Finding the answers to BreakOut rooms

Several of you may know of my current obsession with digital breakout rooms.  The only way I could find the answers was do to the work.  With the steps below, you will be able to “unlock” the form and see the results!  Special thanks to Eric Curts for sharing in the community.

How to see the answers in a digital breakout:

FYI... You can always get the answers to a Digital Breakout by viewing the source of the Google Form as follows:

1) Open the Form in its own tab if it is not already. For example, the Form is usually embedded in a Google Site. Simply click on the button in the top right corner of the Form to open it in a new tab by itself.

2) Right click on the Form and choose "View page source". This will open a new tab with all of the HTML code for the Form.

3) Scroll to the bottom of the page of code and you will find all of the answers to the Digital Breakout.

Keep in mind that students will most likely figure this out eventually, if they have not already, and can do the same thing to find the answers.

Escape Rooms (the digital version)

Who hasn’t seen Facebook images of friends breaking out of escape rooms?  Now you and your students can break out from a digital room!    

Last week I attended the Garden State Summit (primarily a Google centered PD event).  One of my favorite presentations (given by Jennifer Fischer and Kristen Tsaoys- both from Edison)  started with a digital breakout room.  We then explored the BreakOut EDU digital site (be sure you check out the Digital Sandbox- that’s where you will find many premade escape games).  I’ve shared their presentation here as well (it’s in the form of a hyperdoc).  

The photo in this post is from a fourth-grade classroom this morning.  The students worked in teams to break out in an American Revolution themed event.

(Not interested in a digital escape but rather a paper and pencil exercise? See this math example here.)

BreakOUT in the states

From the photos I’ve seen on Facebook, I think most of us are familiar with the BreakOut (or escape) room concept.  Your need to escape but you need to solve the clues to break out. (Last Man Standing included it in one of their episodes).  Here’s a chance to challenge your students to break out using The 50 States Digital BreakOut (OK, they are still in process, but several states are complete). Here’s a blog post with some of the details.