1. Clickers & Other Assessment Tools
Fall Instructional Media—Learning Technologies
Bring: (1) Sign-in sheets
(2) Handout: IMFacultyLab
(3) Set of Clickers
(4) TurningPoint Presentation:
Preparation: (1) Run TurningPoint (Start, Accessories, TurningPoint)
(2) Open the presentation
(3) Open Google Chrome with two tabs or windows
Browse to our wiki:
Canvas course: Next to Assessment> Clickers & Other Assessment Tools
Browse to Canvas login:
Browse to Poll Everywhere login:
(1) Handouts and clickers to everyone
(2) Introduction
(3) Goals:
(A) To introduce several assessment tools to you. Some are for use in the classroom, while others can be added to an online course site in Canvas.
(B) Instructional Media offers training and support to you on all of these.

2. Setup for participants
Double-click on the Google Chrome icon to run it
Browse to our wiki
Click on Workshops
Click on Clickers & Other Assessment Tools

3. Clickers & other Assessment Tools support an Active Learning Approach
Today’s Tools
Clickers in the classroom
Publisher Test Banks in Canvas
Rethinking Quizzes: A strategy for self-assessment
Interactive games and activities with SoftChalk that track, score, and grade in Canvas
Poll Everywhere (mobile phone text messaging)
Today’s Tools
Clickers in the classroom
Publisher Test Banks in Canvas
Rethinking Quizzes: A strategy for self-assessment
Interactive games and activities with SoftChalk that track and score (grades work with Canvas)
Poll Everywhere (mobile phone text messaging)

4. Clickers in the Classroom

5. Clickers in the Classroom
Why?
Students like them!
Student engagement
Anonymous participation
Provide an opportunity for active learning
Facilitate group discussion (one per small group)
Gauge student understanding vs. a whole class discussion where only 1-2 students respond
Why?
- Students like them!
- Student engagement
- Anonymous participation
- Provide an opportunity for active learning
- Facilitate group discussion (one per small group)
- Gauge student understanding vs. a whole class discussion where only 1-2 students respond

6. Clickers in the Classroom
What are they?
Two pieces of equipment
One Receiver plugs into Instructor Computer and
A set of Response Cards with buttons for students to push.
These can be reserved and checked out from AV Services once you’ve had basic training.
We offer basic training to all faculty that takes about 45 min- 1 hr.
We have some sessions pre-scheduled at the beginning of each semester
Or you can contact us and we’ll setup an appointment.
Let’s try them!

7. Have you ever used clickers?
Yes No
I’m not sure

8. Research shows that interactions between learner-to-learner can be as valuable and instructive as learner-to-content and learner-to-instructor.
True
False
Not sure
Moore, M. G. (1996) Distance Education: A Systems View. California: Wadsworth Publishing.

9. Publisher Test Banks in Canvas

10. Publisher Test Banks in Canvas
Have you adopted a textbook that has test banks?
We can obtain most all publisher test banks and put them into your Canvas course for you.
You can use those test banks to make quizzes or tests that are hidden from students until you want them seen.
CLICK Have you adopted a textbook that has test banks?
- CLICK We can usually obtain the publisher to get the test banks & we’ll put them into your Canvas course for you.
- CLICK You can use those test banks to make quizzes or tests that are hidden from students until you want them seen.

11. Publisher Test Banks in Canvas
Why Might You Want to Use Them?
Automatic grading
Help students learn by providing instant feedback
Save time
Long-term value: Import quizzes or tests into other Canvas courses.
Why Might You Want to Use Them?
Automatic grading
Save time
Help students learn by providing instant feedback
Provide practice exercises for self- assessment
Long-term value: Import quizzes or tests into other Canvas courses.
CLICK Let’s try one!
Let’s try one!

12. Publisher Test Banks in Canvas
Let’s try one!
Go to our wiki –
Near Assessment, go to the Canvas site for this training session
Try CHEM Symbols & Tables in Questions
Why Might You Want to Use Them?
Automatic grading
Save time
Help students learn by providing instant feedback
Provide practice exercises for self- assessment
Long-term value: Import quizzes or tests into other Canvas courses.
CLICK Let’s try one!

