User guide
9i>clicker User Guide Windows/PC
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Registering Your Students’ Remotes
The i>clicker system may be used as a simple tool to give you instant, anonymous feedback in class, in
which case no registration procedure is necessary. However, if you (like most instructors) want to go a
bit further and give credit to your students for class participation and/or performance, you will need to:
1 Associate each of your students with the unique serial number on their i>clicker remotes (i.e.
Registration).
2 Decide on the grading details for each session of your class (see Assigning Credit for Sessions and
Questions).
TIP: Research studies show (Caldwell, J.E. “Clickers in the large classroom: Current research and
best-practice tips.” Life Sciences Education, 6(1), 9-20, 2007.) that students participate and vote
using clickers more consistently when clicker points are worth at at least 10% of their overall grade.
When clickers are worth 5% or less of the total course grade, students take voting less seriously and
participate less frequently.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT use the following instructions for registering students if you are using i>clicker
with a course management system (e.g., Blackboard). Go to www.iclicker.com and download the
instructions for your specic CMS. i>clicker currently supports Blackboard, Blackboard CE/Vista
(WebCT), Moodle, ANGEL, Sakai, and Desire2Learn.
Creating Your Student Roster File
Each student remote has a unique serial number printed on the back. This number is referred to as the
remote ID.
Associating or registering a student with the remote ID is required before a student can receive
individual credit for voting in class. To register your students, you must rst create a le containing
student information in your course folder. If you are not planning to integrate voting data with your
CMS system, you will create a text le named Roster.txt.
NOTE: Students can still vote with their i>clicker remotes before registering but until they’ve
registered their remotes, their votes will be linked within i>grader to only the i>clicker remote ID.