I have been asked to make a software simulation more engaging with gamification or scenarios. Can anyone point me to some examples where this has been done?
At the moment it's a tour of the screen and "tap this, tap that".
I cannot point you to an example, but in the past I have added in lives and asked them to try it first and removed the education element unless they fail.
AS in a game at the start they have 5 lives and lose one each mistake they make after the 5th life they are branched to a route which shows them how to do the task correctly and then sent back to th e try element.
You could always reverse it and show them how to use it as an animation with captions and then test them and if they fail send them back to the start. You could even offer the opportunity at the beginning to View or test and if they pass they dont need to be shown how to do it.
Yes, I thought of this--kind of a watch and then "do". But my hesitation with this is that it's a lot of just touring the screen. This button does this, this button does that...etc...So, nowhere to go really. Client wants gamification or scenario based. Or something more interactive. Even if I did a "watch me" and then they do it--still rather boring. ???
What is the software for? Could you put in a real world setting. This maybe difficult if they do not know the software, but another one I built had characters in a Clinic and you clicked on each which pulled up the software and you have to click to show how you would register them in the system which was different based on the job role.
It's a CRM. And yes, that was my thought was to make it scenario-based. I just wondered if there was anything else out there that people were doing that I hadn't thought of! Thanks for your replies!
Scenario, or practical case-based. I make a lot of this, and we have theory slides for specific menu etc, and then a workflow video with a real dataset. Students can follow at home with a sample data set. Only slightly less dry, I agree, but the contents of the Data set can bring it to life, we build this for forensic Investigations software, and so the data set is a fictitious Investigations case.
I do most of it as a Rise Hotspot, and the scenarios in Camtasia. I will ask if I can share any of this out :).
I build the Camtasia into a 5HP interactive video block after that and iframe them into Rise.
( Articulate, please integrate these amazing opensource tools into the Rise framework, so many LMS's support it now, its time you guys added some functionality)
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I cannot point you to an example, but in the past I have added in lives and asked them to try it first and removed the education element unless they fail.
Lives?
AS in a game at the start they have 5 lives and lose one each mistake they make after the 5th life they are branched to a route which shows them how to do the task correctly and then sent back to th e try element.
Interesting. But they've never seen the software before so I don't think that would work. Thank you anyway. Sounds like a great interaction.
You could always reverse it and show them how to use it as an animation with captions and then test them and if they fail send them back to the start. You could even offer the opportunity at the beginning to View or test and if they pass they dont need to be shown how to do it.
Yes, I thought of this--kind of a watch and then "do". But my hesitation with this is that it's a lot of just touring the screen. This button does this, this button does that...etc...So, nowhere to go really. Client wants gamification or scenario based. Or something more interactive. Even if I did a "watch me" and then they do it--still rather boring. ???
What is the software for? Could you put in a real world setting. This maybe difficult if they do not know the software, but another one I built had characters in a Clinic and you clicked on each which pulled up the software and you have to click to show how you would register them in the system which was different based on the job role.
It's a CRM. And yes, that was my thought was to make it scenario-based. I just wondered if there was anything else out there that people were doing that I hadn't thought of! Thanks for your replies!
Scenario, or practical case-based. I make a lot of this, and we have theory slides for specific menu etc, and then a workflow video with a real dataset. Students can follow at home with a sample data set. Only slightly less dry, I agree, but the contents of the Data set can bring it to life, we build this for forensic Investigations software, and so the data set is a fictitious Investigations case.
That sounds interesting. Any chance you could share a few slides so that i could get the jest?
I do most of it as a Rise Hotspot, and the scenarios in Camtasia. I will ask if I can share any of this out :).
I build the Camtasia into a 5HP interactive video block after that and iframe them into Rise.
( Articulate, please integrate these amazing opensource tools into the Rise framework, so many LMS's support it now, its time you guys added some functionality)
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