1. Decide Format
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First of all, decide how you'd like the competition to run. This will depend on how many students you have competing. For example, if you had 12 children enter, you could have two quarter finals, each containing 6 students. The fastest 3 from each would go through to a semi final, and the top three from that go through to a grand final, like this:
With 16 competitors, you could have 8 students in each round with the fastest 4 going forward each time; or, you could have 18 students playing across 3 quarter finals, with the fastest 2 going forward each time. As you can see, it's really flexible and entirely up to you.
2. Practice
Complete step 3 below as practice ahead of the competition. For example, just try it out with a couple of students in your class. This means you can check everything is working well ahead of the real competition.
3. Competition Day
What the students need to do:
Ask the children competing in the first quarter final to:
Log in to their Times Tables Rock Stars Accounts
Click Multi-Player
Click Arena
Select "Whole School" (this is really important!)
Next, ask them all to join the same game, by clicking on the same Arena. Each Arena has a name like "Groove" or "Pop" etc. To complete, all the students must join the same Arena. They'll be able to see their avatars joining the game like this.
What you (the teacher) needs to do:
You can connect your computer to a projector / whiteboard, to project the leaderboard (live) in your assembly or classroom.
To view the live leaderboard you need to:
Log in with your teacher account and and go to Play (as shown below).
Choose Multiplayer > Arena
Select "Whole School"
Click the 'spectate mode' button on the Arena you would like to spectate.
You're ready to go!
At the end of a game, a leaderboard will appear, enabling you to work out who to progress to the next round. Repeat the process for each round until you've crowned your school's Ultimate Rock Hero!
Hints and tips:
If the countdown clocks on the students' Arena pages aren't in sync, ask the children to refresh the page, by pressing the F5 button on their keyboards, before joining a game.
Make sure you have an awesome, rock-hero-worthy prize for the winner!