What next?
After you have submitted the CPS Adoption Form, the process of implementing clickers involves the following steps:
1) Create your CPSOnline course (Contact Wade Price for the OSU Instructor Setup Code)
Instructor Quick Start Guide
2) Have students purchase their clicker and license through the OSU bookstore (license can also be purchased through eInstruction's website)
Students will only pay the license fee for three semesters of using their clicker. After three semesters, they can continue to use their clicker at no additional cost. Students can purchase the license one semester at a time, or pay once up front for all three semesters (it's cheaper this way in the long run).
*Let the Student Union Bookstore know how many student clickers you will be using.
(the ISBN number to give them of the current clicker model of choice is 978-1881483-717)
3) Give students instructions on how to register for your CPSOnline course
Student Enrollment Guide
Students register their clickers on the CPS website: https://cpsonlinehe.einstruction.com/hggnstudent.cfm
4) e-Instruction will provide you with a roster of students who have registered in your CPSOnline course. You will use this roster to create your CPS class in the CPS Software.
Using the Clickers in Class
1) Be sure that the CPS and CPS for PowerPoint software is installed and functions when you are logged into the computer in the room where your course is taught.
* Contact ITLE or your college's technology support department to determine what the setup in your classroom is.
2) When you submit the CPS Adoption Form, CPS will provide you with a receiver and a clicker for testing. If a receiver is not permanently installed in the classroom, you can bring your receiver and plug it into the computer's USB port BEFORE starting the CPS software.
3) Start up the CPS or CPS for PowerPoint software and have students respond to questions.
* For help in any part of using the e-instruction clickers in your courses, feel free to contact Wade Price for assistance.
