I've had the opportunity to work with some very creative people with some very creative ideas over the years. The people working at Simon Fraser University's Surrey campus had some real clever ones. One of the most unique projects I've ever worked on was the TechOne program's VIP project.
Many years ago, students just starting out at the SFU Surrey campus signed up for the TechOne program, a common first year to prepare them for later coursework in information design, interactive arts, or business and management.
The goal of the project was to encourage students to keep up with the course content. We had Perception quizzing software, that allowed students to take quizzes online for teachers to mark them, but these review quizzes were for little no marks. How to encourage the students to participate?
The professors of the course came up with a brilliant idea of a
