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Set up an Open Quiz mechanism
Updated over 2 months ago

Description

Launch a Quiz competition with open answers entered directly by participants. This competition allows your prospects/customers to put forward their ideas, opinions and views. Reward the players at the end of the game with a draw from all the participants. A panel of judges can also choose the winner directly! Test this mechanism.

Note: there are other ‘Quiz’-type mechanics:

  • The Quiz is a classic quiz (without a timer) where participants have to answer the questions you set correctly.

  • The Psychoquiz is a personality test, where each answer is linked to a profile.

  • The Chronoquiz is a quiz where participants have to answer the questions correctly within the time limit.

Configuration stages

The Open Quiz consists of the following sections:

  • Settings: to determine the general parameters of your campaign.

  • Home screen: to import the legal documentation for your game (rules, privacy policy, etc.) and configure the home page.

  • Registration form: to choose the fields for your form and set its design parameters.

  • Concept: to define the parameters of the game and its design, export the entries and manage the follow-up of your campaign (e.g. prize draws or limitations). This article will focus on this section in particular.

  • Thank you (optional): to thank your participants at the end of the game and/or inform them of your next news item.

  • Publication: to activate and distribute your campaign to your audience.

To see the different options available for each section, we recommend that you read the articles associated with them.

Design of an Open Quiz

Before getting started, we recommend that you read this article, which explains the basics of creating graphics on Socialshaker: Creating the graphics for your campaign. As with all the other mechanics, you can choose between using the templates provided or importing your own template.

If you choose the latter option, you will need to create the following elements for this mechanic:

  • Campaign background (1920x1080px recommended).

  • Desktop home page background (810x700px recommended) and Mobile home page background (480×710px recommended).

  • Desktop (810x700px recommended) and Mobile (480×710px recommended) form page background.

  • Game page background (810x700px recommended) - no Mobile image for this background, it will be resized automatically.

  • Image for sharing on social networks (810x700px recommended).

  • Background for the ‘Thank you’ page (810x700px recommended) and Mobile (480×710px recommended).

Note that you can use the campaign background as the default background for all pages on Mobile by ticking the appropriate box :


Concept section

Questions

This module lets you add questions and answers for your Open Quiz.

Questions

Indicate the number of questions you wish to generate and confirm by clicking on the ‘Add questions’ button:

Each question created can then be configured using different parameters:

  • Question text: the title of your question

  • Type of illustration: if you choose ‘Image “ or ”Video’, you can include a visual (free size) or the url of a video to illustrate your question:

  • Hint URL: the ‘Hint’ button allows players to get help on each question during the game. You therefore need to determine the URL link for the game help (usually a photo or an article on your website).

  • Maximum number of characters for answers: you can decide to leave between 1 and 1000 characters in the answer field for each question.

  • Default text before entry: write a line of text that will be visible in the answer field before the participant enters their own answer. By default, this text is ‘Your answer here...’.

Don't forget to click on the ‘Validate’ button at the bottom right of the screen before leaving this section.

Appearance

This module lets you import game backgrounds and customise the rendering of your texts and buttons.

How do I import my backgrounds?

The game background is imported in the ‘Page design’ section. Only the Desktop background can be uploaded, and it will be resized to display on Mobile as well. If you wish, you can force the display of your campaign background for the Mobile version - this operation is carried out in the "Configuration ’ section of your campaign.

How can I customise the rendering of questions and answers?

To change the colour of the questions and answers, go to the ‘Concept’ step and then to the Questions Appearance tab. Here you can change the look of your questions and answers.

Setting the ‘Replay’ button

The ‘Replay’ button allows players to improve their score by replaying as many times as they like. You can choose its appearance by default and on hover in ‘Replay button’.


Shares

To find out how to share a quiz on social networks, we recommend you read this article: Sharing your quiz on social networks.

Random drawing

A draw is used to determine the winners of your quiz campaign. To find out how to draw lots for an Open Quiz and what criteria are taken into account, we recommend you read this article: Random drawing.

Limits

By default, each participant can play as much as they like in the campaign. To set up game limits, click on "Limit type ’ and choose one of the options:

  • limit per day

  • limit by campaign

  • limit by IP

You must then enter a number corresponding to the desired limit - don't forget to change it in the text that will be displayed to the participant if they reach this limit.

You can also limit the maximum number of participants in an Open Quiz campaign. Set this number in the "Limit on total entries ’ field - you can also change the text that will be displayed to all participants who try to play after this limit has been reached.

Note: the text page displayed when a limit is reached will use the same colour codes as your Menu (defined background colour + white text).

Data export

You can export 2 types of file containing participation data:

  • Participants export: includes the data of all the participants in your campaign. You'll find this either in the ‘List of participants “ module in the ”Mechanics’ section, or via the ‘Export and Tracking “ choice in the ”Actions’ button for your campaign in the Dashboard.

  • Newsletter participants export: includes only the data of subscribers to your newsletter if you have activated this field on the form. You'll find it via the ‘Export and Tracking “ option of the ”Actions’ button for your campaign in the Dashboard.

In both cases, the answers to your Open Quiz will be available in the ‘Responses’ column.

Q&A

How can I modify my campaign once it has been activated?

You can, of course, modify your campaign at any time - simply make the changes you want and then confirm them using the ‘Validate’ button at the bottom of the page.

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