TurningPoint audience-response service changes
Educational Technology, Training, & Outreach (ETTO) posted about changes to TurningPoint on their blog. The text of that post follows:
On July 1, Turning Technologies, the maker of BU’s audience-response system (clicker) software, will make a major change to its approach. The company will update us to TurningPoint Cloud, which is designed to make audience-response technology work better with mobile-phone apps (to make it less necessary to purchase standalone clickers). The TurningPoint software will not change; there will need to be an update, but it will run the same. The main change is that as of July 1, students and instructors will need to get Turning accounts (akin to Apple accounts), via the TurningPoint site. The site requires a “school code”, which will be assigned to us before July 1.
Please read TurningPoint’s official PDF announcement for more details.
Once we get more information about the “school code” and additional support information, it will be made into a ServiceNow KB article.
KB article KB0011497 is now available and includes information about the “school code”. A TechWeb post is also being developed.
According to ETTO, this will be required of all users starting this Fall.
For now, if you get tickets about this issue, please assign the ticket to the “Educational Technology, Training, & Outreach” assignment group if need be.