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New game settings in image markups

The popular picture marking game type, where the student has to click on the correct marking in a picture, has now been enhanced with two new picture marking game types. One shows a marker in a picture and the student […]

Assignments – Summary and estimated duration

Now teachers get a summary of all groups and assignments as well as within the selected group when the teacher go to assignments. If the teacher shows a specific assignment, an estimate of how long it will take to complete […]

Improved feedback in image markups

Games of the game type image markups have been updated. The number of attempts/guesses is now displayed with hearts as in other game types. In addition, the game creator (when creating a user game) can now choose whether the number […]

Admin for schools and municipalities

Do you want to get a better overview of your school’s use of Helpful Games? Do you have a school administrator who needs to manage classes and groups instead of the teachers themselves? If you have a plus membership of […]

Bug in multiple choice levels (fixed)

If the student, in a game with multiple choice questions and extra lives (indicated by hearts), quickly clicked on 2 different wrong answers, there was a bug in the copying when that question would be added as an extra question […]

Visual feedback of failed game rounds

When the student plays a level in a game, a progress bar is displayed in many games. It’s green as long as the game round is about to be completed, but turns red if the student does something wrong and […]

Clear visual feedback in free text games

It is not really new functionality, but now it is much clearer how many chances the student has when a question has to be answered with free text. If the student has 4 chances, 3 hearts are displayed which disappear […]

New game type – Link Up

If you are a teacher, you now can create your own game where the student will link questions with the right answers. You can upload images, audio and video and choose whether the texts can be read aloud or not. […]

Create questions with hidden text

We have now upgraded the game types multiple-choice questions and questions with free text answers by making it possible to hide either the question text and / or the answer options. When they are hidden, you can only listen to […]

Several correct answers

In the game type with free text answers, it is now possible to enter up to 3 correct answers. Before, you as a game creator had to enter only 1 correct answer. That usually works well, but sometimes we need […]