Quiz apps - an interesting addition to lessons

In today's post we will look at more tools for making online lessons more interesting. Quiz is a very useful form of checking the knowledge of participants before and after the class, but it can also be used in a very effective technique to diagnose the status of the assimilation of information of participants during the class. Such a procedure allows you to check, the involvement of the audience, but also to raise its level. It also allows the instructor to "quickly" make the necessary corrections to the "live" program, so that each participant gets the most out of the class. Let's take a look at some of the most popular of these applications.

Each offers a slightly different function and experience for users and users. Therefore, often one tool fits better for a specific age group or for different educational methods. I think quizzes are a great way to gather information about the course of education, a selected target group, so I highly recommend: take a look at these tools, analyze their functions for your own needs.

• Kahoot is a website, but also a downloadable application for tablets and smartphones of both most popular systems (Android and iOS). It allows you to create simple quizzes or surveys (but only up to 4 answers). You can make them more interesting with videos, as well as music from your own song library. Questions have to be presented on an overhead projector or a separate screen, and answers are given by clicking on the corresponding answer symbol on the smartphone. Kahoot is by far the most colorful and dynamic application prepared for use at school or at play. In addition, we have the possibility to use quizzes authored by other people, making them great for, for example, learning foreign languages.
• As in Kahoot, in the Quizizz app we can create our own quizzes for free or use other quizzes publicly available and created by other users. What sets Quizizz apart, however, is the ability to add memes as responses to answers and to give "homework" with a specified expiration date. We can create quizzes with up to 5 answers, single or multiple choice. Compared to Kahoot, Quizizz offers much more extensive school options: integration with Google Classroom and Edmodo, and even emailing the results (to a parent, for example). If only simple quizzes are planned, then Quizizz will be useful not only in the classroom but also for adult classes. The application does not require showing the questions on the projector screen and is available partly in Polish.
• Menimeter is the most complex tool of those presented in this article, but very intuitive for both the person creating the quiz and the recipient himself. While answering, the questions and answers are displayed on the phones of those participating, so the tasks can be conducted without an overhead projector in the room or remotely (e.g. during webinars). Among the definite pluses of the application we can include: a very large selection of questions and interactive add-ons to make our exercise more attractive.
• Socrative a powerful tool for online quizzes in real time and more. In the free version we can use a room accommodating, as many as 50 participants! The platform allows us to create single and multiple choice tests, quizzes, questions like "rate on a scale of 1-10", etc. A unique feature of Socrative is the "Space Race" mini-game, which allows us to display on the screen a race of avatars of people or groups participating in a task.
• French Klaxoon allows us to use the brainstorming tool and the "agile" function of the e-learning platform. This solution offers not only the ability to interact with participants live, but also to add self-study materials such as articles or videos. Participants can post solutions to assignments, or give feedback on an assignment - allowing for full student interaction. The Klaxoon quiz also provides several options to choose from. In addition to the typical single-choice and multiple-choice questions, you can conduct in 7 more ways.

These platforms are a compilation of just a few of the most popular quiz tools used in learning processes. There are many more, and it is impossible to mention them all, or at least keeping to our rule of pleasing the reader's eye format. As we can see, however, they are all quite similar to each other, and it really depends on our individual preferences which one will become our favorite.