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Line Up: what it is and how to make one
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What it is
In Line Up, players have to place a series of cards in the correct order according to a criterion: chronological, largest to smallest, or one you define yourself.
Each card can contain text, an image, audio or a combination. Players drag or click them to place them in position.
Examples of use
- History: the reigns of Spanish monarchs or milestones of the Second World War.
- Science: planets by distance from the Sun, the phases of mitosis.
- Language and literature: events in a novel, stanzas of a poem.
- Languages: sentences or events that make up the audio of a story in another language.
- Vocational training: the steps of a safety protocol or the phases of a production process.
How to create a Line Up with Ray
- Click Create game and select Line Up.
- Enter a topic, add instructions and/or attach a file with the content.
- Ray automatically generates a game ready to publish (with a title and description). You can review and change anything you like before publishing it.
Ray's advanced options
The gear icon gives you options to configure how Ray generates the game. Some are common to all game types:
- Output content: choose text only, or text plus automatically generated speech. Speech is capped at 1,000 characters in total per account on the Basic and Advanced plans; on the Academic plan and Commercial plan it is unlimited.
- Output language: the language of the game content. If you don't specify it, Ray detects it from the prompt or the file.
- Difficulty: easy, medium (default), hard, or a custom level (for example, “for primary school students”).
Line Up also has specific options:
- Number of cards: how many to create (5 by default), or as many as the content you attach contains.
- Order: Automatic (default; Ray chooses the criterion most consistent with the content), Chronological, Descending or Other (type the criterion, for example “from closest to farthest from the Sun”).
Source library
With the Sources button you can upload files to Ray (PDF, Word, images…) or select your own games for it to use as content for the new one. For example, generate a Line Up with the key events of a History unit, or turn a Word Search of animals into a Line Up to order them by size.
How to create a Line Up without Ray
- Click Create game and select Line Up.
- Close the Ray window.
- Use the Prompt to explain the ordering criterion (text, image, audio or video).
- Enter the cards in the correct order. The game shuffles them automatically in each game.
Cards accept text, images and/or audio. You can create more than one list of cards in the same game with the Add row button.
Game options
- Lives: the maximum number of mistakes (unlimited by default).
- Time: the time limit to complete the game (unlimited by default).
With an Advanced plan you can remove the ads, add a background image, change the visibility (Public or Hidden), configure player identification (Optional, Required or no method), hide elements of the interface (Ranking, Restart, Social media or Correct answers) and add a custom final message.
With an Academic plan you can restrict the visibility to your guests or to the integrations you create (Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas…), and remove the player identification link.
With a Commercial plan you can also customize the game with your logo and corporate footer, choose the colors and hide the Educaplay brand.
Information and publishing
On the Information tab you set up what your player will see before and during the game. Ray automatically generates the Title and Description; if you created the game without Ray, you add them yourself. Here you also choose the Language of the game interface (you can present the game to your players in any of the 27 available languages, regardless of the language of the content), set the Education level and add Tags so your game is easier to find in the search engine. Before publishing, use Preview to check that everything looks the way you want.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I tell the player how to order the cards?
In the game's Prompt. You can explain it with text, an image, audio or video.
Can I import a list of items I already have ready?
Yes. Paste or attach your list in the Ray box or with the Sources button.
Can I add an image or audio to the cards?
Yes. Cards accept text, audio and images. You can generate the voice automatically.
Can I make a game with several rows?
Yes, with the Add row button you create another list of cards within the same game.
Can I change the language of the game interface?
Yes. On the Information tab you can choose from the 27 available languages: Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The interface language is independent from the content language: you can have a game written in English and show the interface in Japanese for your Japanese students, for example.
Which features require a paid plan?
With the Advanced plan you remove the ads, add a background image, manage visibility and player identification, hide interface elements and add a final message. With the Academic plan you can also restrict access to your guests or to your integrations (Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas…). With the Commercial plan you customize the game with your logo, corporate colors and hide the Educaplay brand.
