Turning Point

TURNING POINT TRAINING MANUAL:
Adapted for instruction at the Smith School of Business
August 2004 

www.turningtechnologies.com

Galit Shmueli
Ross Malaga
Irem Ataibis

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION:
ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND TRAINING MANUAL:
SECTION I: Installing TurningPoint Software:
Section II: Installing TurningPoint Hardware:
Section III: Creating and Managing Participant's Lists (i.e. Class Rosters):
Creating a Participant List (or Class Roster)
How to Use the Roster from umeg (www.umeg.umd.edu)
Editing a Participant List (or Class Roster)
Load a Participant List:
Section IV: Creating a Presentation-Working with Slides:
Description of the Toolbar:
Working with Slides:
Creating a TP slide from a PP slide:
How to make a slide INTERACTIVE?
Creating a ‘Picture' or ‘Object' Slide:
Ranking Wizard
Presentation Settings:
Slide Settings:
Slide Options:
Chart Settings:
Custom Animation:
Section V: The Slide Show:
Starting a New Session:
Continue Prior Session:
Running the Slide Show:
Section VI: Reports:
Selecting and Working with Sessions:
Exporting Session Data:
Loading the Report into Excel:
Section VII: Competition:
Section VIII: FAQ:
APPENDIX: CONTACT INFORMATION FOR TURNING TECHNOLOGIES

INTRODUCTION:

TurningPoint is an interactive PowerPoint tool, which will allow presenters/instructors to pose questions to a large group, gather results and display them to the class in real time while using PowerPoint presentations. Key benefits of using TurningPoint can be summarized as follows:

•  Students get involved in the lecture As an educator; you can easily add question/answer slides to your existing presentation. These slides require students to make decisions about the material being presented.

•  The participation of every student is required: Most of the time, the majority of the class prefers to be silent. Interactive PowerPoint slides require that every student be involved in the presentation.

•  Immediate grading: You can have access to each student's participation level and correct/incorrect answers immediately.

•  Students can respond anonymously and honestly: You might want to know whether students understand today's lecture or not. A TP slide will help you to learn the honest responses in the classroom.

ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND TRAINING MANUAL:

If you want to download sample presentations, TP software and TP guides, here is the website: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/downloads.htm

•  Software: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/downloadrequest.aspx
•  Keyspan High Speed USB Adapter software: http://www.keyspan.com/downloads/win/ .
•  Training Manual: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/Public/Introduction%20to%20TurningPoint/Introduction%20to%20TurningPoint.PDF

This manual assumes that you have Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook installed on your computer and that you have at least a basic working knowledge of those software applications.

SECTION I: Installing TurningPoint Software:

System requirements: TurningPoint operates on Windows 98, 2000, XP. It requires either Microsoft Office 2000, XP, or 2003. Office should include PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

•  Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive to launch the installation wizard. Or you can download from the website. The Windows install wizard will walk you through the process of installing your software.

•  Click to install TP

•  Type your username and name of the organization

•  Enter the registration code (16 digit product ID) for the software. It is located on a sticker in the hardware folder.

•  Change the destination folder if necessary

•  After installing, reboot your PC.

•  Click the shortcut of TP

•  Now when you open Microsoft ® PowerPoint you will see the TP toolbar added to the application. All functionality of TP is available from this menu.

!!! IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE TOOLBAR!!!

•  Go to the PP ® Tools ® Add-ins ® Select TP

•  If you cannot find TP in the Add-in list, browse through to the TP directory to find the add-in.

•  You will be asked to select your hardware type. Select Response Card.

•  You will be asked to activate your TurningPoint software via the Internet or by phone. Choose Internet. Complete the information necessary (Name, company, address, email, telephone) Write the product activation code (OR run the program in demonstration mode).

Section II: Installing TurningPoint Hardware:

•  If you are working with your laptop, you will need High Speed USB adaptor. Install the Keyspan High Speed USB Adaptor software from either CD or website.

•  Turn off the computer.

