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Rocky Point - Getting Started with the Clickers – eInstruction’s CPS
(This is a large document, you may not want to print or only print pages as needed)
Review the first 3 pages for important info.
Steps to getting started with the CPS Clickers are:

1. Install the software on your computer
2. Save the premade database to your teacher H: drive (my documents folder) If you completed
this already, please skip. To save:
 Go to the RP Common folder on your desktop and click inside the CPS Premade
Databases folder
 Copy the entire folder for the grade or subject you teach to your teacher h: drive.
i. Elementary Teachers: Click inside the elementary database folder and copy
your entire grade folder to your h: drive. (i.e. copy the entire grade 4 folder)
ii. Middle School Teachers: Click inside the MS database folder and copy your
entire subject folder (math, science, ela or ss) to your h: drive.
iii. High School Teachers: Click inside the HS database folder and copy your
entire subject folder to your h: drive.
1. HS English Teachers – copy the entire HS English folder
2. HS Math Teachers – copy the entire HS Math folder
3. HS Social Studies Teachers – click inside HS social studies and copy
either Global Studies Folder or US History folder.
4. HS Science Teachers – click inside HS science folder and copy either
Earth Science, Chemistry, Physics or Living Environment Folder.
3. Open the database on your computer. Once CPS software is installed on your computer and
you saved your database to your h:drive, double click on the CPS icon to open. You will have
a choice to create a new database or open an existing database. Choose open an existing
database and browse for the database folder you saved (above). Click inside the folder, click
on the database (blue icon) and click ok. The CPS software will open. In the future, clicking
on the CPS icon will automatically open up your database on your computer. *Remember, you
never have to create another database, just delete your class rosters and assessments at the
end of the year.
Free Training & Support Links –

1. The CPS Training Video Series & Quick Step Guides (PC) – Includes Two minute videos for every
feature and the Quick Step Guides are usually one or two pages and are available to download, view or
print as a compliment to every video. These are great! To access go to www.einstruction.com, click on
professional services and training in the quick links box, then click on resources and videos, then scroll
down to CPS K-12 or click here. The CPS Video Series and Quick Step Guides (MAC) –click here.
2. Getting Started with the Clickers Document – This guide is attached to this page and is made up of the
most popular features teachers ask me about. Click on the feature you want to learn about in the table of
contents and it will take you to that section of the document.
3. Technical Support Toll-free Hotline: 888-333-4988, 5am to 6pm, Monday-Friday (CST). When
prompted Press 1, then 3, then 1. Knowledge Base and Chat – click here.
4. eInstruction Community – Join the eI Community™ to connect with other educators, find free high-quality
resources (including CPS lessons), and learn about the latest best practices and technologies in classroom
instruction. www.eicommunity.com or find at www.einstruction.com.
Patti Novy ♦ 631-974-2607 ♦ patti.novy@einstruction.com ♦ Getting Started with CPS page 1

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Good to know….
Don’t Forget the Three Tabs in CPS – Prepare, Engage and Report
 In Prepare, you can create your classes and lessons, import and view our pre-made lessons,
import ExamView content, create an answer key for your paper tests (fastgrade feature) or set
up a team activity like our Challenge Board (Jeopardy Style Game).
 In Engage, get ready to hand out the clickers! You can engage a lesson, challenge board,
examview test bank lesson or use the verbal mode with “on the fly” questions or online quiz
content– always remember to detect your receiver first! With our CPS 6.0 and higher
software, you don’t have to detect the receiver, it is automatically detected.
 Reports – Once you close out of your assessment, you can view different reports showing
how each student and the class did on every question (and even for NYS standards if you
linked them with your questions). You can choose to print the report or export it to another file
format.
Important Notes – Messages you may see:

 A message may pop up each time you open CPS warning you that you are saving to a
network drive, you can say yes/ok. This is just making sure you know it is being saved
to a network and make sure it is backed up. Every week or two, back up your CPS
folder on a flash drive or cd so if you ever lose your computer data, your cps database
will not be lost.
 Update CPS software - if it asks if you want to update say no, you probably won’t have
permission to do that anyway. Your network admin can do the updates when they are
ready.
 You do not have to be online to use the clickers – say ok if it tells you that you are not
online.
Table of Contents (next page)

Popular Features that are included in the Table of Contents:
 Creating a Fast Grade Lesson (using existing paper test or homework assignments)
 Importing premade content/NYS Tests
 Engaging the Verbal Mode – use CPS with online quiz content like Brainpop, Castle Learning
(School Island), Regentsprep.org, Master Guru, etc.
 Engaging a Study Island Lesson – if your school purchased a subscription to Study Island
 Creating a CPS Challenge Board Team Activity (Jeopardy-style game)
 Import a Class Roster from an Excel CSV File (student management system)
 Importing and Engaging ExamView Lessons (from your textbook publisher)
 Sharing a lesson with another teacher
 Working on lessons from home (download our software for free on your home computer)
 Creating a lesson using Lesson Builder (pulling questions from different lessons to make a
new one)

 Getting Started with CPS for PC - Table of Contents
Click on the link to take you to that section and scroll down for more information. For more detailed features with screen
grabs or Mac Instructions, please click on the training and support links on the previous page.
1. Installing CPS Software and checking out what equipment you will need
2. Copying a CPS Premade Database –
a. You created or copied a CPS Database folder to your teacher drive. You are done!
b. You need directions on how to copy a premade database folder from a school shared
drive or cd to your teacher drive (my documents folder).
3. Open the CPS Database on your Computer (after you copied it)
4. Setting up and Detecting the Receiver – ALWAYS follow these steps before you use CPS!
(note – software automatically detects receiver on version CPS 6.0 and higher!)
5. Prepare Tab – Creating and editing before the students enter the classroom
a. Creating Classes
b. Adding Students to Classes
c. Importing Class Roster if you have the student names in a .CSV file (export from a
student management system like Infinite Campus, eSchool Data, etc.)
d. Creating a folder to organize your lessons
e. Creating a lesson
f. Creating questions in your lesson
g. Creating a lesson using Lesson Builder (use existing questions from different lessons)
h. Download and Import NYS Standards
i. Associating NYS Standards with a question
j. Creating a Fast Grade Lesson (using existing paper test or homework assignment)
k. Creating a CPS Challenge Board Team Activity (Jeopardy-style game)
l. Importing Pre-Made Content/ NYS Content
m. Importing ExamView Lessons from your textbook publisher or Learning Series content
n. Sharing a lesson with another teacher
6. Engage Tab – Hand out those clickers and Engage your students!
a. Engaging a CPS Lesson (your content or pre-made content) – Teacher Led Mode
b. Engaging a Challenge Board Team Activity (Jeopardy-Style Board)
c. Engaging a FastGrade Lesson– Student Paced Mode with paper tests
d. Engaging an ExamView Lesson
e. Engaging the Verbal Mode – ask your students questions on the fly with no questions
prepared ahead of time
f. Engaging the Verbal Mode – use CPS with online quiz content like Brainpop, Castle
Learning, Master Guru, etc.
g. Engaging a Study Island Lesson
h. Engaging a There It Is! Team Activity – uses lessons on paper
7. Report Tab – View class and student assessments immediately after you end a lesson.
8. CPS for PowerPoint – Use your existing PowerPoint Presentations or create new ones
a. Creating a Database (if you have not created one in CPS)
b. Creating a Class (if you have not created one in CPS)
c. Creating a Question Slide
d. Engaging Your CPS for PowerPoint Presentation
9. Setting up the CPS Gradebook - Easily keep track of Assessments and Performance
10. Working on Lessons from Home

Installing CPS Software:
The first thing you need to do is install the CPS software on your computer if it is not installed
already. To install, go to www.einstruction.com.
1. On the eInstruction home page, under quick link, click on downloads
2. Scroll down and choose Classroom Performance System. The default is PC software. If you
need Mac, change the tab to Mac. Click on download and follow the wizard.
3. If you have PowerPoint 2003 or higher you can also install CPS for PowerPoint after you
installed the CPS software.
4. CPS is a site license so you can also install the software at home for free.
CPS Setup
The CPS classroom setup will consist of the following:
 Teacher classroom computer- desktop or laptop with CPS software installed
 Receiver unit – plugs into USB port on your computer
 Student response pads
a. Infrared (IR) pads – multiple choice, true false and yes/no answering options
b. Radio Frequency (RF) pads - multiple choice, true false, yes/no and numeric (allows
you to input numerals and symbols not just multiple choice) answering options
c. Pulse Radio Frequency pads – everything that the RF pads do plus short text input.
 Projection technology such as an LCD projector
Items highlighted in blue above are included with CPS.
CPS Infrared
CPS Radio Frequency
CPS Pulse (Radio Frequency)

