Teaching: quiz, SCORM and LTI

Andarama can turn a tour into a classroom activity: graded questions, objects to find, doors that open once students solve something. Students do not need an account. They play from the link, embedded in your LMS (Moodle, Canvas, Google Classroom as a link) or from an exported package.

Start from a template

On andarama.com, when you click New tour, the Start from a template block offers sample tours by sector. The ones in the Education group are complete tours, ready to copy and adapt. Their content is in Spanish:

Template	What it includes
Escape room: la bodega del castillo (the castle cellar)	Five rooms, a key (variable), three treasures with hints, gated questions, a passing score and a diploma
Quiz evaluable: los árboles y las estaciones (trees and seasons)	Natural science for primary and lower secondary: five places, eight one-point questions about what can be seen, the first one gated, a 60 % passing score, final report and certificate
Búsqueda del tesoro: máquinas y oficios (machines and trades)	Technology, or preparing a field trip: four places, eleven treasures with hints, a counter of treasures found, a completion message and a gated treasure in the first scene

The photos are CC0, and each template explains its mechanics inside the tour. They are copied to your account (each counts as one tour in your quota) and edited like any other tour: change the questions, keep the mechanics. On a self-hosted install, templates only appear if the operator has set them up.

Quizzes

• Each quiz hotspot holds one or more questions: prompt, type (single choice, multiple choice or true/false), options, feedback and points for each, plus the marker’s attempts (0 = unlimited). The Add question button adds another one to the same marker; each question can be collapsed, duplicated, moved up or down, or deleted. Visitors answer them one at a time (“Question 2 of 5”) and see how many they got right at the end. You can also spread markers across a scene or the whole tour: the final report adds up every question.
• The gate (Gate (cannot advance without correct answer)) keeps the visitor in the scene until they pass the marker’s quiz: every question right or, if a Pass mark (%) is set, that share of its points. Exits look dimmed, and clicking one opens the quiz with the prompt “Answer correctly to move on”. A wrong answer never opens the gate while attempts remain; with limited attempts, using them all up on every question of the marker does let the student leave, though those questions count as wrong in the grade. If a scene has several gated markers, students have to pass all of them.
• Under Tour settings › Quizzes:
  • Passing score (%).
  • Final report: once every question in the tour is answered, a summary with the score and whether the student passed.
  • Completion certificate: from the report, students who pass type their name and download a PDF.
  • Ask for the name when sending the result: the viewer asks for the student’s name before sending it.

When every question in the published tour has been answered, each visitor’s result (score, pass or fail and, if you ask for it, their name) is sent to the server, and you can download it as a CSV from Analytics › Quiz results. There is no class code or grouping by section: each submission is one row. Exported packages send nothing. To get the grade into your LMS gradebook, use the SCORM package.

A note on student data privacy: students play without an account, and the name typed for the certificate is used to build the PDF in the browser; if you turn on the name prompt, the name also travels with the quiz result. Tour analytics are cookieless and anonymous. This is a description of how the product works, not a FERPA or COPPA compliance statement; check with your district’s policies.

Treasure hunt

Place Treasure hotspots in any scenes you like and the viewer keeps count of how many have been found. Each treasure can show a message when found, and under Tour settings › Treasure hunt you set the game’s title and the completion message. Treasures look like a gem; to really hide one, change its icon or remove the round background under “Style”.

Each treasure can carry a Hint. While a scene still has treasures to find, the counter at the top offers a Hint button that shows the hint for the next one, without giving away where it is. Once all of them are found, the counter says so with the game’s completion message and stays on screen.

A treasure can also have a gate (nobody leaves the scene until it is found; trying to leave shows its hint). Forms have the same option.

Variables and escape rooms

Action (variables) hotspots (formerly “Counter / state”) change the tour’s variables, and the conditions on any hotspot read them: doors that open once you find a key, paths that depend on what you did, switching from day to night. Combine that with treasures and gated quizzes and you have a full escape room.

• Variables, actions and polygons: how they work, with a locked-door example.
• How to make an escape room: step by step, with a three-room example.

Narration in a scene can also block navigation until it ends (useful for guided lab walkthroughs).

SCORM: grades in your LMS

To send the grade to Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard or any SCORM-compatible LMS, export the tour as a SCORM 1.2 or 2004 (3rd edition) package. The package reports:

• completion_status once every scene has been visited or every question answered.
• score.raw, score.min and score.max, plus success_status based on the passing score you set.

On andarama.com, SCORM export is part of the Formación plan; on a self-hosted install it is always available. It can be combined with “Single HTML file”: the SCORM adapter goes inside the same file. Export options are covered in Export, and the Moodle steps in Add to Moodle.

LTI 1.3

Andarama is an LTI 1.3 Advantage tool with Deep Linking (teachers pick the tour from inside Moodle) and Assignment and Grade Services (the quiz grade goes back to the gradebook on its own). The tour is not copied into Moodle: when you republish, the course sees the new version. It has been tested end to end with Moodle 4.5 LTS.

The organization admin sets it up under Organisation settings → LTI: Moodle and other LMSs (on andarama.com this needs a plan that includes LTI, such as Formación); the instance operator can also register platforms from Administration → LTI. Each platform belongs to one organization: Deep Linking only offers that organization’s published tours, and launches with a different deployment_id are rejected. The full steps are in Add to Moodle.

No grade needed: link or iframe

For a virtual field trip with no assessment, just paste the link or the embed code into a course page: see Embed a tour. For a live class, you can lead the group through the tour with a guided tour over Meet or Teams.