Quizizz is a fun online quiz tool similar to Kahoot.
A point of difference is the humorous memes for students which appear after each question and either congratulate or commiserate with the students. You can insert pictures and audio as part of a question. You can get students to select their name from a list of names Quizizz provides. This makes students anonymous, which can be an advantage in classes where some students may feel intimidated by comments of others. The names in the example below demonstrate the automatically generated names students can choose from.
Quizizz has humorous memes which appear after the student has answered the question - you can choose from several sets.
There is a nice interface for the teacher who can see how each student performed and the % of students who succeeded in answering correctly each question.
The quizzes can be self-paced or used competitively in class. According to the website, it has millions of quizzes to choose from. You need to pay to get access to all these resources, but you can create your own for free.
Quizlet is a great tool for students to learn on their own, and to have fun collaboratively in the classroom.
You start off by creating a study set of online flashcards. They are very easy to create - after you have entered your term, it will search for the definitions of that term. So, often you only need to select by clicking on the one you want - no typing long definitions!
Teaching a foreign language? Quizlet will automatically select the translation for a word you want. If you don't like the suggestion, you can delete it or edit it.
Quizlet will then automatically convert it to speech when needed in such exercises as "Spell". It will automatically create the other learning activities, unlike Kahoots and other quiz formats where you have to create your own distractors.
There are thousands of study sets already created (Quizlet.com) that you can use, which saves a huge amount of time. However, you still need to check them, as many of the study sets are created by students and are not always accurate. Some maths study sets will step students through solutions.
Match is a game where students match a term and defintion by dragging one to the other. When they match, they disappear. There is a timer which shows how long iot takes. This can be a fun competitive class activity, or you can challenge students to beat their initial times.
Live is a collaborative multiple choice activity in which the students in a group all get different answers - only one member will have the correct answer. It has a leader table and works in the form of a snakes and ladder game - if anyone in the group selects the wrong answer, the mark reverts to 0! No extra points for guessing quickly.
This is one of the few digital tools I actually pay for, as I feel the premium mode is well worth it.
Here is a matching exercise on formal and informal words: Quizlet matching activity You can see the associated set of flashcards and other activities here: Formal vs Informal words. This is available indefinitely.
Alan
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