Setup. Create Your Account Create your account at

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1 Using TurningPoint Cloud UWSP has moved to TurningPoint Cloud for clickers. The process described below will be simplified when Canvas comes online, until then, you will need to create classes and add students manually. Setup Create Your Account Create your account at Enter your address in the field on this page. Use your short address not when you do this. Click on the Create Account button. A verification link will be sent to the address you entered. Click on the first link in the and complete the account creation form. Provide your name, Please select instructor as your role, set a password, and check the Terms of Use agreement box. Click Finish when you are done. Create Class Access your TurningPoint account at In the white box labeled Manual Course enter the course name as you would like it to appear. It might be a good idea to name your courses with semester and year information ( Phys 101 Spring 2018.) Click the create button to continue. Do this for each class that you want to use TurningPoint with. Initial Roster Import Into Turning Point And Inviting Students TPLX files are no longer needed, and have been replaced by a text file containing the addresses of students on your classlist. This file will only need to be downloaded once, and you should wait until the day before classes start to download the file. Students who add or drop your course once you have loaded this file to TurningPoint will need to be added or removed manually. Once you have downloaded the file, you will need to add the addresses from it into the course from the TurningPoint website.

2 Download your roster list Access the download page from MyPoint by choosing Academics Clicker Roster Download, or directly at Choose the course that you wish to download. Checking multiple courses will download a single file that will contain the information from all of the selected courses. This will download a.txt file with the addresses of the students in the course. Add roster to your class Access your TurningPoint account at Click on the View button for the course to which you want to add students. Click on the Add Students button from the top right of the page. Copy and paste the content of the txt file into the box labeled Add . You can do all of the addresses in one copy/ paste action. Click on Invite in the bottom right corner of the page. Once you have added students, they will be sent an invitation, with information about purchasing a code and creating an account. If they already have an account, they will automatically be added to the class. Managing Roster Student adds and drops will need to be handled manually. Follow the instructions above for adding students. Delete students from your roster by clicking on the red trashcan icon next to their name in your class roster. Install the new TurningPoint 8 software to your computer At work The TurningPoint 8 software can be downloaded from the UWSP Software Center. Searching for Turn will be enough to find the software. Click on the icon in software center, and the the Install button. Software will automatically be installed and configured for you. At home You can download and install the software for home use as well. Download the Turning Point Desktop App for your operating system from this site: PLEASE BE CAREFUL TO DOWNLOAD TURNING POINT 8, NOT TURNING POINT CLOUD.

3 Using the software When you first launch Turning Point 8, you will be prompted to sign in. Use your address and the password that you set when you created your account. You ll be prompted to Create Offline Password. This is optional, and will protect your polling data from others that might use your computer. If you do not wish to do this, check the Do not show this message again box and choose cancel. You ll be asked whether you want to save your TurningTechnologies account password in the application. Do this to make getting into the application quicker if you are using a computer that only you have access to. TurningPoint Help TurningPoint 8 looks a lot like TurningPoint 5. The same options are available for polling. A difference is that you no longer need to import a participant file (.TPLX.) Your courses will be listed in the left sidebar. You ll be able to launch your old TurningPoint enabled powerpoints with Turning Point 8, though the software will require some time to convert the file before it will open. At the bottom of the Turning Point application, you ll see links to user guides, training webinars, and video tutorials. Please reference the user guides to learn about how to create PowerPoint polling decks, and other features of the software. There is also a useful link called Apply Learning Theories that will help you make the most of the polling experience for your students and your teaching. If You Are Allowing Students To Use Their Own Devices Instructors allowing their students to use their own devices need to enable mobile responses and Reserve a session ID. This will provide you with a code that will allow your students access to your polling sessions. Click the link to Enable mobile responses at the top right of the application. This will open a new window. Click on the Reserve button. This will open another window.

4 Set a reserved ID. You can set your reserved ID to be anything you like. Most instructors will be able to make due with one reserved ID, but you can reserve up to 10 sesssion IDs. The simplest way to name your session IDs is with your campus username. Click Reserve. This wil reserve the ID for you and close the Reserve Session ID window. Click Close Your students will need this ID to connect to your course. You should design your presentations to include the session ID on the first slide of each class session. You can also activate mobile responses from within PowerPoint, under the TurningPoint ribbon. You will need to enable mobile responses each time you start TurningPoint. Running your presentation Launch the Turning Point application at the computer you are presenting from. Sign in to your TurningPoint account. Choose the PowerPoint Polling option from the application. This will launch PowerPoint with the TurningPoint ribbon activated. Open the presentation in PowerPoint. Select the class list that you use from the dropdown on the TurningPoint ribbon. If you are allowing students to use their own devices, choose mobile responses from the dropdown on the TurningPoint ribbon, and choose the SessionID that you want to use. Select Start Session to continue. Launch the presentation and teach.

5 When you re done Save session When you finish your session, save your results if desired. Use the Save icon on the TurningPoint ribbon. Choose a save location that you will be able to access from your office or home computer. MyFiles or OneDrive are good choices for this. You might want to make a folder to contain all of your session data. Reset Data Before you close PowerPoint, you should reset your session. This readies the presentation for the next time you use this presentation. Do this using the reset icon on the TurningPoint ribbon.