•  Connect the Receiver into High Speed USB adaptor.

•  Plug the USB adaptor into an available USB port on your computer.

•  Turn your computer on.

•  System check: The High Speed USB Adaptor should be displaying a green flashing light.

•  Place the Receiver in a central, elevated location in the front of the room. The effective range of the Receiver is about 75 feet (25 meters). However, this is important to know that because you are using "infrared" technology, communication is line-of-sight. It should be placed in the front of the room in a position high enough to be seen by everyone in the room. Although it is line-of-sight technology, responses will often be received if the keypads are simply pointed in the general direction of the receiver. When the receiver is connected, the keypad user simply has to press the number or letter that corresponds with his/her choice .

•  Open the PowerPoint application.

•  Keypad Setup:

1. From the TurningPoint toolbar: Left click on the down arrow next to the word ‘Keypads'. Select Keypads.
2. From the TurningPoint toolbar. Locate the ‘Lightening Bolt' and left click. This will launch the hardware configuration process.
3. The TP software will communicate with the hardware and detect the COM port you have chosen to use.

1. On-screen instructions require you to press a number on the keypad or press the ‘esc' key to advance. Each time you see this screen, press a number on the keypad. If the screen does not advance, press the ‘esc' key. Repeat the process until your hardware is identified. When the hardware is recognized, you will see the communications port screen.

1. In the right hand box you can now select your starting and ending keypad's numbers by right clicking on: Starting Keypad number and Ending Keypad number . By default, you can set the starting keypad number as ‘1' and the ending keypad number as ‘60'. If the number of students in your class is less than 60, the data for the rest of the numbers will be empty.
2. Right-click on Hardware Type and select Programmable Keypads .

In the popup window enter the lowest number found in your keypad set. Keypad numbers are located on the back of each keypad.

•  Testing the Keypads: Left Click on “Test Keypads.” Button .

1. Select a keypad with a number that fits into the range defined in step 12.
2. Press any number on the keypad. This number will display on the grid.
3. When completed, left click the ‘End Key Test' button.
4. Close the window by left clicking on the red x in the upper right corner of the test screen window.

Section III: Creating and Managing Participant's Lists (i.e. Class Rosters):

Creating a Participant List (or Class Roster)

•  In the Turning Point menu, click Participants .

•  Click Creates Participant List .

•  Enter a name for the participant list (e.g., BMGT 620 sec DC107 ); then click OK .

•  Excel opens and names the spreadsheet automatically.

•  In the Excel spreadsheet, enter each student's Last Name and First Name , according to Keypad number.

Note : At a minimum, each participant list must contain (a) student Keypad number, (b) Communication Port , (c) Last Name, and (d) First Name. All other information is non-essential, but sometimes useful.

•  Do not touch communications port column. The program changes this column automatically.

•  To save the participant list, click File in the Excel menu; then click Save .

•  To exit, click the upper-right close-out box .

Note : Participants lists are saved on the hard-drive under the Turning Point folder, which was created during the install process. Faculty, therefore, may access the participant lists in three ways: (a) through the Turning Point menu , (b) through the hard-drive file manager (Drive>Turning Point folder>Year folder>Participants folder>Participant List file), (c) or through Excel by navigating to the file, as shown in (b).

•  Go back to PowerPoint.

•  Click on the drop down box to the right of Participants.

•  Notice that the Participant's List just created is now one of the options to choose from.

•  Select required participant list as needed.

The Participant's List is kept as a spreadsheet in a folder called Participants in the

TP folder located in the file folder My Documents. When gathering responses from an audience, you can either choose the participant list for the current session or you can choose ‘no participant list' in which case the responses for this response session will be collected anonymously. This is useful for example for surveys of sensitive information.

