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What is Classroom Polling?

Classroom polling can increase student engagement by allowing students to participate in polls and answer questions about the course material during class. It can be used to facilitate more meaningful and interactive learning experiences, by allowing instructors to:

• Gauge prior student knowledge, before covering new material.
• Provide student self assessment opportunities.
• Encourage student discussion, such as by using .

What is iClicker Cloud?

iClicker Cloud is an audience response system that is used to provide instant feedback to students. Instructors pose meaningful questions to students in class and students respond to questions with mobile devices or physical remotes. iClicker Cloud supports a number of different . Polling scores can easily be integrated into the Canvas gradebook to allow students credit for class participation and/or performance.

iClicker Cloud Requirements

Instructors need:

• A desktop computer with .
•  and iClicker course.
• A classroom with wifi access (for mobile polling).
• An iClicker base receiver, connected to the presenter computer (if iClicker remotes are used). Note that iClicker bases/receivers are installed in all . Contact Learning Design Services to borrow an iClicker base for unlisted classrooms.

Students need:

• iClicker remotes and/or phones/mobile devices to participate in polling sessions.
• . A free iClicker Cloud app for Android or iOS mobile devices is available.
• An .*

*Note that students using iClicker remotes must also create iClicker accounts but do not need to purchase iClicker subscriptions. Students using iClicker remotes must add their Clicker remote IDs to their account profiles.

iClicker Cloud Canvas Setup for Instructors

iClicker Cloud uses the Roster & Grade Sync method for connecting with Canvas. Before continuing with setup, review the steps at and .

1. (select 天美传媒 for Primary Institution).
2. and fill in the information for your course.
3. In the course in iClicker, go to Settings > Integrations.
4. Click Select Connect to Canvas > Go to Canvas > Authorize.
5. Select the Canvas course from the Course List and click Next. If the course has multiple sections, you will need to select from the sections.
6. Once the course is connected, you will have the option to complete the roster sync with Canvas immediately or manually at a later time.
7. You can also adjust the integration settings to sync to a single column in the Canvas gradebook or multiple columns, as well as what happens when a student does not have any iClicker responses.

iClicker Cloud Setup for Students

When connecting your iClicker Cloud course to Canvas, all students with iClicker accounts matching your Canvas roster will automatically be added to the course. Students who do not already have an iClicker account will need to create one. When following the instructor setup steps above, you will be able to select to email students without an account to inform them that they need to create an account.

The following resources can be provided to your students to facilitate this process:

• Visit the for solutions to common student issues.

Using the iClicker Attendance Only Feature in the Classroom

iClicker's attendance feature uses geolocation technology to detect whether your students are in class. iClicker attendance is free when instructors set up attendance-only iClicker classes.

• Provide the to your students. 

Using iClicker Cloud for Remote Instruction

• The iClicker assignments feature allows you to create a low stakes quiz from a PowerPoint presentation. The assignments activity type is a flexible, low stakes student engagement solution that can be used for asynchronous learning. Assignments are also great for pre-class, post-class, breakout, or lab activities in synchronous classes.

iClicker Cloud Training Videos

Getting Help 

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Write to us: learningdesign@umb.edu