Copying a CPS Database -.
What is a CPS database?
In CPS, the first thing you will do is copy a premade database. A premade databases is loaded with
lessons and state tests (when applicable) by grade or subject. It will eventually house all of your
teacher info, class info, student names, lessons and completed assessments. You should not share
a database with another teacher but you can share a lesson. You only need to create one CPS
database. You will probably fall into one of these scenarios. Once you identify your scenario, follow
the directions below.
A. You copied a CPS Database during a training inside your teacher drive in “My
Documents” and do not need to do anything else in this section. You are done and can
move on! If you haven’t opened up your database on your computer yet, go to “Opening the
CPS Database on your computer” (below).
B. You would like to copy one of our premade databases. If you don’t have them available to you
on a shared drive or on a disk, contact me at patti.novy@einstruction.com.
o Save the premade database to your teacher drive (my documents folder) To save:
 Go to the RP Common folder on your desktop and click inside the CPS Premade
Databases folder
 Copy the entire folder for the grade or subject you teach to your teacher h: drive.
1. Elementary Teachers: Click inside the elementary database folder and
copy your entire grade folder to your h: drive. (i.e. copy the entire grade 4
folder)
2. Middle School Teachers: Click inside the MS database folder and copy
your entire subject folder (math, science, ela or ss) to your h: drive.
3. High School Teachers: Click inside the HS database folder and copy
your entire subject folder to your h: drive.
o HS English Teachers – copy the entire HS English folder
o HS Math Teachers – copy the entire HS Math folder
o HS Social Studies Teachers – click inside HS social studies and
copy either Global Studies Folder or US History folder.
o HS Science Teachers – click inside HS science folder and copy
either Earth Science, Chemistry, Physics or Living Environment
Folder.
Opening the CPS Database on your computer. Once CPS software is installed on your computer
and you saved your premade database to your teacher drive (my documents), double click on the
CPS icon to open. You will have a choice to create a new database or open an existing database.
Choose open an existing database and browse for the database folder you saved (above). Click
inside the folder, click on the database and click ok. The CPS software will open. In the future,
clicking on the CPS icon will automatically open up your database on your computer. *Remember,
you never have to create another database, just delete your class rosters and assessments at the
end of the year and use your database of lessons the next year.

SETTING UP AND DETECTING THE RECEIVER
If you are using

 CPS IR (infrared) - plug one end of the wire into the USB port in your computer. Plug
the other end of the wire into the white or blue round IR receiver and place it in the front
of the classroom so the students can point toward it. Many times they just point toward
the screen and don’t even realize there is a receiver there. You may want to dim the
lights if the signal strength is affected by the room lighting.
 CPS RF (radio frequency) –You don’t not need to run this receiver to the front of the
classroom, the radio frequency technology will automatically pick up the student
responses. There are two types:
- Large receiver with wire - plug one end of the wire into your USB port in your computer
and plug the other end into your RF Receiver. If your computer is on, the channel
number on the receiver will light up.
- RF Receiver Stick (looks like a flash drive) – plug into USB port on computer.
 You will need a projector to project the lesson to the class. You can use with an
interactive white board, screen or white wall. You do not need a projector if you are
using the FastGrade (Student Paced Mode) with the White RF Receivers with LCD.
IMPORTANT, ALWAYS detect the receiver before using CPS with your students:
CPS Version 6.0 and above – You should not have to detect the receiver. When engaging the
lesson and the receiver is plugged in it should automatically detect. If it does not, go to SETTINGS,
DELIVERY OPTIONS, RECEIVER, and click on the SHOW DEVICE MANAGER button. If you see a
receiver icon there with an x, delete it. Then in the device manager, go to OPTIONS, DISCOVER
DEVICES. Wait for your receiver icon to display, now you can engage.
CPS Version 5.6 and below – need to detect the receiver
To receive responses from the students, you have to make sure the receiver is detected on your
computer. To detect the receiver, make sure the receiver is first plugged into your USB in your
computer. Make sure the USB wire is connected to the receiver properly and the USB end is
plugged into your computer properly.
o In CPS, use the top menu to click on SETTINGS, DELIVERY OPTIONS, RECEIVER,
then click on the DETECT RECEIVER button. CPS will let you know when it recognizes
the receiver. Some computers automatically detect the receiver, but you should
always follow the above step to make sure.
o If you are in CPS for PowerPoint, Go to the DELIVERY OPTIONS button on toolbar,
RECEIVER, DETECT RECEIVER. The software will let you know that your receiver is
detected. Some computers automatically detect the receiver, but you should
always follow the above step to make sure.
o Troubleshooting: If you detect the receiver but you are not able to collect response from
students, make sure you have the correct default settings above. If those are correct,
and you are using:
1. CPS IR (Infrared) - Try turning off the lights
2. CPS RF (Radio Frequency) – Go to SETTINGS, DELIVERY OPTIONS,
RECEIVER. Under RF Receiver Options on this screen, check the base channel
number. This number should be the same number that is written on the card on
the top of the black CPS case you are using. If the channel number on the
screen is different from the card, change it to the channel number that is on the
card, click ok. If you use the same CPS all of the time you will not have to do
this. It is only when you use a different CPS because they are all set to different
channels to avoid interference.
PREPARE TAB (2-3 minute video tutorials are available for each task. See link under training on
the first page.
Creating Classes and Adding Students into CPS
A K-12 class is a roster of students using a numbered system of pads.
1. Click the Prepare>Classes and Students tab.

2. Click New in the Home group. A pop-up menu appears.
3. Select Class. The CPS New Class Wizard appears.
4. Choose K-12 as your Institution Type.
5. Click Next to continue.
6. If this is your first time creating a CPS class, enter your Contact Information and click Next to
continue. If you have previously created a CPS class, CPS stored your contact information.
You will automatically move to the Class Information page.
7. Enter your Class Information.
 Class Name: This is the only required information for a class.
 Course Number, section, period, semester, campus, etc. are all option and only for your
information if you would like to add.
 Attendance Options: This is the location where you store your attendance records in
CPS. You can choose to view the attendance as a grade in the Assessments area of
the Report>Gradebook tab or choose to view the attendance as Absent/Present in the
Class Info area of the Report>Gradebook tab. For K-12, it is usually set up as
Absent/Present.
2. Click Next to continue.
3. Click Next to create your class or click Back to review your information.
4. Click Done to close the CPS New Class Wizard and return to the Prepare>Classes and Students
tab, or create another class by clicking the box in front of the I want to make another class option.
Add Students to Classes
To add students to a K-12 class that you created, follow these directions:
1. Click the Prepare>Classes and Students tab.

2. Select a class name from the class side (left or top window) that you want to add students to.
3. Click New in the Home group. A pop-up menu appears.
4. Select Student. CPS displays the default student information. CPS automatically saves the
default student data row.
5. Personalize student information by typing the student's first name, tab and type in the last
name, and press the enter key. Then repeat these steps as you add more names. Only first
name, last name and pad ID is required. The other information is optional. Clicking the Tab
key will automatically move you to the next data field. Click Enter, on your keyboard, to save
the student information and move to a new student data row. CPS automatically assigns the
next student a pad ID number in numeric order. You may change the student's pad ID number
by clicking on the Pad ID data field and entering in a new pad ID. Data fields include the
following the following fields:
 First name (required)
 Last name (required)
 Pad ID (required)
 Student ID (not required)
 Gender (not required)
 Ethnicity (not required)
 Economically disadvantaged (not required)
6. Click Save in the Home group when you have added all the students’ data. CPS will
automatically display the students’ information in the student side (right or bottom window) You
can use any class you create in this database in conjunction with any session delivery. Click
the column headers, First Name, Last Name, or Pad ID, from the student side (right or bottom
window) to sort the view of the students in a class.
Import a Class Roster From an Excel .CSV File
You can import class rosters if it is in an excel file with a .CSV extension. Many student
management systems can export rosters to a .CSV file.
Create a .CSV File to Import into CPS

If you have a class or classes in a different software application other than CPS (like a gradebook
program of some kind), you can save that data as a specific file type (*.csv file type), make a few
simple format changes, and then import that data into CPS. To prepare your roster so you can import
a non-CPS class roster into CPS, follow these directions.
1. Open the class in the non-CPS software.
2. Format the data to include the following two required column headers:
 FIRST (do not write FIRST NAME)
 LAST (do not write LAST NAME)
NOTE: The CPS software doesn't care if these headers are capitalized, or if they appear in a different
order. In fact, you can have a column header in between the last and the first columns, but at least
one of these columns must exist for CPS to import the class.
4. Fill in the student‘s first and last name under the corresponding required header (First and Last)
5. Save that class data as a .csv file (Comma Separated Values file type). Most spreadsheet or
database programs do this with the Save As command.
Import the .CSV Class Roster into your CPS Database:
1. Within CPS, click on the Classes tab

2. Click on the Import icon
3. Select ‘Comma Separated Values’ as the import source
4. Click the Next button
5. Click the Browse button
6. Select your .csv file
7. Click the Open button
8. Select the class (A checkmark will appear next to the class you select.)
9. Click the Next button
10. Click the Done button once CPS imports your .csv file
Creating a Folder (for organization of your lessons)

