Using iClicker with Canvas

Please request a meeting with Center for Teaching Innovation or you may download the software for Canvas courses from the CTI iClicker site and follow the detailed instructions on this page.

The following information is for your class if you are using Canvas for your course web site or if you are using Canvas only to display clicker question points to your students.

• What to tell students
• How to set up your iClicker program
• How to connect your students’ clickers to their names

What to tell students

Include the following information on your Canvas course as a page, an announcement, and/or send in an email message to all students:

How to set up your iClicker program

Setting up the iClicker software for the first time:

1. Either you received the iClicker software from the Center for Teaching Innovation in a meeting or you downloaded the software from the CIT iClicker site – If you would like to request a meeting, please fill out the request form
2. Connect the white iClicker receiver base to your computer – If you need one please contact the Center for Teaching Innovation staff at acadtech@cornell.edu
3. If you are running the iClicker software from a flash drive, connect the flash drive to the USB port on the white receiver base – You may also need to plug in the power cord to the white receiver base
4. Your computer will recognize the USB flash drive and you may be prompted to Open Folders and Files (PC) or it will be displayed automatically on your desktop (Macintosh)
5. Double-click on the iClicker icon to open this drive
6. Locate the iclicker Win and Mac folder on the USB flash drive and double-click the folder.
7. Double-click the iClicker program icon to start the program
   
8. At the main iClicker screen, click +Create
9. In the Create a New Course window, enter your Course Name – Introduction to Astrology, for example and click Create
10. Back at the main iClicker screen, click on your course name and then click on the Settings button
    
11. The Course Settings window has tabs along the top.  You can edit the settings in each tab and then save all settings once when you are done
    Under the tab:
    

• General: Type in your instructor clicker ID on the back of your blue instructor remote in the Instructor Remote ID field, if you have one:
  
  The rest of the settings for the General tab can be left as is
• Registration: Leave as is
• Mobile: If you choose to allow use of the iClicker Reef Polling app by your students, please follow the steps at the iClicker Reef Polling for Instructors page.  This is not required.  You may skip this tab if you will not be allowing the iClicker Reef Polling app to be used in your class.  For full details about iClicker Reef Polling, see the Mobile/Web Polling page.
• Gradebook:
  • In the Primary Institution field, start to type in Cornell University and then choose it from the list that will be displayed
  • Click the Select Course button
  • The Learning Management System window will open:
    Check the box Automatically log me in to my LMS
    Click the Cornell NetID button
    
  • Type your Cornell NetID and your Password and click Login
    If you are using Cornell’s Two-Step Login, you will need your second device with you to complete this log-in step
  • Click the Log In button
  • Click the Authorize button and you can ignore the message about the browser not being supported by Canvas
  • From the list of courses, choose the correct one for the class you are teaching and click the Select button
  • Now on the iClicker Gradebook tab, this course will be listed next to LMS Course:
  • The Server URL under the Locally-hosted registration database heading should be blank
  • Check the two boxes:
    Upload zero scores as zero
    Upload Ab (absent) scores as zero
  • NOTE: Students are released from the Registrar into Canvas courses for the Fall 2019 semester starting on Monday, August 26, 2019
• Roll Call: Since you will not be using the roll-call method of student clicker registrations, do not modify the In-class (roll call) registration settings
• Toolbar:  You may choose to change the size of the toolbar by clicking on the choices next to Toolbar size:, but most likely you will leave this setting at Normal.
  You may change the Polling timer from Count up from 0 seconds to Count down from a specified time.  Most instructors leave this setting at Count up from 0 seconds, but you may have a need to automatically limit the amount of time students may respond to your questions, such as an in-class quiz.  If you want to set a Count down from time, choose it from the drop-down menu and click the radio button to the left.
• Scoring: If you will be providing points to your students for responding to clicker questions, this tab is where you will set the points and thresholds for achieving those points.  This is broken into two type of points: Participation and Performance.  The settings that you make here in iClicker are set for all questions and all class sessions.  You may, however, modify any individual question’s point settings after that class has ended if you need to in iClicker’s Gradebook.  Please note that points can be awarded as fractions of a point, allowing you to set points less than 1.00 for both Participation and Performance.
• Results: This tab describes the settings for the Results Chart that you display in class after responses have been collected for a question and you have stopped the poll.  The default setting of Multiple choice results as Color is recommended.  The Numeric and Short Answer settings do not apply, since clickers cannot respond to those type of questions.  The Results display setting is recommended to be unchecked.
• Base Display: You can view the responses in real-time as they are submitted by the students on the white iClicker receiver base, which will be in front of you at your lectern.  The default setting for Multiple choice display – Show the number of votes for each answer choice – is recommended, unless you have more than 100 students in your class.  Then it is suggested you change this setting to be Show the percentage of votes for each answer choice.  The Numeric and Short Answer settings do not apply, since clickers cannot respond to those type of questions.
• Demographics: You can ask anonymous questions based on certain demographics that you choose, and then view your course content question responses with the demographics included.
• Click the Save button to save the settings for all tabs that you have modified.
• If you are prompted with a message “Roster Not Found: Your course roster will not appear in the gradebook until you sync it from your LMS or get the correct file in your course folder.”  click OK to clear this message

