INTERACTIVE
GAMES
WITH CPS
Presented by:
Brenda Spurgeon
Rolla Public Schools
Team Activities
CPS team activities are a fun and effective way for students to review material. In fact, the CPS response
system is ideal to use with teams of students. Teams compete for points in a fun environment where
knowledge is cool. CPS offers a variety of team activities to give you flexibility in engaging your students.
The team activities include:
•
There It Is!
•
CPS Challenge Board
•
Top Score
TEAM ACTIVITY: There It Is!
CPS makes it easier than ever to get your students to learn without realizing it! You can organize your class
into teams of students, or let individual students compete. Each team or student answers a different question
at a time, so students do not need to shout out answers.
RULES OF THE GAME
The first team/student to correctly respond to their own question receives bonus points.
Teams/Students who answer correctly, but did not answer first, receive the standard point value that is set.
Teams/Students that did not answer correctly or did not answer at all get 0 points.
The points accumulate over the There it is! session to determine a winner.
To create a class TEAM for students:
You might want to create a generic class called TEAM to have students play games in groups.
1. From the Prepare->Classes and Students tab, select New
Class.
2. Select K-12
Next.
3. In the Class Name box, enter TEAM. (You can leave the other
fields blank!
4. Click NEXTNEXTDONE.
5. From the class name list, click on TEAM.
6. From the Prepare->Classes and Students tab, select New
Student.
7. Enter Team for the first name. Press Enter.
8. Continue to add as many Teams as are needed for your class.
Change the first name to Team
and leave the other
information the same.
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To set the standard and bonus point value distributed to teams/students:
1. Open CPS from your desktop icon.
2. Click the Engage>Team Activities tab.
3. Click Settings in the There It Is! group.
The There it is! Properties window appears.
4. Select your There It Is! settings. A checkmark
appears when you select a setting.
Show Answered Correct – Shows if students
answered correctly on each question.
Point Value – assign a point value for every correct answer.
Use Bonus Points – Enables the bonus point feature. Bonus points are given to the student that answers
the question fastest.
Bonus Point Value - assign a point value for the bonus point feature. To enable the bonus point feature,
you must select the Use Bonus Points setting.
Student Paced Mode – allow students to answer questions at their own pace.
Please refer to the There It Is! Student Paced Mode section below for information about There It Is!
Student Paced Mode.
5. Click OK.
NOTE: The settings you put will apply to all lessons in the Engage>Team Activities tab until otherwise
changed.
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There It Is! Student Paced Mode
In There It Is! Student Paced mode, you can engage students in a There It Is! activity and allow them to
answer questions at their own pace. For example, if you are a Biology instructor and you would like to
review your students on the parts of the brain, you could create a lesson (or FastGrade lesson) for a multiplechoice identify-the-part quiz. Then, you could associate an image of the brain with the lesson. Finally, when
you hand out copies of the questions to your students and engage the lesson as a There It Is! activity, the
students can use the lesson image when answering all their
questions.
Be sure to check the
student paced mode!
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CPS Challenge Board
CPS also offers Challenge Boards as a team activity. If you and your students are familiar with the game
show Jeopardy! ™, then you already have a good idea how the CPS Challenge Board works. Challenge
Boards use questions you have already created in a lesson and assigned point values to.
During a Challenge Board delivery session, select point values under a category, or have a team call them
out. Then click on that point value to display a question. As soon as you start the response cycle, teams can
discuss, point, and click their answers.
Create CPS Challenge Boards
You can create CPS Challenge Boards before class, so that you can simply engage the activity when your
students arrive.
To create a CPS Challenge Board:
1. Open CPS from your desktop icon.
2. Click the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
3. Click Challenge.
4. Click New in the Activity group. The CPS Challenge
Board Info window appears.
5. Type in a title for your Challenge Board.
6. Type in a title for each category. You can come back and edit these later if you would like.
7. Click OK. The CPS Challenge Board window opens containing the panes listed below.
The top left pane displays all of the lessons or standards in the open
database.
Use the Lessons or Standards tabs above this pane to
choose between lessons or standards.
The top right pane displays the point values under each
category. Each point value button also displays how many
questions it contains. For example, the point value button 10
– 0 is assigned a 10 point value and has 0 questions
associated with it.
The bottom half displays the questions in the lesson you
select from the top left window.
Point value = 10-0 questions associated
This pane contains questions in the lesson or standard selected in the top left pane
This pane contains lessons and standards in the open database
8. Select a lesson or standard from the top left pane. The questions appear in the bottom half of the window.
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9. Use one or both of the following methods to populate the category and point values with questions:
Method 1: Populate a Challenge Board with Specific Questions from Lessons
or Standards
1. Highlight a question or multiple questions (use the Ctrl
key to select multiple, non-consecutive questions) in the
bottom half of the window that you want to drag to a point
value in a particular category.
2. Drag the question(s) to a point value until the pointer is
over the point value.
