Technical University of Cartagena
AZURE: “Rétame y Aprendo” at the Technical University of Cartagena
At the Technical University of Cartagena, they are passionate about technology. That passion, together with their constant search to find tools with which to encourage teachers and students to get the most out of their classes, made them bet on gamification applied to education.
This is how “Rétame y Aprendo” emerged, an interactive trivia contest designed to help young people learn while playing with their cell phones. It is developed on the UPCTPlay app, a platform developed technologically by the Technical University of Cartagena with the collaboration of ENCAMINA and Microsoft.
Scale thanks to Azure
From the Chair of Technology Company, ENCAMINA and Microsoft have collaborated in this project helping the UPCT to create an AZURE infrastructure to connect the application to the internet and make it scalable, flexible and versatile, so that it will meet the needs of the contest at all times, even when there are more than 10,000 people playing simultaneously.
The response of the students has been very positive. On the first game day, 10,489 games were registered and automatically scaled to keep up with all that demand. All these data were combined and monitored thanks to its simple integration with PowerBI, which was showing the real-time game’s statistics.
Ultimately, it has been an exciting project, which undoubtedly is a national standard of ICT talent and positioning in Education.