Online Escape Game 101

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.

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Breakdown of the workshop

Introduction

Presentation

Examples

Practice

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

Why use escape games with students?

• 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 !

Escape Game examples

Creating an escape game

The four core elements

Activities

Codes

Clues

Story

How will you provide clues to escape the game?

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

How will your content be implemented?

Choose the theme of your games and write your storyline

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Let's practice !

Ready.... Set....

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 !

Let's do it together !

Log in or create your account on Genial.ly

I explain one of the four elements

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

We come back to a full group and share

Repeat !

I will move around the room to answer questions !

Index

Use this page to go directly to the resource you need

Getting Started

Clues

Interactivity

Activities

Tooltip

Toolbar

Wrong page

Codes

Title page

Introduction

Finishing touches

Right page

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 the navigation is set to "Microsite".

Make sure there are no transitions activated

Navigation button

The toolbar

The toolbar

Title Page

Introduction

Interactivity

Click Interactivity button

Link your pages

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

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!

2- Activities

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

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!

4-Codes

• Create your final code.
• Link your pages.

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.

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

Additional resources

You can use these resources to go beyond

Tips from Fanny

Community

Add to your genial.ly

Add activities

Tutorials to go beyond

Tips from Fanny

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

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

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.

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

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

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 !

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

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

Tutorials to go beyond

Click on the text to access the resource.

Genial.ly puzzle ideas (Video, English)

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

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

Ameliorate your code (Video, French)

Genial.ly extensions and tutorials (Website, French)

Add to your Genial.ly

Websites you can use to bring gamification to your classroom

ClassDojo

Padlet

Flippity.net

Genial.ly

Learning Apps

Jamboard

Blooket

Mathigon

Flunky

Alloprof Jeux

Classroom Screen

Kahoot

Mentimeter

Classcraft

Add to your Genial.ly

Websites you can use to design your activities

Virtual Manipulatives and activities: Toy Theatre

Icons: flaticon

QR Code Generator

Images: pixabay

Canva

La Digitale

Lockee

Sound: lasonotheque

Virtual manipulatives for maths: didax

Wordart

Community Resourcce file

Click on the notepad to access the file.

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

Thank you!

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