World Book Day

Decided to mark World Book Day in a different way this year. In the past we've done events where we asked for book donations for charity, but this year we thought we'd run a short quiz on our BlackBoard VLE and offer a £15 Amazon voucher as a prize. Most of the library team contributed questions from which we pulled together a set that we liked and I then sorted out the technical side of it. I'm quite pleased with how it looks. Blackboard's pretty easy to set up things like this and I found a public domain clipart site, which requires no attribution of it's images, to get some nice colour and pictures into the quiz. We've sorted out publicity through our VLE and student net, and also our staff intranet. We've put up posters and plasma screen presentations too. The quiz has been available since Monday, but only 36 people have done it. Very disappointing.  Ok, the prize isn't a huge amount, but quite nice to have for just 5 minutes of multiple choice questions. We knew we wouldn't be inundated with entries, but I'd have quite liked to have reached 100. The quiz is still open tomorrow, so you never know. We could have a last minute rush, but I somehow don't think we're going to get there. Oh well. It was fun to do, but we'll have to think again for next year.