Classroom Performance System (CPS)

I am a CPS fan!  I have used their systems with student remotes for the last eight years.  Over that time, CPS has improved many features within the system interface.  This tool is extremely motivational for students and gives instant feedback to the teacher.  There are so many ways to use the CPS in your classroom.  One of my favorites was to use the system for test review and make it a competition.  The system automatically gives points for quick and correct responses.  This information can be pulled up periodically to keep the class competition going.  The top three scores at the end of the review would get to pick a treat from my candy bag.  This bag was kept in a very safe place and contained small chocolate bars and tootsie roll pops.  Keep in mind that I taught high school science for the majority of the last eight years.  Big kids like a victory treat just like the little guys do!

• Engage - Get your students enthused and involved with CPS response pads
• Assess - Gather immediate, comprehensive information from all of your students
• Achieve - Empower both students and teachers to reach higher standards of learning
• Interaction - Use the CPS Chalkboard or an interactive whiteboard to create immediate and customized lessons
• Gradebook - Using the gradebook tool, grades are recorded, inserted, weighted, re-graded, and curved at your command without any extra work
• Testing - CPS allows students to work at their own pace, grade questions automatically, and provides multiple test version functionality to deter cheating.
• Standards - State Standards are already built into the program and easily accessible
• CPS & Examview - If your textbook comes with an Examview test generator, there are thousands of question banks free and available for CPS use. Check with your textbook publisher.  Use test banks to load questions into the CPS system. You must be using version 4.0 or higher of Examview.