Tic-Tac-Trivia

Trivia mode

The core experience is intended to be a trivia game played by teams of learners. Clicking a square pops up a modal asking a facilitator-defined trivia question. The answer is not displayed until after the Correct or Miss button is clicked since the course is intended to be run by a facilitator presenting for a class. The facilitator will need to know all of the answers to the questions in order to correctly score learner responses. The question bank of answers is explained further down.

Correct answers score the square of the team's choice in a game of tic-tac-toe. Incorrect answers pass play to the other team for a chance to score either in the same square or somewhere else.

A timer is available for added pressure but not required. This current version also enables a team to clinch the center square with only getting one question right. Since the center square is more strategically important than the rest, a future version will provide the facilitator the option of requiring a team to answer two or three questions in a row correctly before being awarded the center square.

Currently the game ends without repeating questions. I'm considering adding the option to repeat questions (randomly) but unsure if that would be of interest to anyone. My suspicion is that adding more questions would be better, but I can see repetition in the same session being of value, especially for long-form answers that may vary from learner to learner while still being right.

Question Bank

The question bank is where the facilitator enters questions and answers. Note that answers are optional since, as mentioned above, there may be open-ended questions. Additionally, perhaps the answer is so long it doesn't reasonably fit.

The current implementation allows questions and answers to be saved to local storage and similarly retrieved from it for use across sessions. Future plans include a popup that will allow facilitators to save question banks under custom names (e.g., "medical terminology"), and then at a later date retrieve the particular question bank they want to use from a list of the ones they've saved prior.

If anyone has interest in each bank containing more than 20 questions, please let me know and I'll work to add more pages.

 

Standard Tic-Tac-Toe

This is a standard two-player mode that simply alternates back and forth between Xs and Os. No trivia is shown. Wins are tracked instead of the correct/missed answers of the trivia mode. This mode could be used for more casual competition, such as for a trivia-less tiebreaker once all questions are exhausted.

 

Single Player

This mode currently supports an easy "AI" player for someone who wants to kill time, or perhaps even instruct someone new in how to play. The easy AI randomly selects an unchosen square on the board and so is not particularly challenging.

Future implementations will include medium and hard difficulties.

 

Thoughts

I've always been a fan of tools for teachers and facilitators, and I've been tinkering on this particular one since the end of May. The robot images shown in the single-player mode and the handful of sound effects were all generated natively with Storyline 360's AI assistant, though Photoshop was used for some slight improvements to the robot images.

If you have any questions, bug reports, or ideas for improvements, please don't hesitate to reach out in the comments below! I will eventually release the .story file for download but want to wrap up the improvements first. Thanks for your patience!

Future updates will push to the same hyperlink shared at the top so feel free to leverage that URL if you find the course helpful.