Instructions

The software eCopaCangur has been programmed for the Kangaroo Cup of Mathematics. Thus, one must be familiar with the regulation in advance. Neverthless, it can be configured for other games and other subjects.

Requirements:

• None installation is required.
• It is free.
• Continuous connection to the web page is required.
• It is optimitzed for Firefox and Chromium.

The software eCopaCangur has three steps:

Step 1: CONFIGURATION

• Game information:

It is required to fill in the form.

• Game configuration:

The default configuration on load the web site is the oficial configuration of Kangaroo Cup.

It can be modified, but all the fields must take integer positive values.

• Number of teams:

After defining it, the name of the teams must be introduced.

• Number of questions:

After defining it, one can introduce the answers of the questions (max. 8 alphanumeric charcters) .

If answers are configured, one can validate them automatically.

• Game score:

The default score definition is the oficial one of the Kangaroo Cup. All the fields must take integer positive values (or eventually, zero).

➙ It is recommended to create and download a .txt file with the configuration of the game, in order to, in future games, load it directly at I have a configuration file.

Once the game is configured, go to the Next page. From now on, the language of the game can not be changed.

Step 2: GAME

• Errors

Possible configuration errors will be showed, and should be corrected going Back to the last page.

• Game matrix:

If there are no erros, game matrix is showed, with the teams in rows and questions in columns. Under each question number it is displayed the score of the question.



Button Start activates the game matrix and starts the countdown.

• Answers validation window:

By clicking in the team and question box, the game matrix is blocked. The answer validation window is displayed, with the following elements:

  Joker: Each team can associate the joker to one only question.

  KO: Wrong answer.

  OK: Right answer.

  Automatic validation: It works if the answer has been defined in the configuration step.

➙ No action is done by just closing the answer validation window.

➙ There can be opened, at most, one answer validation window. If you can not open such window, that is because one is already open and minimized in the tools bar.

• Game developement:

During the game it is displayed the time, the state of each question (joker, number of answers and if the right answer has been given) and the team's accumulated score.



➙ If the screen desconexion time has been defined as different from zero, at that time, questions' and teams' score will not be displayed.

When the countdown is finished or all the right answer have been given, we get GAME OVER. By clicking at Next one will find the final results.

Step 3: RESULTS

The game results are displayed:

➙ If two or more teams have the same score, they get the same classification.

By clicking at To start we go back to step 1 with the last configuration.