1. Click the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab.
2. To create a folder, highlight your database name, which is listed first on the lesson side. It has
.cps extension and is in the left window under the “Home” box.
3. Click on the New button in the Home box.
4. Choose folder from the menu.
5. Name the folder (i.e. by subject, grade, textbook chapter, etc) and click ok.
6. To create a sub folder, click once on the folder name you want to create a subfolder in.
7. Repeat steps 3-5.
Creating a Lessons (name a lesson and then you can add questions)
2. To create a lesson, click once on the database name, which is listed first on the lesson side or
on a folder that you want to put the lesson in to.
3. Click New in the Home group. A menu appears.
4. Click the Lesson menu item.
5. The CPS Lesson Attributes window appears.
6. Type in the title of your lesson. The other information is optional.
7. Click OK.
Creating Questions inside your CPS Lesson

2. Click once on the lesson you created that you want to add questions to.
4. Click the Question menu item.
5. The Question Author Window Opens
a. There are over 40 templates to choose from. The template that opens is always the last
one that you used.
b. Every question can be a different template.
c. You will probably find that you will use the same 4 or 5 templates when you create your
lessons but the others are there if you need them.
6. Click Template in the Format group. Select the template style you want to apply to the
question. You may select:
a. Chalkboard (draw a question or load an image)
b. no graphics (written question no graphics)
c. add graphics (written question with graphic)
7. Click the blue arrow in the drop-down box in the Format group. A list of question templates
appears. These question templates are associated with the template style you selected in the
last step. You can choose from:
 Multiple Choice (MC) – for example MC4 means 4 multiple choice answer
options. You can choose from MC2 to MC8.
 True/False (T/F)
 Yes/No (Y/N)
 Performance Question

 Numeric (only available with the Gen2 RF Clickers with the lcd display). Allows
you to have a numeral or numerals as an answer without a multiple choice
option. For example, How many States are in the US?, the answer would be
50. The students would enter in 50 and then press send on their key pad.
8. Type the question in the question box of the question template you selected.
9. Type answers in the answer boxes of the question template you selected.
10. Select a correct answer by clicking in the checkbox beside that answer, so that a checkmark
appears. If there is not a correct answer than don’t click on a checkbox. If you were doing a
survey, there would be no correct answers so you would leave the boxes unchecked.
11. If you chose a template with a graphic, click inside the graphic box, click browse and search on
your computer for a graphic. If you move the graphic on your computer at a later time, you will
need to re-associate it with your question. If you see a graphic on the internet that you like,
right click save picture as and save it to a location on your computer. If it is just being used
with CPS you can save it right to your CPS folder. Then when you click on the graphic box,
click browse and search inside your CPS folder.
12. Click the save and next icon (disk with green arrow to right) to save the question and move on
to the next question.
13. You can choose the same template or select a new one from the format box.
14. Repeat steps 6-12
15. When you finish adding questions, click the Close in the Navigate group. All questions appear
in the question side of the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab.
16. You can double click a question to edit it.
Note: For extra graphics for your questions, you can download the CPS Image Library by going to
the www.einstruction.com home page, clicking on downloads and choosing Image Library from the
drop down menu. It includes over 2000 clip art and photo images that you can use with your CPS
Lesson. Download the Image Library to your computer. Don’t put it inside your CPS database folder
that you saved in your My Documents because it will make the folder very large. You can save it as a
separate folder in your My Documents folder.
See the teachers guide or check out our video tutorials for additional features like how to add notes
and video and preview questions. http://www.einstruction.com/Support/index.cfm
Creating a lesson using Lesson Builder (use existing questions from different
lessons)
When you use the Lessons Builder function, you can build one lesson of questions from several pre-
existing lessons. For example, if a Language Arts database has 32 lessons in it, each lesson
representing a chapter from a text, you can create a mid-term exam from the first six lessons
(chapters) without re-typing all the questions. You can also create a lesson from multiple databases.
To create a lesson from the Lesson Builder, follow these directions:

1. Open the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab.
2. Select a lesson from the lesson side (left or top window) of the screen.
 The top pane is the target lesson, the lesson to which you are adding questions.
 The bottom left pane lists the lessons available in the open database. You can also build
from the standards in this open database.
 The bottom right pane is a list of questions available in the source lesson or standard
selected in the bottom left pane.

 The Dragged Questions section allows you to choose whether the questions you select for
the target lesson are copied from the lesson source or linked to the lesson source. If you
link the questions, then if a change is made to that question in another lesson, the changes
will be made to this question as well.
 The Link Selected Questions button allows you to select questions from the bottom right
pane and copy the questions to the top pane.
 The Link Random Questions button allows CPS to select random questions from the open
database and copy them to the top pane.
NOTE: Check whether the database open in the bottom left pane is the source from which you
want to take questions. You should only have one database, but if you have more and this is not
the correct database, use the File menu to find and open the database from which you want to
select questions. Also, make certain the target lesson named at the top of the Builder window is
the destination into which you want to build questions. If not, use the File menu to select a
different lesson name from the open database.
3. Select a lesson from the database open in the bottom left pane. Alternately, you can choose to
build from Standards questions if you have linked questions with Standards; simply click the
Standards tab in the bottom left window. Questions for the selected lesson or standard display
in the bottom right pane.
4. Select questions, from the bottom right pane, to copy or link into the target lesson.
5. Press the Ctrl key and your mouse simultaneously to select specific questions to include in the
target lesson. While pressing your mouse button, drag those selected questions into the top
pane.
6. Or Use the Link or Copy option buttons, in the Dragged Questions area, to choose how you
want the questions moved.
7. Click the Link Random Questions button to choose the number of specific question types you
want to include in the target lesson. Click the OK button to complete this random selection.
8. Close the Lesson Builder to return to the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab. Your lesson
will appear in the left (or top in horizontal view) window.
9. If you would like to delete or edit a question, click on the question in the right pane and click a
button in the Home box.
Download NYS Standards

Before you import the NYS Standards into your CPS database and link them with questions, you
must first download them.
You may already have the New York State standards imported into your database if you copied a pre-
made database by grade or subject. To check to see if the standards are already imported, open up
CPS and go to Prepare>Standards. If there is a + sign next to your database name, you should
already have the standards imported. If you don’t see + sign, you will need to import them following
the directions below. If you have a + sign, click on it to see the standards that are collapsed
underneath. There should be a + sign next to New York State Standards. If you click on the plus
sign, you should see New York State Standards 2002 and New York State Standards Update 2005.
Underneath, you will see the specific standards.
If you do not have the New York State standards already imported into your database, you can
download the standards from:

 The CPS install cd. Follow the wizard and choose NYS standards. When you are saving the
standards, the ‘Save As’ box will open up. Click on the folder icon with the red circle to create
a new folder and name it ‘Standards’. Then use the drop down arrow next to ‘Save As’ to find
your CPS folder in your my Documents folder. Click on your CPS folder and click Save. You
have now saved the NYS standards inside a standards folder inside your CPS folder.
 To download from the install cd, follow the wizard and choose NY standards. To download
from the eInstruction website, go to www.einstruction.com, click downloads on the home page
and choose State Standards from the drop down menu or click on this direct link below:
http://www.einstruction.com/Products/CPSContent/index.cfm?fuseaction=Products.Display&M
enu=Products&content=StateStandards&link=state_standards&CFID=2713067&CFTOKEN=6
5f266a73d320c8e-FBFA6941-2BF0-C60A-146AF33C88CF7719. When you are saving the
standards, the ‘Save As’ box will open up. Click on the folder icon with the red circle to create
a new folder and name it ‘Standards’. Then use the drop down arrow next to ‘Save As’ to find
your CPS folder in your my Documents folder. Click on your CPS folder and click Save. You
have now saved the NYS standards inside a standards folder inside your CPS folder.
Import New York State Standards (download first)

If you are using a premade database, the standards have already been added.
Associate New York State Standards to Lesson Questions

In the Question Author window, after you typed in a question and answer options, you can associate
specific New York State standards to the question. You must first download an dimport the NYS
standards.
To associate specific NYS standards to a question, follow these directions:

1. Click on the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab.
2. Create a new question in a lesson or open an existing question. The CPS Question Author
window appears.
3. Click Question in the Options group. A pop-up menu appears.
4. Click the Standards menu item. The CPS Question Standards window appears.
5. Click inside the boxes beside the standards you want to associate with this question. You
may associate the questions with multiple standards. Click the small plus sign to see any
child-level standards and select them if you like.
6. Click OK to save the association and return to the CPS Question Author window.
7. Click Save in the Navigate group.
8. Click Close in the Navigate group to return to the Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab.
9. You will see the associated standards next to each question
10. To change or delete the standards associate with a question, repeat steps 3-4 and uncheck
the boxes next to the standards you want to change.
Create a CPS FastGrade Lesson with your Paper Tests