How to Use the Roster from umeg ( www.umeg.umd.edu )

Frequently, faculty will use the roster from umeg website. It is easy to use that list as participant list for Turning Point:

1. Open Excel
2. Choose ‘show all files' and open the BUSI630. umg file.
3. While opening specify ‘comma' delimited.
4. In the Turning Point menu, click Participants .
5. Click Create Participant List.
6. You can either copy and paste all the information in your excel spreadsheet (from BUSI630.umg) like the section, campus, social security number etc. to the new Excel sheet (from TP) OR you can only copy and paste the necessary columns which are the first and last name . In either case, you MUST keep the keypad number and Com Port columns in the participant list.
7. To save the participant list, click File in the Excel menu; then click Save .
8. To exit, click the upper-right close-out box.
9. Note: Participants lists are saved on the hard-drive under the Turning Point folder, which was created during the install process. Faculty, therefore, may access the participant lists in three ways: (a) through the Turning Point menu, (b) through the hard-drive file manager (Drive>Turning Point folder>Year folder>Participants folder>Participant List file), (c) or through Excel by navigating to the file, as shown in (b).

Editing a Participant List (or Class Roster)

Frequently, faculty will want to edit a participant list (e.g., to add or drop students). Doing so is quite easy.

1. In the Turning Point menu, click Participants .
2. Click Edits Participant List .
3. In the pop-up window, click the Participant List to be edited; then click Open .
4. In the Excel document, edit as appropriate; save , and then exit .

Note : Faculty may access, edit, and save the participants list in three ways: (a) Turning Point menu system , (b) the hard-drive file manager (Drive>Turning Point folder>Year folder>Participants folder>Participant List file), or (c) through Excel by navigating to the file, as shown in (b).

Load a Participant List:

TP lists are stored in the installed TP directory in the “ Participants” folder. If you have created a list on one PC and want to use it on another, you use windows explorer to copy that list to a floppy disk or other portable drive. You can easily load that list into another TP computer by using the “Load Participant List” button. A dialog will appear allowing you to select the list you want to load.

Section IV: Creating a Presentation-Working with Slides:

Here is the typical Turning Point slide:

Response Reminder 3: Answer NowTable

Choices with Horizontal Graph

Question Text

Response Reminder 2: Response Table

Response reminder 1: Countdown

How will we create TP slides? Please follow the steps below.

Description of the Toolbar:

Working with Slides:

There are two options to create TP slides: One of them is to use the TP toolbar to select the format of your TP slide. The second way is to create a question PP and add TP objects to make it an interactive slide.

Inserting a TP Slide:

•  Open an existing PowerPoint slideshow.

•  Insert question slides where appropriate. From the slide pane, click on the ‘Insert a Question Slide' button on the TurningPoint. Toolbar. Choose the question type from the list.

•  Type the question in the Title text holder. Type the answers against the individual bullets. Highlight the bullets, click on Format, Bullets and Numbering. You may enter from 1 to 10 answer options.

•  You can specify correct answer as well. Please see the ‘Slide Settings' section for more details.

•  Once you typed your question and answers into the slide, the slide is finished and ready to display to the audience.

•  From the TP toolbar, choose from Reminders ‘Answer Now'. ‘Response Counter' or ‘Countdown' shape which give more control to the instructor for running the PP (will be discussed further).

•  Choose File Save as and save the presentation.

Creating a TP slide from a PP slide:

•  You can create a TP slide by inserting a slide just like you normally would within PowerPoint. Using the “Bulleted List” slide type in the PowerPoint New Slide dialog would be easier.

•  You can use most available slide types, however it is important to use slide types that contain both a “ Title” box and a “ Text” box . TP stores information from those boxes in the TurningPoint session file for data reports.

•  Of the “ Standard” PP slides, the following slide types are NOT supported to be used as TP slides: Title Slide, Table, Text & Chart, Chart & Text, Organization Chart, Chart, Title Only, Blank, Large Object, Object, 4 Objects.

•  Simply type your question text into the “ Title” box and each of your answers into the “ Text” box. You can enter from 1 to 10 possible answers. The answers should be bulleted with either numbers (1. 2. 3. … ) or letters (A. B. C. D. … ) to correspond with the choice options available on the keypad.

