Your gateway to next generation Challenge Based Learning
Built to make engaging learning experiences accessible for all.
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What is Applio CBL?
Easy and fun to use but powerful to deploy, Applio CBL has a number of key features to take game like learning to the next level. Check out the core components of the system below.
Challenges
At the heart of the system are 'Challenges'—engaging learning games that are powerful yet much easier to create than traditional 'Serious Games.' They come in a wide variety of formats.
Player Environment
Challenges take place in a rich immersive, journey-themed environment. Players can manage their data and avatar and complete challenges solo or in multiplayer our unique multi-player mode.
Creation Editors
Challenges are built using easy-to-use editors that simplify learning experience creation. A form-based approach lets you reuse content, maximizing your ROI.
Deployment Platform
The platform lets you organize challenges into Courses, Units, and Subjects, manage users, track performance, and more—all in one cost-effective environment.
Challenges
A challenge is a flexible learning game that can last from 10 minutes to an entire term. Different challenge types can be tailored to various skill levels and needs. Challenges can be played solo, but group participation—whether collaborative or competitive, in-person or remote—adds another dimension to the learning experience.
Below are examples of challenge types showcasing the diverse learning experiences possible. With small adjustments, you can create entirely new learning experiences to better match real-world learner needs.
Consequences
Life isn’t as simple as a multiple-choice question! A 'Consequences' challenge lets learners analyze scenarios, make decisions, and balance competing needs. Their choices shape what happens next!
Investigations
Self-directed challenges guide learners to explore places, people, and organizations, gather data, and make smart decisions. As simple or complex as needed—choose between two 'suspects' or analyze an entire town!
Boardgames
Friendly competition as learners complete tasks ranging from simple voting to complex analysis or sequencing. Whether it's a 15-minute challenge or a 3-hour game, 'Balancing' ensures competition stays fair, even for learners of different levels.
Quizes
A quiz is useful, but it gets more engaging with tasks beyond multiple choice, set in a fun environment. The complexity can be adjusted to suit different learner needs. Contact us to learn more about our full range of challenge types.
Player Environment
A rich and engaging environment from which to embark on learning journeys.
Metagcognition Support
Choose a learning challenge, go solo or invite others. It includes metacognition tools and a journal to help learners reflect on their learning before, during, and after the challenge.
In-Challenge Flexibility
Challenges can be as simple or complex as needed. Support or challenge learners with documents to analyze, hints, and tools to organize their thoughts. Reuse existing materials to boost ROI.
Post Game
After the challenge, learners can review their performance and compare it to their expectations. They can also analyze their overall progress using the analytics in their profile.
Apart but together
The multiplayer feature includes in-game tools that let learners play together remotely, helping to build affinity and strong connections between distant learners.
Creation Editors
Powerful but simple forms based tools to allow content owners freedom of expression.
Create Game data
Game data forms the core of learner challenges, from simple questions to complex narratives. It’s organised using our easy-to-use yet powerful game workflow editor.
Create Challenges
The challenge editor lets you choose and organize game data, allowing one set of data to create many different challenges for various needs and audiences.
Build Environments
You can even create the visual environment for your challenges, using existing ones or designing your own with simple drag-and-drop tools.
Add Meta Data
You can add metadata to your content, like relevant skills for a challenge. New features are added regularly to help you manage your content more effectively.
Deployment Platform
Adminster your environment for maximum Return on Investment.
Manage content
Organize your challenges as you wish, creating full courses divided into units and subjects if needed.
Manage Users
Let users register themselves or manage them directly. Control access to content as needed.
Develop Insights
Challenge-based learning provides valuable insights into behaviors, helping you support learners and improve your content.
Cross Platform
Deploy across Windows, OSX, Android and iOS with cross platform multi-player capability to maximise engagement across your learners.
