Self-correcting quizzes with instant feedback

This is another ELTAS Tech Tools Day task

Pre-task thinking:

There are advantages to using Google apps for everything. If your students create a Google email account, all forms and other notifications map beautifully in the e-mails they receive.

So let's say you want to give your student a self-correcting quiz they can see their results in, and want to go with Google Docs Form. Your primary goal then is not to assess, but to give your quiz takers a quick fix for formative self-evaluation and motivation, with at least the minimal feedback whether they got the question right or wrong.

You can use Google Docs Form. I've doctored the assessment test (see last blog entry) to change it into this type of quiz. Try it out!






Feel free to compare the test you've taken with its backend here.

Karenne Sylvester taught me how she creates these tests for a student of hers:

• The questions are one to a page.
• Picking the right answer takes the test taker to the next page.
• Wrong answer? The test taker gets the message "Wrong answer! Please go back and try again."

Step by step:

• Create your quiz using Google Docs Form.
• After each question, add a page break. Page titles ="question 1" "question 2" etc.
• Add two page breaks at the end, title = "Wrong Answer" and "Well done!"
  
• Edit each question individually by activating the "go to page based on answer" box: For the correct answer select "Continue to next page". For all incorrect answers select "go to page X (Wrong Answer)". For the last question select "Well done!" Save everything.
  

Task:

• Create a self-correcting quiz with feedback using Google Docs Form.
• Please create a link to your document so we can try your quiz out.

A comprehension quiz using ProProfs Quiz Maker

This is another ELTAS Tech Tools Day task

Pre-task thinking:

• Can self-correcting online quizzes motivate learners, and if so, how?
• When would you refer to ones available online?
• When would you want to write one yourself?
• What would your students get out of creating a quiz and posting it for the others?

Barbara Sakamoto is using the ProProf Quiz Maker, a simple and free quiz-making tool, for her quiz series, "What you can learn from my PLN". (Last quiz here.) Each quiz features five blogposts on teaching, and you can even win Japanese sweets if you get the questions right! And now she's making a quiz especially on tech tools and using technology in time for the ELTAS Tech Tools Day.

So please do her latest quiz. Then come back and create a quiz of your own using the software.

Step by step:

1. Select a presentation or an article or blogpost online.
2. Formulate comprehension questions and possible answers, including one correct one and two or more distractors.
3. Register as a user on ProProfs Quiz Maker.
4. Go to Create a Quiz and select "Scored Quiz"
5. Type a quiz title, add tags and an introduction.
6. Type in your questions and add a comment containing a tip (but not the answer).
7. Edit your score settings.
8. Select your quiz category.
9. Press "Create a quiz".
10. Embed HTML code in your collaborative learning environment OR do what Barbara did, create a link to the quiz form.
11. Note that you can change your quiz after saving. However, all entries by quiz takers will then be reset to zero.
12. Please post a link so that we can participate in your quiz.