Teaching with iClicker

About

iClicker is a student engagement system which uses active learning techniques to increase classroom engagement. It provides low stakes, low stress interaction between students and the content, providing instructors with in the moment learning data.

Why Use This Tool?

Active Learning: Students engage actively with the content by responding to a variety of content question types, viewing classroom results in real time, and reflecting on responses. Students can also include a confidence rating for their answers as well.
Community of Inquiry: iClicker creates a sense of community through social learning. Students see their incorrect answers as a common part of the learning process, which drives a deeper discussion about misunderstandings.
Usability: Regardless of an instructor’s preferred presentation method, iClicker acts as a filter on top of the presentation. It is compatible with Zoom, Meet, Powerpoint, and Slides to name a few.
Study Tools: iClicker takes screenshots of the questions from in-class quizzes. These screenshots can be used as a study tool for students. These resources include flashcards and practice tests.
Assessment: Instructors can use iClicker for pre-, post-, and just-in-time assessments. The iClicker results can inform how content is presented to students in real time.

Getting Started

Creating a Course in iClicker

Create a course within iClicker to manage the course and add students to the course. Start here to create your course.

If you will use iClicker in both Lecture and Recitation, there is a multiple step process for setting up iClicker. Once this is complete instruct students to join both the main lecture course, and their appropriate recitation section on iClicker. This means they will have two "iClicker courses" for their class with you.

Set Up iClicker Main Lecture

Use the LMS provided training and resources to get started.
If it is your first time using iClicker, you will need to create an account . You can use Single Sign-On (SSO).
Create a course on iClicker using information for your Main Lecture section.
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Sync the course to your Canvas class.
Provide information to students to join your class on the Student iClicker page in your course.
After you run a class section, sync your class report back to the Canvas gradebook.

Prepare for iClicker for Recitations:

You must first create a Canvas Section for each recitation section in the course. You can use your rosters from MyASU to determine which students belong to each recitation. UTO can help you divide your large roster into smaller canvas sections inside of a single Canvas course shell.
Use information from your MyASU and faculty rosters and Canvas to complete this spreadsheet .
- course_id: The ID description visible inside of your Canvas page typically something like "2021Fall-T-BIO100-91637-97106-97107"
- user_id: The ID number of each student, found via the roster.
- role: Student
- section_id: This is name UTO will give the section in Canvas when generated. It's recommended to name it the Recitation Day/Time and the Section Line Number SLN as visible on your MyASU faculty dashboard. Example: "Recitation Tuesday 12pm (91638)". Apply the section_id to all students that need to be sorted into that section.
- status: active
- Place all recitations into a single spreadsheet but make sure you keep the differing section_id
Submit the spreadsheet to LMS with a request to help divide students into sections within Canvas but to also keep the main section of all students combined.
Once UTO has sorted your students you can now create your individual iClicker courses and match them to sections inside of Canvas.
If students join your course after the UTO assisted sort you can manually adjust their section information using the People page in Canvas.

Set Up iClicker Recitations

Follow the iClicker guide here to set up each section. (this document contains screenshots for all directions below)
- Once you create an iClicker class for an individual recitation you will be able to link rename the poll Links to an external site.it to the sub-section inside of the same Canvas shell. It is recommended to name the class after your class and then the section number
  - Examples: BIO 100 Recitation Tuesday 12pm (91638), BIO 100 Recitation Tuesday 9pm (81645), BIO 100 Main Lecture (78541)
Change the Roster & Grade Sync settings
- In order for this setup to support the described multi-section scenario, the Grade Sync Settings need to be changed as follows. You can modify these settings upon initial setup of Roster & Grade Sync, or anytime later through the Integrations tab of your course settings:
- Selecting to sync as Individual activity scores in separate columns ensures that students receive the total points across all of the iClicker courses. Choosing the total single column option would not combine the points earned in different iClicker courses.
- For students with no iClicker responses, selecting the Do not receive a score in the Canvas gradebook option ensures that iClicker class sessions that a student did not attend do not overwrite earned points already synced. Choosing the option to send a score of zero, on the other hand, would overwrite previously earned points with a zero.
Once you run a recitation section in each recitation for a week you will rename the poll. the exact same name across all recitation sections. Sync the first one to the gradebook, and then all the subsequent recitations. If named the same title you will get only one Canvas gradebook column and all students will receive their score in this column.
When you sync iClicker back to Canvas it will place the assignment inside of the Imported Assignments box on the assignment page found in the Left-Hand navigation. You will need to drag and drop the section into the weighted group for iClicker.

iClicker: Quizzes and Polls

Quizzes and polls can be used for a variety of purposes. Quizzes allow students to answer multiple questions at once and are only compatible with multiple-choice questions. Polls are the more common use with various types of questions, and students answer one question at a time. Find out more here.

iClicker: Taking Attendance

iClicker is a useful tool to take attendance within courses, in addition to the other uses. The geolocation option can be used to ensure in-class attendance. Automate your class attendance with iClicker by starting here.

Creating an iClicker Assignment

Create and edit assignments for your course, choosing question type, inserting media, and picking grading options within iClicker. Find more information here.

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Why Use This Tool?

Getting Started

Creating a Course in iClicker

Set Up iClicker Main Lecture

Prepare for iClicker for Recitations:

Set Up iClicker Recitations

iClicker: Quizzes and Polls

iClicker: Taking Attendance

Creating an iClicker Assignment

Troubleshooting/Support

Common issues

Support Pages/Contacts

ASU LMS Support

iClicker Support

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