Personal Response System
Use, Installation and Trouble-shooting
Personal response systems (clickers) from Educue (GTCO Calcomp) are available in the following rooms on campus. Anyone using these rooms is welcome to use the clickers, but you will first need to install the software on your laptop and learn how to use them. You do not need to contact anyone to use these systems, but Suzanne Amador Kane and Alex Norquist can help you with getting started.
Rooms in KINSC equipped with PRS systems / clickers
- H108: 40 units
- Sharpless Auditorium: 125 units
- H109 (to be outfitted for the spring semester 2006)
Software download
PC
Download 3.10 Educue software for PCs. Click on this download link, save the file, then run it to install the software.
Mac
Download Educue Software for Macs: Click on this download link, save and unzip the file, then run it to install the software.
Instructions on how to use the PRS systems
Quick Guide to using PRS with Powerpoint (by Alex Norquist)
Cables
Note that the cabling for connecting your computer to the receiver units is stored in the AV cabinet in the lecture hall. Also, note that the clickers use AAA batteries, so you may rarely need to put new batteries in the clickers. The power on the clickers times out after 5 minutes even if students do not turn them off.
Room rosters
You will need to download these files to your laptop in order to use the PRS software with the clickers.
Rosters are Excel spreadsheets (in the form of .csv files) that record all of the numbers of the clickers in each classroom. You can use these to associate your students' names with clicker numbers for administrative or grading purposes if you know what seat they are sitting in. Otherwise, just load this roster file and use it without student names to keep responses anonymous.