The "Predictions" application allows you to challenge your fans with a promotion where they guess the answers to a series of questions about a cultural, social, or sporting event. You'll keep your followers engaged and attentive to your brand through fun and chance. 

The content of the tutorial is as follows:

1. General description

2. How is the participation flow of the user

3. Create the promotion

4. Set up the Predictions application

   • Create the questions and answers

   • Customize the design of the Predictions application

5. Customize the design and finish the settings

6. Update scores and calculate points

7. Manage prizes and publish the winners

1. General description

With the Predictions application you can create a question and answer contest so that participants can predict, guess and make predictions of the results of a future event. The Predictions app will allow you to:

• Design the quiz completely tailored to your needs, personalized with photos, texts and videos.
• Combine different types of answers (single answer, multiple-answer and even sortable answers).
• Create as many questions as you want, and indicate which is the correct answer to each of them.
• Reward the knowledge of the participants with a final draw among all the participants that have answered correctly the questions.

2. How is the participation flow of the user

What will the user experience be like? The promotion is made up of different pages that the user will find when interacting with the promotion to participate, such as: the initial welcome page, the registration page, where the user will register with their data, the page that presents the questions of the survey, etc. As a whole, the different pages will make up the structure of the promotion and the flow of participation that the user will follow to complete the promotional mechanics of the promotion.

Additionally, as the administrator, you can select which participation flow you want users to follow. Specifically, there are three different participation flows available: the Identified Mode, where the user must identify and register before playing; the Visitor Mode, where the user plays first and then identifies and registers; and the Anonymous Mode, where the user participates without identifying or registering. The choice of one mode or another will determine how participation and the user experience in the promotion will unfold.

Learn in this article how each participation flow works, as well as the different pages that make up a promotion.

3. Create the promotion

How to start creating the Survey? We present the following tutorial that will allow you to know the first steps to create your promotion so that you do not miss any important point. You will learn all the general management options that you have available as an administrator in your internal dashboard to manage and edit the promotion.

Discover the first steps to create my first promotion.

4. Set up of the Predictions application

Set up the questionnaire with the questions you want to ask your participants. To do this, go to the promotion's "Editor":

Next, go to Participation to edit the Predictions game > Predictions tab. 

When you access it, you will find the following configuration tabs:

1. Create the questions

The first step is to create the Predictions questions. Below, we explain the different types of questions you can set up:

a) Single Answer: The participant will only be able to select one of the suggested answers. This is the most common type of question in a Predictions promotion.

b) Multi-answer: This type of quiz enables participants to select more than one answer. You can decide how many different answers the participant may select.

c) Sortable answer: The participant must put the correct answers in order (using all the options, or just a set number of them).

d) Selectable list: If you have a large number of options and the participant has to choose just one, this format is the best choice. It could also come in handy if you want to ask several Prediction questions on the same page. You can choose to make the list drop-down or auto-complete.

Next, decide what type of question you want according to the Predictions you want to propose to your users. Once you are clear about the type of question you want, click on the "New question" button:

The following window will appear to guide you through the creation process. Choose the type of question that best suits your needs based on what you have in mind:

For a Predictions contest, we suggest using closed questions (single response, multi-response, sortable response) and dropdown menus.

 

Below are the options available for configuring the question:

A. Contents of the Question

You will see the options for editing the question, which you must complete with your own content:

1. Question text: Type the question you want to ask here.
2. Upload Media: Decide if you want to complement the question with an image or video.
3. Position: If you upload an image for the question, choose between a horizontal or vertical display.
4. Answers: Click on the pencil icon to rename each answer. Click on the "Add answers" button if you need to add more, use the copy response option to duplicate the answers or use the trash can icon if you need to delete answers.

B. Advanced options

Here you will find the options to set up your question:

• Feedback message text: You can present an informative text after users answer the question. You can customize feedback for correct and incorrect answers.
• Hide Question Text: In case the image you uploaded already include the text of the question, you can hide the text.
• Container columns: It will allow you to indicate how many answers you want to show per row.
• Hide continue button: Only available in simple answer type questions. Users will go from one question to another only by clicking on the selected answer. They won't need to confirm their selection by clicking "Continue".
• Question type: In case you need to modify the type of question you have initially created.

In case of a "Multiple-answer" question, you'll find the additional options:

• Minimum and maximum number of answers. Use these two fields to define how many answers the participant should select. For Predictions, it’s a good idea to make the minimum and maximum number of answers the same.
• Scoring system. It’s possible to award points for each correct answer, or to only award points if the participant chooses all the possible correct options.

Important! While you’re setting up the questions and answers, leave all the answers as “0”. When you know the results, you can fill in the points to indicate which predictions were correct. Learn how to reward points for correct predictions.

2. Customize the design of the Predictions application

Next, click on the "Design" tab to personalize the design and look & feel of the Predictions application.

A. Questions

Here you will find the option “Center question text”, which allows you to apply this style to the question text.

B. Answers

You’ll find the following options to customize the Predictions answer buttons:

• Font style
• Force uppercase
• Text color
• Background color
• Border width
• Border color

C. Answers (hover)

You can customize the appearance of the answer buttons when the user hovers over them:

• Text color
• Background color
• Border color

D. Selected answers

You can customize the style of the selected answer button(s) using the following options:

• Checkmark color
• Checkmark background color
• Text color
• Background color
• Border color

E. Continue Button

By enabling the “Override default button styles” option, you’ll be able to customize the Continue button using the following options:

• Text color
• Background color
• Text color (on hover)
• Background color (on hover)

F. Options

This section allows you to configure additional settings:

• How do you want to display progress? It lets you define the style of the progress bar or even disable it.
• Allow users to change their answers.

5. Customize the design and finish the settings

Once you have configured the Timed Quiz, the next step is to finish the configuration of the other options of the promotion, such as customizing the design template with your own colors and texts, introducing the legal bases, the viral content settings, etc.

Check the tutorial to finish the configuration and customization of your promotion.

6. Update scores and calculate points

Once the event or activity has finished, return to the Promotion Management Page to select the correct answers to each question, and manage the predictions made by participants.

Follow these steps:

1. Access Editor > Pages > Participation > Predictions and add points in the correct answers.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of correctly scoring each question type (single response, multiple response, sortable response, etc.).

Tip: you can award as many points as you like for each correct answer. For example, if a question was harder to answer, you can award more points to whoever got it right.

Once you’ve scored the correct answers, you can calculate the number of points obtained by each participant from this same section of the Editor. Use the following tool:

A screen will show you the calculation progress, and tell you how many participants’ results are being updated.

From this point on, the number of points obtained by each user will be displayed in the participants list, as well as the corresponding Excel file.

7. Manage prizes and publish the winners

Easypromos provides a complete Prize and Winners Management system that will allow you to create the prize or prizes that you want to give to the users who participate in the Predictions app, as well as configure how you want to assign the prizes and select the winners.

Specifically, you have two ways to assign the prize to the winners, depending on your preference:

1. Carry out a draw only among users who have answered all the questions correctly. Follow the steps in this tutorial that explains how you can create the prize to be raffled among the participants who have answered all the questions.

2. Carry out a draw among all the users who have participated. Follow the steps of this tutorial to create the prize and raffle it among all the participants.

3. Give a coupon to all users who have participated. Follow the steps in this tutorial that explains how to create the promotional coupon type prize to assign it directly to all users after participating.