Digital tools & techniques: Digital Quiz Tools

Quizzes can be integrated into different phases of teaching and learning scenarios. They help students to repeat and consolidate what they have already learned at the beginning of the lesson. Teachers can use them to assess the intermediate status or check the skills and content practiced in the respective learning unit with the students. Voting also helps to loosen up the teaching units and make them more interactive. They can be used to record ideas and moods directly and involve those present in the course in a participatory way.

Tools for conducting quizzes at KIT

• ILIAS LiveVoting
  Access to live voting is via the KIT pilot instance. After creating a survey, you will receive a QR code or a short URL. Students can then use this to take part in the survey using their own mobile device. In this way, ILIAS offers you a data protection-safe way to conduct surveys with your students, for which neither you nor your students need to create an additional account. ILIAS also offers a wide range of question formats: In addition to single and multiple choice, Live Voting also supports sequences, free text and estimation questions.
  >> You can find more information on the use of live voting on ILIAS in the recording of the webinar "More interactivity in online courses" from 13.10.2020 (from time marker 39:30) and on the following presentation slides
• PINGO
  PINGO stands for "Peer Instruction for very large groups" and is a web-based live feedback system developed by Paderborn University. With PINGO, students can answer questions posed by the lecturer during the lecture via their smartphones, tablets or laptops. It is used via the browser, so all that is required is an Internet or WLAN connection, no software needs to be installed.
  >> More information about PINGO
• Voting in Zoom
  In addition to ILIAS and PINGO, lecturers at KIT can also use the voting options in the conference systems. Zoom, for example, has a direct poll function for meetings. In addition to single or multiple choice questions, assignment questions or the use of a rating scale are also possible, for example. You can start the survey at any time during the meeting and record the students' answers. A survey report is then available for download after the meeting.
  >> You can find more information in the webinar "More interactivity in online events" (from time marker 24:20)
• Microsoft Forms
  On the Microsoft website, KIT employees can use their KIT account to access another option for creating polls. Forms offers many question formats such as selection, text, rating, date questions, ranking, Likert, etc. Participants do not need to log in to vote and can access the relevant poll via a link or QR code.
  >> To a short guide from Microsoft

Tips on how you can generally ensure more interactivity in online seminars and lectures can be found in the webinar "More interactivity in online events" from 13.10.2020 and in the last issue of Digital Tools & Techniques.