Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Seamless Authoring and Analytics. Create one game with the Knowledge Guru authoring tool that players can access across all devices. Your learners can start playing on their smartphone and finish on their laptop. Scores and achievements sync seamlessly between the web app and native app version of Knowledge Guru. Already a Customer?

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The game design elements you can use – and the game play experience you can create – gets rather limited.when you attempt to use an eLearning authoring tool to produce the game. In my opinion, eLearning course authoring tools are not the best tools for creating games, but this is often the only tool eLearning folks have to use.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sharon Boller , creator of Knowledge Guru® and President of Bottom-Line Performance, has authored a new white paper on using game mechanics and game elements in learning games. About the Author: Sharon Boller is the president of Bottom-Line Performance, Inc, an Indianapolis-based learning design company. Download the White Paper.

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Manual spacing allows the game author to control what levels and worlds are available to their players. Authors have the option of immediately adjusting level availability or they can schedule an entire world to unlock at a future date. This is particularly useful when implementing your game as a daily or weekly competition.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 23, 2017

When you log in to a Quest or Legend game as a game author, you land on the main dashboard. This dashboard is your launching point for anywhere else you want to go within the authoring tool. Each of these menu options can also be expanded to reveal sub-menu choices within each main area of the authoring tool. Menus/Navigation.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Every game starts out as an empty shell that an author has to populate and then convert from offline status to online status. The Game Author will determine if the game shell should be for a Quest game, or for a Legend game. First, Select the game author from the drop-down menu. Quick Steps List. Click Create New Game Shell.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 10, 2016

When game authors create a new game, they can quickly set up automated delivery of any standard report, as shown below. This task is performed at the system administrator level, not at the game author level. We’ll have a second Summer release in August that provides game authors with two new question types to use in Quest games.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 19, 2017

When you log in to Drive as a game author, you land on the main dashboard for your Drive game. This dashboard is your launching point for anywhere else you want to go within the authoring tool. Each of these menu options can also be expanded to reveal sub-menu choices within each main area of the authoring tool. Access reports.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 28, 2014

The Learning and Development team will embrace the easy authoring and customization process. You can create and destroy your own games, add game authors and assign them to games, and run reports for all games in your organization with just a few clicks. Learners will love the new theme packs. Make it Your Own.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 2, 2017

The authoring tool is in English, but content can be input in the language of choice. Have a Spanish-speaking audience that you want to play a Drive game? No problem. Drive games can be created in seven languages besides English: Chinese. Portuguese.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2013

He has authored 2 books on the subject including The Gamification of Learning and Instruction , one of the best books out there about games for learning. Author Andrzej Marczewski breaks down a few different categories of serious games so that the overly broad term can have a little more meaning for instructors.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 2, 2017

The authoring tool is in English, but content can be input in the language of choice. Have a Spanish-speaking audience that you want to play a Drive game? No problem. Drive games can be created in seven languages besides English: Chinese. Portuguese.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 16, 2013

In this book, authors Gabe Zichermann and Joselin Linder cover how game designers predict and motivate behaviors, and how to harness the power of games for real business results. Master the gamified strategies that will transform your business—or be left behind.” What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 9, 2014

Sharon Boller , Knowledge Guru creator and Chief Product Officer, has authored a new white paper on strategies you can use to help learners remember. Corporate learning professionals need strategies to improve both knowledge transfer during the initial learning event as well as the rate of long-term retention.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

This is something you can easily enable or disable as the Game Author. How to Enable Automatic Email Reminders. We encourage using automated emails to help keep players engaged with your learning objectives. Follow the steps below to enable automatic email reminders: 1. Select REMINDERS ENABLED from the drop-down menu.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Custom allows game authors to choose how players complete their Drive experience. Knowledge Guru’s Drive has two delivery methods for minigames: Daily 3 and Custom. Read this article to learn about how to choose a delivery method. To customize game order: Navigate to Customize > Minigame Delivery. Choose Custom on the toggle.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 20, 2014

Add and edit game authors: Have a team of instructional designers? Sending (and re-sending) log-in information to your authors is easy, too. Change details like the game’s title and URL in seconds. With the Enterprise Edition, you can assign them log-in credentials for individual games.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 5, 2015

Here’s how to export your game questions: Go to the DEVELOP tab within the authoring tool. NOTES: If your SME inserts more characters than a field allows, the authoring tool will simply cut off the item when the character limit is reached. Select Export/Import Questons. Follow directions to export a.CSV file.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 13, 2015

