CREATION OF WEB-QUESTS, QUIZZES, INTERACTIVE VIDEOS AND INTELLIGENT ONLINE GAMES ON THE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM LEARNIS.RU

WebQuest: templates and online quest designers

5 years ago I prepared a review of services for creating webquests; as you can see, these are English-language tools that still “live” on the Internet. What changed? The Internet today offers many interesting services for creating quests of various forms and purposes, including in Russian.

1. Quest Maker
2. Urban Quest
3. Learnis
4. Surprise me
5. Genially
6. QuizWhizzer
7. Seppo
8. Audio tours

and others

Quest is a story game where you control the main character, go to complete the main task in the story and along the way solve various puzzles, complete interactive tasks, finding and using various objects and receiving important information from other characters.

Questodel - free quest designer https://kvestodel.ru/

Printing out hints for quest 2

If it is not possible to print out the hints for the quest, then you can complete the quest without printing. In this case, all tasks are completed on a computer or phone. To do this, the quest is saved to a file that can be opened in a browser. After opening the file, all the tasks you created will be shown one by one. In this case, you can move on to the next task only after solving the current one. After completing the last task, a message will be shown indicating the location where the gift is hidden. The quest without printing can be done in two versions.

1. The word solved in the task will be the password to move on to the next task. At the same time, you can encrypt any words, not just the names of objects and hiding places.
2. the solved word will indicate the place where the password for the next task is hidden. In this case, you will need to write the appropriate passwords for the tasks on pieces of paper and hide them in the right places.

Detailed information: https://kvestodel.ru/kak-sdelat-domashnij-kvest

Surprise. me – https://surprizeme.ru/studio

Participants can take the quest:

• through a browser from a computer or phone. Suitable for conducting online quests for remote completion at home or in the office, which do not require traveling long distances.
• via the free Surprise Me app. Suitable for street quests in the city and places where there is no connection. Participants will download the quest in the application and will be able to complete it using GPS navigation.

Free: 5 participants Participants have a saved history of completing quests. The participant will be able to complete the same quest again if he receives a new access code for the same quest from you or if he takes part in the quest under a new account, provided that the access code will allow him to download the quest several times.

Participants of the quest can be invited using a special link with an access code, which can be inserted on the website, sent via SMS, email or on social networks. In your personal account, you can configure the number of invitation links and set the number of accesses via it. You can create as many invitation links as there are participants to complete the quest, or you can create one link and set the total number of participants for it.

Urban Quest https://www.quest.team/ is a platform for creating and completing quests around cities using a mobile application.

Learnis https://www.learnis.ru/ (2018) allows you to create quests of a subtype of the “exit the room” genre. In these quests, players are tasked with escaping a room using various objects, finding clues, and solving logic problems. To create an educational quest, hints can be answers to problems that need to be solved to advance through the plot of the quest. Thus, the teacher, adding the content of his discipline, makes the quest educational and exciting.

Genially https://www.genial.ly/. Read more: Genially: everything ingenious is simple

QuizWhizzer https://quizwhizzer.com/ makes it easy to engage students. Create your own quizzes and track your class progress with just a few clicks. We have 8 question types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False, Numeric Answer, Short Text Answer, Drag and Drop, Sequence, and Unlimited Answers. Description : Quizwhizzer: online walker constructor

Seppo https://seppo.io/pedagogy/ is an online tool designed to make lessons fun and active anywhere. Try Seppo free for 30 days. Seppo makes it easy to turn your lesson materials into fun games for distance learning. You don't need to know anything other than what you want to teach.

In 2011, a team of innovators from the Netherlands, together with an investor from Switzerland, set a goal to give all travelers a new way to feel closer to the historical and cultural heritage of humanity by creating a global, open and free system for all the stories of the world. https://izi.travel/ru – Audio tours. Excursions to museums.

2016

The developer of the webquest as an educational task is B. Dodge, professor of educational technologies at the University of San Diego (USA).

The structure of the webquest, requirements for its individual elements:

Introduction , which clearly describes the main roles of the participants or the quest scenario, a preliminary work plan, and an overview of the entire quest.

A task where the final result of independent work is clearly defined

List of information resources (in electronic form - on CDs, video and audio media, in paper form, links to Internet resources, website addresses on the topic) necessary to complete the task.

Roles . Students should be presented with a list of roles (2 or more) on behalf of which they can complete tasks. For each role, it is necessary to write down a work plan and tasks.

Description of the work procedure that must be completed by each quest participant when completing the task independently (stages).

Description of criteria and parameters for evaluating a webquest.

Action Guide , which describes how to organize and present the information collected.

