The Never Ending Uni Quiz, is an online quiz, aimed primarily at new students to help increase awareness of university services and support. Launched in June 2008, the quiz has had well over 1500 active players, and new members are still joining daily. Applicants, who were due to start at the University in September, were able to play the quiz before arrival, learn about the university and to start to feel a sense of belonging.
In their own words, the students have this to say about the quiz:- “I have found it informative about the university and have found out things I would not have otherwise known.”
- “I like quizzes and think it is a fun way to learn about Uni.”
- “The fact that the quiz was everything to do with the university, and I was a first year student eager to know more about the university especially because at the time I started the quiz, I had not yet started university.”
One of the fundamental elements of the quiz is a leaderboard - putting all the players into teams based on their level and campus. This added element of competition - between teams and also between individual players has been identified as the key to the strong engagement observed.
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The slides form the 5 min show-and-tell presentation I would have given at durbbu10 are publically viewable here:
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ae0WkOi_oKm0ZGY3cGY3NHJfMTEzanpkN2hrZ3A&hl=en_GB
These should give you an idea of more of the questions as well as the feedback given and the links through to existing resources on studentcentral.
Thanks for sharing these Katie.
Sorry we had to cut this entire section out of the programme to allow people to catch their trains, planes and snowmobiles.
Don't take it personally :-)
No worries Malcolm - we left at 11:30 so wouldn't have been able to present it anyway after all that!
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