North Dakota State University

• How to use your clicker
• Benefits of using clickers as a student
• How to get a clicker
• How to register your clicker via Blackboard
• How to take care of your clicker
• What to do if you lose your clicker
• How to buy/sell or lend/borrow clickers
• What to do if your clicker stops working

Get started using your clicker with the ResponseCard NXT user guide.

• You answer questions in private--no need for you to raise your hand and be called upon. This can encourage shy students to participate more readily.
• The answers are collected almost instantly. This allows you and your professor to make efficient use of your time together as a class.
• The system will give a summary of all the answers transmitted right after the question ends, giving you and your instructor valuable and immediate feedback. With this feedback, your instructor will know what points need more discussion and explanation, and which points are understood.
• It is another reason to stay awake in class.

Purchase the clicker unit from the NDSU Bookstore for $50. If you have more than one instructor using this technology, the clicker works for any class that uses the technology. In other words, you can keep the clicker for your whole stay at NDSU, and it will be your unique Device ID for that whole time. When you're done with your clicker, you can sell it back to the Bookstore during Buy-Back for $25. You can save money if you hang onto the clicker until you're ready to leave NDSU. Everytime you sell it back and then buy another at a later date, you lose money!

1. Go to the Blackboard course area for your course that is using clickers.
2. Click TOOLS in the left menu.
3. Choose TurningPoint Registration Tool.
4. On the next screen, type in the unique Device ID from the back of your clicker. Type it again to confirm. Then choose Submit. 
5. If you need to change your Device ID, just follow the same instructions, but type over the previously entered ID.
6. NOTE: Once you've entered in your Device ID in any Blackboard class, you are automatically registered in any other Blackboard course in which you're enrolled that uses clickers.

• Bring your clicker to every class period.
• Replace the AAA alkaline batteries at your own expense when required. The battery icon in the top right corner of the readout will tell you how much battery life is left in your clicker.

• First, check the classroom(s), local lost and founds, and check with your instructors in case the clicker was found and turned in.
• If you still can't find it, contact the Help Desk (231-8685, IACC 150) to report it as lost. If the clicker is turned into ITS, we will contact you.
• If you need to replace your clicker before it is found and turned in, you will have to return to the registration tool in your Blackboard course and register your new Device ID number. Tell your instructor what your new Device ID number is so that he/she can update the roster to reflect that change.

Students can buy/sell clickers from other students. The student who is buying the unit will be able to register the unit as his/her own using the registration tool in the Blackboard course. 

It is not advisable for two or more students to share the same clicker during a semester because each Device ID is unique to the student.

If your clicker stops working, please take it to the NDSU Bookstore for replacement.
PLEASE NOTE:

• If your clicker turns off fairly quickly, it isn't faulty. The clickers are set up to do that to save battery life. The batteries should last 3-4 years!
• With new clickers, you need to pull the battery tab on the back of the unit before using.