CPS-for-Beginners

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CPS Classroom Performance System Beginning Training

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When you first open the program, this window will appear. If you want to explore later, you can click on one of the topics. This screen will appear each time you start the program. For now, just click the “X.” Opening the Program

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The first time you open the program on a computer, it will ask you if you want to create a new database or open an old one. After the program is opened on a computer, it will always start with the last database that was opened. So your computer might or might not show one… This is the last database that was opened on this computer

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When you have clicked on “Prepare,” you have 4 choices or sub-headings… Classes and Students Lessons and Assessments Standards Team Activities We will start with Classes and Students – it should already be highlighted. Click on the green plus sign that says “New.” Notice the only choice you have right now is “Class” because you have to create a class before you can create students in the class. Go to Class. When the next screen pops up, choose K-12 and click “next.” “Prepare” Creating: Classes and Students Lessons and Assessments

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The next screen will ask if you have an “onlline” username and password. Click “no” for now. Then click “next.” This page is for “Teacher” information. Fill out the information. Don’t worry about the “teacher code.” Click “next.” The next screen is where you will name your “Class.” For now, use the example to the left to fill in the information…. .” ”

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Notice that your class name now appears below ‘Class name.” Click on the green plus sign “New” again and this time go to “students.” On the right side, go ahead and type the first name of a student, then “tab” and type the last name. Notice the “pad ID” is #1. “Enter” on your keyboard and it will take you to the next line where you will enter your second student which will be assigned pad #2.. Continue in this way until all of your students are listed. (Notice that if you click on a column heading, it will sort according to that column)

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Printing a Roster – You will need to print your class list so that you will know which pad to give each student. Click “print.” If you click on “Export to CSV” it will open up in an “Excel” document. If you click on “Export/Print,” it will open up in a Word document. (I would use this one) You will then have to print it from there. You can also “save” your document for future reference. We now have our “Class” and our “Students” set up….so on to our “Lessons and Assessments.”

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Click on “Lessons and Assessments.” (The next sub heading under “prepare.”) Notice that the name of your database is showing. This database is where all of your lessons will be saved. Then click on the “New” icon and down to “Lesson.” Choose a title for your lesson….then click “ok” Notice that the name of your lesson appears under your database – like an outline.

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Click on the title of the lesson so that it is highlighted. Click on the dropdown arrow under “new” and go down to “question.” It is here that you will add your questions. Type your question in the big box. You have choices of font size, style, etc. Then type your answer choices and put a checkmark beside the correct answer.

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When typing several questions, click here to “save” and go on to the next question. When you are completely finished, just click ‘Save” and then “Close.” Notice these words tell you about the buttons above them.

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Notice all of your questions are now there. You have completed the first step – Prepare (Standards and Team Activities are things we will go over at another time.) Now it is time to go to the next step – Engage Before you can start your testing, you must make sure you have plugged in the “USB” device. After you have done this, click the tab “ Engage .” Make sure you put a checkmark beside the lesson you are using. (On this picture, there is only one lesson, but as you add to your database, more will show up.)

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There are 3 areas that you need to check before you begin. Title – make sure this is the lesson you want to use. Type – It will say “class participation.” That is what you will use most of the time. You can experiment with the other choices later, but for now, leave it at class participation. Class – If you teach more than one class and you have added all of your classes and student names, they will appear in the dropdown here. Advanced and Assessment Setup – we will learn more about that later. Click on “ Engage .” All you will see is the following toolbar.

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Just gives you a list of your questions Click on “Next” to start the lesson. This will exit the program This will just close the toolbar and take you back to the program. Select a question template in which to deliver spontaneous questions Allows you to utilize the CPS chalkboard to upload and draw images while delivering spontaneous questions. Delivery Options – sort of like preferences. Click, hold, and drag to move this toolbar to a different location. Random select a student to answer a question verbally. Engage

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1. To start the lesson, click on “Next.” 2. In order for the kids to answer the question, you must click “Start.” After you click “start,” the pad numbers appear. There is a preference or “option” you can change if you want them to come up automatically. 3. The kids then answer the question and their number will turn dark blue. (If they change their answer, the number will flash yellow, then turn blue. If they click in the same answer again, their number will flash green and then go to blue.) The 1 st question shows up.

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When all the kids have answered, the numbers will all be dark blue. Those that are absent will stay light blue. (You can deal with absent students when you run reports.) 4. When you are ready to see how the class did, click on “End,” This is what it will look like… You can see how many kids answered A, B, C, and D. A checkmark will be beside the correct answer. (If you don’t want this screen to appear, you can change it in the “options.”) 5. When you are finished discussing this question, click on the green arrow pointing to the right and it will take you to the next question.

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Continue in this way until all the questions have been answered. You will notice that when you have reached the last question, you will no longer have a green arrow pointing to the right. At this point you will click on the RED “X” in the bottom left corner. Reminder of the steps: Start Students Answer The Question-numbers turn dark blue End Discuss Green right Arrow (When you no longer see the right green arrow, click the red “X” When you click on the red X it takes you back to the toolbar. If you want to go back to the program so you can look at reports, click on “Close.” If you want to totally get out of the program, click on “Exit CPS.”

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Reports When ready to view reports, click on the tab “Reports.” Each time you start a lesson, it is recorded in this place. Click on one of the sessions (or lessons.) Notice that all of your choices at the top turn colors. Click on “Generate” and you will see a list of all the reports you can print.

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This is a list of the students in your class list. If a student is absent, “uncheck” his name. If you can’t remember if a student was absent, click on “Filter out students who didn’t respond” and those will not show up. You will need to experiment with all of the reports that are available….of course the most common is the “Instructor Summary.” To view a report, click on that report and click “preview.”

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This is an example of the “Instructor Summary.” You can just “print.” or you can “export” so you can save it to your computer.

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If you want to change the “default” font for your questions: Go to “Settings,” down to “Default Font.” Make your changes.