Interwrite PRS: for teachers who want to use clickers

This link (right-click and "Save Target as...") will enable you to download the 74MB exe file to install PRS on your own computer, so that you can write questions that will run on PRS. To actually test the system of course, you need a clicker and a receiver, and without a receiver, you can’t actually run PRS.
clicker
This PowerPoint file has a few slides to give you an idea of how you can use the system.
Once you have installed this software, there will be an extra icon in the toolbar in powerpoint for PRS, and you can thus set it up to check what your audience want.
See what some of our students think of Clickers [pdf]
"Coming soon to a lecture theatre near you: the ‘clicker’ ": Mastoridis S, Kladidis, S;
The Clinical Teacher 7:97-101 (2010)
How to install PRS - refer to PowerPoint presentation or follow instructions below:
Please note: only works with Windows XP and PowerPoint 2007
Click on SAVE
Choose a directory and save the file Interwrite PRS 4.42.0010
It will download 73.8 MB
Then click on run when it says download complete
The click on RUN again when it says the publisher could not be verified.
Then it will run the Installshield wizard
Then it will have a blank screen for 20 seconds, and then you will get the PRS icon when you need to choose 'NEXT'
Then click on 'I accept the terms…' and then NEXT
The default directory will be c:\Program Files\Interwrite PRS and then click on NEXT
Then click on INSTALL
Extracting and installing will then occur and this will take several minutes.
Then click on FINISH
It will then go blank and you have successfully installed.
If you are using PowerPoint 2003, you will need to 'register PowerPoint addin' before starting PowerPoint. There will then be a new toolbar.
If PowerPoint 2007, you need to click on the new 'add ins' tab, and there will be a PRS toolbar visible.
Click on 'new question' and the options will then appear.

Instructions for students using PRS handsets [Word]

The company make a lot of different devices, and a link to the manufacturers website for the product that we use at Imperial (Interwrite PRS) is given below:

http://www.einstruction.com/products/assessment/prs/index.html

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Last updated: December 21, 2012 4:23 PM