Personal Response Systems: Clickers in the Classroom

A personal response system (PRS) can enhance the classroom experience by providing instructors an electronic way of interacting with students. Through small remote devices ("clickers"), instructors can poll their students, ensure key learning points are being absorbed, take attendance, or give low-stakes quizzes. Unlike asking students to raise their hands in response to a question, with a PRS system, faculty can receive immediate classroom feedback while ensuring a student's public anonymity.

In order for clickers to be cost effective for students, OID has standardized and supports the Interwrite PRS system (recently purchased by EInstruction). The two clicker models pictured below can be used in the same classroom.

For more information, contact TEC at 310 206-4599, or our PRS specialist at 310 794-9726

Interwrite PRS RF Clicker Visit Product Web Site PRS Tutorials

The Cricket

The newest version of Interwrite PRS - Response v. 5.21.0017 Download this version HERE (scroll down the page to Interwrite Response)

Below is a list of help files, in PDF format, for this version of the software: Controlling a Response Session Remotely [.pdf] How To Create and Manage Your Class and Roster [.pdf] How To Effectively Use the Response Chart [.pdf] How To Manage Your Data [.pdf] How To Navigate the Response Interface [.pdf] How To Set Up a Session and Collect Responses [.pdf] How To Set Up Your Hardware [.pdf] How To Use PowerPoint with Response [.pdf] Response Training Workbook [.pdf] Building a Roster for Crickets Using Google Docs [.pdf]

If you wish to use Response with the RF clicker and the Cricket in your class, Please
download the Professor Kit Request Form, and send it to the address included. Once Interwrite receives the form, they will send you a professor's kit, which is comprised of the software, a USB receiver, USB extension cable, and a cricket clicker.