How to Use Basic Features of the Knowledge Guru Game Creation Wizard

Once you’ve assigned your game a title, conducted your game design meeting and created a design document, you’re ready to start using the Game Creation Wizard to make your Knowledge Guru® game.  This tutorial covers the basic features of the Wizard, and will get you up and running with the tool quickly. For a more […]

How to Use Knowledge Guru Admin Tracking Features

The tracking capabilities of Knowledge Guru® far exceed completion rates and post-test scores available for more traditional courses. Five different user reports are available, and each can be saved as a PDF or printed. All five reports are demonstrated in this screencast: User Progress Report Sort all of your users by last access, mastery level, […]

How to Register Knowledge Guru Players

There are three ways to have players register for your Knowledge Guru game. Read on to determine which method best suits your purposes. Have Players Self-Register In most cases, it is easiest to just let players register themselves. Simply direct players to go to your game link (such as http://theknowledgeguru.com/gamedesign) and fill out the fields […]

Learning Game Design: Think About the Learning and Then the Game

I am a firm believer that most games teach. However, not all games are explicitly designed to be learning games. If your intention is to create a learning game that achieves specific learning outcomes for the players, then you have to think about the learning before you begin crafting the game design. It’s critical to […]

GBL Picks: Curated Game Based Learning Resources

The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that. We’re on a mission to educate the Instructional Design community and the decision makers in Training and […]