Marvel-ous Squares

This is my first build in Articulate Storyline and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. This activity is a formative assessment teachers can use to measure middle and high school students' level of mastery in solving two-step equations.

The game has a review module which can be accessed from the landing page, instructions for how to play the game, and the game itself. It uses sliders to move from one question to another for each character, text-input fields for keeping track of correct answers and wins, and a triggers to freely navigate through the game and reset the board when it's time for a new class to come in and play.

I created a template for this review game for my students in PowerPoint five years ago and thought it would give me the chance to try my hand with a new tool. While I know PowerPoint slides can be imported directly into Storyline, I wanted to do this build from scratch... other than the BoxyBot characters (thanks Drew Burdick!).

I used Canva to create the graphics for the landing page, game board, and squares for each player. After that, I created slides for the landing page, credits, directions, the review tutorial, the game board, and a slide for one of the Marvel-ous contestants.

Each player slide has five layers that advance by moving the slider that separates the box from the questions and choices. After setting up the slide for one character, I duplicated it for the others to reduce the time it took to build.

One thing I learned from this build, is that I want to learn a lot more. I know that variables could be used to make this activity a little more streamlined, but I haven’t learned how to use those yet.

Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments.