Using Quandry

Most of the time I use Mission to Mars or Fastrack, but there are also a couple of team based games. One of them is Baseball (which is an awfully dull sport, and you risk your class falling asleep if you use it), there other is Quandry which is alot more exiciting.

For a Quandry presentation you ideally need 25 questions, preferably split in 5 categories, with questions getting progressively harder. For example I have produced this general knowledge Qwizdom. The first 5 questions are all Geography based, with Q.1 being the easiest, and Q.5 being the hardest.

Setting up a Quandry Presentation
Click on the Presentation Setup icon. This will bring up the usual window. Obviously you need to select Game: Qunadry. This brings up a new Setting button. Before clicking on this button I would advise you to remove the 'Right/Wrong feedback' option. Being a team game, if one person knows they have it right, then everyone on their team will just copy them. You may wish to allow them to change their answer.

Now click on Setting to edit your Quandry settings.

You need to tell the computer what each of your five categories are, and which slides it should assign to those categories. You then get to chose how the team scoring is administered, I prefer the points to be assigned by the percentage of correct answers on your team since it encourages more involvement from the weaker students. Finally choose the number of teams you want. I have my class room arranged into 7 blocks of tables, so will use them as my teams.

Click OK to start up the presentation as normal. You will be greeted with the following screen:

This how what team each player is in. As far as I'm aware it is completely random, and seems to take all 32 controllers into account. I don't think it is possible to move players either. However it is possible to assign students to a group if you are using a Participant List.

Clicking on Categories take you through to the question board:

There are 25 questions available, with 5 questions worth different amounts in each category. Just click on one to select that question. You may wish to use the 'random participant' feature on the toolbar and get your students to pick a question.

Once everyone has submitted their answers, click on the game icon in the normal way and the points board will come up:

In this example it was a 200 point question. Teams 4 and 6 both got 200 points because all their team entered the correct answer. Team 5 only got 100 points because only half their team got the correct answer.

The beauty of Quandry is that you can finish at any time. You do not have to complete every question. Students differentiate the questions themselves by chosing the categories and level of diffuculty.