Taking a moment to plan

One best practice on Galxe Quest is to have a well-considered plan in place before creating and launching any quest. In this part of the course, you’ll learn what aspects should be considered in your quest planning, view an example of a first quest plan, and receive a template you can use for your own planning. Scroll down to view the content of this page.

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Course Navigation

  1. Course Introduction
  2. Navigating the Galxe Quest Dashboard
  3. Quest Creation
    1. Planning Your Quest - Current Page
    2. Quest Info
    3. Rewards
    4. Task Settings
  4. Testing your quest
  5. Launching and promoting your quest
  6. Course Completion and Certification </aside>

Planning a Galxe Quest

Although you are encouraged to play around on the Galxe Quest Dashboard to explore and learn its features, a good habit to build as you create your quests is to always make a plan first. Some Galxe Space admins like to prepare every detail of the quest in a doc before heading to the quest creation screen, while others will make an outline or jot some notes. Whatever your method, you’ll always want to consider the following points before creating a quest:

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Long-term incentives?

Even from your first Galxe Quest, it’s important to plan over the long-term how you will recognize and reward the regular participants of your Galxe Quests. Although individual quest rewards will be enough to incentive some participation, your community will be most motivated to participate in your quests if they know more attractive rewards are planned for those who participate regularly over a longer period of time.

For example, in our Galxe Creative Center Courses space, we will reward regular participants with Rewards Hub points and advanced certifications in the future, encouraging you to complete as many quests (and courses) as you can.

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A quest plan example and template

Below you’ll find an example quest plan for the first quest on the Galxe Creative Center Courses space. What decisions you make in your quest planning will of course depend on your situation, objectives, and other unique characteristics, but feel free to use our example as an inspiration. In planning this quest, we took the following considerations:

  1. The quest is meant for learners in this course to use as an example over time, and also serve as an introduction quest for anyone new to Galxe Creative Center Courses. Thus we’ve decided not to include an end time. (You may decide to have a permanent onboarding quest or quest series as well.)
  2. We want to keep the quest simple and focus on just a few elements of quest design, so we’ve limited our tasks to following our Galxe Space, following the @galxecourses Twitter account, and tweeting bullish about Galxe Creative Center Courses. You may find your participation numbers are higher when your desired tasks are split between multiple, easily accomplished quests (rather than one large quest containing all the desired tasks).
  3. We’ve already planned out some long term incentives for our quest participants on the Galxe Creative Center Courses space, so we’ll include the details in our quest description. If you don’t have any long-term incentives planned, it’s best to have some in mind even before you launch your first quest. If this is not possible, you could hint that loyal participants on your space will be rewarded later.

Our example quest plan is as follows:

Title: Let’s Tweet Bullish about Galxe Creative Center Courses
Time period: Beginning October 21, 2024 with no end time
Description: Welcome to Galxe Creative Center Courses first ever Galxe Quest!

In this quest, we’ll be raising awareness for our new Galxe Creative Center Courses space, where you’ll find course-related quests, Galxe certification opportunities, and opportunities to earn rewards for your Galxe Space.

To participate and earn 20 Loyalty Points on our space, simply complete the space and Twitter-related tasks below. Looking forward to your continued participation, and to you gaining Galxe mastery! | | Quest objectives: | - Create awareness of the Galxe Creative Center Courses’ Galxe Space

Want to use our template when planning your own quest? You can download a template .rtf file here and edit in your word processor: