Introduction:
Quia is a web assessment tool that offers a variety of educational services at a cost. "Create your own educational quizzes, class webpages, surveys and much more" (Quia Web, 2013) Besides being able to create and design class reviews for materials covered. The site also offers a workbook section for Foreign Language, Language Arts as well as a Math section called IXL. This Language Arts and Math review section is correlated to the new common core standards.
Quia Presentation pdf
Benefits:
The quiz editor offers automatic data entry and calculations, giving you student and class achievement feedback. It also correlates data showing the missed questions, and the percentage of students that missed a particular question. Quia advance quiz setting gives you the option of creating a question bank which enables you to reuse questions.
If you want to check out the site: www.Quia.com
Log-in: Katharina2
Password: angora
Challenges:
Quia is not a free site; the site subscription is $49 USD a year. Each student gets their own log-in and password that they frequently lose or misplace. The integrity of the quiz is at risk, because students can easily cheat or someone else could take the test for them. Even though one can use a disable button which prevents students from printing the quiz, savvy students have figured out how to copy and paste the quiz. The quality of the activities varies with each exercise, each exercise should be tested prior to use in the classroom.
Example of Educational Application:
Teachers can use the site to promote review skills for their students, and measure student achievement.The site also offers the ability for students to work at home in cases of illness or for other reasons.
Example of Learning Objectives:
The teacher has the ability to design and create assessments, review exercises, analyze data, enabling the educator to enhance and modify their teaching in order to benefit most students.
Reference:
Quia Web. (2013). Retrieved from Quia: http://www.quia.com
Quia is a web assessment tool that offers a variety of educational services at a cost. "Create your own educational quizzes, class webpages, surveys and much more" (Quia Web, 2013) Besides being able to create and design class reviews for materials covered. The site also offers a workbook section for Foreign Language, Language Arts as well as a Math section called IXL. This Language Arts and Math review section is correlated to the new common core standards.
Quia Presentation pdf
Benefits:
- Quia offers sixteen different review activities that you can design and use with your classes.
- The assessment section offers basic and advance quiz editors.
- Assessment is graded and results are easily accessible.
- Both quiz editors offer ten formats, such as multiple choice and matching, to name a few.
- Quia also offers a class webpage where you can post class announcements that are mailed directed to your students' and parents' email.
- Quia also offers tutorials that are very helpful for the beginner.
The quiz editor offers automatic data entry and calculations, giving you student and class achievement feedback. It also correlates data showing the missed questions, and the percentage of students that missed a particular question. Quia advance quiz setting gives you the option of creating a question bank which enables you to reuse questions.
If you want to check out the site: www.Quia.com
Log-in: Katharina2
Password: angora
Challenges:
Quia is not a free site; the site subscription is $49 USD a year. Each student gets their own log-in and password that they frequently lose or misplace. The integrity of the quiz is at risk, because students can easily cheat or someone else could take the test for them. Even though one can use a disable button which prevents students from printing the quiz, savvy students have figured out how to copy and paste the quiz. The quality of the activities varies with each exercise, each exercise should be tested prior to use in the classroom.
Example of Educational Application:
Teachers can use the site to promote review skills for their students, and measure student achievement.The site also offers the ability for students to work at home in cases of illness or for other reasons.
Example of Learning Objectives:
The teacher has the ability to design and create assessments, review exercises, analyze data, enabling the educator to enhance and modify their teaching in order to benefit most students.
Reference:
Quia Web. (2013). Retrieved from Quia: http://www.quia.com