Let's learn about the reason behind developing Trivia, online trivia hosting platform

Team culture is more important than ever. Employees are inclined to work for hours, even outside their work hours, to complete the needs and expectations of an organization. Having a great team culture can make an employee happy and satisfied at work. And there's a no-brainer that satisfied employees are most productive, and hence the asset to the organization. 

Team culture has gained significance during the pandemic. As many companies opt to go remote to stay afloat, they came face to face with new challenges. 

There's no doubt over the benefits of working remotely: you are not location dependent, have flexible work hours, and you don't have to waste over 2 hours daily in transit. But when your work team is working remotely, it can become very easy to slip into isolation. 

This is how we eliminated isolation in our remote team

When we shifted to the work-from-home model, we didn't know about the challenges our remote team will face but we have been optimizing our home offices and Slack workspace to keep a check on productivity and tested many team-building activities. 

After some time, we realized the challenge we needed to address: Way to keep our team-spirit high and team camaraderie intact. 

To find the answer, we experimented with many fun virtual activities every day. We observed great tractions with Quizzes. but they required fixing up a timeslot, downloading a separate app, and conducting the quiz over a Zoom call.

We did some crazy brainstorming on the topic and eventually came up with the following idea: To create a Slack app (Slack is our communication tool of choice) that’d bring Social & Fun right back to our workspace. Yes, you read that right!

Enter – Trivia, an online trivia hosting platform. 

Trivia virtually allows teams within a Slack workspace to play 1000s of quizzes right inside Slack!


All about Trivia's goal

Trivia is here to make remote working more fun. You can play Trivia all day and every day just like our own team. We saw the positive effects it has on us. People really enjoy playing quizzes with their team and feel more refresh and productive.

Trivia brings the team members together to play and interact at work. 

With Trivia’s suite of quizzes, you can bring Social & Fun back to your workspace (right inside Slack) even while working remotely. 

Here are some Quick Features:

Easy to launch: Trivia quizzes are fun, easy to launch, and provide a quick 5-minute break to your workday.

MCQs – Multiple choice questions with four options, each across topics like science, tech, business, movies, entertainment, and even Maths and Grammar. Look out for the GoT, The Office, and Harry Potter quizzes as well. 😍

Seamless – Play with your team anytime, anywhere, right on top of Slack.

Multiple game types – for a variety of quizzes.

Leaderboards – track results real-time along with final podium standings showcased at the end.

How Does It Work?

Add Trivia to Slack

First, add our app Trivia to your Slack Workspace.

Create a channel like #random or #quiz-buddies for non-work conversation and add all the team members!

Run Trivia into the channel

Run the trivia quizzes by typing “/Trivia” slash command.

And then, a pop-up window will appear where you can select the channel and number of questions. You can select up to 5 categories for the quiz, and click send.

And all the channel members will get the notification that the game will be starting in X seconds. People can also see the quiz category, the total number of questions, and a few instructions for the participants.

Start the Quiz

And start the quiz, participants can now start answering the questions. You can also check who answered correctly.

In the thread, you can see the history of all the questions.

And once all the questions are over, you’ll get podium results. 

To conclude

Trivia is quite helpful in building remote teams. And it helps from stopping employees to slip into isolation that can affect their productivity. 

This article was originally published 2 years ago in Springworks Blogs.

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