Conclusion , which summarizes the experience that the participants will gain when working independently on the web-west.

Constructors and generators

Zunal https://zunal.com/ is an international service that offers a template for creating a webquest, as well as services for its publication and storage.

Webquest example

Online template for writing a quest

This quest creation service was created in November 2002 by Francisco Muñoz de la Pena Castrillo. Even though it was a pioneer in its field and supported 5 languages, its last update dates back to 2009.

Detailed instructions for creating quests (English)

The service is designed for generating webquests and subsequent printing.

Quest generator on the portal TeAchnology.com - creation of web quests in English for subsequent use in electronic (as a web page) and/or in printed form.

Templates for download:

WebQuest Templates

Additionally:

• Creating WebQuests
• QuestGarden
• Createwebquest
• RubiStar

Technical details

Backend

Microservices, the only entry point from the outside is GraphQL endpoint, docker kubernetis node.js and a little bit of Go, MongoDB as a base, everything is hype, fashionable and youthful, ready for some fashionable conference.

AdminTool

React, Apollo GraphQL client. Nothing particularly interesting, just a regular web application.

Application

React Native is available on Android and iOS respectively. Apollo GraphQL client for working with data, also nothing particularly interesting or complicated.

How to try

If nothing opens
Everything is deployed on Digital Ocean servers in a data center in London. I completely forgot about blocking in Russia, so most likely the IP addresses of my servers are still on the blocked lists.

I apologize to everyone who has to deal with this and honestly sprinkle ashes on my head - a very unexpected mistake on my part.

At the moment I’m trying to find a solution (well, that is, to find a cloud that will definitely not be blocked in Russia, and most likely it will be the Yandex cloud. Just to be sure.)

I will repeat - the entire platform is under active development and is not yet ready to be called production-ready! Everything should work, but everything should also be broken with shameless pleasure. Please keep this in mind.

So, user authorization is only through Facebook. The reason is as simple as possible - ease of implementation. I do not collect any data about you except your email, name and avatar. Read below about GDPR and the ability to remove yourself from the platform.

• Admin: https://admin-staging.quester-app.io/
• Application: Android: Beta version of the application
• iOS: much less stable than the Android version. If you still decide to try, write to me directly, I will send you the link personally

Any comments, feedback and criticism are naturally welcome, preferably by email to You can also write there and ask to delete all your data (GDPR compliant!)

Script writing

How to open an quest room? The basis of a successful business is well-constructed and, most importantly, exciting scenarios. They are similar to creating scripts for films or plays. Large network companies spend a lot of money on their writing, attracting professional screenwriters and directors. For projects with a more modest budget, you can use the services of freelancers who have experience in this field. When working under a franchise, the franchisor himself takes upon himself the issue of developing the script.

Scenarios are based on a mystery, the outcome of which must be logical but unpredictable. It is advisable to have several stories that can be selected for a specific audience depending on age and interests. Before introducing a new scenario, it must be tested on volunteers. For this purpose, acquaintances or simply interested people from social networks are involved.

NPCs

In this case, employees will need not only diligence and accuracy - you need creative individuals who can organize and lead the game. Personnel for quests are people with experience in conducting events, who have a keen interest in what is happening. The more intricate the quest, the more non-player characters there are. Involve actors, theater students or your creative friends to work; payment can be hourly or negotiable. Over time, a team of professionals will form who can participate in all your quests.

Features of the enterprise

Have you decided to organize your own quest from scratch, but don’t know where to start? More recently, the very concept of “quest” caused bewilderment among most business representatives, but now it is considered one of the most profitable enterprises. Marketers who claim that the crisis has no effect on this segment simply want to plunge headlong into the new reality, but this is nothing more than cunning, although there is still some truth in this. This business also has one unique feature - competing companies here are not so much at odds with each other, but rather help, sharing new ideas and impressions, constantly recommending their clients to visit a neighboring establishment. And after completing one quest, not everyone will stop there. A business that replaces competition with mutually beneficial cooperation is not bad, right?

The target audience is young people aged 22-35, although this is not the limit - both 14-year-old teenagers (in this case, an adapted script for a younger age group) and 60-year-old adventurers can complete the quest. It is very profitable to cooperate with corporate clients. Often, employers use quests as an element of corporate culture to unite the team.

All potential clients are active Internet users, so the website and pages on social networks are the basis of marketing. An advertising campaign includes placing banners on other sites, posts in thematic forums, and website promotion. But don’t forget about the traditional options - business cards, leaflets, flyers in the locations of potential clients. Many organizations use discounts and discounts for regular customers.