Games and Activities Guide

With MLevel's Mission Manager, you can create several different types of activities, including games, videos, tasks, and more. These activities are what your learners engage with. Below, you will find a description of each type of activity to help you choose the one that fits your learning content best.

List of Games: Activities in bold are available in the MLevelweb solution (HTML-only solution that does not require a plugin)

Anchoring Activities (Non-Question Based)

• Custom Task
• External Link
• Knowledge Navigator
• Video
• SCORM

Assessment Activities (Question Based)

• Academy
• Assessment
• Block Party
• Check Point
• Fast Lane
• Ice Breaker
• Quiz Ball
• ShortFuze

Application Activities (Scenario or Multimedia Based)

• Path Finder

Games

 Academy

Activity Overview: Leveraging the Knowledge Navigator, this activity provides an open-book style assessment, along with adaptive questioning and real-time player analytics.  

Learning Description:

• Open-book assessment
• Adaptive questioning - skip the content the learner already knows and focus on the lesser known areas
• Knowledge assessment

Purpose: This open-book style activity provides a real-world experience where learners have access to information at their finger tips. With adaptive questioning, this activity is smart enough to adapt to the learner and display only the content the learner needs help with.  

Applicable Content: 

• Fact-based learning
• Situational simulations

Customization: Introduction text, Start text, and Activity branding

Question Requirements: 10

Content Grids: In order to play Academy, a content grid needs to be created for open book reference. For helpful information regarding how to make these content grids, use the following links:

https://www.hallaminternet.com/how-to-create-a-content-grid/

https://www.theconversioncompany.com/how-to-build-a-simple-content-grid/

https://support.mlevel.com/hc/en-us/articles/203310963-Creating-Your-Content-Grid-Topic-?mobile_site=true

https://support.mlevel.com/hc/en-us/articles/223325267-Purpose-and-Elements-of-the-Content-Grid

 

Assessment

Activity Overview: Evaluate how well your knowledge mastery measures up by answering a variety of questions within this assessment activity.

Learning Description:

• Multiple question types
• Knowledge assessment

Purpose: 

Applicable Content: 

• Fact-based learning
• Situational simulations

Customization: Feedback On/Off, Timer, Manually define number of questions, Manually define order of questions, Background imagery, Activity Branding, Introduction text, Start text

Question Requirements: 1

 

Block Party

 

Game Overview: Break grouped blocks filled with confetti. Blow up blocks by tapping 2 or more of the same color. The more blocks in the group, the more points you earn. Receive bonus multipliers by answering questions correctly.

Learning Description:

• Combines learning games with a more traditional game experience
• Game activities award you the option to answer multiple questions
• Try to blow up all the blocks to clear the board

Purpose: The strength of the user's knowledge is tested as they are presented more options. The user is engaged by interspersing traditional game play with questions and answers.

Applicable Content:

• Short questions/answers
• Fact memorization

Customization: Introduction text, Start text, and Activity branding

Question Requirements: 8

 

Check Point

Game Overview: Visit 3 levels, typically cities or other locations, advancing by answering questions. You have a limited amount of time to play and hints are allowed.

Learning Description:

• 3 levels
• Timed activity

Purpose: The strength of the user's knowledge is tested as they are presented more options.

Applicable Content:

• Short questions/answers
• Fact memorization
• Illustrating products within level
• Promotes engagement

Customization: Customized level configurations can represent cities or products.

Question Requirements: 18

 

Fast Lane

Game Overview: Drive to 3 different cities. Avoid road hazards and advance to the next city by answering questions correctly.

Learning Description:

• 3 levels

Purpose: Good for fact-based content.

Applicable Content:

• Short questions/answers
• Fact memorization
• Illustrating products within level
• Promotes engagement

Customization: Customized level configurations represent cities/locations.

Question Requirements: 21

 

Ice Breaker

 

Activity Overview: Choose the correct answer before the ice piles up on the bottom. Once the ice blocks pile to the top, the game is over.

Learning Description: 

• Single level
• Timed activity

Purpose: Users are presented questions and need to select an answer within a certain time.