When you are returned to the main iClicker window, click the Start New Session button to start a poll.

How to connect your students’ clickers to their names

To connect your students to their clickers for providing clicker points and to display their points in your Canvas course, follow these steps to connect your Canvas roster with iClicker:

Your student roster and clicker points are managed using the iClicker Integration with Canvas.

• Features
• iClicker Integrate for Canvas set-up
• Upload clicker points to Canvas Grades
• Clicker point set-up in your Canvas Grades

For assistance, please send an email to acadtech@cornell.edu.

Features of iClicker Integration with Canvas

• Eliminates manual download/upload of class roster files – updates are made with just a couple clicks
• Allows you to update your iClicker student list from your Canvas roster
• Allows you to post student clicker points to your Canvas Grades

To set up iClicker Integrate for Canvas

• An additional file, in addition to the iClicker software, is required and it may not have been provided in your iClicker folder.  Please contact the Center for Teaching Innovation staff at acadtech@cornell.edu for help in determining if you already have the Integration with Canvas file.
• Request the proper settings file to be given to you by:
  • requesting a meeting with the Center for Teaching Innovation staff.  Send an email to acadtech@cornell.edu to request this short meeting.
    OR
  • Download the proper settings file:
    iClicker Integrate for Canvas: Macintosh and Windows computers

If you request a meeting with the Center for Teaching Innovation staff, the steps listed below will be completed at that meeting and you do not need to complete them.  Please skip down the page to Upload clicker points to the Canvas Grade Center

If you downloaded the software from the CTI iClicker site, the file is included, so you can skip to step #2.  If you downloaded the iClicker software from iclicker.com’s web site, and downloaded the iClicker Integrate for Canvas file above, please follow these steps:

1. After you have downloaded the file to your computer, it must be placed in the Resources folder of your iClicker folder: iClicker Mac and Win: Resources
2. Open the iClicker program and choose your course
3. Click Open Gradebook
4. Click the Sync Roster button
   NOTE: Students are released from the Registrar into Blackboard courses for the Spring 2019 semester starting on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
5. If you have not already set up your connection to your Canvas course, click here for the steps.
   After you have set up for iClicker Gradebook to connect to your Canvas course, an updated roster will then be displayed in the iClicker Gradebook
6. You will now see the current list of students who are enrolled in your Canvas course – Student names in blue have already registered a clicker in Canvas while student names in red have not yet registered a clicker in Canvas.

To upload clicker points to your Canvas course Grades

After you have used iClicker in at least one class session, follow the steps below to upload clicker points to your Canvas course Grades:

1. In your iClicker Gradebook, first click the Sync Roster button – this will update your students as well as update their clicker registrations
2. Then click the Sync Scores button
   
3. Choose Select All or just certain sessions to upload and click Next
4. Choose the settings to Upload Scores to LMS as described:
   
5. To upload the scores to your Canvas course site, click Upload
6. Now go to your Canvas course’s Grades.  Here you can view the clicker points as assigned for each student.