I am a new Mentor for a team in Ontario. I am also a teacher.
In order to test my students knowledge, I use programs like Kahoot and Quizizz.
I thought it might be fun to put together a quiz after the challenge gets released January 6th.
I know the rules are long and run many many pages.
I thought we could work together to create an online quiz about the new rules so we can all do the online quiz for our first strategy meeting on January 7th.
I am flexible and could work in either Kahoot, Quizizz or a third online quiz program.
If you are interested, please post on this link or send a pm.
Thanks,
Michelle McDonnell
Business Team Mentor for team 2702
Game tests are already quite popular. Several teams (including mine) put out quizzes within a few days of the rules release.
See:
If you’d like to collaborate with us, feel free to shoot me a PM.
Great idea.
For those that don’t know Kahoot and Quizizz are online assessment tools that educators use.
Kahoots can be played as a group while Quizizz can be tailored and taken individually with better feedback.
I would be happy to collaborate with you Michelle.
Quizizz might be easier for most mentors to navigate.
I find the Referee test quite challenging, every year. I hear that the Head Referee test is even harder.
A few team mentors, and young team alumni, have been a great source of new Referees over the years. The perspective they bring to team discussions about reading the rules and thinking about strategy is very helpful. Volunteer Coordinators and Head Referees are usually looking for a few new Referee volunteers every season.
As Richard says, the referee tests are usually quite challenging.
But they differ from the tests I’ve seen from teams. I will try a team test as a part of my general game knowledge. But after the 3rd or 4th question of “how many points is X worth” I give it up. The scoring system will calculate that.
In my experience, the referee tests have nothing to do with “how many points is X worth” but rather things like “here’s some pictures, which ones are in violation of a rule” and similar things. Team tests seem to focus more on the how many points you get for things, which makes sense - when you’re thinking of strategy, completing 4 rotors for example makes a lot more sense than dumping some fuel in the low goal (as a contrived example)
And I’ll totally extend the invite to anyone that might want to join the zebra ranks :). Always looking for good refs.