Intern Name: Grace Bartel School: University of Delaware (DE) Position Title: Editorial Intern What are you most excited to learn or experience during your internship? I am most excited to learn about the publishing world and what it's like to work for a Big Five publishing company! What skill/talent are you most excited to showcase during your internship? I am most excited to showcase my time management and design skills during my internship! ... View more

Intern Name: Gianna Ruocco School: Rutgers University-New Brunswick (NJ) Position Title: Editorial Intern What are you most excited to learn or experience during your internship? I am excited to master all the different programs needed to complete my tasks! What skill/talent are you most excited to showcase during your internship? I am excited to showcase my talent for being precise and timely. ... View more

Intern Name: Emma Guidry School: Lousiana State University (LA) Position Title: Learning and Development Intern What are you most excited to learn or experience during your internship? I’m looking forward to learning the ins and outs of building online modules for employee training and figuring out the most effective ways to deliver training information! What skill/talent are you most excited to showcase during your internship? I’m excited to implement my love for improv comedy into new training modules for employees to expand their skill set! ... View more

Intern Name: Colvin Prince School: Troy University (AL) Position Title: Marketing Intern What are you most excited to learn or experience during your internship? I am excited to expand my knowledge and experience in content marketing creation and competitive market research during this internship. Creating content and building engagement for a target audience is exciting. Still, my goal is to learn the importance of market research and social media optimization through this internship. What skill/talent are you most excited to showcase during your internship? This internship will allow me to showcase my skills in content creation and graphic design. I plan to utilize my skills and talents gained through my college experience to support the values and mission of Macmillan Learning.   ... View more

Intern Name: Apurva Bhandari School: Boston University (MA) Position Title: Marketing Intern What are you most excited to learn or experience during your internship? I'm most excited to learn about the process of understanding an audience through listening to their concerns, needs, and feedback in the marketing process. I'm also looking forward to learning about the decision-making process in making marketing choices. What skill/talent are you most excited to showcase during your internship? I'm excited to showcase my copywriting and editing skills and build on my management skills during this internship! ... View more

Intern Name: Alan Toleu School: Savannah College of Art and Design (GA) Position Title: UX Design Intern What are you most excited to learn or experience during your internship? UX Industry Practices and Techniques What skill/talent are you most excited to showcase during your internship? Visual Design skills and Conceptualization ... View more

It's almost time to bring your students back to campus! iClicker makes it easy to create a welcoming, interactive classroom. This webinar is for iClicker users, old and new, who want to know what's new with iClicker and get a tour of features like Focus Mode and Anonymous questions. We’ll also discuss ways you can use iClicker in your classroom, whether it’s a traditional brick-and-mortar classroom or a hybrid approach. REGISTER NOW! ... View more

In this quick five-minute video, we walk administrators at iClicker site license and single sign-on institutions through a few reminders and best practices to start the new academic year off successfully. ... View more

It might have been a while since you last set up your iClicker courses, or maybe you’ve never been through the getting-started process before. Our checklists walk you through the steps in order, from setting up your account and software through using iClicker for in-class activities – so you can check iClicker setup off your own to-do list.    Instructor Setup Checklist: Getting Started with iClicker Cloud Checklist for Returning iClicker Cloud Users: Prepare for a New Term iClicker Cloud Checklist for Remote Instruction Checklist: Getting Started with iClicker Cloud Attendance-only Courses Checklist: Getting Started with iClicker Classic   Student Setup Checklist: Getting Started with the iClicker Student App Customizable Syllabus Templates and First Day of Class Slides   Still unsure how to get started with iClicker? Feel free to sign up for an online training session to go over each of these setup steps with an iClicker specialist. ... View more

There are so many official and unofficial ways we welcome students as members of our colleges and universities. This month, explore different traditions institutions use to build community on their campus and connect to their past. ... View more

The faster you can onboard your students, the sooner you can make your classroom an active learning classroom. Check out how you can use Quick Join to get students up and running with iClicker in about a minute. Once your students are up and running, explore some easy activity ideas for your first iClicker sessions! You can quickly onboard your students in your iClicker class in three easy steps. First, create your iClicker course, then click on the Settings area of the course. There, you’ll find your Quick Join code. Share this Quick Join code with your students and they will take the process over from there! Once students log into iClicker, your course will be automatically added to their iClicker account and they will be ready to answer your iClicker questions! Once you have your students ready to go, it can be nice to ask a few questions to help students build confidence with this new tool. We have lots of different activities you can try with your students no matter what discipline you may be teaching. You can welcome students to class with an entrance tickets or try one of our trivia decks to help build your classroom community. ... View more

