Getting Started
In order to get started utilizing the Personal Response System for your course, you should complete the following simple steps:
- Contact Leo Schouest, Manager, Student & Faculty Technical Support, at x23555 or leo.schouest@ucr.edu, to schedule an appointment to familiarize you with the PRS system. This appointment is highly recommended, even for technically savvy faculty, to provide you with the best technological and pedagogical experience using PRS.
- Check to make sure that your classroom is equipped to support clicker use. All general assignment classrooms are currently equipped with the necessary equipment. To confirm that your classroom is a general assignment classroom, please check the Smart Classrooms site.
- Contact the Bookstore at least 3 weeks in advance and inform them that you intend to use clickers for your course, and the approximate number of students enrolled.
- Inform your students via your course syllabus and/or course Blackboard site that they will be required to purchase a clicker from the Bookstore.
- Provide your students with the address for the clicker registration site, in your syllabus and/or on Blackboard: http://clickers.ucr.edu. Inform them that they must register their clicker on this site in order to receive credit for using their clicker in class.
- Download the PRS software from the H-ITT website onto your personal or office computer. This download includes both the Acquisition and Analyzer software, and will allow you familiarize yourself with the Acquisition software installed in your classroom, as well as allowing you to analyze the results of questions submitted to your students in class. (Note: If you create Powerpoint presentations to be used within the H-ITT software, or create questions within the Acquisition software, these will need to be transferred to the classroom computer, which is wired to the PRS receiver. Computing & Communications does not currently support using faculty laptops for acquiring the initial PRS data.)