iClicker Cloud

Recommended Settings for iClicker Cloud

iClicker Cloud has a variety of customizable settings; however, there are some settings that work better than others. Settings will vary between different courses, but below we outline the best settings for a typical iClicker Cloud course.

Go to the iClicker Cloud Instructor Portal and login.
Click on your iClicker course name.
Click Settings in the left menu.

Click one of the tabs along the top to choose settings for the sections below:

Course Details
Devices
Attendance
Polling
Quizzing
Integrations

Course Details

There are no recommended settings for this tab, but information on it should be filled out as accurately as possible. A sample of this page is shown here.

Devices

Device Types: for the online learning environment, this should be set to Mobile Devices Only as students are not able to use iClicker remotes with iClicker Cloud remotely.
Monitor Student Focus: this setting records when students navigate away from the iClicker Reef website or mobile app during a class. (See How to Help Students Stay on Task with iClicker Focus for more information).

Attendance

We recommend to turn attendance OFF in iClicker. This is for two reasons:

The attendance function will mark students as present once they click to join the class and will not change even if they leave immediately after. As a result, using participation points on polling questions may be a better measure of student attendance.
UBC's instance of iClicker Cloud does not have the option to export attendance data from iClicker.

If taking attendance, for remote learning, select Do not require location for attendance.

Polling

Send a picture of my screen to student devices: select Automatically whenever polling starts for students to be able to best view your polling questions when they are sent to students.
Send class results to student devices: choose the best option for your class.
Scoring: choose scoring settings to best suit your course. However, notice that marks for participation can be awarded as follows:
1. Under Session Participation, students can be awarded for answering a set percentage of the questions asked.
2. Under Session Performance, students can be awarded points for correct responses and/or
3. points for each question that they respond to (regardless of correctness).
4. Alternately, you can award points for the total polling session.
Timer: Set your timer to either cout up or count down.

Quizzing

Set a point value to be awarded for each correct response. This number can also be changed just before running a quiz, and point values for each answer can be customized after running a quiz (see iClicker Cloud: Managing and Grading Sessions).

Integrations

We recommend selecting Sync Total Score (see iClicker Cloud: Exporting/Pushing Grades to Canvas ).

To learn more about iClicker, contact ctl.helpdesk@ubc.ca.

UBC Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning iClicker Cloud Directory

Updated December 2020