Situation: Colleges and universities run orientation every year. As the organizer, you run campus tours, information sessions, and events to welcome your new students. The problem? The orientation format has not changed over the years, and you need some cool, new ideas to make your orientation memorable.
Complication: Students signed up for your session but a low number of them showed up. The young kids found your campus tour boring and left half way through. The others were looking at the phone all the time.
Question: “How can I engage these new students better during the orientation so that they can learn a bit more about our school/college/university?”
Answer: How about having a Scavenger Hunt 2.0 in your school orientation? Prof. Paul Lam and I have co-developed a new tool called Presentria GO to help you take your orientation to the next level. As the organizer, you can set up various checkpoint locations on campus and design some questions or content (video/image) to be displayed on students’ smartphones when they physically arrive at these checkpoints. The students can earn points and get digital badges (Gold/Silver/Bronze) if they were able to answer the questions correctly. Presentria GO gives students the incentives to pay attention during the orientation and make the campus tour a lot more interesting.
To accommodate those students who can’t join the orientation in-person, Paul and I have also developed a Virtual Scavenger Hunt option. This way, remote students can experience the same question or content using just a regular web browser at home.
I set up a quick demo for Innis College at UofT lately. If you’re interested in testing your knowledge about Innis, log into the following site to experience a Virtual Scavenger Hunt that’s powered by Presentria GO!
Log-in: https://go.presentria.com
Session ID: G1243
Student ID: enter any number
Student Name: enter any name
Learn more: https://presentria.ca/orientation-campus-tour/
Info about Presentria GO: https://presentria.ca/presentria-go/
Cheers,
- Ken