<p>The first item is an XR Card and is for ECO2023.</p>
<p>The second item, for CGS 2100, is listed as follows:</p>
<p>Technology in Action Complete & Go! Office 2010 for FSU Package</p>
<p>What makes it an FSU Edition? That same ISBN is available at other outlets such as Amazon at a better price than the FSU Bookstore but it obviously isn't an FSU edition.</p>
<p>I believe the XR card is what is know as a “clicker.” You buy it once, it lasts for 4 yrs, and you can then sell it to another student. You register your unique clicker number for each class that uses clickers. You can use it for multiple classes at once. It records student responses during class when questions are asked, or slides are shown. Basically, it helps to know if your student was actually present for class and participating or not. Some classes take off for lack of participation. Others give extra points for participation. It is more high tech than taking attendance. </p>
<p>Someone else will chime in about the CGS package, but it likely contains a student access code specific to FSU for accessing assignments, or for turning in the computer assignments.</p>
<p>I think the XR card is different from the iClicker. The clicker is required for two other classes, Bio & Honors Colloquium, and listed as such.</p>
<p>We are driving up today so we’ll find out for sure.</p>
<p>I needed both the XR card and the iClicker for the same semester, different classes.</p>
<p>You don’t need the second thing (for CGS 2100), just some common sense and the ability to follow step-by-step instructions on how to get a 100 on every assignment. </p>
<p>But the XR card thing is similar to a clicker, but it has numbers and letters for you to enter more specific questions. You can get it from the Bookstore usually by going up to the check out line and asking for it.</p>
<p>ahh, now they have two different clickers. Great.</p>
<p>It was like that last Fall (and maybe in the summer semester before). My economics professor said that the faculty couldn’t agree on one since some worked better for other classes. The ones requesting the clickers are, in short ‘dooshes’* since they do the exact same thing as the XR card but they have less functionality. We shouldn’t have to buy something inferior for a higher (at least it was last year) price.</p>
<p>*the regular spelling is banned.</p>
<p>Yeah, there’s two different clickers: the iClicker, and the XR. The iClicker is pretty basic- it’s got 5 answer options and an on/off button. The XR is more advanced (alphanumeric buttons, among other features) and seems to be only slightly more expensive than the iClicker.</p>
<p>Plus, the Bookstore has decided that it was the best idea to have all of the cashiers store iClickers behind the registers. And as far as I have seen the couple times I’ve been in the bookstore this semester, that leaves plenty of people clueless because there are literally no signs anywhere saying this. Meaning that there are store associates getting bugged likely nearly non-stop about them, when a simple sign would suffice.</p>
<p>I goofed up and got the wrong clicker for my economics class at the campus bookstore the other day. I have to go back and exchange but the lines were long when I went there and I still haven’t gotten the right clicker yet.</p>