From the end of March through mid-April 2016, faculty and staff from Northern Illinois University participated in a review of five classroom response (“clicker”) systems,
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NIU to Conduct Review of Classroom Response Systems
Five years ago, at the request of faculty and teaching staff, the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center facilitated a search for classroom response (“clicker”)
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Upgrade Details for TurningPoint Cloud
This is the second of two announcements about the upgrade the TurningPoint, which is currently planned for the Memorial Day weekend. Registering a Turning Technologies
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TurningPoint Cloud to replace TurningPoint 5.3
TurningPoint is the desktop software used by faculty as part of the student response system (SRS), or “clickers”, to receive immediate feedback from students in
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New Clicker Device on Campus
In Spring 2015, Turning Technologies began selling a new student response system device, their “QT” model. This QT device replaces the previous NXT model that
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New Turning Technologies Clicker Training Available!
NIU Faculty Development & Instructional Design Center typically offers 1-2 hands-on workshops a year on using the Turning Technologies ResponseCard devices (aka “clickers”) in the
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NIU Now Supports TurningPoint 5
Faculty who are currently using or thinking about using clickers in the classroom are in for a real treat. ITS has installed the latest version
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Student Response System is a technology which allows faculty to receive immediate feedback from students wirelessly with the use of small handheld devices commonly referred
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