Daffodil enables Promasidor to leverage technology in order to conduct a nation-wide quiz show for promoting mathematics education

Team Daffodil initiated the project by gaining clear assimilation of the client’s requirements and orchestrated the workflow of the game quiz. Web, mobile and desktop applications were developed. The entire system and its modules were put together in an aesthetically appealing interface that complemented the speed of processing the game show and managed real-time information synchronization.

The frontend of the applications was built using AngularJS which offers a rich and responsive user experience. jQuery was used with CSS3 to create great-looking effects and animations to ensure the audience is kept engaged. The server-side of the applications are built using ASP.Net as it is popularly used to develop the fastest and most scalable applications.

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) was used to develop the desktop application as it enables tight multimedia integration which makes it suitable for applications consisting of multimedia, animation and HD video playback. Dynamic DBMS was used with the SignalR software library for communication across a cluster of devices.

The key modules that were developed as a part of the entire solution are:

Cowbellpedia Web Application

Since the game show was supposed to be broadcasted on a national TV channel, thousands of registrations were expected in each season. Hundreds of schools used to nominate their best students to participate in the quiz show. The Cowbellpedia web application was developed to enable school registrations with the allocation of a login portal to each entry. The participants could access their accounts using the registration details at any point of time. The scalable web app was built to always be available, perform flawlessly, retrieve the data quickly, respond in real-time and always have room for more functionalities. A candidate management system was integrated into the app to make it user-friendly and resourceful. The application was integrated with an offline test section where details and results for offline tests were displayed. The participants could take 16 levels of Junior as well as senior-level quizzes using the web application.

Cowbellpedia Mobile Application

The mobile app was meant for participants to understand the question pattern before they appear for the final round. It had two categories, Junior (for students in Junior Secondary Schools) and Senior (for students in Senior Secondary Schools). There are 13 levels, each having 3 stages (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced). The app focuses on mathematics and questions are drawn from various subject areas such as Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics, etc.

Cowbellpedia Desktop Application

The desktop app was developed for live quiz show management. The application had different access roles which were named, the Question Manager, Presenter, Admin, Senior Admin, and Contestant. The application had four critical modules that were:

Admin panel: This helped manage contestants, grouping, episodes, question set, a question bank, complexity level, settings, etc.

Host management panel: This was a real-time module consisting of a dashboard managing game, awarded talking-point, displayed answers to the questions and the points earned by a contestant.

Control room panel: This module was designed for quiz management, episodes management, show sequence management, presenter panel, etc.

Biometric login panel: This module was built for secure log in to the devices by contestants, during quiz show.

A few additional features that were integrated into the applications were:

Audience screen: The featured allowed participants and audience members to view the questions on a separate panel of the screen. This helped in elevating viewer engagement.

Automated grouping: The application enabled a feature that could divide participants into unbiased automated groups for the next level.

Complexity level: The feature helped in defining the complexity level of the questions and categorizing them into junior and senior levels for suitable participants.