Teachers, are your students ready for their biggest challenge yet? Classcraft Boss Battles are about to change how they learn new material and prepare for tests and quizzes!
Classcraft Boss Battles are out now, and as we revealed earlier this fall, they’re a great tool to transform regular assessment in your classroom. Let’s take a look at how a boss battle would play out.
First, the teacher sets up the battle, inputting the questions they want their students to answer and choosing the boss monster they’ll face.
Once you begin, the first question will display on the screen. If your students answer correctly, they’ll bring the boss monster a little closer to defeat.
But if students miss a question, beware! They or their whole team will take damage. Students need to work together and use their powers, like Heal and Protect, to keep each other going strong.
If students are triumphant, they’ll earn Experience Points and Gold Pieces as a reward for their hard work!
We hope you’re excited to roll out Boss Battles with your students. We can’t wait to hear your stories!
For an overview on how to set up Boss Battles in your classroom, watch the tutorial below:
We’re almost ready to release Classcraft Boss Battles! The team can hardly contain our excitement, so we wanted to give everyone a sneak peek of what’s in store.
Ready? Voila!
What are Boss Battles, exactly? They’re review games designed to make quizzes so exciting that students will ace your next test or exam.
Boss Battles are another way for teachers to add their own content in Classcraft. Every time students, teams, or the whole class answers one of your questions correctly, they’ll knock Health Points (HP) off a boss monster and gain Experience Points (XP) as a reward. Cool, huh?
What happens if students aren’t prepared? For every question they get wrong, the boss attacks and takes away some of their HP. Yikes!
If students demonstrate their mastery of your lesson, they’ll defeat the boss and be victorious!
We hope you’re as excited as we are! :)
Stephanie, Community Manager stephanie@classcraft.com
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Mallory Kessen is nearing the end of her first year of teaching English and using Classcraft at Logan Hocking Middle School. This fall she will teach English at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, OH. She founded Gamindex in 2014 to connect teachers to video games for education through reviews of games from an education point of view. You can find her online @mallorykessen or @gamindex.
Thanks for talking with us today, Mallory! To start, tell us a little about yourself as an educator and what classes and grade levels you teach.
I’m in my first year of teaching. I teach eighth grade English in Logan, Ohio. Next year, I’m going to be in Cincinnati, but I don’t know what grade level yet. In addition to teaching, I am getting a Masters in computers and educational technology, and I run my own website where I review video games for educational use.
