Last updated on 12 February 2025
Playvisit is an amazing online service that will allow you to create incredible self-guided or virtual tours for your students from scratch. A clever tool that will mix discoveries, play and education that will lend itself to many uses in the classroom. A beautiful discovery.
Create an interactive self-guided tour to discover a place or theme
Playvisit lends itself very well to a treasure hunt or a self-guided visit during a school trip. But until the health crisis is over, you can also use it to create real virtual visits to follow on your computer or laptop. We knew the virtual tours of major museums, Playvisit makes it possible to play, among other things, with city maps.
It is easy to use and there are no problems with handling. You do not have to download or install anything. Playvisit allows you to create your virtual tour from a background map provided by Google Maps. You will be able to define your path by pinpointing points of interest that will constitute the different stages that your students/explorers will have to follow.
For each point of interest you will be able to inject multimedia content. It's up to you to play by very easily adding contextual information to each point. You can use a wide variety of formats: text, multimedia content (image, video, gifs, …).
The editing studio of your virtual tour is very simple to use. You view your changes in real time so you can preview how your students will see it.
A dose of gamification to take your students on board
Your students will love to follow the virtual tours created with Playvist. Especially since the platform allows you to insert challenges to motivate your users and …les help memorize the important points to remember. Creating mini-games and quizzes only takes a few minutes. You will be able to pace a journey and motivate your audience to go all the way to the end of the visit. Malin.
Once you have created your virtual tour, all you have to do is share it. Playvisit provides you with a unique link. All visits run on the mobile browser of any smartphone. Simply share with your users or add to your website or blog the link provided by the app for each visit. By clicking on the link, your users access the visit directly from their mobile phone or computer. Note that once published your visits can be updated simply without the need to change the link provided.
Playvisit is an excellent tool to offer a new way to discover and teach the world through location technologies and gamification.
Playvisit is used by professional guides to create tourist guides paid in a shop integrated into the site. However, the site is also aimed at the wider world of education. You can test and use Playvisit for free for 30 days. Then, if you go further, you will be able to benefit froma special education rate offered by the platform.
Playvisit is part of the 2021 Best Tools for Education list.
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