Mission to Mars in more detail

I'm going to assume that you're confident at running a Mission to Mars (or Fastrack) game. Whilst playing about with settings I have discovered a number of other options that may help you.

The timer function

First of all if you select the timer function on the setup menu the following section will be added to you tool bar. You have the option of giving the same time allocation for every question, or by using the time that you have set for each question when writing your slides.

Once the timer has counted down players will no longer be able to submit an answer. It is possibel to reduce/increse time during play by clicking on the -/+ symbols. You may also click on the number to pause/play the timer (it greys out when paused).

The menu

If you right-click on the tool bar a list of options comes up as shown below:

 Settings

Clicking on settings will bring up a list of settings very similar to the ones at setup:

You may wish to remove the timer for example, or if you class are shouting out answers you could remove the 'show feedback' option on their remotes. Be very careful that you don't accidently remove the 'Mission to Mars' presentation.

 Toolbar

When you've right-clicked on the tool bar, if you got down to view there's the options to edit your tool bar. The diagram below shows you what each option refers to.

Answer Grid is an excellent tool which displays every student's remote number. When they answer their number will turn black.

Save and Exit

There's a few more option on the menu. You can make the toolbar/answergrid transparent. You can save the current results, and you can exit the presentation.