A Moodle adventure · Una aventura Moodle

A treasure hunt that takes learning places

Create outdoor, indoor or virtual-map adventures in Moodle. Build routes, write clues, discover places with GPS or QR codes and follow every team’s progress.

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Explore · Discover · Learn
The adventure

From a course to a journey.

Treasure Hunt is a Moodle activity for location-based learning. Teachers design roads and stages; learners find places, solve questions and make progress on a real or virtual map.

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Explore

Use GPS outdoors, place a marker on the map from a desk, or scan QR codes where positioning is difficult.

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Think

Clues, optional questions and Moodle activity restrictions connect discovery with course content.

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Progress together

Play individually or in teams, choose grading rules and review progress in the teacher dashboard.

Students using phones outdoors
Students can follow the hunt outdoors from their phones.
For teachers

Design the route. Let curiosity do the rest.

Create paths and stages in the geographic editor, draw areas or points, set discovery rules and preview each road before students play.

  • Choose individual or team play and configure groups.
  • Write clues for the next stage or the current stage.
  • Allow selected stages to be found out of sequence.
  • Import inspiration from public OpenData collections.
Start the teacher guide →
OpenData for authors

Turn nearby heritage into a stage.

The OpenData assistant searches georeferenced public records in the visible map area. Browse categories and providers, inspect descriptions, images and links, then add discoveries to a local layer. A useful place can become a stage with editable source information.

Search Wikidata and DBpedia; Europeana is available when its API key is configured.

Explore the OpenData tutorial →
OpenData source and category selector
OpenData search assistant in the current geographic editor (Spanish interface).
The 3D horizon

Cessium brings the hunt to a globe.

Fly between places, explore terrain and follow an animated 3D Pegman. The Cessium / Cesium 3D viewer is an experimental alternative to the standard browser player. Mapbox is another optional experimental map viewer.

Compare the players →
Cesium satellite viewer with a highlighted stage and 3D Pegman
Cesium 3D viewer with satellite imagery, a stage area and animated Pegman.
Visual guides

Everything you need to begin.

Follow the workflow step by step, then share the student guide before the first hunt.

Create a hunt

Build roads, stages and clues from the course page.

Shape the map

Draw stage geometry and choose your map source.

Find discoveries

Use public knowledge as an authoring starting point.

Join the game

Learn the clues, location and QR flows.

Ready to play?

One more place to discover.

Install the Moodle activity, create a path and test it with a teacher preview. Learners can then use the browser player without installing a separate native application.

Installation guide →