Participation/Attendance Points are used to credit students for attending class and for participating in the voting activities. Participation points are not given for answering the questions correctly; the student only needs to place a vote for least the minimum number of questions to receive these points. These points are awarded by session, not by question—the student either answers the minimum number of questions and receives all participation points, or does not and receives zero participation points.
In the Settings and Preferences area of the i-clickerprogram (explained below) you can set a participation requirement by percentage of questions answered. The minimum number of responses will be automatically calculated for you. From the Set Scores screen shown here, you can modify the minimum number of questions your students must answer in order to receive participation points. You also determine the total number of participation points possible for that session. The minimum number of questions required will be adjusted each time you delete and restore questions from your session.
Tip: We strongly encourage you to utilize the participation/attendance feature. This objective of i-clickeris to promote student engagement and teacher-student interaction.
Performance Points are awarded to students by question for specific answers. Many professors use performance points to reward “correct” answers. Performance points (if any) are assigned to each question individually. If you have already set a point value for correct answers in i-clickerSettings and Preferences, you may simply designate the correct answer in the Performance Points area and that answer choice will automatically be awarded the correct number of points. You may also assign credit or partial credit for multiple answers by manually adding point values in any of the five boxes above the answer choices (A, B, C, D, E). A detailed example is shown here.
Note: Since you may not remember the details of each question you asked in lecture, i-clickertakes a screen capture for you every time you begin polling. To bring up the screen capture in i-grader, click on View Screenshot. Click the button again (it will now say Hide Screenshot). The screen shot function allows you to ask on-the-fly questions easily by providing you with an automatic record of your lecture questions.
In the above example, Total Performance points currently appears as zero, because no correct answers have been designated yet. The correct answer is D. To give partial credit for another answer, you can enter 2 points in the box for D and 1 point in the box for answer A. The “Correct Answer” field can also be used to assign the default number of performance points (as set in the Settings and Preferences menu in i-clicker) to the selected answer. To scroll through the questions, click on “Previous” or “Next.” Once you have assigned points values for each question, use the Set and Close button in the bottom right corner. All points allocations will be saved and you will return to the main i-graderwindow.
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