Online Escape Game 101

Escape games are a great tool to gamify your classroom. You can tailor them to your needs by creating your adventures for any levels or subjects! In this workshop, you will learn how to create an online escape game using the platform Genially by discovering these four core elements: Story, Clues, Codes and Activities.

Online Escape Game 101

START

BREAKDOWN

RESOURCES

ELEMENTS

INDEX

Feedback form

Practice

Examples

Presentation

Introduction

Breakdown of the workshop

Escape Game 101

By Fanny Langin

What is an escape game?

• An Immersive adventure !
• Can also be called an escape room
• Can be physical, a board game, or virtual
• Typically the goal is to literally escape a room by finding clues, solving codes and completing challenges
• The goal can also be to complete a mission
• Typically escape games have a time limit
• Typically escape games are played in teams

• Tailored for your students
• Can be a team building activity
• Increase student engagement
• Make the content of the lesson memorable
• Self paced work, students direct their learning
• It's fun !

Why use escape games with students?

Escape Game examples

The four core elements

Creating an escape game

Activities

The code usually ends the game. There are several ways to add codes

Codes

How will you provide clues to escape the game?

How will your content be implemented?

Choose the theme of your games and write your storyline

Clues

Story

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Ready.... Set....

Let's practice !

Complete this very quick escape game that includes the four core elements to understand what we will be creating today.

The mysterious library, the escape game !

Log in or create your account on Genial.ly

I will move around the room to answer questions !

We come back to a full group and share

You create the element I just presented. You can create individually or as a team !

I explain one of the four elements

Repeat !

Let's do it together !

Introduction

Right page

Finishing touches

Codes

Wrong page

Title page

Toolbar

Activities

Tooltip

Clues

Interactivity

Getting Started

Use this page to go directly to the resource you need

Index

1- Story

• Choose your theme (ex: Pirate ship, locked in a school, someone stole your neighbour's book...).
• Choose the name of your game.
• Write your introduction.
• Link your pages.

Getting started

Go to "preferences"

Make sure the "interactivity indicator" and the "draggable elements indicator" are off.

Make sure there are no transitions activated

Navigation button

Make sure the navigation is set to "Microsite".

The toolbar

The toolbar

Title Page

Introduction

Click Interactivity button

Interactivity

Select "go to page" and select the page you want to link to your button, then select "save".

Link your pages

Our first step is done!

You can use the extra time to add details to your first two pages! We will be sharing as a group soon!

• Choose your target content
• Create questions and activities
• Create pages for right and wrong answers.
• Link your pages.

2- Activities

Activities

"Wrong" Page

"Right" page

Our second step is done!

You can use the extra time to add details to add more activities! We will be sharing as a group soon!

3- Clues

• Add clues to your activities.
• Use your clues to create passwords.

Clues

Tooltip

Select "Tooltip" and write your clue, then select "save".

Tooltip

Select "Tooltip" and write your clue, then select "save".

Password

Our third step is done!

You can use the extra time to add more activities and clues! We will be sharing as a group soon!

• Create your final code.
• Link your pages.

4-Codes

Codes

Codes

Codes

Codes

Codes

Now the fun part! Link all your slides to create the code according to the instructions on each number.

Codes

Our fourth step is done!

You can go back to the main room or use the extra time to add more activities and clues!

Finishing touches

• You are almost there!
• Create a last page to indicate that the game is over.
• Test your game with the preview mode and fix any bugs.
• Publish it!

Final Page

Tutorials to go beyond

Add activities

Community

Add to your genial.ly

Tips from Fanny

You can use these resources to go beyond

Additional resources

If there is no more text in the textbox, it will dissapear.

Copying the text and copying the box will have different results.

Test all the passways in your game to make sure your students won't get stuck.

Make sure there are no transition activated for your slides if you are making an escape game (little magic wand in your "pages" tool).

Remember you can add slides from other templates. For example if there is an code or activity you like in one template, you can download it into your creation.

If you create buttons, group all your components together. If not, it will be frustrating for the players.

Look for "reusable" genial.ly templates created by the community and download them to your account to use them. Don't forget to acknowledge the creator !

Things I wish I knew when I started to create escape games...

Tips from Fanny

Ameliorate your code (Video, French)

Add new features to your escape game (Video, French)

Use the "Draw" and "Drag and Drop" features (Video, English)

Genial.ly puzzle ideas (Video, English)

Genial.ly extensions and tutorials (Website, French)

Click on the text to access the resource.

Tutorials to go beyond

Alloprof Jeux

Mathigon

Genial.ly

ClassDojo

Classcraft

Kahoot

Flunky

Jamboard

Padlet

Mentimeter

Classroom Screen

Blooket

Learning Apps

Flippity.net

Add to your Genial.ly

Websites you can use to bring gamification to your classroom

Wordart

Lockee

Canva

QR Code Generator

Virtual Manipulatives and activities: Toy Theatre

Virtual manipulatives for maths: didax

Sound: lasonotheque

La Digitale

Images: pixabay

Icons: flaticon

Add to your Genial.ly

Websites you can use to design your activities

This google doc. file is a way for us to share resources about escape games in the future!

Click on the notepad to access the file.

Community Resourcce file

Feedback form

Any questions?

Thank you!