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Create a Website (or use an LMS) 1 Try Gradecraft, 3DGameLab, Classcraft, TheVirtualLocker, EdModo, Schoology, or Google Classroom. GAMIFY YOUR CLASSROOM in 5 simple steps based on the presentation by Sarah Thomas in the Imagine Easy webinar: Level Up Your Teaching! Gamify Your Class in 5 Steps http://info.imagineeasy.com/level-up-your-teaching-gamify-your-class-in-five-easy-steps-webinar Decide the rules 2 Create challenges 3 Modify your traditional assignments into quests or challenges. When creating the challenges, have different levels of difficulty so each student can feel challenged in their own way. Create an award system instead of a traditional gradebook. Students will earn XP (experience points) as they go through their quests. Associate the XP with the level of difficulty. Provide students with multiple choices of quests to complete so they can choose with they are most interested in. Include: level, reward, player, rubric, objectives and directions in the beginning of the quest. Extra: include an example of a successful project. Put together a leaderboard 4 Every game has rules. You need rules for your students to play by. A little competition never hurt anyone, right? Create a leader- board so students will have more incentive to learn the materi- al and share their knowledge. Feel free to give a prize to the top 5 students on the leader- board. You can also make it anonymous. Have fun! 5 The information in this infographic has also been featured in her exclusive webinar with Imagine Easy Solutions as part of our Professional Development Series. Our Professional Development Series is co-hosted with other educators and notable ed-tech influencers. We cover a wide variety of subjects and, in an effort to support educators like you, provide this service for FREE. To view our Professional Development Series: http://www.imagineeasy.com/professional-development/ Brought to you by: Sarah Thomas @sarahdateechur &

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Create a Website (or use an LMS)1Try Gradecraft, 3DGameLab, Classcraft, TheVirtualLocker, EdModo,Schoology, or Google Classroom.

GAMIFY YOURCLASSROOMin 5 simple stepsbased on the presentation by Sarah Thomas in the Imagine Easy webinar:

Level Up Your Teaching! Gamify Your Class in 5 Stepshttp://info.imagineeasy.com/level-up-your-teaching-gamify-your-class-in-five-easy-steps-webinar

Decide the rules2

Create challenges3Modify your traditional assignments into quests or challenges. When creating the challenges, have different levels of difficulty so each student can feel challenged in their own way.

Create an award system instead of a traditional gradebook. Students will earn XP (experience points) as they go through their quests. Associate the XP with the level of difficulty.

Provide students with multiple choices of quests to complete so they can choose with they are most interested in.

Include: level, reward, player, rubric, objectives and directions in the beginning of the quest. Extra: include an example of a successful project.

Put together a leaderboard4

Every game has rules. You need rules for your students to play by.

A little competition never hurt anyone, right? Create a leader-board so students will have more incentive to learn the materi-al and share their knowledge.

Feel free to give a prize to the top 5 students on the leader-board. You can also make it anonymous.

Have fun!5

The information in this infographic has also been featured in her exclusive webinar with Imagine Easy Solutions as part of our Professional Development

Series. Our Professional Development Series is co-hosted with other educators and notable ed-tech influencers. We cover a wide variety of subjects and,

in an e�ort to support educators like you, provide this service for FREE.

To view our Professional Development Series: http://www.imagineeasy.com/professional-development/

Brought to you by: Sarah Thomas@sarahdateechur &