This feature allows you to use your existing paper tests or homework assignments with CPS. You
can create a FastGrade answer key, distribute hard copies to the students, and have them respond
for a quick grade. This is one of the quickest ways to start engaging your students with CPS.
When you create a FastGrade lesson, please have a hard copy of the course material with you,
preferably one that has the correct answers indicated. You should make this FastGrade lesson before
you present it to your students.
To create a FastGrade lesson, follow these directions:
1. Open CPS from your desktop icon.
3. Select the folder name or a lesson name, from the lesson side (left or top window) of the
screen, you want to create a FastGrade lesson in. If it is a math test answer key, you may
want to put it in a math folder.
5. Select the FastGrade menu item. The CPS Lesson Attributes window opens.
6. Type a name for your FastGrade lesson in the Title box (named after the subject, test, etc) and
optionally, a description or unique identifier.
7. Click OK.
The CPS FastGrade window opens showing the following features:
 Title: The name you typed in the CPS Lesson Attributes window.
 Number of questions in this Lesson: The number of questions you have successfully added
to the FastGrade answer key.
 Properties: Opens the CPS Lesson Attributes window.
 Question type columns: Question types in individual columns enable you to add various
question types to the FastGrade answer key. For example MC4 is a Multiple Choice with 4
answer options.
 Standards associated with the current question: Standards in the open database appear so
that you can associate them with each question if you like.
 Current Question #: The question number you are currently working on. This number is
always one more than the Number of questions in this Lesson.
 Previous: Moves to the previous question in your FastGrade answer key. This action
highlights the previous question’s type and correct answer as well as displaying the number
position of this question as the Current Question #.
 Next: Moves to the next question in your FastGrade answer key. This action highlights the
next question’s type and correct answer as well as displaying the number position of this
question as the Current Question #.
 Rubric…: Allows you to associate a rubric with a question.
 Add: Allows you to add a numeric question.
 Other: Allows you to create “placeholder” questions for essays, short answer, etc.).
8. Click the blue answer button that corresponds with the question type and correct answer for
each question. If your first question is multiple choice with 4 answer options and the answer is
D, then you would click on the D button under MC4. Each question can have different answer
options. When you click on an answer button you will see the “number of questions in this
lesson” will increase to the amount of answers inputted and the Current Question # will
increase so you can add the next answer.
9. Repeat step 8 until you’ve entered every question into the CPS FastGrade window.
10. Use the previous button to check your answers.
11. Click OK. The Prepare>Lessons and Assessments tab appears with the FastGrade lesson
name in the lesson side of the window.
12. Go to Engaging a FastGrade Lesson – Student Paced Mode to engage your students.
Create a CPS Challenge Board (Jeopardy-Style Game)

You must have a lesson or lessons with questions created before you can create a challenge board.
To create a CPS Challenge Board, follow these directions:

2. Click the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
3. Click Challenge.
4. Click New in the Activity group. The CPS Challenge Board Info window appears.
5. Type in a title for your Challenge Board.
6. Type in a title for each category. You can come back and edit these later if you would like.
7. Click OK. The CPS Challenge Board window opens containing the panes listed below.
a. The top left pane displays all of the lessons or standards in the open database.
b. Use the Lessons or Standards tabs above this pane to choose between lessons or
standards.
c. The top right pane displays the point values under each category. Each point value
button also displays how many questions it contains. For example, the point value
button 10 – 0 is assigned a 10 point value and has 0 questions associated with it.
8. The bottom half displays the questions in the lesson you select from the top left window.
9. Select a lesson or standard from the top left pane. The questions appear in the bottom half of
the window. You may have to click on the + sign to see the lessons that are collapsed
underneath.
10. Use one or both of the following methods to populate the category and point values with
questions:
Method 1: Populate a Challenge Board with Specific Questions from Lessons or Standards (You
choose the specific questions for each point value)
1. Highlight a question or multiple questions (use the Ctrl key to select multiple, non-consecutive
questions) in the bottom half of the window that you want to drag to a point value in a particular
category. You can also add multiple consecutive questions by clicking on the shift and arrow
up/down key.
2. Drag the highlighted question(s) to a point value until the pointer is over the point value.
3. Release your mouse button to drop the question(s) into that point value. The point value button
display changes to represent the number of questions you just dropped into the point value.
4. Repeat for as many questions as you want to add to the Challenge Board.
5. Click the File menu item and the Close command to close the Challenge Board and return to
the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
Method 2: Populate a Challenge Board with an Entire Lesson or Standard of Questions (when
you choose a lesson the software randomly places the questions in the different point values)
1. Click and highlight the name of the lesson or standard in the top left window that you want to
drop into one of the categories.
2. Drag that lesson or standard to a category until the pointer is over the category name. The
category name depresses slightly.
3. Release your mouse button to drop the entire contents of the lesson or standard into the
category. The questions equally and randomly distribute in the point values. Point value
buttons change to display the number of questions that button just received.
4. Repeat for as many lessons or standards as you want to add to the Challenge Board.
NOTE: You can use a combination of the above two methods to drag and drop some questions to
point values, or drop an entire lesson or standard of questions in one category. Alternatively, you
have the option to right click a question and distribute it to a category or specific point value by using
the context menu that appears. The option to preview the question is also available in the context
menu.
5. Click the File menu item and the Close command to close the Challenge Board and return to
the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
The Prepare>Team Activities tab displays your new Challenge Board title. CPS has saved this board
to your opened database.
Please refer to the Play the CPS Challenge Board section for information about engaging a
CPS Challenge Board team activity or see the directions below under Engage a Challenge Board.
Importing NYS Tests
To import a NYS Test (in .cxm format that we have shared) or a CPS lesson (.cxm file) that another
teacher has shared with you. If you need them please contact me at patti.novy@einstruction.com.
Let me know the subject, grade and year you need.
1. Open up CPS
2. Go to Prepare>Lessons and Assessments
3. If the lesson is on a flash drive, insert it into your computer’s USB port. If the lesson was sent
by email as an attachment. Save the attachment (lesson) to your computer
4. In CPS, Click on the Import button in the Lessons box
5. Click on the Browse button
6. Click on the drop down arrow next to Files of Type and choose CXM files. This way CPS will
search for those specific files with an extension of CXM.
7. Use the Look In box to locate where you saved your lesson that you want to import. If it is
located on a flash drive, go to My Computer and click on the drive for your removable flash
drive.
8. Click once on the lesson and click on Open.
9. CPS will say Importing, click OK when the box pops up that says CXM file has imported
successfully.
10. Your imported lesson will show up at the bottom of all of your lessons. You can drag and drop
it into any folder.
11. Click once on the imported lesson to view the questions on the right hand side. Double click
on the question to view it and use the arrow keys to move throughout the lesson.
12. The graphics that were associated with the original lesson should be associated with the
lesson. If there are any missing, just copy those graphics from the teacher and add them to
the question.
Import ExamView Lessons

(ExamView textbook publisher test banks, ExamView Learning Series or your own ExamView tests)
Over 5,000 textbooks include an ExamView Test Bank CD when you adopt the textbook. These test
banks include pre-made lessons that directly import into CPS. You can also import ExamView
Learning Series content that is now NYS aligned and ExamView lessons that you have made on your
own. If you would like to find out if you textbook has an ExamView Test Bank CD, go to
www.fscreations.com, click on the Title Track Link, put a key word (like math, english, etc.) in the title
and choose your publisher from the drop down menu. Click Search. If you see your textbook listed
but do not have the test bank cd, contact your district textbook contact or textbook publisher
representative.
A new feature in CPS 5.0 is that you can import ExamView lessons into any folder within your
database. You are not limited to importing ExamView content strictly to an ExamView folder.
Therefore, if you have a Biology folder you want to import ExamView lessons into, you can! You can
also create a folder, title the folder ExamView, and import ExamView lessons into your ExamView
folder. You can import ExamView tests and quizzes into CPS. You can then engage these tests or
quizzes just like any other CPS lesson. However, you will not be able to edit the questions of an
imported ExamView lesson in CPS. You would need to edit the questions in ExamView before you
import into CPS.
Important: Before you can import an ExamView lesson into CPS, you must first have installed the
ExamView content onto your computer via the ExamView Installation CD or copy the test bank folder
for your grade or subject if it is installed on your school’s shared drive. If you are installing from a
cd, you can set the wizard to save the ExamView test bank folder to your My Documents folder. Note
where the ExamView Test Bank folder is being saved.
To import an ExamView lesson into CPS:

1. Make sure the ExamView content is already installed on your computer using the
ExamView wizard if you have a disk or copy it from your shared drive. See important
note above.
2. Open CPS from your desktop icon. It should automatically open up your database. If it
doesn’t, click on open an existing database and browse for your database in the CPS
folder in My Documents.
4. Click on the folder, in the lesson side (left or top window), you want to import the
ExamView lesson into or create a new one. You can create a new folder by clicking
New in the Home box and folder and then naming the folder. You may want to name it
after your textbook publisher or Examview so you know where they content came from.
5. Click on the down arrow next to Add Files in the Lessons box. Choose ExamView
File. The Add Files window opens.
6. Use the Look in: box to browse and locate where you saved the ExamView
content. (Should be in My Documents).
7. Click Open.
8. Choose the lesson(s) that you would like to add and click open. You can choose
multiple lessons by pressing down the shift and down arrow key at the same time. (You
may have to click inside a folder to see the lessons).
9. It may take a few minutes to import into your CPS Database.
10. You will see the Examview lesson(s) show up on the left hand side in the folder you
chose to put it into.
11. If you try to click on a specific question after adding into CPS it will tell you that you can
not edit the questions because these are publisher questions. If you would like to view
the questions, engage the lesson just like you would a CPS lesson. If you would like to
edit the question, you would need to edit it in a full version of ExamView before you
bring it into CPS.
Engage ExamView Lessons section for information on engaging ExamView lesson.
Sharing a CPS lesson with another teacher

