5 Types Of Interactive Quiz Formats To Use In Your eLearning Courses

What Interactive Quiz Formats You Should Use In Your eLearning Courses
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Summary: Many eLearning course creators often have to create quizzes as part of their learning courses as they bring valuable elements to the learning experience.

What Interactive Quiz Formats You Should Use In Your eLearning Courses

Many eLearning course creators often have to create quizzes as part of their learning courses since they bring valuable elements to the learning experience.

Even though creating quizzes is not that difficult, especially now when there are a lot of online quiz software solutions that make the creation process a lot easier, there are certain things that need to be implemented.

It’s important to create relevant questions, place them at the right locations, and present them properly using interactive quiz formats. Today, we are going to focus on the third one, quiz formats, and which ones you need to use to make your quizzes better and more engaging to learners.

We will also talk about how the quiz format relates to the questions and their placement as well, overall helping the quiz be more successful. So, let’s start.

1. Type In The Right Answer

In most cases, this format requires learners to add words, complete sentences, or write a complete sentence. For these types of questions to be effective when testing the knowledge of learners, it is important to avoid giving any hints or sentence constructions that could potentially reveal the right answer.

However, if you are going through certain learning materials that aren’t essential knowledge but should be casually remembered by learners, then adding hints wouldn’t do any harm. Some of these questions could require learners to type in the answer themselves. Others might have several potential answers on the side of their screen, asking them to choose the right ones and place them in appropriate columns.

In the end, there is also the kind of format where learners simply choose one of the options provided to them.

2. Questions With Multiple Choices

This is probably the most popular quiz format out there and chances are you’ve seen a lot of them. At the same time, they probably have the most variations and designs as they come in many different forms, but the formula remains the same. Apart from being simple and easy to understand, this quiz format is also one of the best for testing learners. The format includes questions and several potential answers, and the participant needs to choose the right answer.

One of the templates for this kind of format is the “Who wants to be a millionaire?” template which offers 4 potential answers to a single question. Another template for this kind of format simply has a written question with several potential answers. But there are also advanced templates where you have a spinning wheel with separate parts and each one of them representing a set of answers on a certain topic.

3. Identifying The Image Or The Combination

This quiz format is used for labeling quizzes where learners have to identify the right answer based on the clues they are offered. When it comes to identifying texts, the purpose of the format is to help learners remember important terms or answers to certain questions through the text.

On the other hand, if we are talking about image identification, the purpose is to help people recognize places, events, or people based on their appearance. Simply put, this is more about testing observation skills than anything else. Some learning courses offer quizzes that provide videos or images related to the learning course to test how much the learners actually remembered. Some simply rely on learners finding a hidden answer within a certain image.

4. Matching Two Or More Entities Together

This concept simply aligns two columns that have different phrases, symbols, pictures, or words and each item from a single column has a logical connection with an item from the other column. Learners need to recognize which items are logically connected and tie them together.

In some cases, a single item could be connected with more appropriate items of the other column. This concept can be used for establishing in-depth knowledge or simply figuring out whether the learner has the ability to recognize familiar concepts and their purpose.

In some cases, users have a pair of items on each side, and they have to connect the right pairs. This concept is a bit easier.

5. Sorting Questions/Answers

With sorting questions, the learner needs to organize certain concepts or items into different groups based on a certain common characteristic they all share.

This characteristic can be anything from color, age, type to subcategory, shape, and so on. A typical template of this kind of format offers multiple items which need to be sorted in several offered categories. This format also comes with a lot of different interesting options as you can add a timer and randomly distributed terms through several categories, asking learners to put them in the appropriate categories before the time runs out.

Some quizzes also offer an excess number of items that need to be added to a single category, testing learners whether they know which items go with a certain term of concept.

These are the 5 interactive quiz formats that are absolutely essential to making your quizzes more engaging and more accurate. You can either use a single format or combine different ones within your quiz to make it even more diverse and ensure a great learning experience for your students.

Originally published on January 23, 2019