ARCHIVED: Oncourse Turning Technologies tool: Overview

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Important:

Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.

What it does

Turning Technologies has developed a tool for Oncourse that allows students to register their response devices (clickers) or licenses within a course site, and allows instructors to download a TurningPoint participant list of registered students, see each student's registration status, and send email reminders to unregistered students.

Note: Information in this document is specific to the Oncourse Turning Technologies tool; for the integration with Canvas, see ARCHIVED: Using Turning Technologies and Canvas, how can I manage student data?

Key concepts

Instructor's view: In the instructor's view, the tool lists students by Name, User ID, and Device ID. Click a column heading to sort the view.

Registering a student's device: Students should generally register their own devices; however, instructors can register a device for a student or correct a device ID if necessary. To edit an incorrectly entered number, click the student's device ID; to add a student's device ID, click Register ResponseCard Device ID. Instructors can only register or modify a ResponseCard device ID for a student, not a ResponseWare device ID. Be aware that changes the instructor makes to a student's device ID affect all classes for which the student must register a ResponseCard.

.tplx file: Click Export Roster in TurningPoint Format to create a TurningPoint participant list (a .tplx file) to use with the TurningPoint 5 software, which records students' responses in class.

Email reminders: Click Email unregistered students to send an email message reminding unregistered students to register their devices. Students will receive messages in the following format:

Subject: You need to register your Device ID

From: Instructor Name [noreply@oncourse.iu.edu]

Your instructor for the course [YOUR COURSE ID] has chosen to use Turning Technologies' student response system. You have not yet registered your ResponseCard or ResponseWare device ID. You can log in to the course here and register your device ID to ensure you receive class credit.

Things to consider

The Permissions link allows you to manage access to the Turning Technologies tool by people with other roles; this feature is not yet fully developed.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Turning Technologies tool, see ARCHIVED: Turning Technologies.