Crazy Collab Quiz
Creating and answering multiple choice questions (MCQs) are one of the most obvious Quality Assurance concerns when we discuss assessments within Higher Education in a world of Generative AI. Its also one of the suggested ways Gen AI can help students to study. This activity prompts a large group to work together to create a multiple choice quiz, allowing them to begin exploring and discussing Generative AI's capabilities and limitations in a safe and fun way.
The purpose
Provide a quick, scaffolded method for participants to explore Gen AI's ability to help students revise and test their own learning.
This activity can also be a way of highlighting and starting discussions on factual inaccuracies in computer generated answers.
Allow participants a chance to explore Gen AI's MCQ capabilities themselves given widespread concerns about assuring the quality of this assessment method.
What you need
Setting it up
Create a blank quiz using a tool like Microsoft or Google forms and create a link for collaborators, we've an example you can follow in Resources.
Embed a link for collaborators in your slide deck or prepare to share it with participants another way.
How long does it take?
We suggest 5-10 minutes for individuals or small groups to create questions and add them to the form.
How it works
Give participants a collaborative link to the blank quiz you have created.
Tell them to use a Generative AI tool of their choice to create a multiple choice question on a topic of their choice.
Provide a sample prompt such as "Create a multiple choice question about [add topic here]. Provide 4 answer choices. Make the question difficult. State the correct answer and reasoning."
Ask them to add their questions to the shared Crazy Collab Quiz
About halfway through suggest they start looking at adding their question to the quiz.
Keep a close eye out for participants who have gotten stuck.
Suggested follow-up
Give participants a link to complete the quiz and some time if you can.
Prompt them to discuss how useful they think this feature might be for students revising for exams.
Where it works well
With participants who are engaged in teaching as part of their role - creating MCQs using Gen AI is one of the common suggested uses.
We have done this in a synchronous, face-to-face setting but it could be adapted to online and asynchronous settings.
It could also be a useful activity for students which could both suggest an ethical way they can use Gen AI to support their learning and potentially raise their awareness of the pitfalls of depending on these tools as a source of infallible truth.
What to watch out for
Quizzes are fairly user friendly to set up, but it is not always obvious how to set correct answers. Some participants may forget to do this or need help using the collaborative quiz interface.
Resources
Authorship
This entry was written by Maria O'Hara.