13. Rethinking quizzes as a strategy to support Self-Guided Learning & Self-assessment

14. Quizzes as a Strategy to Support Self-Guided Learning & Self-assessment
Rationale: Might be one way to provide additional help to your students; could be a risk-free, reinforcing mechanism.
Best Practices
Use to provide additional practice
Allow multiple or unlimited attempts
Scoring counts only towards required participation.
Use question groups: One or two questions from each group is displayed each time a student takes the quiz.
Allow students to immediately see their results with all answer choices and the correct answers and feedback.
Use feedback: As an opportunity to once again explain

15. Respondus (Makes quizzes, tests, test banks for online use in Canvas)

16. Respondus What is it? What it does that Canvas doesn’t
Campus site license; free; easy, training usually takes less then 45 minutes. Let’s you create and put quiz, test, or test bank into Canvas, or any other learning management system (Blackboard, Angel, Desire2Learn, etc.)
What it does that Canvas doesn’t
Images in quiz answers and feedback. (Ex: more sophisticated equations that are created with MathType.)
In addition to making quizzes and tests, it makes test banks that can later be used to create quizzes and tests.

17. Let’s try one! Respondus Quizzes
Try one with Images in Answers or Feedback
Why Might You Want to Use Them?
Automatic grading
Save time
Help students learn by providing instant feedback
Provide practice exercises for self- assessment
Long-term value: Import quizzes or tests into other Canvas courses.
CLICK Let’s try one!

18. Respondus (more capabilities than Canvas)
More that it does… but Canvas doesn’t (yet)
An original quiz file is kept on your machine. (Might be good, might not ever be necessary to have.)
Output includes a formatted paper document for students that need to take all exams on paper.

19. Interactive games and activities
That track, score, and grade in Canvas

20. Softchalk Cloud: Interactive Games and Activities that Track, Score, and Grade in Canvas
Overview: Make interactive mini-games with scoring that work when linked to Canvas and the grade book.
We offer training and can help you get started.
We are developing an online support site in Canvas with licensing, handouts, samples.
Let’s look at some sample activities

21. Interactive Games and Activities that Track and Score (created with Softchalk Cloud)
Let’s try some!
You’ll need to navigate to certain pages in each lesson

22. Try at least one of the samples (created with Softchalk Cloud)
Let’s try some!
After a few have completed the activities and submitted them for scoring
KE- login to Canvas and show the Grade book columns for those activities

23. Poll Everywhere
Mobile phone text messaging

24. Poll Everywhere Free Easy to use
In the classroom everyone can see live feedback as mobile text messages are received OR as audience clicks on the poll using their browser.
In Canvas, could add a link the URL so students could poll
Let’s look at some sample activities

25. Try one of the first two samples
Let’s try some!
After a few have completed the activities and submitted them for scoring KE
- login to Canvas and show the Grade book columns for those activities
Show third sample
- Download a PowerPoint slide that can be clicked on during a class and then students can send a mobile phone text message.

26. Poll Everywhere
See more general information, including some short videos examples of how it works, on our wiki

27. Interested in Learning More?

28. Of the technologies that we’ve just looked at, which would you like to use in your teaching?
Clickers in the Classroom
Publisher Test Banks in Canvas
Interactive Games and Activities (with Softchalk Cloud)
Poll Everywhere (mobile phone text)

29. How Can You Get Started?

30. Instructional Media—Learning Technologies We provide faculty with resources to enhance teaching and learning
Contact us
Walk-in to IM Faculty Lab, CL232 during Open Labs for One-to-one Assistance:
Call anytime to schedule an appointment Karen Evans Jeff Fairbanks
Or, many of our resources are here: M T W Th F
11a-1p
9:30-10:30a
4-5p

31. Interested in other training?
Complete the Survey on our blog: Survey results at the end of August will help us determine the topic for a training session in the end of September.

32. Today’s Presenters Karen M. Evans KEvans@howardcc.edu 443-518-4836
Contributing research and development: Jeffrey Fairbanks Amy Chase-Martin