CPS Classroom Performance System

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CPS Classroom Performance System
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Objectives

• What is CPS
• Creating a database
• Create and add students to a class
• Insert the test answers
• Assign each question to a state standard
• Engage a student managed assessment
• Generate reports

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What is CPS?

• The Classroom Performance System is a package of
  hardware and software developed by eInstruction
  Corporation. The hardware consists of a infra red
  receiver unit and response pads. The software and
  hardware work together so that you can create and
  deliver course-relevant questions and standards.
  Then, the software reports student performance
  results.

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Creating a Database

• Before you begin you must create a database to
  store the following data
• Classes that contain students
• Lessons that have questions
• Reports that are associated with lessons

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Creating a Database

• Procedure
• Open CPS from your desktop icon.
• Click File from the menu bar.
• Choose New Database.... A New CPS Database window
  appears.
• Type the database name that you are creating in
  the File Name text box. The file extension .cps
  is automatically added to your file name. 
• Click save and wait while CPS processes your
  request. The Lessons tab opens with your database
  name in the title bar and left window of that
  tab.

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Now that you have an open database

• Create a class
• Add students
• Assign pad id

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Create a Class

• 1. Choose the Class tab
• 2. Choose new class

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Create a Class

• 3. Choose your choose K-12 as your institution
  type and click next
• 4. Enter your Contact Information if this is your
  first CPS class
• 5. Enter your Class Information. Please note that
  Class Name is the only information required
• 6. Click next, next, done

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Add Students to a K-12 Class

• 1. Click student
• 2. Fill in the first and last name for each
  student

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Inserting test answer

• There are a variety of testing formats to choose
  from.
• Today we will look at the student managed
  assessment.
• In this case you create a paper multiple choice
  test.
• Distribute the test and clicker pads
• Have the students work at their own pace and
  enter the answers with their clicker pad

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Inserting a new Lesson

• Click the lesson tab

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Inserting a new Lesson

• Click the lesson tab
• Click tools new lesson
• Give it an appropriate name (preCalMidterm) hit
  OK

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Adding Questions To A Lesson

• Select the lesson
• Click tools new question

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Select the correct answer, save, and move to the
next question.

• Save and move icon

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Best Practice

• Create the paper test and assign each question to
  a state standard before you create a lesson in
  cps.
• This will allow you to assign standards to
  questions at this point.

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How to assign a standard to a question

• 1. Download standards
• 2. Import standards
• 3. Assign a standard to a question

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Downloading the standards
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Importing Standards

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Importing Standards

• Check the standards
• Select OK

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You now have the state standards
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Assign a standard to a question

• Open a question from the Lessons tab. The CPS
  Question Author window appears.

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Click the Question menu item and choose Associate
Standards.
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Engage a student managed assessment

• Select the Lesson tab
• Select a lesson (PSSAReview1 below)
• Select engage lesson

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Student managed assessmentSession Type -
testChoose a class

• Start

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• Top Row pad
• Bottom Row Current question for that pad
• Be sure to hit the start button

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Have the students work through the test

• When the time is up select the end button

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Time to Generate a Report

• Select the Report Tab
• Select a Session
• Select Generate

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• Give the report a title
• Select report type

Select Preview and then print
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Standards Analysis Report
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Instructor Summary
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Good Luck

• Brad Siesko
• Southern Lehigh High School
• sieskob_at_slsd.org
• Links
• www.einstruction.com - einstruction homepage
• www.einstruction.com/Downloads/index.cfm -
  download standards
• www.slsd.org/teacher/sieskob