How to make a slide INTERACTIVE?

To identify a PP slide as a TP interactive slide, it must contain a TP Response Reminder . These reminders serve several purposes:

•  “Response Reminders” identify the slide as an interactive slide and signal TP software to poll audience response information with this slide.

•  “Response Reminders” appear on your PowerPoint slide to remind the audience to respond with their keypads.

•  “Response Reminders” can display specific response information related to the currently displayed slide.

•  Please Note! If you have inserted a standard PowerPoint slide and want that slide to be interactive, click on the “Charts” button on the TurningPoint toolbar.

To show a response reminder on your question slide, click on the “Reminders” button on the TP Toolbar. Options for 4 types of “Response Reminders” now appear.

“Answer Now” reminder: It simply adds a shape and the text “Answer Now” to the bottom of your slide to remind your audience to respond to the question with their keypads.

“Countdown” reminder: Used to give your audience a particular time limit to respond to an individual question. When the slide is displayed and the “Countdown” reminder is displayed, the selected “Countdown” reminder displays as an animation that graphically displays the amount of time remaining to respond to the current question before accepting responses is closed. The original default time for this reminder is 10 seconds. However, you can change it!

“Response Counter” reminder: Used in a presentation environment where you would want to be certain that every participant responded to each question. The “Response Counter” reminders graphically display the number of participants that have responded compared to the total number of keypads in the audience. When using this reminder, when the last participant responds polling automatically closes and the chart is displayed.

“Response Table” reminder: The most commonly used Response Reminder is a Response Table. The Response Table is used in determining if all participants have answered a question or not. There are two types of Response Tables – the Fixed or

Rotating Table. The Fixed Response Table shows a table with all keypads that are to be used. The Rotating Response Table shows up to 40 table cells and, if there are more than 40 participants, brings up a new table and continues with another 40 table cells, eg. 41 – 80, as required.

The "Respond Table" permits 2-way verification of participant data entry. It also provides a visible signal to participants if they want to verify their response or change their response. Once the participant clicks to the keypad, the background for his/her keypad number will turn to blue.

PLEASE NOTE! In each category, only one reminder can appear on an individual interactive slide: one Answer Now, one Response Counter and one Countdown Reminder. As any other object in PP, you can change the format, text and also the place of the object.

Statistics: TP “ Statistics” are available for you to insert on any TP slide. During polling the result of the selected formula(s) will be visible to the audience. Click on the “ Stats” button on the TP toolbar to display the menu of available TP statistics that can be added to your slide.

Charts: TP Charts enables you to show the results of a response slide to your audience. Only TP charts can be added to display the results of TP slides. By using the TurningPoint toolbar to insert a slide, your question slide will automatically be created with the style of chart you selected. . The most popular one is the horizontal one, which places a bar on top of each answer. If you have inserted a standard PowerPoint slide and want that slide to be interactive, click on the “Charts” button on the TurningPoint toolbar. It is important to note that Offset charts support single line answers only. If you would like to change to another chart style, simply select the chart style that you want and your existing chart will be replaced

Creating a ‘Picture' or ‘Object' Slide:

With TurningPoint, you can create a slide where "objects" are linked to response choices.

•  To create an "Object" slide, complete the following steps:

•  Create a normal TP question slide.

•  Type your question and a description of each object into the answer text box

•  Insert your graphics or other objects in the same order they appear in the answer box.

•  Click on the "Convert to Picture Slide" button.

Ranking Wizard

TP has enhanced decision-making capabilities through the "Ranking Wizard". The "Ranking Wizard" allows you to easily create "lists" of items, issues, priorities or goals and rank them against up to three specific "criteria". These lists can be ranked against a static scale (1 – 10) or against each other using a "paired comparison" approach. To learn more, please check the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 (pages 21-26).

