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Question:

How can I use Mimio QuickVote for my Powerpoints?

• Submitted By:

  Monika G.

• Date:

  May. 1, 2013

Answer:There is so much you can do with the amazing QuickVote! Remember you can use the QuickVote for on demand polling with any activity you are doing in your classroom. If you assign a class before polling you can also have results recorded in your Gradebook. Click HERE to watch a great video showing you all about the QuickVote feature! I would also recommend taking our wonderful FREE live QuickLearn sessions. You may find the MimioVote sessions particularly helpful. Click HERE to sign up!

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols   

Question:Does Mimio offer any lessons that can improve my students reading fluency?

• Submitted By:

  Jackie Szemplak

• Date:

  Mar. 2, 2013

Answer:

Thank you for such an outstanding question during National Read Across America Week!

National Read Across America Week is a national event that is celebrated by schools, libraries, and homes across the country. Read Across America day began several years ago in conjunction with Dr. Suisse’s birthday with the goal of encouraging students, especially young children, to read.

As a classroom teacher myself, I understand that all educators are teachers of reading. Encouraging my students to read is an essential part of young person’s education. As a parent, the time I spend reading with my young children is precious. Early reading helps children build a foundation for a lifetime of success in Language Arts.

To answer your excellent question; Mimio offers a research-based and proven supplementary reading instruction program for a variety of elementary grade levels and learning needs. This includes the MimioReading Comprehension Suite and the MimioSprout Early Reading. Students can engage in both of these programs on classroom computers, home computers, and using MimioReading for iPad App.

The MimioReading comprehension suite is a state-of-the-art instructional program that provides broad and effective lessons for schools that want to improve their reading comprehension performance in grades 3-8.

For beginning readers, the MimioSprout early reading suite is a K-2 supplemental program that ensures reading success for every child, guaranteed. The program takes a non-reader or beginning reader up to mid-2nd-grade reading skills in less than 30 hours of individualized online instruction.

MimioReading software works by assessing and adapting continuously to student performance. Success is celebrated at every point of progress, and corrective feedback is always delivered in a way that is informative and encouraging. Value is added through earning systems that include coins and coin redemption, but primarily focus on building value in successful mastery of the program objectives, and ultimately, the ability to read.

While teachers and principals love Mimio’s research- and evidence-driven individualized reading programs because of the great results, students will tell you how fun and engaging they find every moment of the instruction. I have seen students at my school become better readers after using MimioReading. I have also seen my PreK daughter start to excel with MimioSprout.

Click here to learn more about MimioReading programs and to inspire a lifetime of reading in your students during National Read Across America Week!

Mimio Master:

Paul Gigliotti   

Question:

The light on my MimioTeach is an amber color and I can't get it to calibrate at all. Any suggestions?

• Submitted By:

  Andrea C.

• Date:

  Jan. 22, 2013

Answer: Looks like you need some help with pairing your MimioHub with your MimioTeach. Here are the steps you will need to follow in order to sync these two units (Make sure your MimioHub is connected to your computer)

1. Open Mimio Settings in the software. Go to Classroom Devices.

2. You will see the MimioHub listed. (if it’s not there, the MimioHub is not in a USB port)

3. Hold down the status light (button) for about 5-7 seconds. It will start flashing amber and you will see MimioTeach appear on your list of Classroom Devices. It will say “available.”

4.Select the device and click Connect.

5.The Status light on the MimioTeach will turn solid green.

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols   

Question:

Is there a limit to how many questions you can ask on a MimioVote test?

• Submitted By:

  Emily F.

• Date:

  Jan. 7, 2013

Answer:What a great question! You will be happy to know that there is no limit to the number of questions you can ask on any given test using the MimioVote Assessment System so feel free to ask away. The only issue you may run into, and this of course depends on your computer, is adding too many questions may slow things down a little bit when using the file. Just remember as part of our MimioStudio Software, your Gallery comes with wonderful Question Templates that are designed to use with the MimioVote Assessment System. However, you can still use the Question Template if you do not have the MimioVote. To do this, open your Gallery, go to and expand the Questions and Results folder, open up the Questions folder. Now choose the template you’d like, drag it out into MimioNotebook, resize as needed and add in your question and answer choices and you are ready to go! Left clicking once inside the template will open up the text fields where you can enter the question and answer choices. Click on the circle to the left of the correct answer choice and you will see a green check appear. You can change other settings by clicking on the icon in the lower right hand corner of the template. Once you finish, click outside of the template and it is ready to use. To reveal the correct answer simply click on the blue button at the bottom center of the Question Template. Please watch THIS wonderful video tutorial showing you how easy it is to add question templates to your lesson! Click HERE to sign up today for our amazing QuickLearn Training Sessions which are absolutely free.

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols