Create your own educational games, quizzes, class Web pages, surveys, and much more! Explore and use millions of activities and quizzes created by educators from around the world.
Why Quia?
Quia has a complete online testing system with automatic grading, immediate feedback, and detailed reporting. It will automatically grade most question types, but for questions that require teacher input (such as an essay question), you can quickly grade only those questions for a given class. You also have the option to give partial credit or add feedback to the computer-graded questions.
Quia’s question labeling system allows you to tag or categorize individual questions so that you can analyze data on specific skills. For example, on a grammar test, you can see how students performed on just questions that dealt with identifying adverbs. You can also use your labeling to quickly create an assessment that pulls from a larger question bank. For example, you could create a 10-question quiz that randomly pulls 2 questions labeled with “appositives,† 2 questions labeled with “infinitives,†etc.
Quia also has templates for creating 16 types of online activities/games using your own content. For example, students can review for your test playing Battleship or Jeopardy. Quia increases student engagement and gives you data on how much time they spend using the activities.
Additionally, subscribers get access to millions of shared activities and quizzes in over 300 categories. These can be copied to your own account and edited as needed.
What does it cost?
There are thousands of free activities that you can access and share with students, but to create your own content, you must purchase a license for $99 a year. Definitely try out the 30-day free trial! The license is for one teacher with unlimited students. Discounts are available for groups of 10 instructors or more.
How to use Quia?
Tutorial Videos from Tamra Willis:
Examples of Quia
Try this U.S. History Civil War Jeopardy game or this Adjective vs. Adverbs Rags to Riches game. Want to see a quiz? Try out this Geology Assessment.
Here is a full list of Quia activities made by teachers. You do not need an account to play them and can even share them with your students – all they need is the link. Note that you will not receive any data on how the students performed without a paid account.
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