Create a Ranking
Validate the assimilation of a process or logical sequence by offering your participants a list of proposals to put in the right order. Or ask your participants for their opinion on a subject by offering them a list of proposals to put in their preferred order.
To take part in the activity, participants simply drag and drop the questions and move them around in the order they see fit, to assess their level in evaluation mode or to find out what they think in survey mode!
New! Now your Ranking activity can be used as a survey-type activity!
How to add a ranking activity
To create a Ranking activity, click on Add a slide on the top left of your session and then scroll down the menu until you see the Ranking activity and click on it.
Settings
You will access the editing panel to fill in all the information.
- General
First of all, add a title to your activity. This could be a title or a question. You can also add an instruction to your activity (optional).
To the right of the activity title, you can choose the score you would like to assign to this activity according to its format.
- Activity format
New for the Ranking activity, you can choose between Rating, so that you can earn points by ranking the answers in the right order, or Polling, to find out your participants' preferences on a given subject.
You can even select that the answers are anonymous for your survey.
- Propositions to be ranked
Then enter your suggestions in the text fields provided.
The order you save is the order your participants must follow to get the right answer in Evaluation format.
With the Survey format, your participants can sort the answers in any order they wish.
Click on + Add a proposal to add new proposals to your ranking.
You can change the order in which the suggestions are displayed by clicking and holding the dotted line or the number of the item you want to move.
Use the icons to the right of the suggestions to either attach an image or delete the suggestion.
You can also add an explanation to your activity in Evaluation format by clicking on Add an explanation. The explanation of the answer will appear once the participant has validated their answer.
The saved disposition will be the one to be applied by the respondents to have a good answer.
- Correction and results
You can choose to have the results displayed after the answer (live) or at the end of the activity.
- Settings
You can activate a stopwatch (to obtain the duration of your activity at the end) or a timer (to determine the duration of the activity). You can activate the counter of participants. Furthermore, you can also choose whether to display a countdown at the start of the activity.
When finished, click on Save to save your activity.
Start activity
In the facilitator control mode, you will have a button to start the activity in the top right corner of the slide, which allows your participants to participate in it.
The organizer and moderators can also take part in the activity if they want. They just need to click on the Take part tab.
On evaluation activities, participants cannot change their answers once they have submitted them.
The activity's options
You can at any moment, by clicking on the 3 small dots on the right of your activity:
- Edit your activity
- Duplicate the activity
- Reset the activity
- Capture the activity in image format
- Delete the slide
Scores
The Ranking is an assessment activity, your participants will earn points if they answer correctly to the activity.
- Individual scores :
In the activity, the individual earned points can be seen by the participants thanks to the slide’s podium clicking on the icon of the trophy, in the bottom right corner of the Ranking slide.
The facilitator can also display the accumulated by participants from the projection screen, to see the progress of each.
Owner’s view for the individual podium:
- Team scores:
If you have created teams for your session, the earned points by the participants, for the Ranking activity, will be counted for the teams’ final leaderboard. The facilitator can see the teams' leaderboard from the Beekast projection screen.
To display the projection screen and then the podium :
- Click on Present to open the Projection screen on the top right of your session.
- On the new tab that will open, pass your mouse in the top right corner of the screen to see the options.
- Finally, click on the trophy icon that appears.
Display of the projection screen and the general leaderboard:
Survey
In the survey format, the suggestions will be awarded a number of points according to the order in which they are ranked.
Example: You have suggestions A, B and C in the ranking activity.
- A participant will rank the suggestions in the following order: A-C-B
Proposal A will get 3 points, proposal C will get 2 points and proposal B will get 1 point
Another participant will rank the suggestions in the following order: B-A-C
Proposal B will get 3 points, proposal A will get 2 points and proposal C will get 1 point.
Depending on the order that your participants give to the suggestions, the suggestions will obtain a certain number of points, and it is the suggestion that obtains the most points that will come at the top of the ranking. It may happen that in certain cases several suggestions have the same number of points, in which case they will be equal in the results of the activity and these suggestions will have the same place in the ranking.
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