Imagine...

Imagine having a student who hated writing. Whenever you said, "Today we're going to write..." they groaned loudly for the whole class to hear. Now imagine you spend a 1/2 hour helping them---offering to scribe, creating sentence starters, brainstorming---and after all that you only managed to get 2-3 sentences out of them.

Sound familiar?

Well now imagine being able to whisper something into that reluctant writer's ear that would make them magically pick up their pen and start to write. Not just a sentence or two, but a paragraph, a page full of writing?

Can you imagine the magic words that you would say? We've all looked for those words, and if you're like me, you have a knack for finding words, but those magic words proved elusive.

Well, what if I told you that those magic words were something like, "I know this is really hard for you. I'm going to offer you 200 XP if you can finish this assignment in the next 30 minutes?"

The Engine

The ClassQuests Engine uses Google Forms as a way to input data into an automated leaderboard and classroom accounting system.

With the ClassQuests Engine, you can REWARD students for positive behaviour, FINE students' negative behavious and let students purchase real world and fantasy POWERS with their rewards.

The Homebase

The ClassQuests Homebase is a classroom website that houses the ClassQuests engine and any other tools you use to gamify your classroom. This is where you go when you want to reward or fine your students, and this is where your students go when they want to purchase a power.

The Extras

The extras create a fully rounded gaming experience, and include things like Quests, Random Events, and Avatars. Each of your students can have an avatar on the classroom website, which they can purchase with their Gold Points. Random events and Quests make learning fun.

So how hard will it be?

I'm not going to lie---you could find a much less time intensive way to teach.

The solutions that I've developed are for teachers who want to get their hands dirty and try out an entirely new way of teaching. It's for teachers who

Setting up and learning how to use your system, whatever system you choose, won't be a snap of the fingers.

The solutions that I've developed with ClassQuests are based on Google Sheets, so a basic understanding of some formulas will be helpful, but more important is a willingness to learn.

I've developed these tools using Google products because I didn't want to have to pay subscription fees for software. I wanted something that could evolve with me as a teacher. If that's something you want as well, then you can make a ClassQuests system work well for you because it is fully customizable. It is fully owned by you.

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