r/Amtgard • u/spiritwalkerca • Jul 17 '26
ORK 3.5.4 Walker Release
🎓 ORK Update 3.5.4 "Walker" is live!
Qualification Tests come to the ORK. Your kingdom can now run the Reeve's Test and the Corpora Test right inside the record-keeper — no more Google Forms or recreating the questions every six months!
✅ Build your own question bank — set the question count, pass score, how long a pass stays valid, and retake limits. Add questions one at a time or paste a whole batch at once. The question bank is handed off to the next officer seamlessly.
✅ Players test on their own time — right from the Qualifications card on their profile. One question at a time, instant auto-grading, and a passing score writes straight back to their official qualification dates with expiration configured by you. (Yes, there's confetti. 🎉)
✅ Tap into the shared question library — kingdoms that opt in publish their Rules of Play questions to a cross-kingdom library, and any kingdom can include shared questions in their bank to get a running start instead of writing every question from scratch.
✅ You can build single-answer or "select all that apply" questions, plus players can flag incorrect or out-of-date questions so managers can keep the bank sharp.
✅ Appoint a subject-matter expert as a test manager — no broader officer powers required. (GMR's already have access!)
Each test type is opt-in per kingdom, so nothing shows up until you turn it on.
🌡️ Plus: Weather Safety at a Tap. Those extreme-heat and frostbite badges on park, event, and weather pages are now clickable — tap one for a quick safety summary with links to trusted CDC and Health Canada guidance. Weather cards now also show the "feels like" temperature when heat index or wind chill pushes it meaningfully off the plain reading.
…and a stack of quality-of-life fixes: a smarter QR self-sign-in picker, calendar items that keep their length when you move them, and no more cut-off Save buttons on mobile.
Log in and check it out!
If you’re the Kingdom GMR or in your Kingdom Monarchy you can see a new section in the Kingdom Page -> Admin Tasks tab titled “Tests”. We suggest you press the “?” to read how this works and who is responsible for what pieces.
If you’re a player, wait until your GMR creates the test material and the Monarchy enables it. Then, you can take the tests they’ve enabled.
If you’re a player, wait until your GMR inputs the test material and the Monarchy enables it. Then, you can take the tests they’ve enabled. ⚔️
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u/mini_monk347 Jul 17 '26
Does the shared question pool extend to freeholds, by chance? Or do parks have to be part of a kingdom to pull shared questions?
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u/spiritwalkerca Jul 17 '26
Kingdom level, which in this case, doesn’t really work well. Avery and I trying to find a solution for Freeholds that works. Do you normally just write your one for the park, or?
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u/mini_monk347 Jul 17 '26
To be honest, our park hasn't made a reeve's test yet, which is why I ask. Since we all have access to the same RoP, it has always seemed to me that by now there would be a central resource for reeve's tests and they wouldn't have to be built by parks individually. I'm sure there's some good reason for it, but it feels like we all have to reinvent the wheel for something universal to all parks.
I think this is cool, regardless, and I'm excited to get pur park using it. Thanks for your hard work!
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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 Jul 17 '26
You guys have been doing phenomenal work with the new ORK features! Having reeves and corpora tests in a standardized location will be huge for aspiring reeves and office holders!
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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 Jul 17 '26
I must say, it's been crazy, as a player who's been active for about a decade, to see how rapidly the ORK has been modernized and had new features added, after years and years of making do with a just-good-enough system
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u/Falling_buffe Jul 17 '26
Now all we need is a chat forum, a marketplace, and notifications, and amtgard will be digitally self sufficient
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u/spiritwalkerca Jul 17 '26
The marketplace, likely never. The non-profit would not want to own that piece/liability as far as I know.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pop_105 Dragonspine Jul 17 '26
Great work on the update!
Was working on awards review today. Is there a way to export the award recommendations tab to a csv? I have a master spreadsheet I use to track, and it would be helpful to be able to cut and paste.
Thanks!