Gamification

Onboarding Exercise Quiz is an individual orientation activity.  It provides students with course information.  And lecturers gain a good idea of the “profile” of their cohort.

Gamification - Analytical Exercises enables students to cooperate in teams and combine individual assessment scores of the weekly tutorial analytics tasks and discussion activities in an online leaderboard. The leaderboard indicates the progress towards certain benchmarks and enables the tracking of completed activities.

Gamification: Achievement Unlocked engages students to self-assess their knowledge and progress, and reflect on presented course content. As part of a gamified system educators create or reframe each of 3 online non-assessment quizzes as missions. Successful completion of each mission levels a student up towards unlocking bonus support/learning materials and resources.

The gamification database describes the design, creation and use of a cord sourced database of games and simulations with curriculum relevance. The database offers feedback from peers and students who have played each game, saving time in selecting games most relevant to course content.

Crosswords, such as Puzzlemaker; Educaplay; Crossword Labs (refer to resources/technology) are often used to supplement lectures and engage students with important course concepts and new vocabulary. The crosswords can be applied to pre-test tools, revision tools, and team-building exercise.

Build an app, build a connection encourages students to engage with each other and teaching staff through the creation of a simple mobile applications that can be shared. This can be either an icebreaker activity in a tutorial or the introduction to flipping a classroom. It can lead to deeper discussions and investigations across a wide variety of topics.