Gamification Plan: American Career College’s New Instructor Orientation

Welcome to American Career College’s New Instructor Orientation! This orientation takes you and your colleagues on a “tour” of
the “Instructor Interstate” that runs through ACC. There will be several roads to travel and pitstops to make along the way, and each
one will offer you important knowledge and skills that will serve you well in your new role as an instructor. Each stop (or level) along
the way includes several tasks, varying in points (or “miles” as we call them on the interstate) depending on difficulty. You’ll gain
points for each task that you complete correctly, and will “race” with your peers through each level along the “Instructor Interstate”
toward your final destination—Creation Castle! You may notice that each level is named for a different level of Bloom’s Taxonomy,
and you will ascend levels of the taxonomy as you progress. This means that your challenges will get more complex as you go—just
as your students will experience in your teaching.
Create your rules next:
1. List the points needed to move to the next level
Level Interstate Miles Needed
1 60
2 120
3 180
4 240
5 300

2. Explain how points are awarded. Interstate miles are awarded for each task you complete in your travels. You’ll explore a road,
university, alley, and avenue, with the goal of reaching and conquering Creation Castle. Each task you complete along the way is
worth a designated number of miles (10 through 60, depending on the complexity of the task and expected time to complete it), and
you need 60 miles to move to the next location in your tour.
3. Explain how to move through the levels. Once at a location, you may complete the tasks assigned there in any order, but must
complete all tasks at that location—and earn all 60 miles—in order to successfully to be able to move to the next location.
4. Explain how your audience will know that they are meeting a competency goal or learning outcome. Upon successful completion
of each task, your tour guide (program director) will award you a new stamp on your “Instructor Interstate” virtual passport. After
each page is filled documenting the required 60 miles, you will receive a digital badge for that location. You will have completed
your journey once you have filled your passport with all 300 miles required and have earned all 5 location badges.
Gamification Summary Chart

Level Level Name Expectations Tasks/Activities Validation of

1 Remember Road
2 Understanding
University
Competency
Instructors will demonstrate knowledge 10 miles each: Submission of photos
of logistical details important to their  Locate the copy room and through the Goose
everyday work. This includes take a photo of the Chase App to the
identification and recall of locations of copier. Program Director.
places and items (e.g., break room, copy  Locate the break room
room), people in relevant roles (e.g., and take a photo or
registrar, campus director) and programs where you may store your
(e.g., learning management system, lunch.
CampusVue--documentation program)  Take a photo of the
nameplate outside the
Registrar’s office.
 Submit a photo of flowers
that match the
decorations the campus
director has in her office.
 Screenshot of your
courses within the LMS.
 Screenshot of an entry in
CampusVue of a student
in your program.
Instructors will explore and engage with 10 miles each: Quiz Questions: Completion of quiz
all policies and procedures relevant to  What is your program’s questions
their program. They will locate these policy for accepting late automatically and
items within their natural locations, work? hand-graded within the
either on the ACC intranet or within the  Name 2 items that are not LMS.
 department’s shared drive. They will
demonstrate understanding of these
policies through engagement in quiz
questions included in the LMS.
3 Application Alley In this continuation of Understanding
University, instructors will apply what
they have learned about ACC and
Program Policies to a series of 3 student
cases. The student cases are videos
presented within the LMS, and will
require instructors to record video
responses to them demonstrating the
actions they would take next.
permitted in student or
faculty dress code.
 How many hours does a
distance education
instructor have to grade
assignments once the due
date passes?
 What is Teaching
Expectation number 4 on
the faculty expectation
list, and how can you
comply with it?
 What is an EOD report,
and where can you find a
blank one?
 What should you do with
a Student Success Plan
once it is signed by both
the student and
instructor?
20 miles each: Student cases: Program Director or
 Student arrives late to Director of Education
class and has missed a assessment of
quiz. instructor response in
 Student takes out his cell videos, graded based
phone in class after being on a rubric and
asked to put it away. assessed as pass/no
 Safe Assign report in the pass.
LMS indicates that the
student has plagiarized
his paper.
 4 Analysis Avenue
5 Creation Castle
Instructors will participate in the ACC 60 miles: Distance Education
Faculty Training Course (FTC) located in  Successful completion of Specialist will issue a
Blackboard. This course requires them the FTC, which requires completion
to analyze scenarios and existing courses weekly participation in certification at the
for compliance with Distance Education the discussion board and conclusion of the FTC.
requirements. completion of 2 quizzes. Instructor will submit
this via email to the PD
for inclusion in the
faculty file.
Instructors will be observed in the 60 miles: Completed 30 day
classroom for at least 60 minutes by the  Positive teaching review Classroom Observation
Program Director, and will demonstrate and debriefing with form with no more
adequate classroom management, Program Director or than 20% of items
active learning, and other relevant Director of Education. marked “Needs
teaching strategies. Improvement”

Level One.
The focus of Level 1 (Remember Road) is to establish a foundation of knowledge relevant to teaching at ACC. Instructors need to
complete 6 tasks at 10 miles each in order to complete this level. These tasks are aimed at remembering, and will require
identification of useful information to support future recall.
Level Two.
Level 2 tasks instructors with understanding ACC policies and procedures. It is named Understanding University because the tasks in
this level will feel like school as instructors answer quiz questions aimed at assessing understanding of ACC practices. This level is
conducted within the LMS now that instructors have some familiarity with it after completing Level 1. Each quiz question is worth
10 points, and there are 6 questions to master before moving down the interstate.

Level Three.
Level 3 moves instructors to the application level, as they move along the alley and apply what they learned at Understanding
University. This level gets more challenging in that instructors must use what they know about ACC policy in real-world situations,
and must record themselves actually responding to these situations in order to complete the level. This requires more advanced
technical skills within the LMS.
Level Four.
Level 4 takes instructors along Analysis Avenue, where they will encounter real-life classes and situations within the LMS. There they
will explore how to facilitate online learning and will assess others’ teaching strategies within the sample courses that they are given
access to. Completion of this level requires completion of the Faculty Training Course that all instructors are required to complete.

Level Five.
Level 5 brings instructors to Creation Castle, where they must put together everything they’ve learned into a successful teaching
demonstration within the classroom. The Classroom Observation consists of observation of online and on-ground teaching
strategies, including logistics such as completion of attendance records (learned in Level 1 from the Registrar), application of policies
and procedures (Levels 2 and 3), and teaching strategies gained during Level 4.

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