Clickers (Student Response Systems)

What is this service?

Clickers, also known as student response systems and classroom voting systems, allow students to answer teacher-posed questions using an electronic polling unit. To simplify integrating clickers into your classes, KUMC as adopted the i>clickers system as our preferred clickers system.

Why is this service important or valuable to faculty?

1. Clickers enable you to quickly conduct formative assessments during class, getting important feedback about student understanding and adjusting instruction based on this feedback.
2. With clickers, you can poll audience opinions, interests, and preferences and adapt your presentation using this information.
3. Using a peer instruction strategy, you can increase student interaction, especially in large lecture courses.

What are some exciting and useful capabilities of this service?

• Automatically track individual student attendance and performance, and directly import scores into your ANGEL grade book.
• Conduct anonymous opinion polls on controversial topics.
• Work with any computer program, not just PowerPoint.
• Include web-based clickers, in addition to or instead of hand-held clicker units, for students who already bring a laptop to class.

How do I begin using this service?

Schedule a consultation with TLT (tlt@kumc.edu) to explore how clickers might be integrated into your courses.

Additional Online Resources for this service:

1. 7 Things You Should Know about Clickers:
   http://educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf
2. Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips:
   http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/reprint/6/1/9.pdf
3. i>clicker User Community:
   http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/UserCommunity/tabid/165/Default.aspx

For more information about this service, contact Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) at 913-588-7107 or email tlt@kumc.edu.