. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Adding Students Under the Prepare tab and classes & students click on New and click Student. Make sure the class is highlighted that you want to add students to. Begin typing in your students name. Hit enter to continually type in names. The Pad ID corresponds to the clicker the student is assigned to. Remember to save your database after you have entered in all your students. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Part III-Creating CPS Lessons 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Students will love using CPS. A.True B.False 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Setting up a Lesson You will now be working in the Lessons & Assessments sub tab to create your CPS lesson To create a new lesson, click on New and then click Lesson. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Type in a title for your lesson. This title will be what appears in your database. Click ok after you have entered in your Title. Your lesson will appear in you database 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Adding Questions to Lessons To create a Question in your new lesson, highlight the lesson you would like to add questions to and click New and then Question. There are various features that you can use for creating questions. Create new question, save, close, alter fonts Change question formats, preview questions, and check spelling 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Type in your question and answer choices Be sure to mark the correct answer. Click Save and close after you have entered in all your questions. Adding Questions to Lessons Your question will now appear in your database. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

CPS is easy to use A.Strongly Agree B.Agree C.Neutral D.Disagree E.Strongly Disagree 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Part IV-Engaging Students in a Lesson 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Engaging in a Lesson You will now be working in the Engage tab under Lessons & Assessments. Check the lesson you would like to engage the students in and make sure you are on the right class list, then click Engage Click Next to move into your CPS lesson. Click start and the session will be engaged.. You will be able to see who is answering in because their clicker number will turn a dark blue. Once the timer has ran out, or you have stop the question the correct answer will be noted with a check mark. You will see a display of how many people choose which answer as well as statistics on correct responses. To end the session click on the red exit and hit close on the tool bar. 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

I am excited about using CPS in my classroom. A.Strongly Agree B.Agree C.Neutral D.Disagree E.Strongly Disagree 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D

Stay Tuned…Up Next, The Challenge game, The Challenge game, FastGrade Lessons, and the Reports tab. Thanks for your time 11/12/2015 AL Campus LTR-IS&D