Educational contest "Brain Ring": conditions of participation

Teachers:

• Register if you have not already done so.
• Select your school from the list. If your school is not listed, click "Add a new school".
• Once registered, distribute the generated passwords to your students. Their parents will be able to pay for them themselves, or you can do it for them in your account.

Students / Individual Participants:

• No need to register if your teacher has already done so. Just ask your teacher to give you a code to enter the competition.
• Register only if you wish to participate separately from the school - individually.

Guidance: how to organise participation in "Brain Ring" competitions

The competition for your students can be organised in two formats:

• In your school's computer lab.
• At home/remotely using the student's computer.

Organising the "Brain Ring" competition in the computer lab at school

1. Choose a convenient time to host the contest in your computer lab. The contest can be held at any convenient time within the contest dates.
2. Assign students to workstations in the computer lab so that everyone can access an individual computer.
3. If the number of participants exceeds the number of computers, divide the participants into multiple groups.
4. Ask the students to open the www.brainring.co.uk website and log in using their individual passcodes. This can be done by clicking on the red "PARTICIPATE" button in the upper right corner of the home page.
5. Once the participants click the "START" button, the time for completing the contest tasks will start counting down.

Organising the "Brain Ring" competition at home

1. Print out the password cards and hand them to the students.
2. According to the brief instructions on the cards, students should go to www.brainring.co.uk, select the desired subject and click on the red "PARTICIPATE" button in the upper right corner of the page.
3. In the window that appears, students should enter their password and click the "START" button.

Can't print out the password cards?

• If you can't print out password cards, no problem! You can easily access the passwords on the "Passcode cards" page by logging into your account at www.brainring.co.uk.
• Also available on this page is an electronic version of the cards with passwords and the list of participants in PDF format, which you can use to participate in the "Brain Ring" competition without having to print the cards.
• You can verbally tell the passwords to your participants, write them down, email them to them for later printing, or any other convenient method.

What should I do if a participant forgets the passcode for the contest?

• If a student has forgotten their passcode, you can easily find the details on the "Passcode cards" or "My students" page from your account at www.brainring.co.uk.
• The passcode can also be found in a previously printed password list.

What should I do if a participant cannot take part in the contest?

• If a registered participant is unable to take part in a contest, you can substitute them with another student.
• If a participant is unable to take part and another student has not used their password, they can participate in the next session of the "Brain Ring" competition using the same password for free.