Another Great Tool for Creating Buzzfeed-style Quizzes

August, 2015
Riddle has recently rolled out some new features that should be especially useful for the upcoming school year. For those of you not yet familiar with Riddle this is a great web platform that allows teachers  to  create their own PlayBuzz and Buzzfeed-style quizzes, lists, polls, and more. 'Riddle’s goal is to provide best-in-class tools that making creating interactive content simple, so you can concentrate on the content instead of worrying about the tool.'

Here are the newly released features as communicated to us by Mike Hawkins:

1- Quizzes with individual answer submission - teachers can now create quizzes, and instead of anonymous answers, they can have each user submit their choices (here's an example):

 2- Rich text formatting - students and teachers can now jazz up their Riddles with bold, italic, bullets, and embedded links for better readability.

3- YouTube-friendly - any teacher can embed any YouTube video in their Riddle... perfect for showing a new clip, then asking for class opinions via a poll.

Riddle is totally free for individual users. It only charges for features that larger companies want.

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4 Useful Tools for Creating Non-traditional Quizzes

July 29, 2015
Here are four great web tools for creating online quizzes to share with your students. We have already reviewed these tools in separate posts in the past and some of you might already be familiar with them. However, for those of you who haven't seen them before, these are web-based platforms for creating a wide variety of  interactive quizzes. For more choices on quiz making tools, check out this page.

1-  FlipQuiz 

FlipQuiz is a web tool that allows teachers to easily create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. All the boards you create can be saved for later use. You can also share your boards up on-screen and have students work on them collaboratively. Watch this demo to show you what a gameshow-style board looks like.
2- PurposeGames

PurposeGames is a website for engaging learners through creating and playing games.As a teacher you can use  PurposeGames to create a variety of game-based quizzes. Some of the options you have include:Image Quizzes; Multiple Choice Quiz; Image shape quiz.

3- Riddle

Riddle is an excellent web tool for teachers. It allows them to  create their own PlayBuzz and Buzzfeed-style quizzes, lists, polls, and more, often in under a minute. Riddle’s goal is to provide best-in-class tools that making creating interactive content simple, so you can concentrate on the content instead of worrying about the tools.

4-QuizBean 

This is a cool web tool to use to create quizzes and assess your students. The basic free version alows you to create only 6 quizzes but you can go unlimited for $10 per month. Some of the features QuizBean offers to its users include:

• Add 3 questions or 30. Make your quiz as short or as long as you want.
• Add unlimited choices to your questions — that means multiple choice and true/false.drag 'n drop pictures for any question.
• Reinforce what students should know by adding explanations to each question.
• Allow students to see a report of the questions they got right and wrong.

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An Easy and Quick Way to Grade Quizzes on Google Drive Using Super Quiz Tool

February 22, 2015
Super Quiz is an excellent Google Sheets add-on that allows teachers to add some amazing functionalities to the quizzes they create through Google Forms. For instance, when you create a quiz, you only need to complete it once with an answer key and all future submissions will be automatically graded according to the answers you provided. Another important feature of Super Quiz is that it enables you to get a break down of class understanding and a list of incorrect students' answers  for each question in case you want to stage an intervention.

Also, “By filling out a few cells of information, you can also generate personalized differentiated written feedback emailed to students as soon as they submit a response. No need to monitor and ‘re-grade’ - just set-up and go!You can split your quiz in up to 4 different topics, and provide specific feedback on each. If you don’t want to email students, you can choose to print feedback on a 2x2 array, too.”

Watch the video below to learn more about Super Quiz

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FlipQuiz- A Good Tool to Create Gameshow-style Quizzes in Class

January 12, 2015
A few days ago I shared here a visual guide on how to create a quiz show on Google Drive and today I am introducing you to another tool that does almost the same. FlipQuiz is a web tool that allows teachers to easily create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. All the boards you create can be saved for later use. You can also share your boards up on-screen and have students work on them collaboratively. Watch this demo to show you what a gameshow-style board looks like.

To set up your new quiz board, you will need to register. Once logged in, click on “ Create a new board”. Then use the editor provided there together with the different tools it offers to design your game boards. You can always edit your boards by clicking on the “edit your entire board button”. When you are done creating your quiz boards, you can then  see the presentation version of your board by hitting “Launch presentation view”.

 Some of the features of FlipQuiz  include:

• Create and save boards in your account for future use
• FlipQuiz™ allows you the freedom to create beautiful game boards that you can take with you from class to class, school to school, and at home. 
• FlipQuiz™ has created a beautiful game board that will grasp the attention of all students. 
• Not only can you add your questions to each of your game boards, but you can also add the answers if you so desire. This allows you to be virtually hands-free as you walk around the classroom hosting the game.

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Teachers Easy Guide to Creating Quiz Shows on Google Drive

January 3, 2015
Flippity is a powerful web tool that you can use with Google Spreadsheets to perform a variety of tasks. In the last post we published here we talked about how to use Flippity to create Flashcards and we visually demonstrated how teachers can go about creating their own flashcards using this tool. Today, we are sharing with you another great functionality provided by Flippity. This time you will get to learn how to use Flippity to create a Quiz Show from a Google Spreadsheet. Click here to see a demo.

Here is how you can make your own Quiz Show using Flippity on Google Spreadsheets:

1- 1- Click on this template and copy it to your Google Spreadsheet by clicking on "file" and " make a copy"

2- Now that you are on the copied version of that template, edit the text and type in the data you want to include in your Quiz Show.

3-Publish your sheet by clicking on "file " then "publish"

4-Copy the link under the link tab

5- Now click on the "get the link here" tab of your template which is at the bottom

6- Paste that link in the light blue cell to get the link to your Flippity Quiz Show

Thanks to this Weebly page where I learned about Flippity.

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