Factile User Doc

What’s New

Learn more at www.playfactile.com

24-Sept-2024
Here’s another update for our fantastic teachers and users with new features, improved performance and bug fixes. Let us know what you think and enjoy!

  • Account Collaboration. Users can now collaborate on the same games or same Question Banks. This is a way to have common games or Question Banks in each account.
  • Additional guidance through a help app to point out new features and other helpful hints to be more productive.
  • Sound and music option improvements so users can better control sound and music during gameplay.
  • AutoGen improvements so the AI generates more relevant questions.
  • Improved Question Bank UI.
  • Improved iPad formatting for the Edit page.
  • Improved MyGame page sorting.

24-June-2024
Here’s another update for our fantastic teachers and users with new features, improved performance and bug fixes. Let us know what you think and enjoy!

  • There are now User Profiles for each account and you can add/change your username and profile image. This will allow logging in with your username (as an alternative to using your email) and allow for more collaboration features coming in the future.
  • Login with your Profile Username as an alternative to logging in with your email
  • Moved email and Password change options from the Account page to the Profile page
  • Updated Excel/CSV template format for importing questions into games and Question Banks. Now it is the same format for both imports.
  • Import questions from existing games to Question Banks and import questions from Question Banks to existing games.
  • Added a new customization option called “Buzzer sound for moderator” to play the Buzzer sound on the moderator’s device when teams buzz-in
  • Added Visual Buzz-in Notification. This displays the Buzzed-in teams on the moderator’s screen with status. The 1st team to buzz in = blue background. White font = team buzzed in; Yellow = team submitted/selected an answer; Green = team scored correctly; Red = team scored incorrectly.
  • Added the Buzzer in Choice-buzzer mode. Previously players would not have a buzzer but would just choose their answer. Now they can first Buzz-in and then the first Buzzed-in player can answer.
  • Added an option for the moderator to display the Final Factile answer to provide the moderator with more control over when the answer is revealed
  • Significant CPU performance improvement, particularly on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
  • Added a “Preview” button on the game landing page so you can preview shared games easily
  • Added a “wrong answer” indicator on the Edit page so if you can clearly see which questions are “correct answers” and which are “incorrect” for Choice
  • Enabled AutoGen for Free Accounts with 500 tokens (additional tokens can be purchased separately). AutoGen uses Generative AI from OpenAI to create game questions based on topics you provide it.
  • Added Chat feature for team members in multi-member teams. Team members can chat within the team and moderator can send chat message to players.
  • Import questions from CSV/Excel to Question Bank
  • Content authors can copy games between their own and their teachers’ account
  • Added Final Factile tile on Preview board
  • Improved Practice Mode

5-February-2024
We are happy to announce another update with new features, improved performance and bug fixes. We are really excited about the new AutoGen feature as it can vastly simplify game creation using AI. Let us know what you think and enjoy!

  • AutoGen – Driven by cutting-edge Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), AutoGen automatically generates questions / answers for you based on topics and subtopics you provide. You can use AutoGen to generate partial or entire games, and then edit as needed. AutoGen uses the AI engine from OpenAI. Learn more here.
  • Support for up to 5 Daily Doubles per game (this was a highly requested feature).
  • Upload images or audio for questions / answers using copy & paste when creating or editing games.
  • Preview content of all tiles at once. Just select Preview on any game, and on the left menu choose what to display.
  • Display the name of the specific player who answered in multi-member buzzer mode.
  • Question Bank UI improvements.
  • New UI for transactions history on Account page.

19-October-2023
Enjoy our latest update with new features, improved performance and bug fixes. Enjoy!

  • Question bank improvements for ease of use
  • All-new Buzzer Mode “practice mode”. This allows the moderator to simulate a buzzer mode game with one player to practice moderating the game while seeing what the players see. This is accessed from the “Edit” page for the game you want to practice.
  • New option to allow the moderator to view the answers in a separate window. Select “Moderator Only Display Answer Button” on your Customize page under Game Play Settings.
  • Added support for youtube shorts.
  • Improvements for managing mascots on your Customize page. Can add / change standard mascot names and change the sequence in which the mascot groups are displayed.
  • Added QR code for Interactive Choice games
  • Further UI improvements

20-August-2023
Enjoy our latest update with new features, improved performance and bug fixes. Enjoy!

