Getting Clickers Registered
To avoid having to add registrations later, instructors are encouraged to delay having students register their clickers until after the drop/add period has ended.
If you have a Blackboard Vista site, you can have students register their clickers through a new Content Tool integrating the two systems. Click here for separate instructions on this integration.
Preparing your roster
To enable students to register their clickers, a roster of your course must first be added to the i>clicker/i>grader software on your computer. A roster for each course is available through the Portal:
- Login to portal.bc.edu and open the My Services tab.
- Select Manage your Courses. You will see a warning that you about to leave the Portal environment; click Continue.
- From the list of courses which appears, open the drop-down menu for the one you are looking for and select Get Course Roster.
- Choose an option from "Select Format," and check the box for iGrader Roster.
- Click Get Course Roster and a .txt file with the number of your course will be sent to your BC email account.
Once this file has been added to the course folder in the i>clicker software, change the name to roster.txt. You will then be ready to have your students register their clickers.
Registering clickers
There are two ways to register your students: in-class “roll call,” and online.
To use the roll call:
- Project your computer screen and start an i>clicker session.
- Click the arrow on the right of the i>clicker toolbar, and in the menu which appears select Loan/Register Clickers.
- A Roll Call dialog box will appear. Leave all fields blank (and “For the Term” selected from the Register menu), and click Roll call.
- Your pre-loaded class roster will begin scrolling. Detailed instructions for your students are included on screen. (See the complete User’s Guide,for more detailed information).
Note: the last line of the Roll Call window says “To CLEAR your registration, press DD.” Students should only do this if they have pressed a button incorrectly (some of them seem to interpret this as the last stage of the registration process, so it is worth mentioning that if they correctly registered they can disregard it!).
To use Web registration:
- Administer at least one question in class before the clickers are registered, so the clicker numbers will appear in iGrader in the course folder.
- Direct your students to login to the Portal and open the My Services tab, then select i>Clicker@BC, and follow the instructions there.
- Integrate your students' online registration with your roster by opening iGrader and clicking on Synchronize web registrations.
Adding a Student or Making Changes After Registration
If the student is new to your class, he or she will need to be in your roster file, meaning that you will have to download a new one using the steps above. If the student has been in your roster all along but missed the class in which you registered the clickers, you will not need to download a new roster file.
Click on the name of a student in iGrader, and a dialog box will appear, in which you may edit or add a clicker ID for that student. Names that are red in iGrader have not yet been registered to a clicker, so you can see at a glance which students still need to be registered.