CPS allows you to share the lessons you create with other teachers… why re-create the wheel! For
example, if you are a 4th grade teacher and there are 4 other teachers in your grade, you many want
to ask each teacher to create one CPS lesson that you can all share. You can divide it by subjects
like math, english, social studies, science or topics within a certain subject. This way you are just
creating one CPS lesson but will be able to use five CPS lessons to engage your students.
To export a lesson to share with another teacher:

1. Open up CPS
3. Click once on the lesson you want to export (left hand side)
4. Click on Export to Mac in the Lessons box (this will make it a .cxm file and can be used on PC)
5. Type in a file name (can be named the same as the lesson)
6. Use the drop down menu next to the Save In box to pick a location to save your exported
lesson to. If you are going to email the lesson to another teacher, save it to a location on your
computer so you can attach it to the email later. You can also save it to a flash drive.
7. Click on the Save button
8. A box may pop that says “Would you like to include any associated standards with the lessons
you are exporting. Say yes if you have associated standards with your lessons. Say no if you
have not.
9. Your exported lesson has been converted to a .cxm file and is now saved to the location that
you chose.
10. You can email this lesson by attaching it to the email or giving the flash drive that you saved
the lesson on to another teacher.
11. Now to safely remove the flash drive, double-click on the icon at the bottom right of your
screen that says “Unplug or eject hardware” when you put your mouse over it. The “Unplug or
Eject Hardware” wizard should open. Click “Stop”, “OK”, and “OK” again.
Note: To avoid damage to the flash disk or data corruption, it is strongly advised you do not skip
this step. DO NOT REMOVE the flash disk until the database or file has completely been copied
to the flash disk.
To import a CPS lesson (.cxm file) that another teacher has shared with you.
13. Open up CPS
drive.
successfully.
it into any folder.
the question.
You can also share CPS for PowerPoint Presentations with other teachers.
1. Just copy the PowerPoint presentation to a flash drive or send by email
2. Open up CPS for PowerPoint
3. Browse for where the presentation is saved and open it up.
4. You can now view or edit the presentation.

ENGAGE TAB
Use this tab when you are ready to hand out the clickers and engage your students with a CPS
Lesson or Activity
To Engage a CPS Lesson – Teacher Led Mode:

 Open CPS from your desktop icon.
 Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. See
directions at the beginning of this document. Also, always test before you engage students
the first time.
 Under Engage>Lessons & Assessments, put a check in the box next to the lesson you
want to engage. (you may need to click on the + sign to see lessons that are collapsed
underneath)
 Choose the class you want to use the clickers with from the drop down menu (the classes
need to be entered or imported into CPS before you engage)
 Click on the Advanced button under Engage Options and put a check next to Include in
Gradebook if you would like it included in the CPS Gradebook. You must first set up the
gradebook using a wizard before you can add the assessment to the Gradebook. If you
forget to check this option before engaging the lesson, you can add it to the Gradebook
later.
 Click Engage
 The toolbar will come up, click on the Next #1 button, that will lead you to the first question.
 Click start to let the students click in , they can change their answers by clicking a different
letter
 Click end when everyone is in
 Use the green arrow button next to the end button to go to the next question
 You can “X” out when you are done and say yes. (white x in lower left hand corner)
 Now you can go to the reports tab and see the assessment.
To Engage a Challenge Board: (Jeopardy-Style Board)

 Open up CPS
 Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. See
directions at the beginning of this document. Also, always test before you engage students
the first time.
 Under Engage>Team Activity
 Click once on the challenge board you created under Team Activities
 Click the Engage button (green arrow in the Activity box)
 CPS Session Setup Box opens
 Choose the class you want to use it with from the drop down menu. If you do not have a
class created and want to create a default class without any names, click on the create
button, choose the number of clickers in the class and click ok.
 Click on the settings button to show/hide score
 Click on the student button to randomly choose a student to pick a category and point
value, click ok
 Click on the point value under a category to open the question
 Click start to let the students click in , they can change their answers by clicking a different
letter
 Click end when everyone is in
 Click the red circle with the x in the middle to close the question

 Now you can use the student button to randomly choose another student to pick a category
and point value
 To close out of the game, first close out of the question by clicking on the red circle with the
x in it and then click on the file button then close.
To Engage a FastGrade Lesson – Student Paced Mode (Paper Test):
To engage a FastGrade lesson using a paper test or homework assignment and an already created
CPS answer key, follow these directions:
1. Open CPS from your desktop icon
2. Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. See directions at the
beginning of this document. Also, always test before you engage students the first time.
3. Click the Engage>Lessons and Assessments tab.
4. Select the FastGrade lesson, from the lesson side (left or top window) of the screen, you want to
engage. A checkmark appears in the box in front of the FastGrade lesson you selected.
5. Please refer to the Create FastGrade Lessons section for more information on creating a
FastGrade lesson.
6. Click Advanced in the Engage Options group. The Advanced Engage Options window appears.
If you would like to include this assessment in the CPS Gradebook, put a check next to that
option. You must first set up the gradebook using a wizard before you can add the assessment to
the Gradebook. If you forget to check this option before engaging the lesson, you can add it to the
Gradebook later.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Assessment Setup in the Engage Options group. A list of delivery options appear.
9. Select Student Paced from the menu
10. Click Engage in the Assessment group. Follow instructions below:
IMPORTANT: the next screen looks different depending on what type of receiver you have when you
are engaging FastGrade in the StudentPaced Assessment Mode.
If you have an RF Receiver when engaging FastGrade-Student Paced

 The CPS Feedback window appears telling you to turn off the projector because you don’t
need it in the fastgrade mode with the Gen 2 RF Clickers. You just need the paper test to
hand to the students and the RF with LCD Display. .
 Click the options button and then click on color feedback if you want to see the student answer
show up green if it is correct and red if it is incorrect.
 Click start.
 The lcd pad on the display will show “receiving” and the Q1 for question 1.
 To enter in a multiple choice answer they would enter in the letter and then press the send
button.
 To enter in a numerical answer. Type in the answer on the keypad and then hit send.
If you have an IR Receiver when engaging FastGrade-Student Paced

 The CPS Feedback window appears.
 The top number of each box is the student’s clicker number. The bottom number is the
question that the student is on.
 Click Start to begin the response cycle.
 When the student clicks in an answer it will automatically move to the next question. If you
want the students to manually move to the next question using the arrow keys, go to the
Options button, Student Managed Tab, and put a check in the box next to “manually advance
to next question”. The student would then have to click on the arrow keys to move to the next
question.
 Students can change their answer by going back to the question using the arrow keys and
clicking on a different letter.
 Once a student answers all of the questions in the FastGrade lesson, the box will light up all
blue.
 Click End to end the response cycle when all of the boxes are blue.
 Click Close to save performance data to this point and exit the Feedback Grid window. You
can now go to the Reports tab to look at the student assessment information.
Engaging an ExamView Lesson

You can engage ExamView lessons just like other CPS lessons. You first must install/copy the
ExamView Test Bank content onto your computer.
To engage an ExamView lesson, follow these directions:
. Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set.
a. To detect receiver, make sure the CPS receiver is plugged into your computer.
b. in the top CPS toolbar, go to Settings, Delivery Options and Receiver Tab,
c. Click on Detect Receiver, it should detect the receiver
d. Go to the teacher-managed tab under delivery options and make sure under
Gen 2 RF only, you put a check in the box next to autosend alphabetic
responses (this way the student doesn’t have to click on the send button in a
regular CPS lesson, they just have to click on the multiple choice option A, B,
etc.)
2. Under Engage>Lessons & Assessments, put a check in the box next to the ExamView
lesson you want to engage. The lesson may be in a folder you created or you may
need to click on the + sign to see lessons that are collapsed underneath.
3. Choose the class you want to use the clickers with from the drop down menu (the
classes need to be entered or imported into CPS before you engage)
4. Click Engage
5. The toolbar will come up, click on the Next #1 button, that will lead you to the first
question.
6. Click start to let the students click in , they can change their answers by clicking a
different letter
7. Click end when everyone is in
8. Use the green arrow button next to the end button to go to the next question
9. You can “X” out when you are done and say yes.
10. Now you can go to the reports tab and see the assessment.
ExamView Buttons
When you engage an ExamView lesson in CPS, you have access to three special ExamView buttons
in the Feedback Grid. Read below for more information:
NOTE: All buttons will not be available on all questions. The Narrative and Recalculate buttons will
appear only on questions in ExamView lessons offering those options.
 The Zoom button allows you to change the magnification of your question in the CPS Content
Delivery window.
 The Narrative button allows you to hide or show an associated Narrative on the CPS Content
Delivery window.

