Quizizz - How to use it?

TCC VET How to use it?

Why using this tool – benefits

Quizizz is an online tool designed to conduct student formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.

This tool differs from many other platforms oriented to learning by quiz because it is totally free of charge. It works on any device: web browser, iOS, Android and Chrome apps.

You can access hundreds of ready-made learning quiz or create your own. Join as a teacher, pick a quiz, and use the code for a virtual room to give to your students.

When you sign in and start browsing the website, you will easily discover a search page where for each subject of teaching you can find the tests already made by other teachers, and all of them are available, printable, duplicable and therefore modifiable.

Teachers have multiple options to customize their quiz session to toggle the level of competition, speed, and other factors. Quizizz is anyway student-paced: questions appear on each student's screen, so they can answer questions at their own pace, and review their answers at the end.

Quizizz is ever mindful of the importance of distance learning. In 2020, kitchen tables and sofas may have replaced classroom desks and cubicles, but that hasn’t stopped student engagement: whether playing live or asynchronously, students always see questions on their own devices and they can give answers from wherever they are, keeping on learning!

So far Quizizz is available in English and other 5-6 languages, but recently its developers started implementing a process of internationalization and quite soon many other languages will be available.


Written instructions

1. To start using Quizizz you will first of all go to the website of this free web-based tool https://quizizz.com/

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2. Even before getting started, you may scroll down the homepage and discover the main characteristics of this tool. Once arrived at the bottom, click on Start for free or Sign up and become member of this community!

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3. To sign up you can use your Google account (if you already have one) or filling in your email and follow the easy procedure. However you decide to do, remember to flag the box declaring “I have read and agree to…”, if not the system prevents you to go on.

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4. Once completed the registration process, you will land in your dashboard, that is very easy to be used: in the centre of the page you can select a subject to teach, while the column on the left allows you to create your new quiz, to find quiz already available, to create your classes and so on. Let’s go to see step-by-step how you can positively engage your students.

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5. Let’s say you are an English teacher (or maths, science, art, et cetera) and you need to choose a quiz on a certain topic for your class of students. Browsing the centre of the page or searching a specific topic in the search bar you can find the topic of your interest. Write a topic and go!

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6. You land in a page listing all the existing quiz about the topic you chose. For each quiz, the column on the right gives a preview of the different questions. This will ease your choice of the quiz that better suits your goals. Besides, you can decide how to sort out the quiz and filter the list according to the grade and subject it will be applied to. And when you think a quiz may be of your interest also in the future, you can decide to give a like and save it in your collections:

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7. Once decided which quiz you want your students to challenge, click on the title and land in the page where you have the chance to decide how to administer the test: play live with your class, assign as a Home Work, practice with it to check how it works:

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8. Let’s say you want to play live in the classroom: click on the relevant button and land in the following page:

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Here you can decide which kind of game your students will play: in team, classic version or test activity to be assessed. You will then assign the quiz to a class, creating it if you didn’t do before, and provide the advanced settings. At the end, everything will be ready, and you can click on Continue.


9. Now it’s time to involve your class: your device will display the following screen, showing the website your students have to connect to and the relevant game code they have to digit on their devices. While they link, on your screen you will be able to check when all of them are ready to Start.

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10. The students will visualize the questions on their devices and they will give the answers. At the end of the game you can check the answers and have an assessment. You can also click on Reports in your dashboard (left column) to have a statistic feed-back including all your quiz.

Last modified: Friday, 11 December 2020, 12:05 PM