The following platforms can be used to host (Streaming/Meeting Platform):

• • Instagram

  • Zoom

  • Facebook live

  • Facebook messenger rooms

  • Google Meets

Click here to see our comparison of the above platforms.

The following platforms are needed for the Quiz/Gameshow

• • PowerPoint

  • Kahoot

  • Quizshow.io

Ticketing Platform. Click here to see our suggested platforms.

Fundraising Page. Click here to see our suggested platforms.

Social Media

To know what platforms you require to host your quiz, you will first need to decide which type of quiz/game show you would like to hold.

You may want to have a Quiz where everyone can answer all questions (either as individuals or groups) or slightly different formats such as jeopardy (SEE EXAMPLE SLIDES) , ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ (SEE EXAMPLE SLIDES) , family feud (SEE EXAMPLE SLIDES) or ‘Hot seat live’.

Prepare the quiz/game show. Click here for our Question Bank!

Categories included: General Knowledge, Geography, Science, Animals, Sports, Quran, Islamic Knowledge, TV, Film, Art & Literature, Food, Maths, Vocab

For questions which are especially difficult to cheat on, check out our second Question Bank! Made up of emoji, picture, word and number based questions.

If you’re using a PowerPoint as the basis of your quiz here are some TOP TIPSs!

If you’re making your own:

• Make sure you have written out the questions and have timer

• Add animations to make it better

• If you’re using a template: Make sure you change the questions/ make necessary adjustments and run through it a few times to familiarise yourself with how it works

• An example can be jeopardy/who wants to be a millionaire or family feud.

• Kahoot

Go to kahoot.com to prepare your own kahoot style quiz

• Quizshow

Go to Quizshow.io to prepare your own buzz in style quiz

(There is a lag sometimes so be sure to test this out before preparing the whole game)

• “Hotseat” live

Make sure you have questions and categories open in front of you before you go live

This type of quiz requires unique rules, so make sure you come up with the format before hand

• • • • Examples

        • Rule example 1: Once the participant comes on the live, they have categories to pick from. Each category has 5 questions. For each question they get right, £1 goes to the bank. If they get a question wrong, they have to donate the money accumulated in the bank to online page. If two people on the same team want to submit different answers, the wrong opponent has to donate £5 + money accumulated in the bank to the online page. .

        • Rule example 2: Once the participant comes on the live, they have to answer 5 questions within 10 seconds. If they answer all of them correctly then they get a prize, however if they get even one wrong they have to donate £5 to online.

Prepare the quiz/game show. Click here for our Question Bank!

Categories included: General Knowledge, Geography, Science, Animals, Sports, Quran, Islamic Knowledge, TV, Film, Art & Literature, Food, Maths, Vocab

For questions which are especially difficult to cheat on, check out our second Question Bank! Made up of emoji, picture, word and number based questions.

You’ll need to choose a platform you are going to steam the quiz/ game show on so everyone can tune in. Click here to see our suggested platforms.

Think about branding and ensure the people who are promoting the event know what the event is, as this will be invaluable during its promotion.

Create an eye-catching video or poster that could be shared on your social media and maybe even your Unions social media. It can be useful creating a Facebook event and messaging into facebook and WhatsApp groups.

A TOP TIP is to utilise your Institutions mailing list and also encourage key people to spread the word.

There are many ways to sell tickets, from simple online transfers, to using online platforms such as Eventbrite.

A TOP TIP when using Eventbrite is to have your tickets as free on the site and ask contestants to use bank transfer/paypal or donation page to send the ticket money (to avoid additional processing fees). Another option is also to ask your union if you can use their website to sell tickets too.

A TOP TIP is to send access and preparation details to attendees once they have purchased a ticket via your chosen method. Or you can add them into a facebook or WhatsApp group to receive access details on the day of the event.

Be sure to have a team to run the event. Roles they can take up are:

• Operating the platform

• Hosting the event (Your quiz hosts will make or break your quiz, so choose wisely. Try to find a person or duo well known on campus and have that confidence and humour!)

• Interacting with the audience

• Troubleshooting

A TOP TIP is to have a trial run on the platform and streaming to familiarise yourself and help the event run smoothly.

Have prizes available to entice participants. A TOP TIP is to talk to local businesses for a gift or meal vouchers or experience vouchers that you can use.

• Start the event with an opening Islamic / motivational reminder

• Share the vision of Charity Week, by playing a short video about Charity Week

• Ensure someone is keeping an eye on the chat box to build Interaction with the audience

Some ways can be to:

• • • Short timer

    • Come up with questions that cannot be googled such as cryptograms and your own corsswords etc

    • Make everyone turn cameras on and put their phone the side

• Ensure you’ve completed a trial run before the event

• Start the platform early, to solve on the day issues. But also time for people to join

• Have the team all ready, early

• If you’re hosting any guest speakers: ensure a reminder is sent for your event and confirm they are coming a few days before.

• Ensure you have sent clear joining instructions to all

• Sometimes the option to “request to go live” does not work or does not connect to the other person. Test it out beforehand.

• If it does not work then make a zoom, and pin the ID and Password in the comments section. People can choose to participate via zoom

• Be sure participants mute the live when they come on zoom to avoid echo

• The live only lasts 1hour

• When the live is ending you can alert your viewers that you will be starting a new live shortly

• There is a small lag between the time you speak and the time the viewers see you speak, as a result the comments are also delayed

• If you do not have the pro version, then the link will only work for 40mins.

• Either purchase the full version, find someone who has the pro version or send out multiple links for each session.

• You will not be able to view everyone on one page.

• If you are sharing your screen you cannot see everyones webcam so ensure the type of quiz/gameshow you are making does not require you to see the participants cameras

• The laptop makes multiple pages of people’s webcam once their are 20+ participants

• Only one person can be heard at a time.

• Facebook live allows you to write a description when it posts your live, make sure to make it a compelling description

• Facebook live does not allow people to request to go live, so either have to have

  • a zoom prepared if you wish participants to join or;

  • Seek help from your regional events team or institutions team who may be able to contact an IR fundraiser to help you set up

    • Note: participants will have to be pre-decided and will not be able to request to go live during the stream

• • • Only 50 participants can join at a time.

    • Need the messenger app on mobile or desktop

    • Cannot share screen

• • • There is a 60 minute cap

    • Only up to 100 participants

    • If you are sharing your screen you cannot see everyones webcam so ensure the type of quiz/gameshow you are making does not require you to see the participants cameras

You may need to have designated people that participants can WhatsApp/message answers too and make sure there is time for the designated people to calculate points

• • For example half the teams submitted their answers to one person (person A) and the other half to another person (person B) to help ensure no one was overwhelmed with messages and could calculate scores as answers came in.

  • There was a difficult challenge every 5 questions which gave person A&B a chance to calculate points while the teams submitted their challenge answers to person C

You may need someone to write down who is donating what so that you are able to follow up with donations

For example during live streams when a person loses, someone other than the host should write down their username and how much they need to donate so that they can follow up with them later

Think of all of the possible things that could go wrong and put measures in place to prevent this from happening. E.g. speaker not turning up on time, issues with platform starting, people struggling to join.

Before you end the event, inform everyone of your other events, how they can get involved and even how to donate.

Thank all those that attended, this can be done by sending a message via your social media and sign up lists

A TOP TIP is to use this moment to remind them of your upcoming events and share your donation link.

• Make sure someone is in charge of sending out the prizes

• Make sure someone is in charge of following up with the donations

There are always hiccups or lessons that we learn, but do we make sure that the team next year will learn from these? Use our template event planning document to keep a record of how you put on your event and also any feedback to pass onto next year's team!