No software installation needed. The software is an executable file loaded onto a USB flash drive that plugs directly into your base. (Note that the flash drive is purely for convenience; you may also download the software from this site and place it on your hard or network drive.) An unobtrusive floating menu bar enables you to quickly poll students without interfering with your lecture. The floating menu bar sits on top of any application (such as PowerPoint, Adobe, Keynote, Word), Flash, etc). You don’t have to re-author or import your lectures into a separate software application. Want to ask questions on the fly? No problem. An “On the Fly” text box is available right from the floating menu bar (so you don’t have to quit your presentation to insert a spontaneous question). Your screen shot and question data are captured in i>grader for later review and points assignment. Registration is FREE; students only pay for the hardware and can register in class or online. Because registration is free and even optional, your students can register at any point in the course and all of their voting responses will be retroactively correlated to their student ID. You control if and when your students register and you can use the first day of class. We also offer our institutional adopters tools and scripts to host registration on your campus as well as a new LDAP authentication tool to minize student errors. A Settings/Preferences wizard allows you to establish preferences for and igrader before using our system. Options enable you to set course management system configurations (we currently support Blackboard, WebCT, ANGEL, and Moodle), histogram display and timer options, frequencies, and presentation and participation point rules. The base logs your students’ responses for easy import into i>grader (the gradebook). With i>grader, you can review and edit your questions and sessions, and assign participation/ attendance and performance points. Grades are easily imported into other applications (such as Excel, Blackboard, WebCT, ANGEL, and Moodle). The screen shot function captures your screen every time you begin polling, making it easy to review your lecture and the questions you are using after class (within i>grader). You can also delete questions and assign points to your students for their voting activity. New HTML reports have been upgraded! The Term/Session Summary and Review report provides a breakdown of polling data, both for your term to date and for individual sessions and questions (including the question and histogram). No individual student scores or votes are included in this report, making it ideal to share with your class as a post-lecture study guide. The Student Voting Data report contains grades for your individual students, by session and by question. From here you can also access a report of Cumulative Student Scores, which provides you with a review of each student’s performance for each session. The software is open source (and therefore adaptable to your or your school’s needs) and requires no site license. We offer both PC and Macintosh Applications. Unlike competing systems’ software, the Macintosh software is a true Mac application that is just as robust as the PC software.