Below is an example of final comparison through Ranking Wizard:

Presentation Settings:

•  The most settings can be set at either the Presentation OR Slide level. If a setting is set at the slide level, it will only apply to the currently displayed slide. If it is set at the presentation level, it will apply to any slides created after the settings change .

•  To access the slide settings, click on the ‘eyeglasses' on the TP toolbar.

•  To view the available ‘Presentation Level' settings click on ‘Presentation Settings' on the left column of the TP Setting dialog. The right window will display all of the individual ‘Presentation Level' settings.

See the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 for further details of each item (page 31-34).

*You can set the default response reminder by right clicking ‘Response Reminder'. You will see options like response counter, answer now, countdown, fixed and rotating response table. You can choose one of them as your default setting.

Select ‘Apply Global Changes' to view a list of settings that can be changed globally. When a setting is changed here TP changes all of the interactive slides that are currently in the presentation. TP also changes the presentation settings for additional slides to be created as well as the default for future presentations that are created.

Slide Settings:

To access individual slide settings; simply click on the slide that you want to change the settings of in the left hand window of the “TP Settings” dialog. The settings for that individual slide will appear in the right window.

Please see the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 for further details of each item (page35 - 37).

You can set correct/incorrect answers by clicking to one of the choices; a new box will show up on the right window. Here are the steps to follow:

•  On the TurningPoint toolbar click on the Display options button

•  On the left side of the window, you will see all questions in your PP presentation. Click on the question you want to set the correct answers.

•  On the right side of the window click on the option you want to set the value “Correct”.

•  On the lower half of the window right click on “Value” and choose “Correct.”

•  Once one answer has been set to correct, if you click on any other answer option you will notice they have automatically been set to incorrect.

•  You can repeat these steps for each question in your presentation.

Slide Options:

Demographic Slide: There may be times when you would like to collate demographic information about the participants. There are different reports that can be run after the presentation is concluded and one of these reports is Demographic Comparison. To use this report, changes must be made to the TurningPoint slides that ask the questions. Here are the steps to follow:

•  Create the interactive slide/s as normal with the appropriate type of slide. Once completed, click on the Display Options button on the TurningPoint toolbar.

•  Under Slide Settings on the left-hand side of the screen, click on the slide with the demographic question.

•  On the right-hand side, right click on the option of Slide Type and change this from Question to Demographic .

•  Repeat this for all the slides that contain the demographic questions.

Comparative Slide: This option allows you to present a chart result of two interactive slides on the slide at the same time. For example, in a training session, where you would ask a series of questions at the beginning of the session, then ask the same series of questions at the end of the session. Each slide at the end of the presentation can be set as a Compare Slide and linked to corresponding original question. When the results chart is displayed, it will appear as a multi-series chart with both the original and final results displayed. However, the graphs are visually hard to read.

There is another type of Comparative Slide. Notice the “Show percentage of change” checkbox on the Comparative Slide selection dialogue. If this setting is selected it will create a “Stacked Bar” chart with the first stack representing the results of the currently polled question, the second stack representing the results of the question it is being compared against, and the third stack representing the percentage of the group that have changed their answer from the first time the question was polled. Please note that comparative slides cannot be set on slides containing pie charts.

Chart Settings:

If a slide contains a chart, this setting appears. If you click on this setting, the available chart settings appear in the lower right corner of the “TP Settings” dialog.

Please see the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 for further details of each item (page37 - 38).

If ‘Use correct/incorrect chart colors' is chosen as ‘yes', the color bars associated with any incorrect answers will turn red.

Custom Animation:

•  By default, when a TP slide is displayed, the Question and Answer text will appear. On the next event, the “Response Reminder” object will appear. On the next event, the chart of response results will appear. Another next event command (typically “ Enter” , “ Space Bar” , or “Right Arrow” PowerPoint functions) will bring up the next slide.

•  You can use PowerPoint custom animation capabilities to change the animations for your presentation. Some of the common custom animations that you may want to set up for a TP slide include:

•  Bulleted display – Display the answers individually as bullets, one at a time when called for. You can even display chart results one at a time to help your audience to focus on individual answers.

