Clarifying this Semester's CIQ Procedure

Hi again.

Before we distribute the CIQs next week, let's exchange a few postings here to clarify our approach--trying to be as consistent as possible.

Here's a sample procedure to discuss:

(1) We each distribute the CIQ during the final 10 minutes of the final class of the week.
--> For me this would be Thursday of my T/Th class.
--> Question: Do we want to make this the final 10 minutes, or do we want to make it something like 15 and reserve the final 5 minutes for closing announcements or some such--the idea being to insert some sort of closing ritual after the CIQ and thereby make it less likely that the CIQ will be the exit door to class; i.e., the thing everyone dashes through in order to depart class a few moments sooner. As you can already tell from my musings here, I'm inclined to insert the closing ritual at the end of class, though I'd need to figure out a way to make it not seem overly artificial.

(2) Before distributing the CIQ we ask the students to recollect, aloud, what we did this week.
--> If not, we run the risk of many people (possibly including us) forgetting what we did this week. (Which seems to often be a problem. CIQ's often reflect only something from the current day's class because we forget what happened on Monday or Tuesday. I do this too, I confess!)
--> If so, we run the risk of overly influencing what is remembered. But it seems to me some form of public recollection, even if it's just a review of our learning objectives for the week, would be helpful. And yet, to me, often my favorite "happenings" aren't the stated objectives but the unexpected conversations or examples that arise from the class itself--these may or may not be recollected by stating the objectives. Do you see where I'm heading with this, Amy? I think we need to clarify how we do our "prompt" for the CIQ, and to what extent we influence it with our own stated recollections. If we assign a student to be the prompter, then that person will influence the recollections too, which inclines me to give no prompt at all except that working with the CIQ I've found students appreciate being reminded what occurred earlier in the week.