Assign random names/emojis to quiz participants or add profanity filter to selected names in quizzes | Voters

Assign random names/emojis to quiz participants or add profanity filter to selected names in quizzes

Josie Beets

I want to be able to use the quiz function in the classroom setting, but don't want students entering their own user names.

September 19, 2018

Geoff Horne

And also allow presenter or attendees to re-name their entry.

NGC Energy

Geoff Horne: Agreed. Please allow the host to rename the participants' names. I accidentally clicked strikethrough on the participant's name under the Leaderboard slide & it reverted to the alternate. Perhaps, allow the host to view his/her slide to rename their entry name as well as to edit the name during the Quiz session, please.

Rachel Bolton-King

I too agree we need the option (as Kahoot! has) to randomly assign names to participants. Unfortunately learners are often quite immature and with outreach audience sizes in the hundreds there is no way I have time to remove individual names, plus damage has already been done as others state. I prefer Mentimeter to Kahoot! due to its functionality and I would hate to have to stop using it from the summer due to not having the option for random naming. The profanity filter would not be sufficient for names to catch them all either.

Maja Jakobsson

Merged in a post:

Profanity Filter in Quiz Platform

Nayef

Recommendation: Please allow filtering ability to nickname in your quiz platforms when using avatars. Someone can easily give any word as a “nickname”.

January 23, 2020

Peter Ostafichuk

I agree! Please add an option to disable participants' ability to change the default name. I would much prefer being able to restrict participants to assigned names rather than a profanity filter as there are many offensive names, perhaps contextual to the course, that would pass through a profanity filter.

Lottie

I agree with the above suggestion. In a large lecture yesterday, I had a student use an inappropriate username. I'm glad you can click and change, but if the audience has seen this, the damage is already done. What occurred yesterday was such an issue that I cannot use the quizzes in my sessions any longer.

Maja Jakobsson

Hi Nayef,
You can click on the name in the leaderboard to remove it if a user entered something improper - this has some advantages over the profanity filter since some cheeky words won't be picked up by the filter. I hope this solution works for you.
Kind regards,
Maja

Maja Jakobsson

Hi Josie Beets,

You can click on a name in the leaderboard to reset it to the default name instead of the one that the student has answered. Would that solution work in your case?

Peter Ostafichuk

Hi Maja Jakobsson: In my case, this would not work well. It would be too much work to monitor the leaderboard after every question. (In a room of 100-300 students, the leaderboard names displayed change regularly.) Also, the damage of an offensive name is often done as soon as it appears, and changing a name back to a default during a quiz draws further attention to that name.