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Digital Breakout

3/9/2016

 
I recently wrote a post about Breakouts, focussing on the physical ones. If you want to learn more about the basics of Breakouts please read my old post.
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So unlike a physical breakout, which takes place in a classroom, where you have to break into a box, a digital one takes place on a website, and you have to 'break through' a Google Form, by entering every padlock password correctly.

Some of the benefits of a Digital Breakout
  • No set up required (after you create it of course)
  • You can have a whole class working on their own Breakout
  • You can create several Breakouts and have the class working on different ones
  • Doesn't require anything physical (so no cost, no resetting passwords, no replacing broken padlocks)
  • They are super easy and quick to create
  • You can track how many people complete the game
  • You can easily have students create their own then get another classmates to test them (much harder with the physical one)
  • You can do them anywhere - so they can be done for homework!
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At the top of mine I have a Google Drawing, where only the hammer and sickle are hyperlinked. I have a link behind the word 'Comrades!', but have kept the color the same as the other text to hide it. I also have some white on white text which you can only see if you hover over it!
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I have this Snote hidden behind a hyperlink. Here you slide the arrows along to rotate the object to reveal hidden words.
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A short riddle one of my colleagues told me a while ago...
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Although not important to the game, I included this video to give them extra content, useful to their studies.
Although some of the clues can be solved with common sense, I have tried to make most of them only solvable if you have read the book. The best way I have found to do this, is by linking to a Google Form, where they have to get a number of questions before progressing to the next page, which contains another cryptic clue.
I use Data Validation on my Google Form for this and the padlock form (find out how here).
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I have a few extra clues hidden on the page, but I don't want to show you everything - I'd rather you have a play on the game and find out for yourself!

Play my Animal Farm breakout Here!
Breakout Edu have a long list of tutorials to help you get started too:
"Locked" Form
Embedding on Google Sites 
Hotspot on Google Draw
Jigsaw Planet
Force Copy a Google Doc/Sheet/Slides
Bit.ly (link shortener)
Thinfi (link shortener with password protection)
White on White text
FormMule
Autocrat
Google Sheets - Conditional Formatting
Google Sheets - IF Formula
Google Forms - Go to Page Based on Response

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