The basics of a Qwizdom game

This guide will talk you through the Mission to Mars game assuming you've succesfully loaded up a Qwizdom presentation.

In a later post I shall go through a more detailed guide, but it is important to be confident with the basics first.

So you've loaded your game, and are on your intro slide. Everyone has switched on their controllers which read 'Remote #1' etc. Go onto the next slide, and the first question will be presented automatically. If there's a bit of a pause then be patient, clicking 'next slide' again will cause it to skip a question.

Your toolbar will appear at the top of the screen. Be careful not to click on the arrow on the right. It closes the toolbar and I can't work out how to open it again. I have managed it, but not sure what I did.

You will notice a figure showing the percentage of responses gathered so far, if you double click on this it will change it to a fraction:

The next icon resets the question. I don't often use this, and it's a pain if you accidently press it.

The icon with the two people on it selects a participant at random. This can be useful for sparking class discussions. Unfortunately it does sometimes pick students who got the wrong answer.

The graphs icon has many featues, and can display some of the following information. I usually freeze the screen so that i can look at this as the results come in:

This bar chart shows the correct answer in green.

This table shows everyone's responses. You can see the timings, the actual response, and their participant number.

Clicking on the games controller will finish that question, and display the winner, before automatically showing the fastest eight correct responses:

The fastest correct answer is awarded 1000 points, and each place below gets 50 points less than the one before it.

Points are still awarded for correct answers not displayed in the top 8.

Here you have four main options.
1 - Next question
2 - Shows cumulative scores
3 - Mission, shows a graphical 'race' using each participants scores
4 - Finish game

You can still look at the graphs, and responses, or return to the question.