Connection Menu - Interwrite PRS User Manual

14 InterWrite PRS – PRS Menus
Configuring
Clickers for a
Closed Class
Configuring an
Clicker as a
Master

Connection Menu

Port Check
The Student ID is attached to each transmission sent to the PRS software. In
the Open Class paradigm, the student enters his Student ID, which is saved
in the memory of his personal Clicker. In the Closed Class model, where
Clickers are owned by the school and stay in the classroom, there are two
ways to set up the Closed Clickers so each will have a unique ID to bundle
with transmissions.
If the Closed Clickers will always be used by the same 30 students, you
can assigns IDs of 1 through 30, for example, label the Clickers accord-
ingly, and assign a specific Clicker to each of the 30 students.
However, if the Closed Clickers are going to be used in the classroom by
different groups of students throughout the day, you might consider
configuring those Clickers as Closed Loaners. Clickers configured as
Loaners, regardless of whether they are used in an Open Class or a
Closed Class, will prompt for an ID before they join the Class. So, each
student in each Closed Class Session will have his Responses attributed
directly to his Student ID.
Master Clickers are specially configured RF Clickers that can send com-
mands to the PRS software during a Session to remotely control the
Session presentation. This is true of Master Clickers configured for both
the Open Class and the Closed Class. The command key assignments are
described in Chapter Two PRS System Installation.
The Connection Menu is used to:
• specify the COM Port to which the Receiver is connected,
• simulate Clicker input from the computer keyboard,
• test for both the COM Port connection and for the receipt of a signal
from a Clicker.
The Port Check menu option is used primarily to detect IR
Receivers. The USB-connected RF Receiver is automatically
assigned to a COM Port and the assignment is noted on the
Connection Menu.
As part of the installation of the IR Receiver (Chapter Two), the COM port
to which the IR Receiver is connected must be communicated to the
InterWrite PRS software. The number of COM ports displayed on the
Connection Menu will vary with the number of COM Ports on the
computer. Select from the list the COM port to which the IR Receiver is
connected. If you don't know which COM port it is, or if you want to test
the connection, select a COM port in the Connection Menu, click on the
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