I was recently asked by a Maths teacher if I could help with some ideas for a Treasure Hunt style game on Canvas. The teacher had read the previous post on Canvas (Scavenger Hunts in Canvas - My Light Bulb Moment! - Instructure Community - 601989 (canvaslms.com)) and was keen to use this sort of idea.
The teacher has some pdf worksheets and wondered how they could be incorporated into the game as a clue.
My suggestion was to insert the pdf worksheet into the Canvas page using the Insert > Document feature and upload the worksheet:
When the document is uploaded, you can click on it and choose Link Options:
On the right-hand side of the page, you get the Link Options pop-up menu where you can select Preview Inline and Expand Preview by Default:
What this does to the document is sort of 'embed' it so it appears on the page:
So how do you include a worksheet as a clue as part of a Treasure Hunt and more importantly make sure students do all the questions?
We used the Lockee digital lock tool - https://en.lockee.fr/ and set a password of 25168 with a link to go to the next page.
Why 25168?
Its in the instructions...!
Although being a bit sneaky, and in theme with a Treasure Hunt, I changed the font colour of key information to white so it did not show up!
Anyone have other creative ways for using worksheets in Canvas? Do get in touch....
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