The temperatures are rising across the country. As you and your students sweat through the term (if you’re lucky enough to be teaching this summer!), consider treating everyone to some fun iClicker questions about ice cream. Check Out the July Trivia Deck ... View more

On-Demand Are you looking for ways to make your class sessions more interactive but unsure where to find the time? Join Natalie Dougall as she shares ways you can easily incorporate iClicker polling activities into your classroom without sacrificing a lot of valuable class time or wildly altering lesson plans you’ve spent years perfecting. Natalie will also outline Macmillan resources instructors can use to easily turn their students from passive observers into active learners. Access the Webinar Here! Access Webinar On-Demand ... View more

We heard you and we are making things even simpler! We’re pleased to announce that by August 2021 iClicker Reef will be renamed the iClicker student app, helping instructors and students alike to more easily identify iClicker’s mobile/web app for students. The logo above will appear on student app login pages. The ISBNs for your student products will remain the same. Over the next few months, we will be updating all of our instructor- and student-facing training and support materials to reflect the name change to the iClicker student app. Any links that currently use iClicker Reef will be re-routed to the appropriate webpage. If you have created any of your own student-facing materials that mention Reef, replacing the Reef name with “the iClicker student app” will make it easier for your students. We will continue to update you as we prepare for this change— let us know if you have any questions in the meantime! Contact Us ... View more

If you're teaching this summer, we have a special Juneteenth trivia deck you can share with your students. Macmillan began recognizing Juneteenth as an official company holiday in 2020, giving employees a day to reflect, recharge and celebrate. Juneteenth Trivia Deck ... View more

We can't believe it’s been one year since we released Assignments! Our newest iClicker activity has taken student engagement to the next level in fully remote, asynchronous courses—but we’re also hearing from instructors who enjoy using Assignments for in-person and hybrid/flex classes. We've been continuously working to improve Assignments over the past year. Here’s what we’ve added recently for instructors using Assignments: Alt Text Support: We added the ability for instructors to enter and edit alt text for assignment question images. Alt text makes Assignments easier for students to use with screen readers. Learn more about best practices for writing alt text. Copy Assignments: We added an option for instructors to copy an already-built assignment. This will be useful for instructors who wish to assess what students have learned via the same set of pre- and post-class questions, and for instructors who wish to use the same assignment in multiple iClicker Cloud courses. Learn more about copying assignments. Gradebook Integration: Assignment scores appear alongside Polling and Quizzing scores in the iClicker Cloud Gradebook. Instructors are able to modify individual student Assignment scores and export or sync Assignment grades to their LMS. Due Times: Instructors can specify both dates and times for when an assignment becomes available and is due. The following Assignments improvements are now available to students: In-Progress Credit: Students automatically receive credit for all work in progress when an assignment closes. They do not need to click the submit button to receive credit for responses already entered before the due date. Mobile Support: Students can complete assignments via the iOS or Android student apps, in addition to the web app. Wondering how to get started with Assignments? Our Learning Science & Insights team developed a set of pre-built prompts that can help students reflect on their learning before, during, and after class, in any academic discipline. Check out our Assignments page to learn more and download sample slide decks to try out with your own students! ... View more

We hope April showers have brought May flowers to you wherever you may be. Our May trivia deck might also bring some fun to your classrooms.  We hope our focus on pop culture brightens things for you and your students! Download our May Pop-Culture Trivia Questions ... View more

While we try to keep instructor software releases to a minimum (especially in the middle of a term!), we regularly release updates to our iClicker student iOS and Android apps. We recommend that students turn on automatic updates in their device settings to ensure they are using the latest version of the iClicker student app and can take advantage of any new features and performance improvements. Auto-update is a system setting on mobile devices, rather than one found within the iClicker mobile apps. Students can modify the auto-update setting by following the directions for their device below. iOS Open up your Settings app. Select App Store. Under Automatic Downloads, make sure App Updates is switched on.   Android Open up your Google Play app. Select your account icon. Select Settings, then General. Select Auto-Update apps.     ... View more

