User guide

5i>clicker User Guide Windows/PC

You can reposition the toolbar anywhere on your desktop. The oating toolbar allows you to run

i>clicker with your presentation application(s). For example, if you use PowerPoint, both your

presentation and the i>clicker toolbar will be active (see example below). The toolbar oats above any

application including Word, Acrobat, Web browsers, Mathematica, etc.

TIP: If you reposition the toolbar on your desktop, the system will remember its placement and retain

the new location until you change it again. This feature gives you more exibility and control to

design your lecture presentations so that the oating toolbar never obstructs your question text or

images.

4 When you are ready to pose a question, advise your students to turn on their clickers. Then present the

question and answer choices (either verbally or visually) and click START on the toolbar.

NOTE: i>clicker will only begin collecting votes after you click START. If you do not click START,

i>clicker will not accept or record any votes. A green Vote Status light on the students’ remotes

indicates that a response has been successfully recorded.

TIP: If you use a program to display your question (e.g., PowerPoint), make sure it is the active

application when you start polling. Each time you click START to begin polling, i>clicker captures an

image of the active window and stores it along with polling results for later review in i>grader.

5 Click DISPLAY on the toolbar to view a graph of your students’ responses for the current question. (See

Viewing Student Responses below.) To end the polling session, click STOP on the toolbar and i>clicker

will no longer accept votes. The toolbar will display the word “Done” along with the total number of

votes collected for ve seconds after polling has ended. After ve seconds, the counter and timer will

disappear so the oating toolbar is less obtrusive.

NOTE: i>clicker stops collecting votes when you click STOP. If students attempt to vote when polling

is not active, the Vote Status light on their remotes will ash red three times to indicate that a

response was not received.r

7 Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each question you ask in class.