What is the Personal Response System (PRS)?
InterWrite PRS is an Audience Response System—a comprehensive response system for electronically testing, polling, or surveying a group of people.
Grounded in the terminology of the academic environment for which it was originally developed, the arena of Audience Response Systems, the InterWrite Personal Response System makes it possible to quickly and easily track and record individual responses from the audience and provide instant feedback about the response results in the form of a chart or graph of response distribution.
Response data is scored and recorded in electronic gradebooks. PRS also has a very comprehensive reporting capability that allows you to print out information from just about anywhere in the PRS system. The PRS Receiver decodes the transmitted data, which is then relayed to the InterWrite PRS software on the computer.
The PRS software provides the functionality necessary to create an environment in which transmitted data can be electronically converted quickly and easily into useful response information. Instructors at all education levels can use PRS to evaluate and test their students. The PRS system can be used to survey and electronically record preferences, opinions, and votes. The InterWrite PRS system can be used in any situation where there is a need to quickly gather, record and evaluate response data.
The Following Procedures for the Personal Response System are Effective August 15th, 2008
Students:
- Purchase your PRS clicker at the Bookstore
- Enter your NU-ID as found on your NCard into the clicker when prompted for an ID
- Bring your PRS Clicker to class on your first day
- A Clicker Guide is available as a PDF, detailing basic operations.
Faculty:
- Contact the Bookstore and let them know that PRS will be a part of your course
- Make your course a PRS course in Blackboard
- Request an InterWrite PRS Starter Package from our local representative, Dustin Frank
- You may store data to your own storage media, or make use of the K:Drive, which gives you access to your data from your classroom and your office. Ask a Classroom Support team member for help, at 472-5511.
- Choose a classroom from the list below that has PRS support already installed, or use your InterWrite-provided USB receiver on your laptop to run PRS sessions from virtually anywhere!
Additional Resources:
- Download Application File—needed for PRS operation (Windows or Mac)
- See which classrooms currently support the PRS system
- Comprehensive PRS Tutorials created by InterWrite