 The Recalculate button looks like a calculator and allows you to change the answer to a
question and deliver that one question multiple times. The question and answer options
change but the question relates to the same topic. This way you can make sure your students
understand before moving on to the next question in your lesson.
Engaging the Verbal Mode – On the Fly Questions – no questions prepared

ahead of time
Verbal questions are “on-the-fly” questions that you can use to spontaneously engage your students
in a lesson and record performance data.
 You can also use verbal mode with online content and quizzes from educational websites (see
next section).
To engage a verbal question, follow these directions:

2. Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. See directions at
the beginning of this document. Also, always test before you engage students the first time.
4. Click Engage in the Verbal group. The CPS Verbal Question Setup window appears.
5. Setup your session options.
a. Include Session in Gradebook – Select this option if you want grades recorded in the
Gradebook.
b. Class Category – Select a category for the lesson.
6. Click OK. The Verbal CPS Engage toolbar appears.
a. Verbal: You can spontaneously ask questions in class and still record performance data.
b. Chalkboard: Much like the verbal question feature, this option allows you to upload and
draw images while delivering spontaneous questions.
c. Options:
 Under Verbal, click on Show Large Screen when you want to type in the questions
so they can be viewed in the question report later.
 Under Verbal, uncheck Show Large Screen when you do not want to type in the
question and are just asking the questions verbally
d. CPS Engage toolbar Handle: Click and drag on this icon to move the CPS Engage toolbar
anywhere on your screen.
e. Class: Click on the Class button to randomly select a response pad number from your
active class and call on that student to answer a question verbally in class. You can also
take attendance from this button.
f. Charting window: View performance data in a chart.
g. Exit CPS: Save your results up to this point and shut down CPS entirely.
h. Close: End the delivery session and return to the main CPS window.
7. Click the Verbal button. A question template menu appears.
8. Select the question template you want to engage the lesson in from the menu.
a. If you have the Show Large Screen Verbal option ON, the CPS Content Delivery window
will appear. This allows you to type in your verbal question so you can view it in the
question report later.
b. If you have that option turned off, only the Feedback Grid appears.
9. Ask your question.
a. If using the CPS Content Delivery window, you can also type your question in the Question
Box and type answer choices in the Answer Boxes.
b. If using the Feedback Grid, ask your question aloud.
10. Click Start to begin the response cycle.
11. Click End to end the response cycle.
12. Click Close. CPS saves performance data. Performance data is available from the
Report>Reports tab.
Engaging the Verbal Mode – Using Online Content & Quizzes from a website.
BrainPop, Castle Learning (School Island), Master Guru, Regentsprep.org, etc.
CPS in verbal mode with online content like Castle Learning, Brainpop, etc. You can show a
Brainpop video to the class and pull up the quiz and then the students click in to each answer. This
mode allows you to get assessments as a class, question by question. You can reteach after each
question if necessary as well. You will get immediate feedback and record responses.
Here’s how you would use the clickers with Brain Pop. (you can do the first 9 steps before the
students get in class).
1. Open up your online quiz content. If you are using BrainPop, bring up the video you want to
use. Minimize the window.
2. Open CPS from your desktop icon
3. Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. Go to Settings
(above the 3 tabs), Delivery Options and then Receiver Tab. Click on Detect Receiver. Once it is
detected, click OK. Always test before you engage students the first time. (version 6.0 automatically
detects the receiver).
5. Click Engage in the Verbal box (left side). The CPS Verbal Question Setup window appears.
6. Put the name of your Lesson in the title (this way you will know which lesson it is when you view
the reports later)
7. Class Options – Select a class from the drop down menu.
8. Click OK. The Verbal CPS Engage toolbar appears.
9. First Click the Options Button (you only have to do this the first time you use with online content,
these setting will become default). In the Teacher Managed Tab,
a. under Verbal Questions, make sure there is no check in the box next to Show Large Screen.
This way you can see the online content questions and the CPS toolbar. Once you change this
setting the first time it will be the default and you won’t have to do it again unless you want to change
it back.
10. Now maximize the Brain Pop Screen/Castle Learning screen. If in brainpop, show the video.
11. The CPS toolbar can be moved under the content or above it by clicking and holding the blue
arrow icon and moving the toolbar. When the video ends, click on Play Quiz.
12. Click on Review Quiz (brainpop) or have the first question opened in castle learning. Use the
drop down button at bottom right of internet screen to increase the size of the quiz to the maximum
where question and answers can still be seen on the screen at the same time. This is important b/c
when you use the camera to take a snapshot of the question for the reports, the bigger the words are
the better the picture.
13. Use the Verbal button on the toolbar to match the answer options for the question that you are
using from your online content.
a. If it is a multiple choice question with 3 answer options, then click on the Verbal button and
choose Multiple Choice A-C from the drop down menu.
14. The students can now click in their responses using their clickers to the online question. For
example, they can click in A, B, or C.
15. Click the camera icon to take a snapshot of the question for the reports.
16. Click end when everyone has responded to the question
17. The charting box will open up showing graphically how everyone responded. You can use the
answer that had the highest response to answer the online question.
i. For example, if most students answered A to the question when the graphic popped up,
click close at the bottom of the charting screen and then you can click A in your online multiple choice
quiz to see if that is the right answer. If it is not, you can choose the second highest chosen answer
and try clicking in that answer. Repeat until you get the correct answer.
ii. Now click on the bar graph icon on the CPS toolbar.
18. Next to Correct Answer, choose the correct answer from the drop down menu (the correct
answer graphic will turn to green) then click close. Now click start to let the students start clicking in
to the next question.
19. CPS saves performance data. You can see the % correct for the question and cumulative for
the lesson.
20. Advance to the next question in your online quiz.
21. Repeat steps 14-18
22. Click on the Red ball with X to end the session. Click Close and then Yes. Performance data is
available from the Report>Reports tab.
a. The Instructor summary will show you how everyone scored on the quiz out of 100%.
b. The question report will show you how every student responded to every question.
c. The response report will show you how the class responded in percentages to each
question.
FREE Quiz Sites: You can use your favorite multiple choice online content (IR or RF clickers) or
numeric input (RF clickers) from an educational website along with CPS to assess student responses.
Many of these sites are free. Here are some sites teachers have shared.
1. http://www.engaging-technologies.com/CPS-activities.html (varous subjects)
2. http://www.quiz-tree.com/
3. http://www.bookadventure.com/
4. Ambleweb Tables Tester (use with RF clickers to input numerals)
 http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/testtest.html
5. NYS Regents Test Prep
 http://regentsprep.org/
6. SAT Test Prep
 http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/prep_one/prep_one.html
7. BBC School
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
Engaging a Study Island Lesson (Study Island Content Subscription Required)

You can use Study Island Content along with CPS to collect student responses and assessments.
Prepare Your CPS/Study Island Session

1. Open the CPS software
2. Connect your wireless receiver to your computer
3. Click the “Settings” from the main menu within CPS
4. Click Delivery Options
5. Click the Receiver tab
6. Select Detect Receiver
7. When you get the Green check mark you are ready to go!
Engage Your Study Island Session
1. Select Your Grade from the Program Menu

2. Select a Subject
3. Select a Lesson
4. Click Start Studying in the upper right corner
5. Session Options: Click the drop down arrow by Session Type
6. Select CPS Session (Beta)
7. Select Your # of Questions and Click Next
8. Choose Your Class (Wait for the next screen to load)
9. Type in the corresponding RF pad next to each student
10. (Unless you distribute them in that order)
11. Choose method of delivery: Teacher Led or Student Led
12. When the question is displayed, Click Start Voting
Report with Study Island
To see real time data
 Choose Question Results (for individual questions/graphical representation)
 Choose Detailed Results for Class Roster and individual responses
 Click Stop Voting to Stop Using CPS with the question
 Click End Session to record the session data
Setting Up and Engaging There It Is! Team Activity

CPS makes it easier than ever to get your students to learn without realizing it! Using the time-
honored method of healthy competition, get your students to learn the course material while having a
fun time in your class. You can organize your class into teams of students, or let individual students
compete. Each team or student answers a different question at a time off of the same paper copy of
questions, so students do not need to shout out answers.
Hand out a paper copy with questions to each student. You do not need to change the order, CPS
will randomly select which question each team or student is working on each time. The first
team/student to correctly respond to their own question receives bonus points. Teams/Students who
answer correctly, but did not answer first, receive the standard point value that is set.
Teams/Students who did not answer correctly or did not answer at all get 0 points. The points
accumulate over the There it is! session to determine a winner.
There It Is! Rules

There It Is! is a simple game for students to learn. The rules for There It Is! include
 The first team/student to correctly respond to their question gets 25 points.
 Teams/Students that answer correctly, but did not answer first, get 20 points.
 Teams/Students that did not answer correctly or did not answer at all get 0 points.
 The points accumulate over the There it is! session and before long you have a winner.
Play There It Is!

