1 - The Basics: Setting Up and Starting i>clicker
Start a Polling Session
After creating a course you are ready to start a session and begin polling. Once polling is started, students can begin
answering your polling questions with their i>clicker remotes.
NOTE: If any of your students are using web>clicker in your class, you must enable web>clicker before you
begin polling (see web>clicker/SPS Setup in General Settings).
To begin polling:
1. Create or select a course from the Welcome screen.
2. The i>clicker Home Page appears. Click the Start Session button.
Select Start Session from the i>clicker Home Page
3. The i>clicker Home Page disappears and the Session Toolbar appears in the top-left corner of your screen,
indicating that i>clicker is active. You can reposition the toolbar anywhere on your desktop.
4. When you are ready to start polling, advise your students to turn on their clickers, present the question and
answer choices (either verbally or visually), and click Start on the toolbar.
i>clicker Session Toolbar ready to start
5. The Start button toggles to become a Stop button and the toolbar expands to show a timer and vote
counter when polling is active.
i>clicker Session Toolbar with polling active
TIP: If you use a program to display your questions (e.g., PowerPoint or Keynote), make sure it's the active
application when you start polling. Each time polling begins, i>clicker captures a screenshot of the active window
and stores it along with polling results for later review in i>grader.
6. To stop polling, click the Stop button and i>clicker will no longer accept votes.
NOTE: If students vote when polling is inactive, the Vote Status light on their remotes will flash red three
times to indicate their votes were not received.
7. If desired, click the Results button on the toolbar to show a graph of the class responses. See the
section Viewing Student Responses for more details.
8. Repeat steps 4 - 6 for each question you ask in class. When you are finished polling, close the Session
Toolbar by clicking the Close (x) button in the top left corner of the toolbar.
TIP: You can use an instructor's remote to control polling from anywhere in the room. (See Instructor's Remote
ID in General Settings.)
