Improved search
As Helpful games has grown, it has also become more difficult to find among all the new games. We have therefore developed a new and improved search function where you can perform a normal plain search as before, but now […]
Category Archives: New site function
Keep playing assignments
A frequently requested function has been to let the students keep playing the tasks in an assignment that they have been assigned, even after they have completed the task. Now there is a setting when creating an assignment where you […]
Extra tries on multiple choice questions
When you create your own game and add a game level of type multiple choice, you can now choose to let the students have more chances on the questions: If you activate this setting, students get up to 3 hearts, […]
Create mandatory assignment
A popular function on Helpful Games is to create assignments. Now it is possible to make an assignment mandatory. Then the student must play the tasks in the assignment before any other game or (non-mandatory) assignment can be played. This […]
Print an assignment
Now you may print out all tasks in an assignment. It fits well eg. if you want to create a test or exam where the students only need pen and paper. You can now customize a test by choosing specific […]
Go back to previous questions
Many of our games with multiple questions have a button to get to the next question. See e.g. the green button in the image above. Starting today, it is also possible to go back to the previous question or questions […]
Read receipt on messages
Now you can see if the recipient has read your message that you sent via Helpful Games. If you have sent a message to multiple students or teachers, you will also see who has read and who has not yet […]
Print a game on paper for your students
As an active Plus member, you may now print almost all game levels and hand them out to your students as exercises to solve with paper and pencil. It might be good if you, for example, are having problems with […]
Create game questions in Excel
If you want to create your own game, but rather work in Excel, there is now an import function on the page for creating games. When you open the edit mode for a game level, there is now an button […]
Hand out login info to students
We have now made it easier for you to distribute your students’ login information when creating a new class. Now you can print login information for an entire class and get an instant printout that you can cut and distribute. […]
