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sonsoleslp edited this page Aug 24, 2020 · 4 revisions

The fourth step of creating an educational escape room in Escapp deals with the hint strategy taken in the escape room. Currently, three overall strategies are supported in Escapp.

  1. No hints: Students will not be able to request hints using Escapp.
  2. Free hints: Students will be able to request a hint at no cost whenever they get stuck.
  3. Quiz-enabled hints: Students will be able to request a hint only if they pass a small quiz that you need to create.

If you choose option 1, you can skip to the next step since no more setup is needed.

If you choose option 2 or 3, you might set up the following parameters of the hint strategy selected:

  • Hint limit: Choose the maximum number of hints that each team of students can get throughout the whole escape room. Leave it blank if you do not want to set a limit.
  • Hint frequency: Choose how much time students need to wait for after obtaining a hint in order to ask for a new one. Leave it blank if you do not want students to have to wait.
  • Allow manual hints: If after obtaining all the hints that you established in the previous step for a specific puzzle a team of students still needs help, you can enable the option of telling them to ask the teacher for a customized hint. This is not feasible in autonomous shits since there needs to be communication between students and teachers during the escape room for this option to work.

In addition, if you chose option 3, you need to provide the following:

  • MoodleXML: Provide a file with a pool of questions, which will be used to generate the quiz that students need to pass in order to get a hint. This file needs to be in the Moodle XML format. You can create it using Moodle or some other tool such as Quiz converter.
  • Number of questions: Number of questions out of the pool provided that will be displayed in each quiz.
  • Number of correct answers: Number of questions that students need to answer correctly in order to obtain a hint.
  • Feedback: Whether you want students to know what the right answers are to the questions in the quiz once they answer them.
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