2. HOUSING & RESIDENCE LIFE MISSION
“Housing and Residence Life is committed to supporting the
mission of the University by striving to provide safe and well-
maintained communities that enhance the overall collegiate
experience. Through the responsible stewardship of resources
– personnel, physical, and financial – we offer a living and
learning experience that facilitates students’ development as
Monarchs and growth as global citizens.”
Housing & Residence Life strives to provide students with a
clean, safe community that will enhance the college
experience and give students access to many opportunities
provided on ODU’s campus.
3. WHAT INCOMING FRESHMEN SHOULD KNOW
Housing & Residence Life strives to teach incoming freshman
the rules and regulations of on-campus housing along with
resources around campus to help students academically,
when and where sporting and other events are taking place,
and about a new campaign called the Monarch Resident
Citizen Campaign
How Freshmen Learn About This
Housing & Residence Life currently teaches freshman through
Orientation and floor meetings throughout the academic
year. The office of Housing & Residence Life is having a hard
time reaching out to students because neither of their
methods of teaching students is mandatory. Students can
choose whether or not they want to go to the information
session about Housing & Residence Life or if they would
4. rather go to an information session about something else,
such as financial aid or study abroad. Much like Orientation,
floor meetings are not mandatory. Students can choose not to
attend a floor meeting all year and will have no
consequences. Another flaw in the system is that many
freshmen live off campus. Students that live off campus are
not told when floor meetings are and, therefore, do not ever
attend them. Even students that live off campus should be
required to attend floor meetings because the likelihood of
them spending time in a dorm, whether it be to hang out with
friends or to complete a group project, is very high.
5. CHALLENGES
Level 1
Your new friend that lives down the hall from you wants to
know all of the rules and regulations of Housing &
Residence Life, but he has a class during the floor meeting.
Attend the meeting and make a list of the rules and
regulations for your new friend and post it on your profile.
Alternate for those living off campus:
Your first day of class, you made friends with an awesome
guy that lives on campus. You asked him if he wanted to
hang out, and he agreed to, but he has a floor meeting.
Attend the floor meeting and see if you can find him there
so you can hang out with him when it is over and you can
6. learn the rules and regulations of Housing & Residence Life
for when you spend time in his dorm.
Level 2
You and your friend are walking down the hall of one of the
dorms on campus. You notice the poster displaying the
Monarch Resident Citizen of the month. You tell your friend
that you know the person and they don’t believe you. Scan
the QR code on the poster, find the one of the Monarch
Resident Citizens of the Month, take a selfie with him or
her, and upload it onto your profile. Now your friend will
have to believe you.
Level 3
Your mom thinks that you are slacking off in school. She
has threatened to shut your phone off in two hours if you
don’t prove that you’ve been trying to improve your
grades. All that she has been talking about lately is how
great the students are that have been receiving the
Monarch Resident Citizen of the month campaign. To save
your social life, find the posters of the Monarch Resident
Citizens of the Month and take selfies with three of them
and upload them onto your profile. You only have two
hours until your mom shuts your phone off, so make it fast!
Option 2:
7. Your mom hates the friends that you’ve been hanging out
with and thinks they are a bad influence on you. She has
threatened to shut off your phone in two hours so you can
no longer contact your deadbeat friends. To prove that
your friends are not a bad influence, you and your three
friends must take selfies with all of the Monarch Citizens of
the Month and upload the pictures onto your profiles. You
only have your phone for two more hours, so make it fast!
Follow Up
You have a friend that does so much for the community,
but is never recognized for any of it. You’re tired of him or
her not gaining anything from the hard work that he or she
does. Nominate this friend for Monarch Resident Citizen of
the Month.
9. Players will download the app and create a profile in which
there will be several information sections that will need to
be filled out so that challenges can be given to players that
can actually complete them.
Players will be walked through the app and will learn the
ins and outs of the game.
Challenges will pop up on the challenge board (much like
the news feed section on Facebook).
When players find a challenge that they would like to
complete, they will click on the challenge and press
accept. If the challenge requires multiple people to be
completed, players can accept the challenge, then they
will be paired with other players who have also accepted
the challenge and may begin. If the challenge has a time
limit, it will begin when the challenge has been accepted.
Upon completing a challenge, players may receive a follow
up challenge. Just like any other challenge, players can
accept or decline the challenge.
The follow up challenge will pop up on the app right after
completion of the challenge that it relates to. Players must
either accept or decline the challenge before they can do
anything else on the app.
10. For the challenges for levels two and three, players must
find the posters of the Monarch Resident Citizens of the
month and scan the QR code on the posters. This will give
them a drop pin on their GPS as to where the Monarch
Resident Citizens of the month are located.
HOW PLAYERS WILL BE ASSESSED ON THEIR COMPLETION OF
11. CHALLENGES
Level 1
Players must accept the challenge when they are at their
floor meeting in the residence hall. A time stamp and a GPS
locator will prove that they have completed the challenge.
Level 2 & 3
Game Masters will check the photos that are uploaded to
verify that the pictures are actually with the Monarch
Resident Citizens of the Month.
Follow Up Challenge
Nominations are submitted through Orgsync, therefore the
game app can be connected to Orgsync and can verify that a
nomination was submitted.
12. HOW WILL THESE CHALLENGES HELP FRESHMEN LEARN ABOUT
HOUSING & RESIDENCE LIFE?
Level 1
Students that live on campus will have to attend the meeting
and will be informed on the policies and procedures of
Housing and Residence Life
Students that live off campus will likely spend time in on
campus housing, whether it be hanging out with friends or
working on a project. All students need to know the Housing
and Residence Life policies and Procedures
Level 2
Students will learn about the Monarch Residence Citizen
Campaign and will make connections with a student that has
been contributing to the community
Students may want to be recognized as that Monarch
Residence Citizen of the Month and will strive to follow the
rules and excel in their community involvement.
Level 3
13. Students will learn about the Monarch Residence Citizen
Campaign and will make connections with a student that has
been contributing to the community.
Students that complete option two will make connections
with other freshman.
Students and will be exposed to more successful members of
the ODU community.
Follow Up
Students will learn exactly what it takes to become a
Monarch Resident Citizen of the month and will learn how to
nominate someone for it.
Students will also be forced to think critically about what it
means to be a Monarch Resident Citizen of the month
because they will have to think of someone to nominate.
14. HOW TO ASSESS IF THE CHALLENGES WERE SUCCESSFUL
Surveys can be sent out to students that play the game and
students that do not play the game asking questions such as
“How much do you think you know about Housing & Residence
Life” or “How many floor meetings did you attend this
semester”.
Another way to assess the impact of the challenges on the
players is to see if any of the players become the Monarch
Resident Citizen of the month.
The home page of the app can be set up to ask questions
about Housing & Residence Life policies and procedures that
players can answer for bonus points. This will assess how
much the players know about and have learned about the
Housing & Residence Life rules and regulations.
