Clicker software review Flow

Flow is an audience response software developed by eInstruction, now part of Turning technologies. Among other things it allows for participation / voting using clickers that are linked to the presenter via wireless communication.

1st impressions of v2

I'm testing on an MBP R running OS X.10 (Yosemite).

Installation

• Installation requires restart. What? The only one doing this for ages.
• install locations & related files:
  • Applications/Turning Technologies/Flow: 2 applications: Flow v2.0.1.6, LessonBuilder v1.0
  • ~/Documents/Flow questions
  • ~/Library/Application Support/Flow 2

Results

• no Powerpoint plugin for Mac
• Flow is prone to freezing
• cannot detect CPS Pulse clickers using Flow / Detect devices

Version history

• v2.0 2014 May [1]
• v1.7 2014 Jan [2]

See also

• Clicker in the life sciences (audience response systems)
• Flow software download from Turning