3. Release your mouse button to drop the question(s) into
that point value. The point value button display changes to
represent the number of questions you just dropped into
the point value.
4. Repeat for as many questions as you want to add to the Challenge Board.
5. Click the File menu item and the Close command to close the Challenge Board and return to the
Prepare>Team Activities tab.
Method 2: Populate a Challenge Board with an Entire Lesson or Standard of Questions
1. Click and highlight the name of the lesson or standard in the top left window that you want to drop into
one of the categories.
2. Drag that lesson or standard to a category until the pointer is over the category name. The category name
depresses slightly.
3. Release your mouse button to drop the entire contents of the lesson or standard into the category. The
questions equally and randomly distribute in the point values. Point value buttons change to display the
number of questions that button just received.
4. Repeat for as many lessons or standards as you want to add to the Challenge Board.
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NOTE: You can use a combination of the above two methods to drag and drop some questions to point
values, or drop an entire lesson or standard of questions in one category. Alternatively, you have the option
to right click a question and distribute it to a category or specific point value by using the context menu that
appears. The option to preview the question is also available in the context menu.
5. Click the File menu item and the Close command to close the Challenge Board and return to the
Prepare>Team Activities tab.
The Prepare>Team Activities tab displays your new Challenge Board title. CPS has saved this board to your
opened database.
Editing CPS Challenge Board Attributes
You can edit certain attributes of the CPS Challenge Board. These attributes include the Challenge Board
title and the category titles. To edit the attributes of a CPS Challenge Board, follow these directions:
1. Open CPS from your desktop icon.
2. Click the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
3. Select the name of the Challenge Board
which contains the attributes you want to edit.
4. Click Edit in the Activity group. The CPS
Challenge Board window appears.
5. Click the File menu item and select the Edit
Challenge Board attributes command. The
CPS Challenge Board Info window appears.
6. Edit the Board Title or the Category Titles.
7. Click OK.
Adding Questions to a CPS Challenge Board
1. Click the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
2. Select the Challenge Board which you want to add
questions.
3. Click Edit in the Activity group. The CPS Challenge
Board window appears.
4. Select a lesson or standard from which to take questions,
which appears in the bottom half of the screen.
5. Highlight a question, or multiple questions (use the Ctrl key to select multiple, nonconsecutive questions),
that you want to drag to a point value in a particular category.
6. Drag the question(s) to a point value until the pointer is over the point value button.
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7. Release your mouse button to drop the questions into that point value. The point value button changes to
display the number of questions that point value button just received.
8. Repeat steps 5-8 for any additional questions you want to add to the Challenge Board.
9. Click the File menu item and select the Close command to return to the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
Removing Questions from a CPS Challenge Board
1. Click the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
2. Select the CPS Challenge Board you would like to edit.
3. Click Edit in the Activity group.
The CPS Challenge Board window appears.
4. Click on any of the colored value buttons that contain questions. The Challenge Board Question Edit
window appears.
5. Select the question you would like to remove.
6. Click Delete to remove the question, or click Delete All to remove all the questions. A Confirmation
dialog box appears.
7. Click OK. The Challenge Board Level Questions window refreshes and shows only the questions you
have not deleted.
8. Click the Close button to return to the full Challenge Board.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for each colored value button which you want to delete questions.
10. Click the File menu and Close to return to the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
Deleting CPS Challenge Boards
1. Click the Prepare>Team Activities tab.
2. Select the Challenge Board you want to delete.
3. Click Delete in the Activity group. A confirmation window appears.
4. Click OK in the confirmation window.
5. Repeats steps 2-4 to delete additional Challenge Boards.
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Top Score
Top Score is a quick game you can use with an existing lesson. You can engage any set of questions
associated with a lesson or standard, and use Top Score in the Standard mode to create a quick challenge for
your students.
The Rules:
Students answer questions from a CPS lesson, using their response pads.
If you select the Use Bonus Points option, the first student to answer correctly receives bonus points.
You can use the Score window to view students with the top scores in the class.
Playing Top Score
You can engage students in a Top Score activity while delivering a session in the Standard mode.
1. Open the Engage>Lessons and Assessments tab.
2. Click on the lesson or standard, in the lesson side (left or top window) of the screen, you want to
engage. A checkmark appears in the box in front of the lesson you selected.
3. Click Engage in the Teach group. The CPS Engage toolbar appears.
4. Click Options. The CPS-Delivery
Options window appears.
5. Click the Team Activities tab.
6. Enter a point value for the Bonus
Point Value option.
7. Click OK.
8. Use the CPS Engage toolbar to
engage a question. The CPS Question Delivery window appears.
9. Click Start. If Auto Start the Questions option is selected in the
CPS-Delivery Options window, students may respond without
you clicking the Start button.
10. Allow students to respond to the question(s)
11. Click End when students have responded.
Click the Top
Score button!
11. Click the Top Score button.
13. The Top Score window appears. Score results for the Top Score game appear in the Top Score
window.
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