PointSolutions: Instructor Overview

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Getting Started

• Interested in using TurningPoint?
• Visit http://training.lsu.edu to register for a hands-on workshop provided by the Faculty Technology Center 
• Instructor FAQs
• Create Account, Download & Install
• Remove TurningPoint Cloud and Install TurningPoint 8.1
• Mac
• Adding the Turning Account Registration link to your Moodle course
• Downloading a Course List  
• Updating a Course List 
• Enable Mobile Responses
• Supported Browsers: Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge

IMPORTANT: Please note that TurningPoint 8 is NOT backwards compatible. For example, if an instructor has TurningPoint 8 on their desktop and goes into a lecture hall with a podium computer that has TurningPoint Cloud, it will not work. Anything created in TurningPoint 8 cannot be used in older versions. However, anything created in older versions of TurningPoint can be brought into TurningPoint 8 and slides will work successfully. If you are not sure which version your organization supports, please check with your administrator.

Before the Presentation

• Dashboard Overview
• Inserting a Polling Slide 
  • PC
  • Mac
• Question Types
• Inserting Objects

During the Presentation

• Enable Mobile Responses
• How to Poll in PowerPoint
  • PC
  • Mac
• The PowerPoint Polling Showbar
  • PC
  • Mac
• Saving a PowerPoint Polling Session
  • PC
  • Mac
• Resetting a PowerPoint Polling Session/Charts
  • PC
  • Mac
• Continuing a Prior PowerPoint Polling Session

After the Presentation

• Generating Reports/Report Types
• Results Manager
• How to Import a Session
• Renaming a Session or Course List 
• Merging Sessions
• Exporting Sessions for Authorized User (Teaching Assistant/Graduate Assistant)
• Downloading a Course List  
• Updating a Course List 
• Uploading Grades to Moodle
  • NOTE: If the total possible points for a TurningPoint activity are greater than the maximum grade set for the matching TurningPoint grade item in the grade book, the max grade for the Turning Point grade item will be overridden when scores for the item are uploaded. This occurs when using the integration method within TurningPoint, but will not occur if another method is chosen such as CSV file upload. 

Anywhere Polling

• Anywhere Polling in the Classroom

TurningPoint App

• TurningPoint App in the Classroom

Information for Students

• Student FAQ's 
• Student Overview (Obtain a Clicker/Subscription, Create an Account and more)
• Returning Students (Purchased a Clicker & Subscription in a Previous Semester)
• Student Rebate Offer (License)

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