TurningPoint Software


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TurningPoint™ Software enables educators, trainers and presenters to administer real-time assessments of audience participants from within MS PowerPoint.


With TurningPoint™, your PowerPoint® installation transforms into a tool that can seamlessly identify and confirm participant understanding, increase participant attentiveness and comprehension, gather, rank and report critical information simultaneously with your delivery of live face-to-face events.
TurningPoint will change the way you interact with your audience forever!
Transform your lectures and presentations into powerful, two-way experiences with TurningPoint.
TurningPoint transforms PowerPoint® into a dynamic data collection and audience assessment tool through the use of today’s “keypad” technology!
With TurningPoint you can ask any question, get a response from the audience then immediately display results in your PowerPoint® presentation!
After you have collected data from your audience, use simple tool bar functionality to view data in MS Excel® or MS Word® for further analysis, trend recognition and reporting.

Further analysis of the individual’s input can be provided via TurningPoint™ functionality that moves data into preformatted MS Excel and MS Word templates.

TurningPoint™ makes it simple – the combination of our 20 plus years of experience in the audience response industry with complete integration into the Microsoft Office Suite functionality creates a comprehensive, integrated tool set that is extremely easy to use!

TurningPoint Features

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Complete integration with Microsoft Office Suite®

Information sharing is made easy through complete integration into the Microsoft Office Suite®

TurningPoint™ makes it simple – the combination of our 20 plus years of experience in the audience response industry with complete integration into the Microsoft Office Suite functionality creates a comprehensive, integrated tool set that is extremely easy to use!

Features

Working with PowerPoint®:
The easy-to-use features of TurningPoint enable you to transform your lectures and presentations into powerful, two-way experiences.

With wide open functionality, you can conduct real-time assessments and gather, rank and communicate critical information all from within MICROSOFT POWERPOINT®.
TurningPoint works within PowerPoint by taking professionally-designed templates and simply editing them to suit your needs using the TurningPoint toolbar.
All of the templates are fully customisable, meaning you can change the text, colour, size and style in just a few clicks. Just choose a template, alter the content and settings, using the TurningPoint toolbar and save your slide… as easy as ‘1-2-3’.
You can also use TurningPoint with existing slides that you have created simply by inserting some interactive components which are all easily accessible via the TurningPoint toolbar…

The TurningPoint Toolbar
TurningPoint adds this simple toolbar to your PowerPoint® application. All of the functionality that you need to run an interactive TurningPoint session can be accessed directly from this toolbar.

 

TurningPoint’s chart options
TurningPoint's chart options provide a wide variety of options for presenting response results to an audience. In addition, on-the-fly review and data comparison charts can be displayed at any time.

Participant Monitor

With the TurningPoint Participant Monitor, presenters can instantly see how their group is responding to their questions. Drill down into a
single participant to see how they have responded to each question and how they compare to the overall group. The TurningPoint Participant Monitor will also let the presenter know which participants have answered questions that were assigned correct/incorrect answer values by using green fonts when displaying correct responses and red for incorrect responses.

Ranking Wizard

TurningPoint® has now included enhanced decision making capabilities through the TurningPoint® "Ranking Wizard". The "Ranking Wizard" allows you to easily create "lists" of items, issues, priorities or goals and rank them against up to three specific "criteria". These lists can be ranked against a static scale (1 - 10) or against each other using a "paired comparison" approach.

Compare slides
TurningPoint's compare slide lets you pose a question to your audience and later pose the same question automatically displaying a side-by-side comparison of the results. If you select the Stacked Bar Comparison you can see the percentage of the group that changed their answer from the first time the question was polled.

The first stack represents the results of the currently polled question, the second stack represents the results of the question it is being compared against, and the third stack represents the percentage of the group that changed their answer.

Picture or Graphical slides
With TurningPoint®, you can create a slide where graphical or equation "objects" are linked to response choices. Participants can choose an answer by selecting the number next to the appropriate graphic. For math courses, the same process can be used to include Microsoft Equation Editor® objects. The automated process to link objects to response choices is quick and easy.


Response reminders
Response Reminders identify the slide as an interactive slide, remind the audience to respond with their keypads, and display specific response information related to the currently displayed slide. Below are the different types of response reminders that are available in TurningPoint®.

 

Teams/Scoring
Turn your audience presentation into a spirited team and/or individual competitive game with TurningPoint®'s competition options.

TurningPoint® will allow you to assign points to correct answers on individual slides and track those points by individual participant and keypad.

Optionally, you can also assign participants to up to 20 teams and track and display accumulated team scores as well.

Results and reporting
Use TurningPoint® Reports to view and print the results of your data from your interactive audience session. View results in the PowerPoint® presentation or using Microsoft Word® and Excel®

    Results by Participant Report

This Excel report creates a graded test type report for each participant. It displays each question, the participants' response, the value of the participant's response, the correct answer, and each participant's overall percentage score. A "Participant List" must be included in your session for this report to be available.

  Graded Participant Results Report

This report is very similar to the "Participant Results" report but adds a column that displays each participant's accumulated percentage score. This report is particularly beneficial when correct/incorrect answer values are used. A "Participant List" must be included in your session for this report to be available.

  Results By Question Report

This report opens an Excel document which includes the number of responses and overall percentage of responses received for each answer to each question. The questions are listed in the order they were displayed to the audience.

  Bundled Report

If you would like to have more than one report generated for your session results just use the "Shift" or "Ctrl" key to select the reports you want and TurningPoint™ will create all of the selected reports and bundle them into one Excel Workbook creating each report as a sheet in the Excel Workbook.

TurningPoint slide templates

  Multiple choice slide templates:

 

  Team Participation Slide templates:

  Simple Answer Slide templates:

  Likert Slide templates:

 

TurningPoint Specifications:

System Requirements TurningPoint 2003:

PIII 650 MHz, 128 MB Ram
100 MB of available hard disc
Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, or XP
Microsoft Office 2000, XP, or 2003

System Requirements TurningPoint 2006:
Intel or AMD 650MHz class processor (1 GHz or higher recommended)
128 MB RAM (256 MB or more recommended)
50MG Hard disk space (plus space for file storage)
      13 MB for TurningPoint
      32 MB for Miscrosoft.NET Framework
800x600 @ 24 Bit Colour (1024x768 @ 32 Bit Colour or higher recommended)
Standard USB 1.1 support (for USB based hardware devices)
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP
Microsoft PowerPoint XP or 2003
Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, XP/2003 (for use with TurningPoint reports)
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Office XP, or 2003

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