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Clickers

Clickers allow instructors to ask questions and gather students' responses during a lecture. Clicker systems are also commonly called Classroom Response Systems, Student Response Systems, or Audience Response Systems.

In clicker systems, each student uses a device (a "clicker") that looks like a small TV remote to answer questions posed by the instructor in a specially-designed PowerPoint presentation. Summaries of student responses can be shown in real time to both instructors and students. Answers are also stored electronically for later viewing.

See Clickers for examples of clicker use in the classroom.

Ohio State has standardized clicker devices and supporting software from Turning Technologies, LLC to ensure that that the OSU community receives a quality product and that students do not need to purchase multiple clicker devices for different courses.

If you plan on having your students purchase clickers for your class and would like to have a receiver installed in a computer-equipped general use classroom, please complete our request form.

Borrowing Clickers

Instructors can request a loaner kit to experiment with clickers without requiring students to buy them.  Depending on the size of the class and amount of usage, a one-time full semester loan may be available for instructors to decide if they would like to implement Clickers into their curriculum.  Beginning June 2012, semester clicker kit loan will be limited to one kit (30 or 60 clickers and one receiver) per instructor.

To schedule a clicker kit loan, call 292-3131, or email clickers@osu.edu.

  • Loans are available on a first come, first served basis. Please specify how many clickers are needed. 
  • Clicker kits come in counts of 30 or 60 clickers.  An RF antenna receiver (USB connection; size of large thumb/flash drive) is included in each kit.
  • Laptops with TurningPoint 2008 software are available for loan and all computers installed in general use classrooms have the software installed as well.
  • Typical loan period is 1-2 days.  Clickers are available for free to use for all OSU registered courses.
  • As of September 2011, we will no longer provide rental kits for special events or for any use outside of registered courses.