  At this time of the year, we like to remind our instructors of the power of running practice sessions in iClicker, whether to master the basics or explore new features (like Groups, coming in our July required software update!) before going live with your students.    Practicing with iClicker allows you to preview the full end-to-end class experience from both the instructor and student perspectives. Remember, you can create a separate practice-only or sandbox course—and you can access the iClicker student mobile or web app for free using your instructor credentials. Upon creating your iClicker Cloud instructor account, you will have a 14-day free trial period automatically applied to your account when you log in to the iClicker student app. If you teach at a site license institution or department, you’ll continue to have free access to the student app. If not, simply contact iClicker tech support and request your free instructor subscription to the iClicker student app.   When creating your practice course, you can use the new unlisted course setting, you don’t have to worry about your practice course being visible to students in their app search results. You can still join your own course as a student using your course’s join code.   Here are the steps to practice with iClicker:   Download the iClicker Cloud desktop software or check for updates if you had previously installed the software. Note: The Cloud 5.3.0 update is coming in July 2022! Make sure you have an iClicker instructor account. You can use the same account to access the iClicker student app; some instructors prefer to create a separate account to use for the student app, and that works too.  Create an unlisted practice course and join your course as a student. Use our practice session support article to step through the classroom experience from both the instructor and student perspective. It helps to go through the motions of  starting, answering, and stopping polls (plus displaying, grading, and hiding results) a few times before using iClicker in front of your students in a real classroom setting! ... View more

Summer is officially here and with it a longing to take in some of our nation’s natural wonders. July is National Parks Month, so we’ve toasted some trivia questions to share with your students.   ... View more

Habits can make or break a student’s education. Some cultivate habits that keep them on a steady track towards success, while others fight against their habits as they try to learn. In this month’s blog post, discover how you can use iClicker with your students in a way that helps them improve their habits both in and out of the classroom. Use iClicker’s Attendance feature to encourage the habit of regular attendance. Choosing to attend class isn’t easy sometimes. A college class can be a lot like the gym; a place we pay to attend but don’t. Encourage your students to make class attendance a regular habit with iClicker’s Attendance tool, which is designed to  Turn on iClicker’s Focus Mode to encourage the habit of full engagement. Your students are very aware that their phone can be distractions. Help them learn to manage that distraction by turning iClicker’s Focus Mode on in your class settings. With Focus Mode, students are encouraged to  Encourage better study habits with iClicker Study Tools. With iClicker Study Tools, students are able to take your iClicker polling questions and make them into flashcard packs and practice tests. Be sure to carefully grade your questions and replace slides as needed to help your students get the most out of your iClicker questions. For more ideas about how your can use iClicker to encourage healthy classroom habits, watch the webinar below: ... View more

When a challenge hits the classroom, students with a growth mindset can thrive while other students may flail. Research shows that students with a fixed mindset believe intelligence and ability are static qualities one is born with, while students with a growth mindset believe they are dynamic qualities anyone can improve with time and effort. Using iClicker for active learning is perfect for classroom activities that encourage a growth mindset, helping students learn resilience and flexibility along with the subject matter. This month we’re offering three ways you can use iClicker to encourage a growth mindset in your classroom. Teach your students about growth mindsets with polling questions. Students benefit from learning to identify a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. Ask students if they agree or disagree with statements like “Learning comes easily to those who are gifted” or “speed and perfection are the enemy of of difficult learning”. Use their responses as a way to discuss the time and effort they need to invest in your course in order to be successful. Create tight, honest feedback loops with truly challenging polling questions. Have you ever played a game that’s too easy? Your students want iClicker questions that have the potential to stump them. Ask questions that students routinely miss on your quizzes and exams. You can also try asking one “impossible” question each class session. It will normalise failure as part of the learning process and give your students the opportunity to surprise you! Use iClicker Assignments to encourage students to reflect on quizzes and exams. Part of having a growth mindset is being able to for student honestly assess their own investment of time and effort in their success. Use an iClicker Assignment to ask 2-3 question where students reflect on the steps they took to prepare. These can be offered as small extra-credit opportunities after an assessment, giving students even more incentive to look honestly at their own efforts. For more ways iClicker can be used to encourage growth mindsets, watch below. ... View more