In this article, we cover:
- What is a Team Leaderboard?
- How to set up a Team Leaderboard
- How does Team Leaderboard scoring work?
- Team Leaderboard constraints & restrictions
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1. What is a Team Leaderboard?
A Team Leaderboard tracks the performance of teams based on their quiz scores, rather than ranking individual participants like a standard leaderboard.
Team Leaderboards are ideal for employee training, team-building, and engagement activities.
Features of Team Leaderboards:
- Team leaderboards are displayed in PowerPoint and in participant apps.
- You can include as many Team Leaderboards in your presentation as you need.
- A presentation or quiz can contain multiple demographic questions, but only one can be designated as the Team question. All Team Leaderboards will be based on this selection.
2. How to set up a Team Leaderboard
There are two basic requirements for being able to use the Team Leaderboard feature:
- Have a question that defines what the teams are
- Have one or more quiz questions
A. Define your teams
Creating your teams utilizes the Demographic question type. Simply create a demographic question and set the choices to be the names of the teams you want to have. Then add it to your slide deck. There will always be two slides added to your deck. One for the poll and one with the results.
(In this example we have already chosen a theme for the slide deck, added a quiz briefing slide and the joining instructions.)
B. Create your quiz questions
Quiz questions are simply any question that has a correct answer. You can create your own quiz questions in PowerPoint or use the AI Quiz feature to generate a quiz for you. When you have created them, remember to add the questions in the PPT side panel to the slide deck.
C. Set your demographic question as your team question
Once you have those two basic requirements of a Team Leaderboard you can set your demographic question as your team question. The demographic question will be indicated by a icon.
Click on the settings wheel next to the Team Leaderboard icon in the side panel. It will bring up the previously set up demographic question. Choose your team question by clicking on it. A correction mark will confirm the team question. Click X to close it.
Until a team question has not been assigned, a Team Leaderboard cannot be added to the slide deck and the +Add button will be greyed out and an error message will warn you.
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If you have multiple demographic questions, ensure you pick the right one to use for your Team Leaderboard.
D: Add the Team Leaderboard to your slide deck.
You can insert a Team leaderboard anytime in your quiz after at least one Team question and one quiz question have been answered. Place your curser in the slide deck where you would like the Team Leaderboard to appear. Press ‘+Add’ next to the Team Leaderboard icon. The leaderboard template will now appear in your slide deck and will automatically update when you reach this slide in your presentation.
Always add a leaderboard AFTER a polling pair for the question and result slide.
The template will rank up to 10 teams. If you only have 5 teams, only those will display. You can also add Individual Leaderboards to the same quiz presentation
E. Run the Team & quiz questions, then display the Team Leaderboard
Next, run through the questions with your audience to generate results for display. It's recommended (but not required) to ask the Team question first. If your team question is not in the right order, you can reorder and move it to the top. When you get to the the leaderboard slide, it will be displayed in the presentation and on the participant app.
If a participant skips the Team question but answers all the quiz questions, they'll receive a message in their app when the leaderboard is displayed, confirming they weren’t assigned or 'Unplaced' to a team. Their scores won’t count toward team calculations.
Quiz questions and poll results appear in the Data report, Team Leaderboard scores are omitted from the data report but remains available in the PowerPoint presentation.
3. How does the Team Leaderboard scoring work?
Vevox uses the averages of the Team to calculate the team scores. Instead of adding up individual scores, the Team Leaderboard determines the team's score by calculating the average of the scores within that team. Each question is worth a maximum of 100 points.
For example:
- If all members answer correctly, the team gets 100 points.
- If half the team answers correctly, the team gets 50 points.
- If only a third answers correctly, the team gets 33 points.
This ensures fairness, so larger teams don’t automatically have an advantage over smaller teams.
Since points are not percentages, multiple correct answers accumulate. Two correctly answered questions by all members would total 200 points.
Score Example: The Red Team has 7 members:
- For Q1, 7 members answered correctly: 7 ÷ 7 × 100 = 100 points.
- For Q2, 5 members answered correctly: 5 ÷ 7 × 100 = 71,4 → rounded to 71 points.
- For Q3, 1 members answered correctly: 1 ÷ 7 × 100 = 14,2 → rounded to 14 points.
Total Team Score after 3 questions: 100+ 71,4+14,2 = 186 points (taking the rounding off into consideration)
- A team member that does not answer a question, is still a team member. Not answering counts the same as an incorrect answer, so this will bring down the average of the team score.
- The team scores are calculated based on the current results of the Team question. If the team question is reopened at any point and new people join or people switch teams, the calculations for the team leaderboard will be adjusted based on the latest result of the team question.
4. Team Leaderboard Constraints & Restrictions
- Speed scoring is not supported (only for individual leaderboards).
- Participants who skip the Team question (called unassigned participants) won’t contribute to team scores but they will appear on the Individual Leaderboard.
- Tie scores are possible but become less likely as more questions are asked or with larger team sizes.
- There are no set team size limits.
- Real-time results are recommended for the team question. When participants pick teams themselves, enabling real-time results will ensure you can view & help balance team sizes.
- If the leaderboard doesn’t update after adding late team members, refresh the page.
- Reopening the team question. Beware of reopening the team question after the quiz has begun. While this will allow latecomers to join a team, it will also allow other participants to switch teams.
- Include non-scoring questions or polls between quiz questions (these won’t affect scores).