The brief
What is this course, and who is it for?
This is a showcase course by Apollo Accreditation, the UK and EU course development and accreditation consultancy, built for all staff, played solo or in teams of three. It shows how we design for gamified compliance, and every activity below works in your browser.
The problem it solves
Staff who have done the same anti-bribery module two or three times often click through it without reading.
The escape room format adds a timer and a team comparison, and the questions still cover gifts, hospitality, facilitation payments and third parties. Answers are checked against your gifts and hospitality policy, and against the UK Bribery Act 2010 where it applies.
What learners can do afterwards
- Decide whether a gift or hospitality is acceptable
- Recognise a facilitation payment and refuse it
- Check third parties and agents before taking them on
- Know how and where to raise a concern
The learners
Who takes it, and why do they finish?
- Who takes it
- All staff, played solo or in teams of three
- Who usually buys it
- Compliance officer, head of legal or HR director
- Where they take it
- At a desk alone, or in teams of three on a call or in a room
- Why they finish it
- Teams want to beat the other teams' times.
Try it
What does the engagement look like?
These are working copies of activities from the course. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Inside the course
What do learners see on screen?
Each activity part way through, as a learner sees it after the first choice.
Course map
How is the course structured?
Module by module, with the type of engagement in each and the time it takes.
| Module | What learners do | Engagement | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Briefing | What's at stake, and how the game works | Short video, Level 1 | 3 |
| The Locked Archive | Four locks on gifts, facilitation payments, third parties and speaking up | Escape room, Level 3 | 15 |
| Gift, or problem? | Sort real-world gifts and hospitality | Sorting activity, Level 2 | 7 |
| Debrief | Team results, leaderboard and the policy in one page | Leaderboard and summary | 5 |
About 30 minutes in total. Levels 1 to 4 are our four eLearning interaction levels. To see which level fits your own module, use the eLearning level finder.
Specification
What is in the specification?
| Who takes it | All staff, played solo or in teams of three |
|---|---|
| Who usually buys it | Compliance officer, head of legal or HR director |
| Format | Self-paced, or run as a live team challenge |
| Length | 4 locks, 20 to 30 minutes |
| Interaction level | Level 3, Scenario, gamified |
| Engagement | Escape room with leaderboard, Sorting activity |
| Assessment | Locks opened, wrong tries and time, plus a short sort of gifts and hospitality |
| Certificate | Branded completion certificate when the course runs on our platform, or your platform's own |
| Tracking | SCORM or xAPI package, with completion and scores in your learning platform |
| Accessibility | Captions, keyboard navigation and screen reader support built in |
| Languages | English in this showcase. Other languages translated and checked by a native speaker |
| Updates | Every year, with new puzzles |
How we would build it
How would you get a course like this?
The same five steps for every course, with one named person running your project.
- Free course diagnosticSend us the material you have. After a short call we send a written note on what it needs, within a few working days.
- Scope and scriptWe pair our learning designers with someone who has worked in your sector. You review and approve the script before anything is built.
- BuildBuilt in our own authoring tool, with captions and keyboard navigation included. As a guide, four to six weeks per interactive module.
- Test and changeWe test the package on your platform before you sign off. Two rounds of changes are included.
- Launch and trackCompletion and scores in your platform, or ours. Want CPD Certification later? It is already built to that standard.
Evidence
What can you track?
- Completion and score for every player
- Team times and wrong tries, shown on a shared leaderboard
- The locks that take longest, showing where the policy is least understood
- Evidence of annual training for your compliance file
Your version
Can you build this with our content?
- Your branding, your policies and examples from your own workplace
- SCORM or xAPI for your learning platform, or hosted on ours
- Captions, keyboard navigation and screen reader support as standard
- Translated versions for staff or students who work in other languages
- Built to CPD standard, so it can go forward for CPD Certification when you're ready
Adapt it
Where else does this course work?
The same design, rewritten for the people and risks of another setting:
- Conflicts of interest
- Data protection
- Health and safety refreshers
- Induction week team challenges
Questions
Common questions about this course
Is a game serious enough for compliance training?
The questions are the same ones a standard module asks, and every answer is recorded. The game changes how willingly people do it, not what they learn.
How long would it take to build a course like this?
As a guide, an interactive module takes four to six weeks from when we receive your material, and a straight conversion two to three. This course has 4 modules, so we plan it in stages, and you review each script before we build it.
Will it work on our learning platform?
Yes, in most cases. We hand courses over as SCORM or xAPI packages, which nearly every learning platform accepts, and we test the finished package on your platform before you sign off. If you don't have a platform, it can run on ours.
Portfolio
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