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February 4, 2020August 1, 2023 Hong Kha Faculty, Students, The Basics

iClicker Basics

iClicker is a polling software for use in a classroom or seminar setting.

iClicker is a responsive teaching and learning tool that incorporates clickers, mobile phone clicker usage, GPS attendance, polling/quizzing, and study guides.

To create an account, visit the iClicker website and select “create an account” in the upper right of the page.

iClicker

iClicker provides real-time feedback from students, and promotes active learning.

With iClicker, a toolbar floats above instructor content and allows the instructor to ask multiple choice, short answer, numeric and target questions on the fly. Instructors do not input the text of questions into the clicker system ahead of time.

NOTE: If you as an instructor have existing TurningPoint questions, you can continue to use the PowerPoint slides, although you may want to remove the bar graph.

For more information on iClicker for students, please click here.

For more information on iClicker for faculty, please click here.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Information Services at [email protected] or (310) 506-7425.

January 31, 2020March 7, 2022 Hong Kha Faculty, Resources, Students

Google Drive: Tips & Best Practices

Google drive is an efficient platform for housing documents, but more than that, it provides a number of features to help keep organized– here’s an overview:

Upload files and folders
Share files and folders
Set permission levels
Search/sort files and folders
Collaborate on docs
Track version history

Helpful Features in Google Drive:

Your document is automatically updated and saved every time you make changes to it online, and you can access it through any browser.
Make sharing work publicly simple. Want to share your document, presentation, or spreadsheet with the world? Just click file > publish to the web, and you’ll get a public link that you can share with anyone and everyone. Make sure to understand the difference between MyDrive and shared drives.
The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension lets you save documents, images, audio, videos, and more straight from a web page to the Google Drive folder of your choice. (A good alternative to full-page screenshots)
By choosing to get email updates on any changes to your document, you will be notified of any changes (edits, comments, etc.) to a group document directly to your email without logging in to the drive itself.
Automatically upload and store files via Google’s Backup and Sync from your computer so you can access them from any other device with Google Drive. A great way to make one of those extra copies of your data that you really should have.

What not to save to Google Drive:

Any information that is classified or restricted may not be uploaded to Google Drive.

This includes passwords, social security/identity information, etc.
For a complete guide to classified information, see Pepperdine’s Information Classification and Protection Policy

For more questions, check out Drive Basics for training and FAQs

Or, check out Pepperdine’s Google Drive learning center

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 Hong Kha Students

Update Operating Systems for Examplify

A big thank you to the students who paid attention to our note about not updating your MacOS to Catalina at the beginning of Fall 2019 semester until further notice. That notice releasing the OS update hold came out in the blog entitled, “Examplify is NOT compatible with Mac OS lower than 10.13 (High Sierra, Catalina)” posted on November 4, 2019.

With finals upon us, please make sure your operating system is not out of date. Mac users, you must have an operating system with High Sierra (OS 10.13) or higher. You can even update to the latest version – Catalina (10.15.1) Here are some links from Apple where you can learn more:

If you are a Windows user, I haven’t forgotten you. Please make sure to upgrade your operating system to Windows 10. Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7 in January 2020. Check out Pepperdine’s Student Discounts page if you need to purchase Windows 10.

If investing in tech isn’t something you were expecting this holiday then perhaps making a Christmas gift request for a new computer is the way to go. Here’s a page we put together on computer requirements to help you select the best computer for law school.

Please note that when you registered your computer onto the university network, you agreed to the usage policy that states: “Actively maintain the security of personally-owned and University-assigned computers.” This includes keeping your OS updated.

One last thing: Pepperdine IT is here to help if you have any tech issues. We may not be able to fix your computer all the time but we can help troubleshoot and make recommendations– just don’t wait until the last minute.

Good luck on your exams!

November 21, 2019November 25, 2019 Hong Kha Students

Examplify Features: Numbering

Note the tool kit at the top of the essay response box which allows for different text formatting; for example, there are systems for creating numbered and bulleted answers. This feature is only available on the exam when permitted by the professor.

November 21, 2019November 25, 2019 Hong Kha Students

Examplify Features: Suspend Exam

At any point, you may click into “Exam Controls” in the top right of the screen and hide your exam from view if you need to leave your screen, suspend exam to be completed later, or submit. This feature is only available on the exam when permitted by the professor.

November 21, 2019November 2, 2021 Hong Kha Students

Examplify Features: Calculator

A scientific calculator is available within Examplify. It can be located by clicking “Tool Kit” on the top right corner of your screen, and then “Calculator”. This feature is only available on the exam when permitted by the professor.

November 21, 2019November 25, 2019 Hong Kha Students

Examplify Features: Navigating Back

You may navigate back to previous questions in two ways:

You can click the number of the question you would like to return to, located on the far left-hand side of the screen

2. Or, you may press “Previous” on the bottom right corner of the screen

This feature is only available on the exam when permitted by the professor.

November 21, 2019November 25, 2019 Hong Kha Students

Examplify Features: Spell Check

Spellcheck is automatically available for all exams. When you misspell a word, a red line automatically appears under the word, and by right-clicking on the word (similar to in Microsoft word), you will be given correctly spelled options. Select your preferred word and the misspelled word will be replaced. This feature is only available on the exam when permitted by the professor.

October 16, 2019October 16, 2019 David Dickens Students

Uploading your Examplify Exam — life is good!

a quick and easy process…

Click Exam Controls then Submit Exam

If you are certain that you would like to submit your exam, check “I am ready to exit my exam”.
Then click “Submit Exam.”

WARNING: Once you click “Submit Exam,” you cannot re-enter your exam.

Once your exam has been successfully uploaded, you will receive the green confirmation screen. You have now completed your exam. Please wait for further instructions from your Proctor.

Now that you are finished with the upload process, click “Close.”

If the upload process is taking some time or seems to be “timing out,” then you may want t relocate to a place where you are certain there is a strong, reliable internet connection and then restart your laptop computer, and Examplify will attempt to upload your exam again after it has found an valid Internet connection.

— Adapted with permission from Jimmy Bowers —
https://support.ivey.ca/hc/en-us/articles/115001983986-Taking-and-Uploading-an-Examplify-Exam

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 David Dickens Students

Uploading at the END of your exam: Examplify

When you have finished typing your exam answer(s) in Examplify, you will need to successfully close out of Examplify.

If the upload process is taking some time or seems to be “timing out,” then restart your laptop computer, and Examplify will attempt to upload your exam again after it has found an valid Internet connection.