  • Live Leaderboard for Factile, Choice, Memory, and Quiz Bowl. Now you can display the Leaderboard while the game is in progress.
  • Added Preview and Leaderboard for saved in-process games. You can check where you left the game off prior to resuming.
  • Player-accessible Leaderboard for Interactive Choice mode
  • New button to toggle the question/answer on the active tile.
  • New QR Code option to easily join any screen (player/remote-view/team-mgmt/answer/leaderboard)
  • Enter custom names for public mascots and rearrange the categories
  • Option to report public game
  • Mark any public game as a Favorite
  • New Home/School-Plus Plan: Adds all new Question Bank, Multi-Member teams up to 3 players per team and more. playfactile.com/accountfeatures
  • All new Question Bank. Create a “bank” of up to 300 questions and automatically generate games from that “bank”
  • New payment options for Pro plans (Link, Apple Pay, and Google Pay)
  • Automatic scoring for memory+buzzer mode
  • Added option on Interactive Choice game section to get an email when near to the participants limit for IC game

10-March-2023
More great updates for our outstanding teachers and users :)

  • Display the specific team member who buzzes in on multi-member teams
  • Fixed an issue with printing the answer key
  • Additional improvements to multi-member team play
  • New “moderator hint” mode. You can turn this on during playing the game to get hints on how to use Factile while moderating a game
  • New option for the moderator to privately display the answer during playing the game so they can more easily score the players
  • Improvements for resuming saved games in progress
  • New display of QR code when starting the game that players can use to more easily join the game
  • Improved formatting for iOS devices
  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements

16-January-2023
We’ve made some fun updates, improved the Customize UI and further improved reliability and performance. Enjoy!
The key updates are:

  • Improved the Buzzer Mode join process
  • Improved sorting for custom mascots
  • Updates to Interactive Choice mode
  • Mulit-Member teams improvements
  • Plus many reliability, and performance improvements

1-August-2022
Super excited to launch the all new Factile V3! This new version of Factile is our biggest upgrade ever :). We’ve rebuilt Factile from the ground up to improve reliability, performance, provide a new user interface and of course add many new features! Enjoy!

The key new features are:

  • All new My Games page with tabs for all games, favorites, saved games, and Interactive Choice. Improved sort options and search capability for your games.
  • Improved Customization page with tabs for “global customization” that applies to all games and for “local customization” that applies to only a specific game.
  • New Preview on the Customization page so you can easily see the effect of different customization options
  • Question and Answer formatting improvements, particularly for images, and videos
  • Increased the maximum number of teams from 50 to 100
  • Improved mascot management: ability to activate/deactivate custom mascots, and ability to activate categories of default mascots
  • Added new customization “Display Question on Gameboard Tile” that shows the question on the gameboard after playing that tile
  • Additional timer music options for whether to play during the game or during Final Factile or both
  • Printing improvements – the menu and formatting have been improved.
  • Added a search bar on the “customization” and “MyGames” page
  • Added “Preview Board” button on the customization page to preview customizations
  • Added new customization “Custom Points for Quiz Bowl Question”
  • Added new option “Game Title Font Size”.

Buzzer mode improvements:

  • Option for players to add their name (in addition to the mascot name). This is helpful when finalizing scores at the end of the game to know which players are at the top of the leader board.
  • New ability to name players on multi-member teams so the moderator can see specifically which player on multi-member teams buzzed in
  • New option “Automatically Display Team’s Answer”
  • New option “Only Allow the Team Member who Buzzes In to Answer”
  • New customization “Arrange buzzed-in team on the left”
  • New member-players approval for mid-join
  • All new team joining interface enables the moderator to see which teams have joined as they join
  • New option for the moderator to “Manually enable/disable ” buzzer (rather than using the timer)
  • New option for players to see other their other team members on multi-member teams
  • Multi-Member teams improvement: members are now displayed in the Leaderboard
  • Multi-Member teams improvement: moderator can manage the joined teams by clicking on the gear icon on the team’s podium, including changing the team captain, adding a player to a team, and removing a player from a team.