I let one of my friends borrow my iclicker for his class because I no longer needed my iclicker. Once he got my iclicker from me, he registered it under his name so he would receive the points and credit for his class.
After using his iclicker for almost the entire semester, his teacher emailed him telling him that his participation grade is 0% because he has not completed any of the iclicker questions! Of course, he was confused and upset, and needed to fix this.
It turns out that when he registered online, the code he typed in was wrong (because it was hard to see on the iclicker) and, therefore, the points were being given to someone else. Iclickers are a very cool technology tool to use, but have quite a few disadvantages that can really frustrate people and negatively effect someone's grade.
Yikes! How incredibly frustrating! Hadn't thought about actually registering them...
ReplyDeleteWow - this is so frustrating! There shoud be a better system for registering iclickers in class! (And I can't believe that his teacher waited until the end of the semester to tell him something was wrong!!!)
ReplyDeleteThat is awful! I would be so upset! Why didn't his teacher tell him sooner?
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm a lucky one! I haven't had to use iclickers at all in my classes!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why his teacher waited until the last minute? Definitely didn't go through the MSU teaching program ;)! But make sure that everything is working when you use your iclicker!
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