On-Demand Macmillan’s Achieve learning platform engages students inside and outside of class, whether they are high achievers or need extra support. Did you know that iClicker integrates directly with Achieve (at no cost to students!) to instantly make your class interactive? In this webinar for Achieve users (and the Achieve curious!), you’ll learn how iClicker can boost student participation and give real-time feedback in any class, no matter what the fall term looks like, and without a huge investment of time or energy. We’ll tour the Achieve learning environment and its built-in engagement content (such as In-Class Activity Guides) and then show just how easy it is to activate iClicker in Achieve and run iClicker activities in in-person, hybrid, and online courses. Access the Recording Here! Access the Recording! ... View more

On-Demand Student engagement matters now more than ever. Fortunately, there are a number of creative ways to secure funding to scale student engagement across your institution. With timely, real-life advice from university instructional support and development professionals, this is what the campus administrators, educational technologists, and student success team members have been waiting for! Access Recording! Access the Recording! ... View more

Remote learning, hyflex or hybrid, or in-person courses have multiple hurdles but all have the same challenge: how do we get students to engage with material deeply and meaningfully? A collaborative annotation tool that turns solitary reading assignments into engaging collective learning activities, Perusall was developed at Harvard by Eric Mazur, Gary King, Brian Lukoff, and Kelly Miller. This free tool allows instructors to digitally assign readings, videos, and podcasts to students, who then collaboratively engage with the content through the social annotation tools within the platform. Perusall brings the power of social interaction and AI to web-based course materials. Students read, watch, listen, and interact with the content - and each other - in a safe and secure course environment. Instructors can join interactions and review students’ questions and comments at any time. With its automatic scoring capability and Learning Management System (LMS) integration, Perusall’s reporting and fully automatic grading mean instructors know that reading assignments are completed. Students' pre-class work can inform class lectures.Perusall’s power to engage students in content provides plenty of opportunities for instructors to see online peer interaction as they comment and discuss course materials.  Now, what if you could take that engagement into an asynchronous environment? iClicker is ready for the challenge! Upvoted comments, incisive questions, and Perusall’s “confusion reports” provide sources for great iClicker questions for your entire class. Take a question that one of your Perusall groups posed and present it to the whole class to answer. Share an upvoted comment and see what the whole class thinks about that idea. Or find that hidden gem, the comment that didn’t get a great deal of Perusall traffic, and open up a new area of discussion in class using it as an iClicker question. With iClicker’s student engagement system, you can use PowerPointⓇ slides, websites, documents, or anything you choose to put on screen; or you can ask a question verbally just like you have in class before. iClicker gives you the flexibility to get your students’ input on follow-up questions with no advance preparation required. With 5 available question types, you can ask your question your way. All of your students have a voice with every iClicker question! What if your course is 100% online with no class meetings? With the new Assignments feature, iClicker can be used for asynchronous course activities, too. Take those same Perusall moments and include them in an iClicker Assignment for students to complete in a time window you choose. The question types you have in a synchronous session are also available for your Assignments and are automatically graded with the responses you choose. All of your iClicker activities seamlessly integrate with your LMS so, like Perusall, grading is a breeze! Review student responses, adjust grades and attendance, and manage enrollment in the iClicker instructor website, and then send the information to your LMS with the push of a button.  Ease of use and powerful impact is imperative for instructors who use more technology than ever before. With Perusall and iClicker, you can spend more time engaging with students, ensuring their learning experience is deeper and long-lasting, whether in-person or miles apart. ... View more

Thursday, April 15, 2021 @ 12:30 PM Spring cleaning is coming for your iClicker Cloud classes! It's easy to keep your class data accurate and tidy using iClicker’s intuitive editing tools. In this webinar, we toured the iClicker Cloud online environment and discussed how iClicker can integrate with your campus Learning Management System. Natalie Dougall, iClicker training specialist, discussed different pedagogical approaches to the grading process, and Dianne Sod, iClicker product manager, explained the different grade sync options that LMS admins may make available to instructors. View Recording! View the recording! ... View more

