Whether it's a live event on site, an online event or a hybrid version, e.g. a satellite event, you need interactive elements. These ensure that your attendees stay interested instead of just listening to the presentations and, in the worst case, leaving the room or simply closing the browser tab with a click. But how do you organise such a knowledge quiz? How can you make it exciting? Find out in this blog post.
Why a knowledge quiz adds value to your event
Interaction and networking have been an important part of events of all kinds for several years now. However, since the start of the pandemic, these aspects have become increasingly important and decide whether your participants come back next time or - if they don't decide at all - with what enthusiasm they actually absorb your messages. Frontal is out and variety is welcome. This applies today more than ever.
This is because participants only come to a live event if they can recognise added value compared to pure online participation. Pure knowledge transfer already works perfectly well via webinars and similar formats. That's why your on-site events need real added value, a real difference, compared to the virtual version. This is where networking and interaction come into play. Networking and interaction are intensive experiences, especially at live events, and are relatively easy for you as a planner to implement. If you are now hoping that you only need interactive elements at live events, we have to dash your hopes right away. After all, bored participants will be gone even faster online than at face-to-face events. After all, nobody notices and most people's to-do lists and the numerous distractions in the home office often call out much louder than organisers and planners would like.
With a knowledge quiz, you bring variety to your event and ensure that your participants can get involved. As a result, they will stay longer and remember your event more positively and for longer.
How you can implement a knowledge quiz at your event
Nowadays, you really have many options for realising a knowledge quiz at your event. In particular, we would like to show you the variants that are possible with TEDME.
The game format
Whether it's individual questions one after the other or the popular Jeopardy view with many or just a single area - with TEDME everything is possible. The process of a knowledge quiz is very simple. Just like in the popular TV puzzle show, your participants can choose from which section and for which number of points they want to answer a question.
Once they have clicked on a field, they now have to answer the question correctly. The TEDME system automatically awards the points shown in the selected field for correct answers.
The aim is for each player to collect as many points as possible in a short space of time.
If you click on a question incorrectly (in this case 4,105 metres), you will not receive any points, will be told the answer is green and will also lose valuable playing time.
Multi-player or group duels
You can organise such a knowledge quiz so that everyone plays against everyone else or so that there are groups that compete against each other. In a group game, each group receives its own TEDME pin, i.e. access to a room. Both of these options encourage competition between the participants and it depends on your event as to what works best.
For example, if you are organising an event for your company, you could have different departments or branches compete against each other. This also works perfectly for hybrid satellite events.
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But you can also set up and realise such group duels at regular live events where your participants do not know each other beforehand. In this case, for example, people in different conference rooms play against each other.
What further fuels the competition between the groups is the fact that individual players with only a few points will lower the average result of this group. It's like in sport or in professional life - one failure can drag the whole team down.
Knowledge quiz at online, onsite and hybrid events
The really good thing about a digital solution like TEDME is that you can use it to implement a knowledge quiz in all event formats.
At a live event, display the progress bars on the main stage for all participants to see. If several groups are competing against each other, we recommend that you also display the bars of the other groups in all rooms.
This can be realised in the same way for an online event. Simply play the TEDME bars in the different video rooms or on the stages in your broadcasting studio.
If you are organising a hybrid event, we recommend displaying the bars on the stage for the on-site audience and integrating the data for the online audience separately into the streaming image. The latter simply provides better image quality. This way, viewers in offices or home offices can also see the score exactly.
What you need for your knowledge quiz in addition to a good interaction tool
In addition to a good and GDPR-compliant interaction tool such as TEDME, you also need for your knowledge quiz:
- interesting questions for the various subject areas,
- a prize for the winner or the winning team,
- a presentation area on your event website or on the stage to display the progress bars with the scores of the individual teams or players,
- A sufficient number of participants and enough playing time to make the competition fun.
Chatting out of the sewing box - experiences of other organisers
In 2015, we used TEDME to organise a Jeopardy-style knowledge quiz for the first time at a medical congress with 500 doctors in three parallel rooms. We would never have thought that this playful way of engaging the audience would work so well with this target group and in the context of very serious congress topics. Since then, we have been recommending that our planners and organisers incorporate this kind of gamification into their events as a break and to liven things up.
TEDME was also successfully used by the organisers for the break during the 2019 Handball Day. The spectators were able to actively participate in the knowledge quiz and the winner was delighted to receive a fan set. From 2:48″ you can see the familiar red and green TEDME bars here, which indicate whether the spectators were correct.
Conclusion
A knowledge quiz loosens up your event, encourages participants to join in and have fun and ensures that they stay longer at your event and remember it more positively. It is ideal for live events on site as well as for online events and can be easily implemented in all formats with TEDME. If you want to make your next event more lively with a knowledge quiz, get in touch with us right away.
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