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iClickers and Attendance

Please do not get stressed about iClickers and attendance points. It will all work out just fine! Here are some tips to help us all get used to how they work:

You need to register your iClicker in Canvas. That records an association between your NetID and the serial number of any clickers you use throughout the semester. You do not need to register at iclicker.com.
It’s fine if you lose one clicker and buy another; just register the new one and you’re good to go. Once you register for one Canvas course, you should be good for all Canvas courses in the current term.
The iClicker software on the professor’s laptop records the serial number of each clicker that responds to a given question. So you won’t lose points if you forgot to register your clicker early enough: those clicks are there waiting to be claimed when you do finally register.
You can see your iClicker scores in Canvas. They are usually updated on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. It’s a manual update, not automatic, so please be patient.
To incentivize on-time arrival, the first question of the day will always be worth 50% of the points. The rest of the questions will usually be weighted about evenly. If there turns out to be only one question on a day, it’ll be worth 100%.
Only participation matters, not correctness. You won’t lose points for giving a “wrong” answer.
Your four lowest scoring days will be dropped from your final grade. That gives you two weeks of classes that you can completely skip, sleep in, forget your clicker, run out of battery, have a technical problem, or whatever.
After that, each day is weighted equally and is weighted less than 1/4 of 1% of your final grade. So you’d have to lose another 4 lectures worth of points to have even a 1% impact on your final grade. On top of the 4 already excused, that’s a month’s worth of absences/losses before your grade goes down even 1%. And, as the syllabus says, a 1% drop in your weighted average is unlikely to change your final letter grade.
Therefore, there is no need to stress about anything other than making sure your clicker is registered.
If you do happen to have a glitch, forget your clicker, run out of battery, fail to click in time, etc., we’re not going to make any adjustments or do any manual bookkeeping. Just don’t let it become a habitual problem, and you’ll be fine.
If you do suspect something is wrong with your clicker, you can get technical support at the Center for Teaching Innovation, 123 Computing & Communications Center building (on the Ag Quad, near Bailey Hall), between 9 am – 5 pm, Monday – Friday.