PointSolutions

Christopher Gordon, Echo360 Sales Rep, spoke with a professor who uses PS today. The professor let him know that “the short answer function is woefully inadequate for actually showing what students enter back to the class. It clips responses to a very limited number of characters, and it doesn’t allow presenting/scrolling through more than a few responses. In a class of 400 this is meaningless.”

Students would like to have an ability to see their response history for Point Solutions desktop sessions to verify participation and input.

As an instructor I would like the ability to merge results for 2 users if they are duplicate accounts for the same person.

"I had a hard time finding the upload grades button if I closed powerpoint before saving and uploading. So perhaps putting that somewhere more obvious like on the session tab itself." - Idaho

"One question I have relates to correctly alphabetizing the names when downloading Excel files to my computer. Every semester I have students with the same last name, but the data is not always alphabetized properly. I assumed the clicker data would be ordered the same way the names show up in Canvas since the names are taken from Canvas. This has been an issues for quite a few years. When I used iClicker, I was able to add numbers to the beginning of names when there were multiple students with the same last name. Representatives from Echo360 have been told this for several years but the problem still persists."

It would be helpful to have a visual indicator as to when a score is changed manually (colour change for example), that remains with any export (spreadsheet or .tpzx file) and if possible a text field for annotations. If those annotations could also have the option to push to the Canvas grade annotation as well for that column, that would be even better.

When exporting reports from PointSolutions via the results manager, we often have attendees who have the instructor role mixed in with the participants and we'd like to have the user's role included in the report so we can identify the instructors.

Is there any way the evaluation calculations could be totaled by the number of correct answers divided by the total number of answers? That total would show up at the bottom of the column. For more details, please see request 74633.

The only issue I have constantly is that the PointSolutions data that I export as an Excel file is not alphabetizing common names. For example, I have three "Smiths" in one class and the exported data is not alphabetized. I have to manually reorder the names to past the data into my Excel gradebook. Uploading the grades to Canvas is no problem, but I do not let Canvas average grades. Instead, I use Excel to average and drop grades, so I need the data alphebetized properly. It would be easier if there was some way to add a number to the end of a name to always keep it in the proper order. This was possible when I used the iClicker" devices in class. I also liked the option in iClicker of being able to toggle back and forth during polling whereby I can show the number of students choosing the different choices on a quiz, but then making the chart disappear before the end of the time allocation. Is getting the names alphabetized and having this last option possibilities for the PointSolutions clicker?

Students like to use a mobile device in larger rooms to take screen shots and annotate even if they have a clicker and will sometimes respond on both devices. We have noticed that the results in the reports do not always clearly detect the student's responses if they respond with both devices to the same session.