Create Slides with the Ranking Wizard
The Ranking Wizard is located in the Tools menu on the TurningPoint Toolbar. It guides you through creating a set of ranking slides.
To create slides with the Ranking Wizard…
1 Navigate to the slide you would like the ranking slides to be inserted after.
When you complete the Ranking Wizard, the ranking slides will be added to the presentation after the currently selected slide.
2 Click Tools on the TurningPoint Toolbar and select Ranking Wizard.
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The Ranking Wizard window opens.
Ranking Wizard: Add Items
3 Enter a name for an item to be ranked in the box provided and click Add.
The item is added to the list. You must add at least two items.
Repeat this step until you have added all the items you want to rank.
4 When you have added all the items to rank click Next.
The next set of options allows you to specify the criteria that is displayed in the Ranking Wizard.
Ranking Wizard: Enter Criteria
5 Enter a name for the X criterion and, optionally, the Y criterion, in the boxes provided.
Note
You can save a list of items with the Ranking Wizard if you will reuse them.Lists are stored as simple text (.txt) files.
Use the Save button (shaped like a disk) to save a text file with the list of items. Use the Load button (shaped like a folder) to load a text file with a list of items.
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You must enter at least one criterion (X) for the ranking. If you are comparing only a single criterion, leave the Y criterion blank.
The X and Y criteria appear on the horizontal and vertical axes of the chart, respectively.
6 If you wish to include a third criterion in the ranking, check the box for the Z criterion and enter a name for the Z criterion in the box provided.
The Z criterion, if used, is represented in the chart by the size of the “bubble” for each item.
7 Choose a method for ranking the items:
Ranking Wizard: Ranking Method
• Select Standard X/XY/XYZ to rank the items on a numerical scale for the criteria.
You will specify the numerical scale to use later in the Ranking wizard if you choose a standard comparison.
• Select Paired Comparison to compare the items by pairs on the criteria.
If you choose paired comparisons, you may allow a response of No Preference by checking the box for that option.
8 If you chose a standard comparison, select whether you would like the slides to be grouped by criterion or by list item.
Grouping slides by criterion will present the slides for each item about criterion X, then slides for each item about criterion Y, and so on.
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Grouping slides by item will present the slides for each criterion about item A, then the slides for each criterion about item B, and so on.
Ranking Wizard: Standard Comparison
9 Check the box if you would like to Auto-Advance the slides created by the Ranking Wizard.
Using Auto-Advance automatically advances the slide after all participants have responded to a question.
Ranking Wizard: Auto - Advance
10 Check the box if you would like to display the charts for the slides created by the Ranking Wizard.
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Commonly, you are not interested in seeing the results for individual slides in the ranking questions. You can remove the check mark and use it in combination with Auto-Advance to make your way quickly through the ranking questions to display the ranking chart.
Ranking Wizard: Show Charts
11 If you are using a Z criterion, check the boxes if you would like to use the following options:
Ranking Wizard: Z Criteria
• Show Bubble Names shows the name of each item on the bubble that represents it in the ranking chart.
The chart also includes a key that color-codes the bubbles with the items.
• Show Bubble Sizes shows the numerical size of each item’s bubble on the ranking chart.
12 When you have specified all the options you would like to use click Next.
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If you chose a standard comparison, the next set of options allowing you to specify the ranking scale is displayed in the Ranking Wizard window. (If you chose a paired comparison, a summary is displayed and you can skip to step 16.)
Ranking Wizard: Customize Scale
13 Uncheck the boxes next to the numbers if you wish to limit the scale to less than 1–10.
Unchecking a lower number also unchecks all the larger numbers.
For example, if you would like to use a scale of 1–4, uncheck the box next to 5.
14 If you would like to add labels to the numbers, right-click on a number and select Edit Text.
You might like to add labels to the lowest and highest numbers of the scale (such as “Worst” and “Best”).
15 When you are finished modifying the ranking scale click Next.
16 Review the information in the summary to ensure that it is correct.
If any of the information is incorrect, you can select the incorrect information to be taken to the set of options in the Ranking Wizard where you specified the information. Correct the information and then continue with the remaining steps. (Alternatively, use the Back button to go back to the incorrectly set option.)
17 Click Finish to create the ranking slides.
TurningPoint inserts the ranking questions and the ranking chart in your presentation. (This may take some time if you have a large number of items.)
Next Steps
When you run the presentation containing the ranking slides, the results will be compiled to generate the ranking chart, which is displayed in a slide following the ranking questions.
Note
Because the Ranking Wizard uses the results from the created slides to construct the final chart, you should not alter the slides created by the Ranking Wizard.Turning Technologies
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Standards
TurningPoint’s standards tools allow you to use K-12 standards (per state or country, topic, subject and grade level) or to create your own lists of standards on which participants can be evaluated. For training, teaching, or testing, standards help you organize the material in your presentation into subject areas, competencies, or other standards which the participants should meet. You can then view participants’ results by standards using Turning Reports. Find more information in Reports on page 202.
Before you can assign standards to slides in a presentation, you need to select from the K-12 Standards or create a list of the standards you will be using.
This section describes how to: