Welcome

TurningPoint New Users Training

Intuitive Tools To Engage And Assess

One and the Same…

The TurningPoint Tool Bar(Office 2003)

Whether you are working on a brand new PowerPoint presentation or editingone you already use, all interactive functionality is readily available within

PowerPoint through the TurningPoint tool bar

The TurningPoint Ribbon(Office 2007)

Whether you are working on a brand new PowerPoint presentation or editingone you already use, all interactive functionality is readily available within

PowerPoint through the TurningPoint Ribbon

New Users Agenda• Settings: Hardware Setup• Tracking Participants• Creating a Presentation

Creating Basic Slides Inserting Objects Saving Presentations

• TurningPoint Sessions Running the Presentation Using the Showbar Saving Your Session

• Generating Reports

Response Cards• If you change the channel on your receiver,

you must also change it on your response cards:

To change the channel:

Press “GO”, the new channel number, then “GO” again.

Ex: To change to channel 45:

“GO”, 4, 5, “GO”

When it receives the new channel, the light will turn Green for a moment, then back to red.

XR Response CardsChange Channel on the

XR Radio Frequency Card by choosing Change

Channel from the Menu.

You will receive a confirmation of the current

channel, and it will ask what channel to change

to…

Enter new channel number and Choose Enter

Participant Lists in Office 2007

• Use TurningPoint’s Participant List Wizard to assign specific devices to specific students!

– With a participant list created and loaded, you are able to:• Track how each individual student answered• Track scores• Track attendance• Track demographics

Participant Lists in Office 2003

Create your Presentation

– Create a new presentation within TurningPoint. Or– Use a previously made PowerPoint presentation

and turn it into TurningPoint.

Save your presentation and you’re ready to go!!

Creating an Interactive Slide

From the TurningPoint Toolbar, select the Insert Slide button to open a menu of slide types.

• Chart slides

• Competition slides

• Template slides

• Special purpose slides

TurningPoint Chart TypesYou can change the type of chart on a TurningPoint slide using the Insert Object menu, or choose to use no chart at all.

Remember…1. Plug in Your receiver

2. Open TurningPoint

3. Open your Presentation

4. Load your Participant List

5. Reset your Session

6. Run your Presentation

7. Save your Session

8. Run your Reports

Thank You for Your Attention! Our Website:

www.turningtechnologies.com

Technical Support: Support@turningtechnologies.com

1-866-746-3015

Training: training@turningtechnologies.com