"Clickers" are audience response systems that we use in classes.  More general information about them is here. 

Resources to help instructors use clickers

Instructional materials 

Instruction manuals are available from TurningPoint's website.  They also offer free one-hour live training sessions on a variety of topics for both new and advanced users.  To see a schedule and register for a session, see this website.

SAS Computing is developing a series of short instructional videos an other materials:

• PC
  • Creating Question Slides using TurningPoint 2008 for PC (2 mins 00 sec)
  • Importing your class Participant List from Blackboard (2:11)
    You only need to import this list if you want to identify how a particular student has answered.  If you're using the clickers "anonymously", you can skip this.
  • Running a slideshow with questions using TurningPoint 2008 for PC (2:30)
  • From TurningPoint Universities in the UK:  Using Demographic Slides
  • New tutorials from TurningPoint are available on their website
• Mac
  • Creating Question Slides using TurningPoint for Mac 1.1 (2:15)
  • Importing your class Participant List from Blackboard
    This isn't currently working for Mac, so please do this using the PC instructions and then transfer the file (.tpl) to Mac. Or send e-mail to clickers-help(at)sas.upenn.edu and we'll send you the list ASAP.
  • Running a slideshow with questions using TurningPoint for Mac 1.1 (3:21)
  • Running a slideshow using TurningPoint Anywhere (2:23)
  • New tutorials from TurningPoint are available on their website
• PDF Documents
  • Determining the Channel of the Receiver You Have
  • Setting the Channel on a Clicker (to give to your students)
  • Registering your Clicker on Blackboard (to give to your students)

Version of Clicker software installed on classroom computers

For Fall 2008, the following software is on classroom computers:

• PCs
  TurningPoint 2008 for PC
  MS Office 2007 Pro Plus, SP1 / Vista Business SP1
  
  • TurningPoint integrates with Blackboard
  • TurningPoint automatically calls PowerPoint 
• Macs
  TurningPoint Anywhere for Mac
  MS Office 2008, SP1 / MacOS Leopard 10.5.4
  • TurningPoint Anywhere integrates with Blackboard
  • TurningPoint Anywhere can be used with questions in any software - PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, etc.
  • TurningPoint Anywhere does NOT automatically call Powerpoint
• Why we selected these versions
  • TurningPoint 2008 for PC is a mature, stable release
  • TurningPoint for Mac 1.1 was rejected because it ONLY works with MS Office 2004, and it does not include Blackboard integration, so TurningPoint Anywhere for Mac was selected