Unit 2- Online Quizzes and Surveys

Schools today face many challenges, including student engagement. In our digital age, it is so important to have resources that will not only get our students actively involved in their learning but also make them tech savvy.  One way teachers can engage students is by using web tools to create quizzes and surveys that can be used in fun ways.

My assignment for class this week was to research the different sites that can be used to create surveys and quizzes, choose one and create a product to share. The list I had to choose from was lengthy. As I looked over the choices, a quiz web tool that I really liked and heard was good is Quizizz (https://quizizz.com/).

Quizizz is a free web tool that is easy to use. Quizizz offers millions of free teacher-created quizzes you can choose from, or create your own. If you want to choose from created quizzes, all you have to do is search for your topic, and then peruse the different choices. Each quiz has a title, the grade level it is appropriate for, as well as how many people have played it. As you look at the list, whatever quiz you hover over, to the side you can see some of the questions, and you have the option to view all the questions with just a click of a button.

If you sign up for a free account, you can create your own quiz. Let's say you like someone's quiz, you can duplicate it and save it to your account. Just like many other sites, once you have an account, you can create folders to keep the different quizzes you make or select from the website. What's great too, is if you like someone's quiz, but want to alter it, you can duplicate it. If you want to make your own quiz, you have the option to use questions from other quizzes. Making your own quiz is simple and you have options to create questions with up to 5 answer choices, select more than one correct answer, add images to questions, and even align your quiz to state standards.

Another thing I liked about Quizizz is that it can be used on any device and it is a great tool to use to review content with an entire class or you can share the link to the quiz to have students do it as homework. For the homework option, you can decide upon the timeframe that the homework is available for and student results can be used to take grades.

What a spreadsheet looks like

Along with the homework game option, you can play a live game. To play a live game, all you have to do is give your students a code to the game. Students use join.quizizz.com on their device to get to Quizizz and then enter the game code, then their name. If you are projecting this, as students join the game, their names will show on the screen. Once everyone is in, start the quiz.

Once students are in the game, on their devices they will see questions with answer choices. Each question has a time limit, which you can decide upon. The quicker questions are answered, the more points students get. With Quizizz, students are able to work at their own pace. Unlike Kahoot! (www.Kahoot.com), which displays the same question and students select the answer choice in a certain amount of time. Quizizz mix up the questions for each student, so they aren't able to look at other's choices. This means that you get to see how they really do on their own, even in a group setting. Once a question is asked, students know whether their answer is right or wrong as well as how many points they received. The game ends when everyone has completed the quiz. If students finish while others are still working, they can review the questions and answers.  

What the question screen looks like with answer choices. At the top is the countdown of the time.

When you get the correct answer, this is the screen you will see.

After the game is over, the student with the highest score is celebrated and then there is a screen that shares the highlights of the game. What I like that is different from Kahoot! is that the game highlights let students see what the toughest question was, which question took the longest to answer, and the class accuracy for each question.  What I really like too, is that from this screen, you can download results to an Excel spreadsheet and review the questions.

What a question looks like in review mode.

In my role as the librarian, although I don't give students grades, I do try to find web resources that I can use to review concepts that I have gone over with them in the library, such as how to locate books, literary genres, how to use different digital tools, and etc. I also like to know about tools like this, to share with teachers to use in their classrooms.

Here is a link to a video to give you a more information: https://youtu.be/lvcLRA-VG1E

Check out the Quizizz, activity I created to review things we've learned in the library:
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5b529afef69a97001965aa00/library-review

How will you do?