Did you realize midway through the term that you wish to modify how students earn participation points for iClicker activities? Have you forgotten to grade your polling questions in class? No problem! You can perform these tasks at any time via the Class History section of the iClicker Cloud instructor website. Start off by logging in to the iClicker Cloud instructor website and selecting your course. You’ll be dropped into Class History, and you can select which past poll you’d like to adjust. Poll Settings When you create a new iClicker course you start off with default settings. You can modify point values and other settings at any time, but changes you make through your main course settings will only apply to future class sessions. Here’s how to update settings for past activities: Select the three dots in the upper-right corner of the page next to the activity timestamp. Then, select Poll Settings. In your Poll Settings, you can: Update the Poll Name. Change the question screenshot and results Sharing settings. Some instructors choose to hide polling question images and class results until after classes have met, especially when teaching multiple sections of a course. Selecting the sharing options here in Poll Settings will then push those question images and/or results out to students' iClicker accounts. Modify the points you wish to award and the threshold for Session Participation.  Modify the scoring setting and points you wish to award for Session Performance. If you select the option to Score total polling session for Performance points, you set a limit on the poll's Performance points, which are then split equally among all graded questions. Please note that when you apply this session-based scoring setting, you cannot adjust points for individual questions when grading polling questions. Save your settings when you are done. Grading polling questions Although you can grade polls in class by selecting the correct answer(s) from the results chart, you can also grade questions at any point after class. Here’s how: Click on a question number or image. The poll results load in a panel on the right side of the screen. Select an answer choice on the results panel to indicate that it is correct. Select it again to toggle it to incorrect or ungraded. You can choose multiple correct responses. When graded, the results change color to green (correct) and red (incorrect), a check mark appears next to the correct response(s), and a GRADED badge displays next to the question number at the top of the panel. Note that you cannot grade questions you asked in anonymous mode, students can still earn participation points for responding. Learn more about grading each of the iClicker question types. If you are using the default question-based Performance scoring setting, you can update the points possible for each question or award partial credit by typing new values into the Points box next to a response. This option is not available if you have applied the session-based scoring setting, which splits Performance points equally among all graded questions in the poll. ... View more

Spring is here and our minds are turning to whimsy. Share these not-so-tricky questions with your students and learn more about April Fools’ traditions and history. You and your classes will be feeling footloose and fancy-free in no time! Download our April Fools' Day Trivia Questions ... View more

Friday, April 2, 2021 @ 2:00 PM Ah, 2021. While not exactly 2020, you’ve still brought quiet online sessions, videoless black boxes and a looming fear of seeing those first test scores. And even for those not teaching online, fostering close engagement in person - 6 feet apart - is still a struggle. Enter iClicker and a heavy dose of instructor-approved active learning techniques. Join Kathy Roberts, iClicker Engagement Consultant, former institutional admin and all-around technology & active learning enthusiast, as she walks you through course activities that are easy to implement & will help you meet your 2021 course goals, whether your course is online, in-person or hybrid. Come ready to turn your video on, share with your colleagues in breakout rooms, and leave those memories of 2020 behind. Register Here! Register Here! ... View more

On-Demand It’s clear from instructor feedback over the past year: there are too many technology options for class and there’s too little time to implement them. We totally agree. Instructors need - now, more than ever - technology that is simple to start up, tools that are flexible to work across course formats, and solutions that are actually effective for students. To that end, Dr. Matt Evans, active learning veteran and Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has shared his criteria in selecting technology that helps him accomplish his course goals and do so efficiently. Matt specifically covered how he has used active learning software, iClicker, to meet a number of different needs in and out of the classroom. View Recording! View Recording! ... View more