Applicable Content:

• Short questions/answers
• Fact memorization
• Promotes engagement

Customization: Question timer, Introduction text, Start text, and Activity branding

Question Requirements: 30 

 

Path Finder

Activity Overview: Navigate your way through a series of simulated events using the arrows to move forward and backward within the game. When presented with a decision, select the best possible course of action, but be careful - you only get one attempt to answer correctly at each decision point!

Learning Description:

• Scenario-based training
• Guided discovery content
• Knowledge assessment

Purpose: This guided discovery learning method provides an immersive learner-centric approach with a simplified administrative set-up. This activity also allows learners to use the skills and knowledge they have gathered during other missions activities and apply these to a set of situational tasks for assessment.

Applicable Content: 

• Sales role playing
• Customer service training (call center, customer support)
• HR and management training (policy, procedure, compliance)
• Situational simulations

Customization: Customized content within panels, including text, color, images and videos. Choice of linear or branching decision paths (or combination of both)

Question Requirements: At least one question and one end scene

See here for more tips on Path Finder

Read Top 10 Branching Scenario Techniques

 

Quiz Ball

Game Overview: Find all the knowledge gems, earning huge bonus points along the way by hitting knowledge gems and correctly answering questions. Shoot balls to clear pages, gain points and enable special power ups. Now available in MLevel web!

Learning Description:

• Combines learning games with a more traditional game experience
• Game activities award you the option to answer multiple questions
• Clear all knowledge gems to complete each level

Purpose: The strength of the user's knowledge is tested as they are presented more options. The user is engaged by interspersing traditional game play with questions and answers.

Applicable Content:

• Short questions/answers
• Fact memorization

Customization: Introduction text, Start text, and Activity branding

Question Requirements: 8

ShortFuze

Activity Overview: Choose the correct answer before the fuze burns out.

Learning Description:

• Multiple levels

Purpose: Users are presented an opportunity to learn facts and get acquainted with content. Cannot proceed/complete game once the fuze (time) runs out.

Applicable Content:

• Fact-based content
• Product specifications 

Customization: Question timer, Introduction text, Start text, and Activity branding

Question Requirements: 20

 

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Other Activities

Custom Task

Activity Overview: Instructions to complete a real-life task no housed within the Mission.

Learning Description: Instructions are presented with a Yes/No checkbox to indicate completion.

Purpose: Can be used to tie a Mission to activities that must be completed elsewhere.

Applicable Content: Tests, events, certification

Customization: Introduction text and Activity branding

 

External Link

Activity Overview: Link to an external webpage.

Learning Description: Link to a webpage will relative learning content.

Purpose: Can be used to link to externally hosted content.

Applicable Content: Reference page, website, contest rules.

Customization: Introduction text and Activity branding

 

Knowledge Navigator

Activity Overview: Select a topic and flip through flash cards to study information.

Learning Description: Information for all activities constructed in an easy-to-study flashcard format.

Purpose: Can be used for pre-game prep, as reference during game play, or for real-world easy reference. Topics identified during game play as needing additional study are added to a study list.

Applicable Content: All types

Customization: Images

 

 

Video

Activity Overview: Play a video within a Mission.

Learning Description: Enhances learning with video content in a Mission.

Purpose: Reinforce training message with additional forms of media.

Applicable Content: Video - See supported video formats

Customization: Introduction text and Activity branding

 

SCORM

Activity Overview: Play a video within a Mission.

Learning Description: Enhances learning with video content in a Mission.

Purpose: Reinforce training message with additional forms of media.

Applicable Content:

Your eLearning modules can be exported as a SCORM HTML5 files. Please check the list below to ensure it matches one of the tools currently compatible with MLevel. If your product is not on this list, please reach out to your Account Strategist or Customer Success Manager for next steps:

• Captivate
• Articulate 360

Proper Dimensions

It is recommended that you size your eLearning module to a resolution of 1280 x 720 to ensure it properly fits the screen and does not require the learner to scroll. 

Customization: Any changes to the SCORM file must be made in the authoring tool used to create it and a new file must be uploaded into the MLevel studio with those changes and republished.