Classroom Performance System (CPS) eInstruction
Online Technical Support - Technical support hours for eInstruction and a link to a live chat room to ask questions.
CPS FAQs - Commonly asked questions and answers.
User's Guides - Download the appropriate user guide for your system.
eInstruction Knowledge Base - Seach for the answers to your questions on CPS from eInstruction.
IU CPS Knowledge Base - Search for the answers to your questions on CPS at IU.
Activate a Student Account - Students select this link to create their online account or login to an existing account.
Instructor Login - Instructors use this to change information or check online information for their classes.
CPS Online Training - Instructors can take part in free online training seminars on how to use CPS.
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Articles on use of Clickers in Education
Using CPS in Masterworks of British Literature - Dr Elizabeth Cullingford ... "The questions she asks the class using CPS, which initially tested only knowledge of the material, have evolved to address comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation."
Using Interactive Technology in a Short Jave Course - R E Lopez-Herrojon & Morrie Schulman - Paper on experiences using CPS in a Java Programming Course. Including challenges faced and lessons learned.
How to administer more than one paper assessment at a time using CPS - Instructions for administering more than one paper in CPS.
Waking the Dead: Using Interactive Technology to Engage Passive Listeners in the Classroom – R W Guthrie and A Carlin -"Research ...[on] student perceptions about the value that Audience Response Systems add to the classroom."
To Click Or Not To Click: That's the Question – Johnny El-Rady - " I believe that the advantages of using electronic classroom voting systems far outweigh the disadvantages. For teachers, the technology provides a very fast way to take attendance and an efficient way to learn about course content and style. More importantly, classroom voting systems provide a real-time assessment of material that students are failing to grasp, thereby allowing teachers to concentrate on these "problem areas."
Challenge, Potential, and Success: A University-wide Approach to Classroom Response Systems – Ed Evans Director of Learning Spaces at Purdue University - Powerpoint presentation for Educause 2005.
Interview on CPS with Professor Dee Silverthorn, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin (Video) - " This is a wonderful interview with Dee Silverthorn, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. This was created by the Center For Instructional Technologies at UT and is an honest “From the Field” perspective on the Classroom Performance
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Designing Questions for Clickers – TELR Ohio State University "Clickers work well for presenting multiple-choice questions, but not all multiple-choice questions are equal. Although simple recall questions have their purpose, multiple-choice questions can be used to assess deeper understanding."
Teaching Ideas - Examples of clicker use in various subject areas.
York University : Teaching with Personal Response Systems (Clickers) - Center for the Support of Teaching York University
Harvard University : Teaching with clickers – Derek Bok - Personal response devices --
"clickers" -- allow students to register their answers to multiple-choice questions in real time, helping the teacher to monitor the degree of class understanding. This video demonstrates the use of clickers to track students' understanding in a physics class. (Video)
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