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Create a REEF Instructor Account
1 Go to reef-education.com and download the free application. Extract REEF to your desktop or other convenient location on your computer.
2 Create your REEF Education Instructor account.
• Launch the REEF Education application. From the login window, select “Create Account.”
• Complete the form and click “Create” to create your account and be automatically logged in.
IMPORTANT: Do not create more than one REEF instructor account! You can add more courses through the same account as needed.
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Create a Course
1 From the logged in Course Dashboard, create your first course by clicking the “Add New Course” button.
• To create a course, you must provide your course name and the institution name (Loyola University New Orleans)
• All other fields are optional, but completing them will make it easier for you and your students to identify your course.
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Settings and Rosters
1 There are very few settings for you to change in REEF.
• When you click on the Settings icon from your Course Dashboard, you can change the settings for your Course Details, get a Blackboard link for direct LMS syncing, and change polling options such as your Base Unit Frequency or points structure for the course.
2 You do NOT need to create a roster or register your students.
• Your roster will auto-populate as students join your class through their REEF account or as they answer the poll questions in your class.
• You do not need to register your students’ clicker IDs. Students are responsible for adding their own clicker IDs into their REEF account.
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Start a Session
1 To begin a session, click on the course name.
2 Click the green “Start Polling Session” button located under the course name.
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Run a Polling Session
1 Select the Polling option from the Master Toolbar.
2 Start  and  stop  polling  by  clicking  the  round  
Start/Stop button on  the Polling  Toolbar.  
• A  screenshot  of  your  computer  desktop is  automatically  saved  to  the  cloud  and sent to student  devices when  polling  is  stopped.
3 If desired, show the results and indicate the correct response by clicking on the correct answer when polling is stopped.
4 Close the Master Toolbar to end the session.
• Correct/incorrect feedback is immediately sent to student devices.
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Session Data and Grading
1 Sessions can be graded and points assigned after a session has ended.
• You can access your sessions from the Session History tab of the Course Dashboard.
2 Click the session name in Session History to manage your session data.
• You can scroll down and choose each one of the questions from your session, which can then be graded.
• You can assign Performance Points by changing the value below the correct letter to represent how many points the correct answer is worth, or by clicking on the Settings icon.
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Exporting Sessions
1 You can export an individual session by clicking the send arrow at the top right of the session data window.
2 You can export the entire Session History by clicking the “Export All” button at the type right of the Session History tab.
• If you export the data as an “.xslx” file, the data from an individual session includes the overall numbers for the session, as well as question by question breakdowns in individual tabs on the spreadsheet.
• If you export the data from either an individual or all the sessions in Blackboard Learn Format, the .csv file created is what you will upload to Blackboard to integrate REEF with your Blackboard grading system.
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