•  Animated Chart – If you change the animation order so that the chart appears before the “Response Reminder” object, your chart will appear and the bars will grow as individual responses are received.

•  To access PowerPoint custom animations choose "Custom Animation" from the PowerPoint "Slide Show" menu or from the "Right Click" menu after clicking on any slide object.

Section V: The Slide Show:

Generally speaking, you will run your TP slide show the same way that you would run any other PP slide show.

The only new concept that you will want to understand before using TP with an audience is that of “ Sessions” . A “session” is an individual data set from a specific audience participation event. In other words, if you are teaching BUSI630 and gather responses from your Track 1 MBA students on Tuesday, all of the information related to that specific class is saved in a TP session “.tpz” file . This file includes:

•  A copy of the PowerPoint presentation file
•  A copy of the participant list used in the session
•  And all of the individual responses gathered during that session.

These session files are automatically saved in your “ My Documents ” folder at the end of every session. A session is ended when you either close PowerPoint or click on the “Create New Session” button to initialize a new session when there is existing session data.

Starting a New Session:

Whenever you open PP, TP automatically creates a new polling session. Before you show your presentation to an audience, you may want to be sure that you have a new session and that any test data is cleared. To be sure you are beginning a clean data session, simply click on the “Reset” button . If prior response data exists, you will be prompted with an opportunity to save the existing session data. If you click “No” at that prompt, data from that session will be sent to your computer's “Recycle Bin” for deletion. If you do not want the entire session reset for polling but would like certain slides reset simply select the slide you want to reset and then select “Current Slide” from the “Reset” drop down menu.

Continue Prior Session:

You may have an occasion where you have gathered responses from an audience and for some reason closed and saved a session file from that session. One of the things that you will want to be sure of if continuing a prior session is that each participant is using the same keypad that he or she used in the prior session . This is critically important if you are using a specific participant list or you are polling any demographic questions to analyze other questions against.

To continue a prior session, simply click on the “Continue Prior Session” button. A dialog box will appear asking you to select the prior session you wish to continue. Select the appropriate TP session “ .tpz” file and click the “Open” button. The selected session file will be opened along with its associated PowerPoint presentation, participant list and data set. You can now continue where you left off.

Ending a Session:

TP will continue to store response data within a session until it is ended. A TP response session can be ended in 3 different ways:

•  You can click on the “Create New Session” button to begin a new session.

•  You can also click on the “Continue Prior Session” button to open a prior session data file for appending.

•  TP will prompt you to end a session if there is existing response data when you exit PP.

In each of these instances, if session data exists, you will see a message box asking if you want to save the data from the current session. If you click “Yes”, TP will allow you to name the TP session file. If you click “No”, the data from the current session will be sent to the “Recycle Bin” for deletion.

Running the Slide Show:

* Please see the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 for further details of each item (page45 - 46).

Section VI: Reports:

TurningPoint integrates with Word and Excel to present the results of your interactive sessions in standard documents and worksheets that you can print, view, and modify. After having run and saved a session, you may have access 14 reports within which the session data are saved.

Selecting and Working with Sessions:

In this section, we discuss how to select an individual session for reporting and the various session level utilities that are available. To work with TurningPoint Reports, click on the “Reports” button on the TurningPoint toolbar.

The TurningPoint Reports session selection window now appears (see Figure below). You will notice that the window lists all of the TurningPoint sessions that reside in the “My Documents” folder of your computer.

The table below illustrates how to manage the session data:

*TurningPoint Report List for each Session:

*For further details, please check the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 (page 54).

** If you would like to have more than one report generated for your session results, just use the ‘Shift' or ‘Ctrl' key to select the reports you want so that TP could bundle them into ONE Excel Workbook creating each as a sheet in the Excel Workbook.

Exporting Session Data:

*For further information, please check the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 (pages 56-60).

Loading the Report into Excel:

•  Open Excel .