To play There It Is!, follow these directions:
1. Hand out a paper copy with questions to each student or team. They will be inputting their
multiple choice, true/false, yes/no or numeric (RF only) with their clickers.
3. Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. See directions at
4. Click the Engage>Team Activities tab.
5. Click Settings in the There It Is! group. The There It Is! Properties window appears.
6. Select you There It Is! settings.
7. Show Answered Correct– Shows if students answered correctly on each question.
8. Point Value– assign a point value for every correct answer.
9. Use Bonus Points – Enables the bonus point feature. Bonus points are given to the student
that answers the question fastest.
10. Bonus Point Value- assign a point value for the bonus point feature. To enable the bonus
point feature, you must select the Use Bonus Points setting.
11. Student Led Mode– allow students to answer questions at their own pace.
12. Click OK. You return to the Engage>Team Activities tab.
13. Click There It Is!.
14. Select the Lessons tab in the right-hand pane to select a lesson, or select the Standards tab in
the right-hand pane to select a standard if you associated questions with standards. When
you select the Lesson or Standards tab your lessons or standards will appear.
15. Select a lesson or standard that has questions in it you would like to present to your class.
Remember, this can be a FastGrade lesson
16. Click Engage in the Activity group. The Advanced Engage Options window for There It Is!
appears.
17. Click Start. The There It Is! delivery window appears, consisting of pad ID numbers (top
section of each row) and question numbers (bottom section of each row).
18. Click Start. A new delivery window opens and displays the pad ID numbers with different
questions: As students/teams answer their question, their pad ID turns blue. They can change
their response anytime before you end this question delivery.
19. Click End when all teams/students have responded. The point values awarded to the
teams/students for their responses are displayed on the bottom section of each row.
20. Click Score. The Top Score window appears showing the names of each person or team
responding and their points.
21. Click Close from the Top Score window. You return to the There It Is! delivery window.
22. Click Start to go on to the next question. Each pad ID receives a unique question that no other
pad ID has received prior to this round of questions.
23. When the last question has been answered, the Start button is deactivated and the only option
is to review the Score or Close the game. The Score is tallied for each participant:
24. Click Close from the There it is! Delivery window.
25. CPS asks if you would like to display the questions that were missed by the participants. Click
Yes or No.
26. If you click No, you can review the session data from the Report>Reports tab.
27. If you click Yes, CPS displays the questions missed in the Content Delivery window. Students
can respond but their answers are not saved or recorded as session data.
NOTE: The settings you put will apply to all lessons in the Engage>Team Activities tab until otherwise
changed.
Please refer to the Play There It Is! section for information about engaging a There It Is! team activity.
REPORT TAB
To review assessment data, you can go to the Reports tab in CPS as soon as you close out the
assessment session.
1. In the Reports Tab, click on the session title that you wanted to review and click generate. You
can choose different reports to review your assessment (lecture) data. Attached to this email

is a summary of the reports you can generate and a description. The most commonly used
reports are:
o The Instructor Summary
o Study Guide – Incorrect Answers (only shows the questions that the students got
incorrect)
o Question Report
o Response Report
o Item Analysis
o Standards Analysis with Student Cross Index (used when you link standards with your
questions). You can than review how the class did and the students did on each NYS
standard.
2. Click on the output button after you generate a report. The report can be outputted in many
different ways:
o Print the file
o RTF
o PDF
o HTML
o Text File
o Excel

CPS Reports Overview
There are many reports to choose from, here are the
most popular:
1. Instructor Summary
The Instructor Summary lists the report type, session
name, class, pad ID numbers, student names, student
IDs, number of correct to attempted answers, and
percentage of correct to attempted answers for all
students selected in the report.
2. Study Guide
The Study Guide lists for each student the report
type, session name, class name, class points average,
student name, pad ID, student ID, number of
correctly answered questions, percentage of
correctly answered questions, each question, answer
choice and student answer. This report is ideal to
give students for review.
3. Study Guide – Incorrect Answers

The Study Guide - Incorrect Answers is the same
report as the Study Guide except this report lists
only questions and answers each student answered
incorrectly during session delivery.
4. Study Guide – Class Summary

The Study Guide Summary is a pared down version of the traditional Study Guide. It simply and concisely
lists each student, what question(s) they missed, the correct answer and their answer.
5. Question Report
The Question Report shows the answer distribution
per question, listing the report type, session name,
class, each question and answer option, a pointing
finger indicating the correct answer, the name of every
respondent, the answer selected by each respondent,
the percentile of respondents per answer option, and a
bar graph of answer distribution.

6. Response Report
The Response Detail report lists the report type,
session name, each question and answer option, a
pointing finger indicating the correct answer, and
the percentage of respondents per answer option.
This report does not list any respondents or the
answer they selected.
7. Item Analysis
The Item Analysis report lists the
number of questions delivered in a
session. At the top of the report are all
the possible answer options available in
CPS questions, A-E. The report
displays the percentage of students who
answered A, B, and so on, per question
number. An asterisk indicates the
correct answer for each question.
8. Standards Analysis w/Student Cross Index

The Standards Analysis with Cross Student
Index report is only available if the questions
delivered in the delivery session had standards
associated with them. It is almost exactly like the
Standards Analysis report except that it adds
each participants name and their individual
performance per standard.

Using CPS for PowerPoint (must have PowerPoint 2003 or higher)
The first thing you need to do is install the CPS for PowerPoint on your computer if it is not installed
already. To install the CPS for PowerPoint plug-in, go to www.einstruction.com.
1. On the home page, under user area, click on downloads
2. From the drop down menu, choose CPS for PowerPoint and follow the wizard.
Do you already have a database created in CPS? If you have already created a CPS database
you will use the same database because it already has your class, teacher, lessons and assessment
info in it. You should only have one database. If you are created a CPS database now for the first
time, I included directions at the bottom showing how to use this CPS database you created for
Powerpoint with regular CPS.
If you have not already created a CPS database, follow these directions to create one. You can then
use this same database when using regular CPS.
When you open up CPS for Powerpoint, you will see a new toolbar added for CPS.
o Click on Open CPS Database
o Click on New Database
o Where it says Save in:, pull down the drop down menu and choose your “MY Documents”
o There will be an icon on top showing an open folder with a red circle in the corner, click on this
icon to create a new folder
o Name the folder CPS
o Under file name write your first initial and last name (for example jsmith for Joe Smith)
o Click on the Open button
o Click on the Save button
o Now you have saved your database in a CPS folder in your My Documents) When you click
on the CPS for Powerpoint icon in the future, it will automatically open your database.
Before you can engage a CPS Powerpoint lesson, you must create a class. You can create the
lesson first and the class later, but you can’t engage the lesson with the students without a class.
Creating a Class in CPS for PowerPoint:

If you have not already created a class in your CPS database, please follow these directions:
o Click on the classes button
o It will open up a classes and students window (it may take a minute)
o Click on new class and follow the wizard.
o You would enter K-12, CPS online, answer no
o Fill in your first name, last name and email on the next screen, click next
o Fill in a class name (all of the other info is not required, it is just for your information if you want
to fill it in)
o Click next, then next
o The screen says “Congratulations, Your class has been created. This window gives you an
option to create another class at this time. Click on the box and then done. It will let you name
another class. You can keep on doing this until all of your classes are named. Then click
done.
o You should see you classes on the left hand side. Click once on the class you want to add
students to (if you click twice it allows you to edit the class information)
o Click new, student

o You don’t’ need the cursor at this point. Type in first name, tab to last name, type in last name,
click enter. You can then type in the next first name, tab to last name, type in last name and
then enter.
o Click on the save button in the “Home” box when you are done.
o If you want to add students at a later time, click on the class and then New, student. If you
double click on the student info you can edit it if you spelled someone’s name wrong.
Creating Question Slides in CPS for PowerPoint:

 Open up CPS for PowerPoint on your computer
 You can either:
o Create a new presentation
o Use an existing presentation that is on your computer
 To insert questions, have your presentation open and click on the insert question button in the
CPS toolbar within PowerPoint.
 Choose from the drop down menu the type of question that you want to ask.
 Type in the question where it says Enter Question Here, then type in your answers.
o Make sure you don’t change the layout, keep within the guidelines on these answer
slides.
 There are red X’s next to the answers. If there is a correct answer to the question, click on the
X next to the correct answer and it will change it to a check mark.
 Click save.
Engaging a PowerPoint presentation using the CPS PowerPoint Plug-In:

