UEF/MOOC: Creating digital escape rooms with Escapp (1 ECTS)

🧩 Course Introduction

Educational escape rooms are innovative learning activities that have been shown to improve students’ skills while increasing their motivation. The course aims to provide participants with the training and tools they need to design, build, and effectively implement these learning activities. The course will allow participants to learn the main characteristics of educational escape rooms, their potential educational applications, and best practices for designing, creating, and implementing these activities. In addition, participants will learn how to use the Escapp platform and other digital tools to create and implement educational escape rooms. The course will include a final activity in which participants can put all their previously learned knowledge to work by developing their own educational escape room. The course is primarily aimed at teachers of all educational levels and areas of knowledge and aims to train participants in the design, creation, and implementation of computer-assisted educational escape rooms for in-person and remote environments.

This course has been developed by University of Eastern Finland (UEF) within the framework of the IGLUE Project and is offered free of charge through the Digicampus platform.

 👭 Course Registration/Joining

For UEF Degree Students: UEF degree students and those who have been granted a continued right to study must register for the course via Peppi to receive credits. This can be done after completing the course on Digicampus.

For other participants: Participants who are not UEF degree students but seek credits must follow their own degree’s procedure for receiving credits from external trainingA completion certificate will be issued for all participants regardless of their enrollment method.

📈 Progress Tracking

DigiCampus Moodle: The progress tracking within Moodle is through activity, Interaction tracking, assignment submission and grading 

Escapp: the external platform Escapp which is a free open-source web platform used to manage and track main course objectives Module 5 teaches participants how to use Escapp to create and run digital escape rooms, including the capacity to manage its execution. This platform is used for registering teams for escape room activities, monitoring the activity and calculating grades related to the activity.

🗓 Schedule and Completion

The course is self-paced and can be taken at any time. First edition ends October 30th 2026

💯 Assessment

Modules 1 to 5: Knowledge Checks using questionnaires with multiple attempts.
Assessment criteria: Assess fundamentals of educational escape rooms, design principles, resources, good practices for running escape rooms, and using the digital tool, Escapp.

Module 6: Submit the requested educational escape room created during the guided workshop.
Assessment criteria: This submission will be evaluated by the teaching team and graded as Pass or Fail

Module 7: Final Project: Design and create an educational escape room from scratch, utilizing all the knowledge acquired throughout the course.
Assessment Criteria: This final submission will be evaluated by the teaching team using a rubric and grades on scale 0 to 10 with feedback on the submission