•  Through the Excel menu, locate and open the TP export file .

•  In the Excel Import Wizard, click the radio button for Delimited ; then at the bottom, click Next .

•  Ensure that the Tab box is checked (should be the default); then click Finish .

•  To save the file as an Excel file (it is currently a text file):

•  Click File in the Excel menu

•  Click Save as .

•  In the Save In field, select a folder in which to save the file.

•  In the File Name field, rename the file (e.g., BUMK 603 101 Gradebook).

•  In the Save As Type field, select xls (Excel).

•  Click Save .

Section VII: Competition:

TurningPoint will allow you to assign points to correct answers on individual slides and track those points by individual participant and keypad. Optionally, you can also assign participants to up to 20 teams and track and display accumulated team scores as well.

Steps to follow:

1. Assign answer values to each game question.
2. If it is on individual basis , insert ‘Participant LeaderBoards' into your presentation.
1. If you have included a ‘Participant List' in your session, TP will automatically display the names of the participant in the Participant LeaderBoard.
3. If it is team-based competition, assign individual participants to teams. There are two ways for assignment:
1. Assign a team number in the Participant List itself.
2. OR add a ‘Team Assignment' slide to your presentation and display before any competition slide.
3. Add ‘Team LeaderBoards' slide which will display the top teams and their accumulated point scores.

For further information, please check Chapter 8 in the TurningPoint User Manual 2003 (page 61-65)

Section VIII: FAQ:

1. How do I specify the correct answer/s for each question?

First, click to the on the Display options button on the TurningPoint toolbar and select the slide for which you want to set correct/incorrect answers. Once you click to this slide, you will see the options on the right window. On the right window, click on the option you want to set as ‘correct'. The other options will be changed to ‘incorrect' automatically (For further information, please check the ‘Slide Settings' part.) .

2. Is there a way to specify the default settings?

Yes, you can click on the Display options button on the TurningPoint toolbar, and you will see ‘Presentation Settings'. Once you click on that, you will have options on the right window. (For further information, please check the ‘Presentation Settings' part.)

3. What if I my class has less than 60 students and the keypad numbers end at 60?

You can change this default number manually before you start your session. Left click on the down arrow next to the word ‘Keypads' on the TurningPoint toolbar and select Keypads. Now left click on the ‘Lightening Bolt' . This will launch the hardware configuration process. You can change the ending number on the popup window. (For further information, please check Section II: Hardware Installation/Keypad Setup) .

4. I teach multiple sections with the largest class having 60 students. What should I do if I don't want to change my setting every time I create slides for each class?

Set the number of keypads to the maximum (60). In classes with less students, the unused numbers will remain empty and will not interfere.

5. How can I import the roster in ‘umeg' format to a participant list?

First, import the umeg file into an excel format. You can do it by simply opening the umeg file in excel and specifying ‘comma delimited'. After that, you will follow the regular steps for Turning Point to create ‘Participant List'. And you can copy and paste the information on your excel spreadsheet on the participant list from Turning Point. ( For further information, please check Section III: Creating Participant List).

6. When I use horizontal graph option, the color of the bars hides both the response and the statistic. Is there a way to change the color?

You can change the color of the graphs by double clicking the graph. Once you double click, it will allow you to change the colors for each bar separately.

7. The change in the color of the response table is not visible on the screen. Is there a way to make it more visible?

You can go to Format>Slide Color Scheme>Custom>Fills and change the color of ‘fills' on your slides.

APPENDIX: CONTACT INFORMATION FOR TURNING TECHNOLOGIES

For technical support, questions about your system, or to talk to a representative about acquiring additional equipment or software, use the contact information below.

Turning Technologies LLC
241 Federal Plaza West
Youngstown , OH 44503
Phone 330.746.3015 Fax 330.746.6863
www.TurningTechnologies.com
Email - Support@Turning Technologies.Com

You can also contact Irem Ataibis by email iataibis@rhsmith.umd.edu if you have further questions.