 Open the PowerPoint Plug-In
 Set up and detect your receiver and make sure your default settings are set. See directions at
 Open up your PowerPoint presentation you want to engage
 Click on slideshow button
 Session options box opens up automatically because it recognizes that you have questions
inserted into your PPT presentation.
 Choose the class you are engaging, then click OK. If you want to use a default class (with no
names attached), click on create and put the number of clickers that you want to use and Click
OK.
 Advance the slides as you normally would.
 When a CPS question slide comes up, the Engage button will appear on the bottom toolbar.
 Click Engage, then START to let the students begin clicking in.
 When the responses are in, click END. You will see how the class answered as a class.
 Click on CLOSE (Red ball with X in left bottom corner) to end the question.
 You can now move on to the next question.
 When you are done with the lesson, click CLOSE, then YES.
 Verbal mode is available if you want to ask an “on the fly question” during any slide. Just click
on the Verbal or Chalkboard button on the bottom.
o For verbal, click on the verbal button and choose the answer options from the drop
down menu for the question you are asking and it will automatically start. After you click
end, you can choose to stay in this mode by clicking on another answer option button at
the bottom (T/F, Y/N, A-B, A-C, 123 which is numeric, etc.), and it will automatically
start.
o If you want to type in the question, so it came be saved in the question report for later
use, then make sure “show large screen” is checked off in the options menu.
 To do this before your presentation, click on the delivery options button before
you open up your PowerPoint presentation and click on the Teacher Managed
Tab and then “Show Large Screen” under Verbal Questions.
 If you want to do it while you are in a presentation, click on the options button on
the toolbar after you engage a presentation or the wheel icon while you are in a
slide.
 If you don’t want to type the question and just ask verbally, you can uncheck
show large screen.
o You can stay in verbal and ask another question by click on another button for the
answer options
 For chalkboard mode, it will automatically bring up a large screen. You can choose to write,
draw or load a graphic. Choose the answer option for the question you are asking from the
bottom menu and it will automatically start.
You can also share CPS for PowerPoint Presentations with other teachers.
1. Just copy the PowerPoint presentation to a flash drive or send by email
2. Open up CPS for PowerPoint
3. Browse for where the presentation is saved and open it up.
4. You can now view or edit the presentation.
Setting up the CPS Gradebook

CPS compiles reports from the performance data collected from each student’s response pad. CPS
takes information submitted by each student’s response pad during a delivery session and organizes
the information by class, attributes the data to the appropriate student/team, and makes the
performance data available to view via the Report>Reportstab. You can also choose to include
recorded performance data in the Report>Gradebooktab.
The Gradebook is an organizational tool that keeps students’ grades over your specified time periods
using your own point system of letter grades and weights. The Gradebook records both CPS and
non-CPS-generated grades for each student. It also calculates averages according to your
instructions and keeps track of attendance.
You can add classes and grades to your CPS Gradebook through the Advanced Engage Options
window. When you use the Include in Gradebook option from the Advanced Engage Options window,
CPS adds the session's performance data to the Report>Gradebooktab.
To quickly setup your gradebook, follow these directions:

2. Click the Report>Gradebook tab. If this is your first time using the Gradebookin this database,
the CPS Gradebook Setup Wizard appears. Follow the CPS Gradebook Setup Wizard if this is
your first time using the Gradebook. To set your Gradebook for an additional class, click
Gradebook in the Setup window.
3. Please see the Advanced Gradebook Setup Options in the Quick Course Guide for teachers
link below for more information on the Gradebook Setup Wizard.
4. Select the class whose grades.
5. Select the date(s) from the drop down menu to filter the assessments.
6. Under Assessments click All or a specific category to view grades.
7. If you forgot to check off Include in Gradebook before you started the assessment, click on the
Choose icon and select that assessment you want to include for that class in the gradebook.

To include an assessment in the CPS Gradebook when you are ready to engage a lesson, follow
these directions:
3. Select the lesson or lessons you would like to engage.
4. Please see the Engage Lessons section for more information on engaging a lesson.
5. Click Advanced in the Engage Options group. The Advanced Engage Options window
appears.
6. Choose your setup options on the Advanced Engage Options window.
7. Click the box next to the Include in Gradebook option so that a checkmark appears. You can
also add an attendance record to the Gradebook by clicking the box next to the Create
Attendance from this Assessment option.
CPS will include your students' performance results in the CPS Gradebook. You can access the
grades through the Report>Gradebook tab.
To create attendance from an assessment, follow these directions:

2. Click the Report>Reports tab.
3. Select an assessment from which you would like to create attendance.
4. Click Create Attendance in the Tools group.
5. Choose Create Attendance. CPS generates an attendance record in the Report>Reports tab
or the Report>Gradebook tab for this assessment. The location of the attendance record is
dependent on the Attendance Options you selected in the CPS-Class Information window.
6. Please refer to the Set Attendance Options in the quick course for teachers guide below for
more information on selecting your attendance options.
Working on Lessons from Home

You can create and edit CPS lessons from home. You will first need to download the software from
the www.einstruction.com website. It is a free download. Go to quicklinks box, click on downloads,
and scroll down to Classroom Performance System. Click on download and follow wizard.
At home, you will create a brand new database that will not come with preloaded lessons. This
database will just be used at home to create lessons.
To create a new CPS database, follow these directions:
1. Open CPS from the desktop icon. The CPS Open or Create New CPS Database window
appears.
2. Choose Create a new CPS File.
3. Click OK. The New CPS File dialog box opens.
4. In the File Name text box, type the database name that you are creating. For example first
initial last name – jsmith. While in this CPS New File Box, click on the drop down arrow next to
“Save in” and browse for your “My Documents folder”.
5. Make certain that you save this database in a CPS folder. To do this, while in the New CPS
File Box, click on the “create new folder” icon (picture of folder with red circle). This will
create a new folder. Now where it says New Folder type CPS. If you can’t type right over
“new folder” then right click on the new folder, click rename and type CPS.
6. Click Save and wait while CPS processes your request. The Engage>Lesson and
Assessments tab opens with your database name in the left panel. The database you created
automatically opens each time you start CPS.
7. Now create a lesson and add questions.
To export a lesson to bring into school to import into your school database:
12. Open up CPS
14. Click once on the lesson you want to export (left hand side)
15. Click on Export in the Lessons box (this will make it a .cxm file and can be used on PC or Mac)
16. Type in a file name (can be named the same as the lesson)
17. Use the drop down menu next to the Save In box to pick a location to save your exported
lesson to. If you are going to email the lesson to another teacher, save it to a location on your
computer so you can attach it to the email later. You can also save it to a flash drive.
18. Click on the Save button
19. A box may pop that says “Would you like to include any associated standards with the lessons
you are exporting. Say yes if you have associated standards with your lessons. Say no if you
have not.
20. Your exported lesson has been converted to a .cxm file and is now saved to the location that
you chose.
21. You can email this lesson by attaching it to the email or giving the flash drive that you saved
the lesson on to another teacher.
22. Now to safely remove the flash drive, double-click on the icon at the bottom right of your
screen that says “Unplug or eject hardware” when you put your mouse over it. The “Unplug or
Eject Hardware” wizard should open. Click “Stop”, “OK”, and “OK” again.
Note: To avoid damage to the flash disk or data corruption, it is strongly advised you do not skip
this step. DO NOT REMOVE the flash disk until the database or file has completely been copied
to the flash disk.
To import the CPS lesson (.cxm file) that you created at home.
25. Open up CPS
drive.
successfully.
it into any folder.
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Steps to getting started with the CPS Clickers are:

Free Training & Support Links –

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Important Notes – Messages you may see:

Table of Contents (next page)

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CPS Radio Frequency

CPS Pulse (Radio Frequency)

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If you are using

CPS Version 5.6 and below – need to detect the receiver

Creating Classes and Adding Students into CPS

A K-12 class is a roster of students using a numbered system of pads.

1. Click the Prepare>Classes and Students tab.

Add Students to Classes

1. Click the Prepare>Classes and Students tab.

Import a Class Roster From an Excel .CSV File

Create a .CSV File to Import into CPS

1. Open the class in the non-CPS software.

Import the .CSV Class Roster into your CPS Database:

1. Within CPS, click on the Classes tab

Creating a Folder (for organization of your lessons)

Creating Questions inside your CPS Lesson

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To create a lesson from the Lesson Builder, follow these directions:

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Download NYS Standards

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Import New York State Standards (download first)

Associate New York State Standards to Lesson Questions

To associate specific NYS standards to a question, follow these directions:

Create a CPS FastGrade Lesson with your Paper Tests

Create a CPS Challenge Board (Jeopardy-Style Game)

To create a CPS Challenge Board, follow these directions:

Importing NYS Tests

Import ExamView Lessons

To import an ExamView lesson into CPS:

Engage ExamView Lessons section for information on engaging ExamView lesson.

Sharing a CPS lesson with another teacher

To export a lesson to share with another teacher:

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To Engage a CPS Lesson – Teacher Led Mode:

To Engage a Challenge Board: (Jeopardy-Style Board)

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To Engage a FastGrade Lesson – Student Paced Mode (Paper Test):

If you have an RF Receiver when engaging FastGrade-Student Paced

If you have an IR Receiver when engaging FastGrade-Student Paced

Engaging an ExamView Lesson

To engage an ExamView lesson, follow these directions:

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Engaging the Verbal Mode – On the Fly Questions – no questions prepared

To engage a verbal question, follow these directions:

Engaging a Study Island Lesson (Study Island Content Subscription Required)

Prepare Your CPS/Study Island Session

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Setting Up and Engaging There It Is! Team Activity

There It Is! Rules

Play There It Is!

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3. Study Guide – Incorrect Answers