How Do I Register My Iclicker On Blackboard

$_3 Why apply iClicker? (Scroll down for instructions on use)
The i>clicker, student response system is now integrated into Blackboard.
The integration with Blackboard volition allow you lot to more easily manage the registration of a particular clicker to a particular student, create the roster that is used by the iclicker software to place users and make results accessible to students via the grade heart in Blackboard and so that students can monitor their progress.
Who'due south using them on campus:

Reckoner Sciences: Bob Geitz, Roberto Hoyle
Chemistry: Matt Elrod
Biological science: Yolanda Cruz
Physics: Rob Owen, Melinda Keller, Stephen FitzGerald, Jason Stalnaker

Why and how to use clickers in your course. Short Video Explanations from i>Clicker.

How to use iClickers

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To employ the clickers, the Instructor will need some software on their laptop. These packages as well include the instructors guide on how to use the software. If you lot take trouble installing the software, only give u.s. a phone call (775-8345) or e-mail octet@oberlin.edu.

To install and go started …

Select the appropriate installer from the Oberlin specific options (Mac or Windows). If you lot're still running Sierra on your Mac follow these directions.
In one case you've installed the software, y'all'll need to start it up and connect information technology to your course. Open the iClicker application. You do not need to register, but you can if you lot like.
Click Create to create a new session. Highlight the created course and click settings. If you accept your own iClicker (not needed but can be handy) you lot can set information technology as the instructor iClicker here. Yous as well tin set the "frequency" code – it should exist fine to apply whatever is currently set. The frequency code can exist important if in that location are other classes nearby that are besides using clickers. There are other settings here you can change if you like, merely are not necessary.

Instructor will need a base, which can be borrowed from OCTET (Mudd 052) or requested from iclicker. The base must be attached to the reckoner yous are presenting from (plug one end of the string into the usb port of your computer, and one into the "To Calculator" port of the base).

Participants will demand clickers (but see below). Clickers tin can be ordered through the bookstore in the same mode that kinesthesia indicate which book they volition be using for the grade. Students tin can then purchase an iclicker. They do not need a unlike iclicker for each course. They can register their iclicker through Blackboard and apply the same iclicker for multiple courses.

During the presentationWhen you want to begin polling, link up your base station, open your presentation, and open the iClicker plan on your desktop. Click on the course you created earlier and click "Commencement Polling". A message should popular upwardly within a minute or so giving you lot the frequency code that your participants need to enter on their iClickers to connect to your course, and the instructions to do so. A small window should open on your screen assuasive you lot to control the polling. Y'all can offset and stop polling, and pull upward the results by clicking on the graph button. In that location is too a settings push if yous need to adjust the settings. If you have an iClicker connected as an instructor iClicker, you can control your presentation and the polling by selecting the buttons on the iClicker instead of having to click on your reckoner, only you lot will not be able to vote.

Feel gratis to come by the OCTET function in Mudd 052 or email us octet@oberlin.edu to try out the iClickers, ask questions, or borrow a base.

Other Notes

This software is compatible with version five.04 on the base station. If you have an older version of the firmware on your basestation you tin can either upgrade the firmware using the utility provide past iclicker or download a previous version of the desktop software.

Instructions for getting your software continued to your Blackboard grade book can be found here

Using the iclicker, polling software without a base station or clicker:

Additionally, i>clicker software can be used without a base station or clickers. Students simply use their phones, laptops or tablets. This is called REEF polling. To apply this feature instructors demand to create a form site that volition have answers that are not from the separate devices i.e. REEF polling attainable AND the students will need to register their device. The price of registering the device is less then the cost of purchasing a clicker simply not by much.
Clickers price well-nigh $30-40 with a $x-twenty buy dorsum by the bookstore when the student is finished using the clicker. The REEF registration has costs associated with it.
For more info, visit the i>Clicker site at https://www1.iclicker.com/products/reef-polling/