Classroom Technology

SRS: Acquiring Your Student / Clicker ID Participant Files via WebVista

Note: These instructions are for using WebVista to acquire your participant lists. If you are using WebDrop follow the WebDrop instructions instead.

Once students have registered their clickers, the faculty member can download the list to use with the clickers in the classroom. To do this (document use PowerPoint 2007 and TurningPoint 2008):

1. Open TurningPoint/PowerPoint and select the TurningPoint 2008 ribbon.

2. Select WebCT wizards > Campus Edition 6 / Vista 3, 4 from the Tools menu.

It is the ninth option.

3. Select Import Participants Lists from the new window

4.Enter https://www2.webvista.umn.edu in the name field.

User name for both WebVista 3 and 4 is your x.500 username. Password for both WebVista 3 and 4 is your WebDAV password. To set youth password go to the set your WebDAV password site.

Example:

Just type them in.

5. Select University of Minnesota from the next screen and click the Next button.

6. Put a check box by the sections you would like to download the clicker registration list for (you can download multiple lists at once).

Example:

These are regular check boxes.

7. You will be prompted to save each of the class list files separately and they will have the file extension .tpl

Using the class lists in TurningPoint

1. Once the files are downloaded they will appear as options in the TurningPoint 2008 Participants List window.

2. Now simply select the correct class list and click the Use Selected List button when starting up a new TurningPoint clicker session.

Example:

vailable lists will be displayed alphabetically.