The following i>Clicker Quick Start guide for instructors is available in pdf form:
How do I?
To request the i>clicker polling service, there are two steps to complete:
Students can purchase their clickers through The Cornell Store. Only one clicker is needed for all courses using i>clicker.
Price for Fall 2011 - New: $41.00, Used: $28.50
Instructors: Copy and paste the information below into an email, a handout or post it on your course web site for your students at the beginning of the semester:
How to register your i>clicker:
Each student must register his/her i>clicker each semester.
To register your i>clicker, go to http://atcsupport.cit.cornell.edu/pollsrvc/ .
Log in with your NetID and your password.
Click on the link .
Type in the clicker ID# and click .
You have successfully registered your i>clicker with the Cornell i>clicker system.
Please do not register i>clickers at the iclicker.com site.
If you cannot read the clicker ID, to find your i>clicker ID #:
Please stop in to one of these locations with your clicker:
- Carpenter Hall Reading Room (1st floor) between 9:00am - Noon, Monday - Friday
- Uris Library Tower Room between 9:00am - Noon, Monday - Friday
- the Academic Technology Center, 124 Computing & Communications Center building (on the Ag Quad, next to Bailey Hall), between 9:00am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
and one of the staff can confirm your i>clicker ID #. Once it has been confirmed, please write it on a small piece of paper and place it inside the battery compartment.
The following instructions will allow you to associate clicker IDs with student names. If you are not tracking student responses, you do not need to read this section. Also, if you would prefer, we can arrange to do this process for you. Please contact atc_support@cornell.edu to arrange a meeting time convenient for you.
For what follows, the term 'course folder' will be used to designate whatever folder contains the i>clicker and i>grader programs that you run in class. By default, these folders are named
iclicker Win:Classes:YourCourseName&Number or
iclicker Mac:Classes:YourCourseName&Number.
However, you may have re-named them so they may be different.
See Section for Blackboard Courses
See Section for non-Blackboard Courses
A PDF file of these instructions can be downloaded at this location or you may follow the steps on this web page. If you already have a course roster in your Blackboard course site and you would like to have i>clicker prepare student responses for uploading to the Blackboard Grade Center, please read the following instructions. If you are not using Blackboard, or do not want student responses prepared using that formatting, skip ahead to iClicker Synchronization with non-Blackboard courses.
Important Note: If you modify the i>clicker settings as described above, but do not go through the process of downloading your Blackboard roster and placing it in your i>clicker course folder, you will receive an alert telling you that your Blackboard roster was not found. You may conduct i>clicker sessions without this Blackboard roster file in place; this alert is simply a reminder to add the Blackboard roster file before trying to export i>clicker data for use in your Blackboard site.
When you are ready to match clickers with students, follow the steps listed below in the section Synchronizing the class roster with the student clickers.
In order for the system to register your students properly, you'll need a roster file for your course. If you don't have such a file already and you are not using Blackboard, you can request one by going to http://atc.cit.cornell.edu/atc/blackboard/requestroster.cfm . Be sure to mention in the comments field that you need your roster formatted for i>clicker.
Once you have received this file, check that it is in the proper format of
lastname1, firstname1, netID1
lastname2, firstname2, netID2
lastname3, firstname3, netID3
...and so on. No other data should be in the file.
Finally, change the filename to roster.txt and save it in your i>clicker USB flash drive in your i>clicker course folder.
After getting your roster file, you will need to change the settings in i>clicker to recognize this file. Open your i>clicker USB flash drive and do the following:
The server URL is for the local Cornell i>clicker registrations. Note that the software is particular about the format. If not already provided, you can just copy and paste the following Server URL string into the i>clicker application. If you are missing any of the characters, the software will not synchronize the students with their respective i>clickers.
Server URL:
SQLhttp://atcsupport.cit.cornell.edu/pollsrvc/support/lookup.cfm?c=
NOTE: Before you run the web synchronization, the students must use their clickers in class at least once.
Also make sure your firewall protection allows i>grader to access the Internet.
Open your i>clicker USB flash drive and do the following:
i>grader synchronizes your roster information with your students' online registrations. After synchronization is complete, click to return to the i>grader Home Page. If an inconsistency between your roster and the web registrations exist, you will be prompted to resolve it before synchronization is completed. The software will alert you to any discrepancies between your roster and the web registrations. Your choices for resolving registration conflicts include:
When you might choose Accept: A student registers his i>clicker online, entering remote ID 1CF28866 and Cornell NetID pmg1. Upon synchronizing, you are notified that this student's student ID does not match any record in your roster file. There may be some difference in last name, but the Cornell NetID matches. Because you can be reasonably sure that this is the correct student, you select his name from the list of students in the roster and click the button. This action associates the correct Cornell NetID pmg1 with i>clicker remote ID 1CF28866.
NOTE: If you are unsure if a web registration matches the student's roster, you can always ignore the registration, ask your unregistered student to register online, and run another web synchronization process at a later time.
Any unregistered clicker IDs that remain after this step (i.e., you continue to see records with red clicker ID numbers), likely belong to students who have not yet registered online. Check with your students and synchronize again later. If there are problems synchronizing only one or two students who have registered online, you can register these students manually by double-clicking on the clicker ID (e.g. #1CF28866) and choosing the correct student from the list that will pop up.
To upload grades into Blackboard 9:
NOTE: Only one Uploadfile.csv can exist in your course folder at once. If you wish to export data into more than one file during a single i>grader session, you will need to move or rename the previously-created Uploadfile.csv before exporting a different selection of sessions. When you no longer need the information in the exported file, you may leave it in your course folder and it will simply be overwritten the next time you need to export.
next to its name and choose .
You will repeat these 10 steps when you upload updated polling points throughout the semester. Blackboard creates a new column each time, so you will need to delete the previous column.
