Acuity UnWired™ for SMART Response™
SMART Technologies
Sep 2011
Acuity UnWired™ for SMART Response™ is a classroom
assessment tool that connects the SMART Response
interactive response system with the Acuity
®
InFormative
Assessment™ solution.
To use Acuity UnWired for SMART Response you need:
• An active subscription to the Acuity InFormative
Assessment solution
• Acuity UnWired for SMART Response software installed
on your computer
• A SMART Response receiver connected to your computer
To install Acuity UnWired for SMART Response software
on your computer
1. Insert the Acuity UnWired for SMART Response CD into
your computer drive. If the Acuity UnWired for SMART
Response Set up Wizard doesn’t appear, browse to and
double-click the setup.exe le on the CD.
2. Click Next to start the wizard, and then follow the
on-screen instructions
When you start Acuity UnWired for SMART Response, you’re
connecting to your local Acuity server. Connecting to
the server enables you to select and administer assessments
from the Acuity website.
Administering assessments with
Acuity UnWired for SMART Response
To start Acuity UnWired for SMART Response
1. Double-click the Acuity UnWired for
SMART Response desktop icon.
OR
Select Start > All Programs > Acuity UnWired.
The Welcome dialog box appears.
2. Type the Acuity Server Address, your Acuity
Username and Acuity Password into the appropriate
boxes
3. Click Next. The What would you like to do today
window appears. You now have the option to
Administer a Test or View the Upload Status of
completed test results.
Use the Administer a Test feature to search for and select
assessments from the Acuity website. You can then start an
assessment and begin testing your students.
To search for an assessment
1. Start Acuity UnWired for SMART Response. The What
would you like to do today window appears.
2. Click Administer a Test. The Generate Test Assignment
dialog box appears.
3. Select an assessment from the following drop-down
menus:
• District
• School
• Class
• Subject
• Assessment
The assessment you select appears in the Select
Assignments area.
4. Select the check box next to the assessment you want
to administer
5. Click Next. The Register Students dialog box appears.
Searching for an assessment
Acuity UnWired for SMART Response
SMART Technologies
Sep 2011
To register students
1. Instruct your students to turn on their clickers, and then
nd and connect to your class
2. Students enter their numeric Student IDs
3. Click Registration Complete to begin the assessment.
The Assessment In Progress dialog box appears.
NOTE
Students can still join the class even after the assessment
has started. In this case, they move from the inactive to the
active section of the assessment progress window once
they’ve joined the class.
To run an assessment
1. Click Start Assessment to begin transmitting questions
to your students’ clickers. You now have the following
options:
• Click Stop Assessment to complete assessments
containing 40 or fewer questions.
• Click Continue to part # of # to continue to the
next part of a multipart assessment.
2. Click Finish, and then click OK to submit student results
to Acuity for processing. The Save results dialog box
appears. You can log into Acuity to view the progress
of the data processing. Results will be ready for viewing
within 24 hours.
3. Click Next. The Assessment Options dialog box appears.
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NOTE
• No assessment data is sent to Acuity for processing until
you click Finish
• Clicking Close gives you the option to end the
assessment and log out of Acuity UnWired for SMART
Response without submitting student results to Acuity
• Exiting Acuity UnWired for SMART Response without
clicking Finish will log off your students and turn off
their clickers. No results le will be created or submitted
to Acuity for processing.
To view the upload status of an assessment
1. In the What would you like to do today window, click
View Upload Status. The View Upload Status dialog
box appears.
2. The Transmission Status eld indicates whether an
assessment upload was successful or failed
3. Click Resubmit to resubmit an assessment that didn’t
transmit
After uploading the completed assessment results, you can
run more assessments with the same class of students or
register a different class of students to take assessments.
Viewing upload status
Registering students
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