TurningPoint Clicker Technology

Turning Technologies clickers allow students to participate in lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using a ResponseCard keypad, web-enabled phones, or computer devices.

Turning Technologies was selected as the university-wide vendor for faculty for five primary reasons:

1. Flexibility to meet a range of faculty needs: Turning Technologies has four main products that work with the same student clicker remotes:

   a. TurningPoint – interactive PowerPoint (PC or Mac) - is a software add-on to Microsoft PowerPoint that enables faculty to develop and administer real-time assessments of students within their PowerPoint presentations

   b. TurningPoint AnyWhere - Poll in any PC or Mac application including web browsers, PDFs, Word documents and more. Faculty can use existing presentation or materials for easy, instant polling.

   c. Interactive Polling for Distance Learning and Remote Meetings RemotePoll – In keeping with our university global/international efforts, faculty can poll students from remote locations and no longer have to be confined to a single classroom.

   d. ResponseCard Anywhere - is a portable device that displays polling results right in your hand. This LCD screen-equipped handheld receiver is approximately the size of a deck of cards and is the perfect solution for faculty who need to work in a lab, the field, or a classroom not equipped with a pc or projection system.

2. Features: TurningPoint – Interactive PowerPoint was the most robust product to best meet faculty reporting needs.
3. Ease-of-use: TurningPoint AnyWhere (“a light version” of TurningPoint-interactive PowerPoint) was easy to use. If faculty require more robust polling and reporting features, Turning Technologies offers the alternate TurningPoint-interactive PowerPoint.
4. Portability: Turning Technologies products only require a small USB receiver.
5. Support: Turning Technologies provides support at all levels. Support resources are available in a variety of formats at no additional cost including onsite training, online tutorials, and recorded training sessions to individual consulting with faculty. They offer phone support through an 800 number to both students and faculty.