School registration is free and only takes a few minutes.
Register
a School
Q Why register your
school?
A You can not register
as a Teacher unless your School is registered first.
For Teachers
Q Why register as
a Teacher?
A As a Registered
Teacher (RT):
1) You can create your own Sets and post them to the EdUGames web
site for your Students to play.
2) When your Students play your Set, the results can be emailed
back to you.
3) You will be able to download the free Teacher Tools that allow
you to pull all those emails into an Excel spreadsheet and review the results, even
assign grades automatically.
4) You can use your EdUGames web site to refer your Students to
a Game Master's Set with the results being emailed back to you.
Q Explain what a Teacher's
Set is and how I, as a teacher, can make one.
A We have created
a tool to allow you to select any of the Rounds in the Master Database by ACS Codes,
EdCodes, TrivCodes, GeoCodes or Key Words.
You can filter your selection by School Grade level and download
your selected Rounds for inspection. You select the Rounds you want and we create
a web page at the EdUGames web site that runs your Teacher's Set.
You instruct your Students to play the Set and the results can
be emailed back to you.
Q ACS Codes?
A The Antoniak Classification
System. A way of systematically classifying everything is the world,
usually in 10 characters or less.
Q What do the report of students playing
a set look like?
A There are 4 selections
you can make from None to Detailed. We will provide the tools to allow you to view
the results in an Excel Spreadsheet. You can have more data and more ways to view
it than you will know what to do with if you want.
Q How much effort
is it to use the Excel Spreadsheet?
A You just start Excel,
open the tool and point it to the Folder/Directory that contains the emails. It does
the rest.
Q What is a Game Master's
Set?
A Instead of thousands
of teacher spending the time each week to select appropriate Rounds, we hope to have
one teacher per subject per grade and if necessary per State create a Set appropriate
to the subject matter being covered each week. We call that person a Game Master.
There is no limit to the number of Game Masters.
As a Registered Teacher you can redirect your students to the Game
Master's Set each week. The results can still be emailed back to you.
A Game Master's Set may also be used for competition.
Q Can I be a Game
Master? What are the benefits and how do I apply?
A Yes. Game Masters
get a percent of the revenue generated. Details are available at the Game Master's
page.
For Schools
Q What are the benefits
to the School?
A Registered Schools
can participate in Inter and Intra School Competition.
Q What are the costs?
A It's free
to all Schools and Libraries and to Registered Teachers.
Q Free? How does EdUGames make
money at it?
A It's not going to
be free to Parents. If a Student wants to play it at home there will be a small subscription
fee payable by credit card.
Q How much is small?
A We want to keep
it under $10.00 a month, most likely it will average at around $5.00 a month.
Q Do you plan to advertise?
A Not at the present
time. We hate the idea and will only do it if the parent revenue model doesn't work
out. The idea of banner adds for candy bars and shoes turns us off. We would, however,
entertain things like a local pizza parlors giving free pizza to the winners of Intramural
competitions etc.
Q How does competition
work?
A In as much as the
source material is available to anyone, it doesn't take much effort to organize a
competition using the Teacher Set Maker Tools to select the Rounds. At the present
time we are busy getting the material together and the Game Master program set up.
We entertain any suggestions as to how to organize a competition. Email us
at suggestions@edugames.com.
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