Audience
This article is intended for instructors using iClicker student response system.
What is in this article?
This article contains the important steps instructors need to do before using iClicker for polling or attendance.
Do once
- Create an Instructor iClicker Account
- Download and install the iClicker Desktop Software
Do once for each course per term.
- Create one or more iClicker courses and integrate with Canvas.
- View and sync your student roster with Canvas
- Set your Grade Sync Settings.
An instructor account must be created with your @ithaca.edu email in order to use the campus license to iClicker.
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Through a web browser, go to https://instructor.iclicker.com
- Beneath the prompt for email and password click, "Sign in through your campus portal."
- Beneath Institution, select Ithaca College from the pull down.
- Click "Let's go" button.
- From the Ithaca College login screen choose your work account.
- Enter your regular Ithaca College full email and IC password.
- If it prompts you to log in through DUO, do so.
Note: Single Sign On was enabled for Ithaca College on 8/8/2024. If you had an iClicker account with your ithaca.edu email through the pilot, you will need to know your old password to reconcile the accounts. You will be prompted to "link" accounts.
Once logged in, you should see the Courses window where you can access your Profile and create and/or view your iClicker courses.
Note that when you create an iClicker instructor account, a student account is automatically created for you as well. You can use your same login to log in to student.iclicker.com and view your iclicker activities as a student would.
The iClicker Cloud software is the application you will launch to run the majority of activities for your students in iClicker during class.
Mac Instructions: You may need to enable administrator privileges in order to install the iClicker software on your college-owned Mac laptop. Click here for instructions on installing an application on your device:
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- Go to https://www.iclicker.com/downloads/iclicker-cloud/
- Select Windows or Mac.
- Download and save the file when prompted.
- on Mac, double click on the .dmg file which should prompt you to drag to your applications folder. (See above for allowing installation privileges).
- on Windows, click Standalone Version and which will prompt you to download the .zip file.
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Launch the iClicker Cloud software and Click "Sign in through your Campus Portal."
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Choose Ithaca College and follow login prompts.
The iClicker Cloud Desktop app is what is necessary to do in-class activities. We recommend that you complete the set up options in this article before you use in the classroom.
In most cases it is beneficial to use the Course Roster and Grade Sync with Canvas.
Special note on merged or cross-listed Canvas courses: if you have merged your sections into a single Canvas course you may want to create separate iClicker Courses and select only that section, especially if you are using iClicker for attendance.
Create the course in the instructor.iclicker.com web site.
- Log into instructor.iclicker.com .
- Click the Create New Course button.
- Click Full Course. (It isn't necessary to run an attendance-only course since we have a campus license.)
- Fill out the Course Information including a course name. e.g. Intro to Statistics F24, start and end dates.
- Under Enrollment, select the option "Students must be invited to this course."
- If you are planning on using iClicker to collect attendance, you can choose to add your meeting times and to automatically run attendance when class begins – you will do that in your course settings after you create your iClicker course. (For more on using iClicker for attendance, select the following link.)
- Click the blue Create button.
At this point your iClicker course is created. Go onto the next section in this article to modify the settings to connect to the appropriate Canvas Course.
Connect iClicker course to Canvas.
- Log into instructor.iclicker.com
- Click on the name of the course you created.
- In the menu items, click Settings.
4. In the course Settings, click on Integrations.
5. Click the Connect to Canvas button. You will be prompted through a few screens to Authorize the connection.
6. In the Select your Canvas Course window, search and select your course. You may filter on unpublished or published courses. Click NEXT.
7. On the Select Your Canvas Course Section(s) select the section named for the whole Canvs course or an individual section.
8 . Click the Connect button. You should see a "setup complete" window that says your course is connected to Canvas.
9. Click the Sync Roster Now button. It should tell you the students were enrolled in iClicker. This list should match your roster in Canvas.
10. Select the Grade Sync settings (see below) or click the Save button.
Your list of students should match your list in Canvas.
- In the left navigation, click on the People option.
- Under Students, you can view a list of your students or search for a specific one.
- Click Sync Roster to keep your roster up-to-date.
You have two options for syncing your iclicker activity scores to your Canvas gradebook.
1: A total combined score in a single column.
2: Individual activity scores in separate columns.
- Make sure you are logged into instructor.iclicker.com and in one of your iclicker courses.
- Click Settings and then the Integration Tab.
- Under Grade Sync Settings choose one of the two options (Single column or a column for each activity).
- Select opion under, When grades are synced, students with no iClicker responses. (Select to receive score of zero OR no score).
- Click the Save Button.
More Resources
iClicker Documentation from iClicker