Google Quizzes

What are Google Quizzes?

Consider creating a complete online lesson in the form of a Google Quiz to teach a new concept or check the current understanding of your learners. You can design a creative quiz (as a Google Form) that combines a range of different question types with engaging content such as videos and images. Your quiz can be assigned to learners for them to work on at a specific time in the week or in their own time, at their own pace.

Summary Points

• Most of you will have created, or at least completed, a Google Form over the past few years, but the new Google Quiz Template makes it even easier to create a self-marking Google Quiz.

• It is worth noting here that Google Forms works in exactly the same way as Microsoft Forms, there are just a few minor differences. The learning is the same. 

• Quizzes are self-marking in the sense that you can add written feedback comments to the form so that when a student reviews their answers they receive immediate feedback on why that was indeed the correct answer, or why that specific answer was incorrect. (Obviously this will only work for multiple choice or option style questions.)

• However, short and long answer questions can also be included to have students explain their thinking or justify their opinions. A great way to check the ‘depth’ of their understanding and/or to identify any common misconceptions

• Quizzes are also self-marking in the sense that an excel spreadsheet can be exported once all students have completed the quiz so that you can scrutinise the results and critically assess what learning has ‘stuck’ and what elements may need re-teaching. 

• Important - please be sure to create a place for students to input their ‘full name’ at the top of the quizz so that you can identify individual students more quickly on the excel spreadsheet. Without it, you will have to identify each student by their student number & email address and that can be frustrating! Believe me, I know!

• To add further engagement and variety, you can also include YouTube Videos or your own screencast videos directly into the form for students to watch before answering a specific set of questions. 

• This goes for images, diagrams, photographs, infographics etc. Consider how you could include both images and videos to powerfully quiz students on what they already know, or what they can retrieve from previous online, or face-to-face lessons.

• Other question types can be used effectively to find out how comfortable students are with a topic or concept such as the number scale or multiple choice question grid e.g. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your current understanding of X? Or How would you best describe your understanding of Y? 

• Google Forms that you have previously used with students can be converted into Google Quizzes by clicking on Settings > Quizzes > Make This A Quiz when you have opened your form. 

• You can create Google quizzes in 3 different ways/places:

  • From within the Google Forms App in your Google Apps down down menu

  • From within your own Google Drive folder by clicking ‘Create’

  • From within Google Classroom by creating a ‘Quiz Assignment’

• *Important -  if you create a quiz directly in Google Classroom the quiz is saved into your ‘Classroom folder’ in your Google Drive. Personally, I would recommend creating them in your own Google Drive so that you know where to locate them and you can create them ahead of time. 

• An Important final reminder - Be sure to title your google form appropriately. If you intend to use Google Quizzes quite regularly, then I would also consider numbering them so that they are much easier to find.

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