Quia.com

This week's entry looks at an interactive site where you can post online quizzes for students to complete. The site is called Quia.com and you can sign up for a free trial version to see what it can do. When you click on the above link, you then want to access the Quia web link which is in the middle of your screen. There is a $50/year subscription fee but that drops to around $40 if ten or more teachers are interested. This fee may be covered by the school.

What's so great about Quia, is that it allows students to log in, complete an online quiz, and then get immediate feedback as to how well they did. Not only do they get the number correct, but they also get shown which answers were correct and which one's were not.

You can create a variety of quizzes including multiple choice, matching, t/f, fill in the blank and even open ended questions. My socials 10 students used it to review material for their final exam and they loved it.

As well, if you want to use the results for marks, you can create a class, and then when the exams are finished, the results of the students automatically get put into a mark book for you to use. It also shows you how many times they attempted the exam, who completed it, and who did not. You can then decide what to do with the marks. If you use a test bank of questions, the exams take very little time to complete. As well, there are already dozens of tests already created that you can access. In others words, most of the work is done for you and includes dozens of subject areas for you to access. Find a quiz, copy it to your classroom and you're ready to go. Students can also access them at any time so if they are away, they can log in at home an complete the assignment.

As well, there are other activities students can complete such as interactive matching games, hangman, jeopardy, etc. They can all be tailored to what you want to have them do. I will be demonstrating this at the next staff meeting so you can get a better look at it. Definitely a site worth checking out.