Players, game authors and system administrators all use this simply URL, also available by clicking “Log In” from any page on the Knowledge Guru site, to access their games. So…if you create a field called SUPERVISOR, you will be able to access a report labeled Supervisor Performance Report from the game author site.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Annie Murphy Paul’s bio tells us she is a “book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better.” As a result, many an article has been forwarded around the company, and it’s always an interesting read.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 19, 2014

Dr. Karl Kapp is the author of several books on gamification, including his most recent, Gamification of Learning and Instructional Fieldbook. She has designed numerous tabletop games, simulations, and online games, and holds an MS degree in instructional system technology from Indiana University. About Karl Kapp.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The authoring wizard lets you incorporate a link to a video into your question from Youtube or Vimeo. Being able to watch someone do something is far better than reading about someone doing something. The Quest game type supports video-based questions. Note: Legend games do not.)

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

The authoring tool describes your report options, so this article will not detail all options. Knowledge Guru Drive includes a variety of reports you can use to track player progress. Instead, we will focus on the types of information you might want to gather – and which report is the right one to use. Reports Available for Drive .

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Game Author: Invite players to your game and share the registration code. As a Game Author, whenever you make your game live you’re immediately given your game’s unique URL that you can share out in an invitation email. Your game’s registration code may have been provided to you via invitation from your Game Author.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Most L&D functions will have multiple “authors” developing training. Solutions should make the process of acquiring this knowledge painless and even motivating. …allow an internal team to collaborate on the solution. An enterprise-ready solution is needed. Are people learning what we need them to learn?

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Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

. <U><a href=” YOURURLADDRESS ” target=”_blank”> YOUR ONSCREEN TEXT FOR USERS TO SEE </a></U> Here’s an example of a question I wrote in the authoring tool.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 25, 2014

You can author your game using the same easy-to-use online interface, then simply hit “publish” to generate a zip file for your LMS administrator to handle. Knowledge Guru customers can now choose to publish their games as a SCORM package for upload onto their LMS.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 26, 2017

The Knowledge Guru Drive authoring tool allows you to create a Drive game that’s unique to your organization by customizing it with names, logos, registration fields, etc. This article focuses on the look and feel of your Drive game and explains the steps to create a unique Drive experience for your learners. Customize Your Drive Game.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 30, 2014

Louis and a co-author of “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.”. According to Roediger, knowledge is solidified in our working memory when we practice retrieving and using it. According to NYTimes.com, Henry L. Roediger III is a professor of psychology at Washington University in St. ” We could not agree more.

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Knowledge Guru

MAY 15, 2017

To fully assess a player’s mastery of the content associated with a Forest Flight game, we encourage authors to create three scenarios. On Branch 2, use GO TO PREVIOUS when prompted to identify “How to proceed from this result.” This enables player to re-do previous branch.

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 27, 2013

” In it, the author breaks down some conclusions that could be made from these scientific experiments, like “Rewards that are unpredictable (loot drops) are generally more motivating than rewards that are predictable (100 xp per monster).”

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In this first article, the author highlights five ways to promote game-based learning. This week’s GBL Picks has a few articles focused on educators in a school setting, but the ideas still translate perfectly into the corporate word.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Faster load times for both players and authors, no matter where they are in the world. We can create a character pack for any industry you can imagine. Faster Speeds. We have migrated the entire Knowledge Guru database to Amazon cloud servers. The result? New Player and Question Upload Capabilities. Need to load players into your game fast?

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 28, 2014

All the major eLearning authoring tools (Lectora, Captivate, Storyline) are Experience API-ready. What type of solution would you imagine is needed to solve the problem? Pick a new tool: Find a technology solution that is Experience API-compliant. ZebraZapps by Allen Interactions is also a good candidate.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The authoring tool does a nice job of describing your report options so this article will not detail all options. Both Guru and Quest game types include a variety of reports you can use to track player progress. Instead, we will focus on the TYPES of information you might want to gather – and which report is the one to use.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Louis and a co-author of “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.”. According to Roediger, knowledge is solidified in our working memory when we practice retrieving and using it. According to NYTimes.com, Henry L. Roediger III is a professor of psychology at Washington University in St. ” We could not agree more.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2015

If the answer to all of the above is “very little,” then you may be tempted to grab onto a template – or to design a game in an eLearning authoring tool that mirrors a common game frame (e.g. How much budget/skill/time do you have? Clue, Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit).

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