Clicker

Use Clicker on all your devices

Our Clicker universal licencing enables you to ‘mix and match’ depending on your school’s set-up. Install Clicker 8 on your computers and use Clicker Writer on iPads and Chromebooks. 

What's New in Clicker 8?

Cloze activities are many a teacher’s go-to resource for comprehension exercises. They’re also fantastic for developing core reading and language skills. With Clicker Cloze, you can create a cloze activity using any text in just a few seconds. Complete within Clicker or print out for use away from the computer.

Clicker Analytics: Clicker enables struggling writers to produce finished pieces of work that just wouldn’t be possible without its support. But wouldn’t it be great to see how your learners achieved this? Clicker 8’s brand new analytics tool records each pupil’s writing journey. See how the writing task was completed, with detailed information about the tools that were used, to make informed decisions about each pupil’s current support levels and progress-boosting next steps. 

Picturize: Whether used for visual stimulation, talking points, or to aid understanding, pictures are a valuable tool for supporting literacy development. Select the ‘Picturize’ button to instantly add pictures to any Clicker grid, including Sentence Sets and Word Banks. Our updated CrickPix bank includes over 4500 curriculum pictures, and you can also incorporate your own images or one of our add-on symbol sets.

and more: More curriculum resources, templates for Clicker Books and Boards, new childrens' voices, and Clicker universal Licensing.

Help every child achieve writing success

• At the heart of Clicker sits a child-friendly word processor. Watch your pupils confidently tackle writing tasks with help from Clicker’s realistic speech feedback, talking spell checker and word predictor.
• Clicker Grids enable pupils to write with whole words and phrases. Emerging writers build sentences word-by-word, while Word Banks provide scaffolding to support developing writers.
• Clicker 8’s new ‘Picturize’ button instantly adds pictures to any Clicker Grid, helping children to find the word they want. Choose from over 4500 Clicker curriculum pictures or use your own.
• Make curriculum content accessible for all with talking Clicker Books, support emergent readers and EAL pupils with Matching Sets, and use Talk Sets to develop speaking and listening skills.
• Make curriculum content accessible for all with talking Clicker Books, support emergent readers and EAL pupils with Matching Sets, and use Talk Sets to develop speaking and listening skills.
• Clicker includes free access to LearningGrids, an ever-growing bank of ready-made classroom resources. Our activities are created by experienced teachers and cover a range of primary topics.
• Cloze activities are a great way to assess pupils’ topic knowledge, as well as their ability to use semantic and contextual clues. Create your own Cloze activities in a matter of seconds!
• Clicker 8’s Analytics tool gives you a unique insight into each learner’s writing process, helping you make informed decisions about their current support levels and the most effective next steps.
• In addition to extensive support for learners with reading and writing difficulties, Clicker 8 opens the door for pupils with a wide range of additional needs, including switch and eye gaze users.

Alternative Access

Switch access:  Use the CRICK switch box.

• Setting the standard in switch interfaces
• Our switch box sets the standard in ease of use and flexibility by automatically detecting the software you are using and setting up the switches for you. With over 10,000 in use, we can confidently claim this is the world's favourite switch box!
• The latest version of our database of software titles at www.switchindex.com, is downloaded automatically to your computer whenever you are connected to the Internet, and it's easy to add more titles if they do not appear in our database.
• The Crick USB Switch Box is the only switch box that is supported by Crick Software for use with our software, and it is the only switch box that gives you all this:
• Fully supported by all Crick Software applications
• Works with practically all accessible software
• You can have any key press or mouse click you like for each switch.
• Automatically detects the software you are using
• Sets itself up automatically when you open a new program.
• Small footprint with no-nonsense interface
• Ideal size for classroom environments - no buttons to get accidentally pressed!
• Detachable 2 metre USB lead
• Our long lead gives flexibility in the positioning of your students and can easily be replaced if damaged.
• Quick and easy software installation, with no pre-requisites
• Installation takes less than 30 seconds and the software uses a tiny amount of memory.
• Works on all Windows and Mac computers
• Works on all computers from Windows XP to Windows 8, and on all versions of Mac OS X.
• Fully standards compliant
• Bears both CE and FCC marks showing complete standards compliance.

Eye Gaze access:

Zyteq's eye gaze cameras are the ideal eye gaze cameras to add to a school computer for eye gaze control of Clicker 8

Read more under the heading links.

IntelliGaze

System Requirements:

Clicker 8 works on Windows and Mac computers.

Windows specifications: Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
Mac specifications: High Sierra (10.13) to Catalina (10.15)

Licencing Terms:

These are ‘per device’ licences covering both Clicker 8 and Clicker Writer.  They can be used across any combination of PCs, Macs, iPads and Chromebooks in one school.  For example, ’10 licences’ could be all used on PCs, all on iPads, or on five of each.

All licences last for 3 years.  Best value is the OneSchool Site License which enables you to install on an unlimited number of devices in your school AND includes home access for your pupils and teaching staff.

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