The Easiest,

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Welcome!
The Easiest, Most Powerful, Fully Interactive
Student Response System Available!
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Gain Valuable Insights..
Turning
Attendance into Involvement Participation into
Assessment Potential into Success
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One in the same..
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Educators who use TurningPoint can..

• Seamlessly combine instruction with student
  assessment
• Identify and confirm every students
  understanding of curriculum on the spot
• Increase student attentiveness, retention and
  comprehension
• Track, report and communicate classroom composite
  and individual student results

Deliver student driven lectures!
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The TurningPoint Tool Bar
Whether you are working on a brand new PowerPoint
presentation or editing one you use today, all
interactive functionality is readily available
within PowerPoint through the TurningPoint tool
bar.
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New Users Agenda

• Download Software
• Settings Hardware and Presentation
• Participant List
• Creating a Presentation
• Creating Basic Slides
• Setting Answers as Correct, adding Correct
  Answer Indicators, Countdown Timers, and Response
  Tables
• Saving Presentations
• TurningPoint Sessions
• Running the Presentation
• Using the Showbar
• Saving Your Session
• Generating Reports

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Settings
Adjust your TurningPoint Hardware Settings
Adjust TurningPoints presentation or slide
defaults
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IR Receiver

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Proper Placement of the IR Receiver in the
Classroom

• Place the receiver at least 6ft. in the air
  (parallel to the floor) to allow a better line of
  sight for the students to respond.
• Keep the receiver away from fluorescent
  lighting.
• You can use an L shaped bracket on a wall to
  attach the receiver.
• Use a USB extension cable for the receiver if
  needed to from one end of the classroom to the
  other where the computer is located.

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Create your Presentation

• Create a new presentation within TurningPoint.
• Or
• Use a previously made PowerPoint presentation and
  turn it into TurningPoint.
• Save your presentation and youre ready to go!!

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Creating an Interactive Slide

• From the TurningPoint Toolbar, select the Insert
  Slide button to open a menu of slide types.
• Chart slides
• Competition slides
• Template slides
• Special purpose slides

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TurningPoint Chart Types

• You can change the type of chart on a
  TurningPoint slide using the Insert Object menu.

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TurningPoint Session

• TurningPoint session is the time during which you
  run your presentation and collect your audience
  responses.
• Go to Reset, and Choose Reset Session
• Select Your Participant List if using one.
• Make sure you choose your methods of response
  (devices or simulated)
• Run presentation
• Save Session

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Saving your TurningPoint Session

• From the TurningPoint toolbar, select the Save
  Session button. (Hint it looks like a disk.)
• Type a file name to be used to store the session
  results.
• Select the Save button.
• From the TurningPoint toolbar, select the Reset gt
  Session command.
• Because you have saved the Session results,
  select No at the Save Session prompt.
• TurningPoint prompts you to save existing session
  results every time you reset the session and when
  you exit from TurningPoint.

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To Run Reports
Then Choose your desired report(s)
Choose your session
Go to Tools, then Turning Reports
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Report will generate in Excel!
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Remember

• Plug in Your receiver
• Open your Presentation within TurningPoint
• Load your Participant List
• Reset Your Session
• Run your Presentation
• Save your Session
• Run your Reports

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Thank You for Your Attention!
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