😄 Whoa: Student-created quizzes??

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💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

✅ Make learning long-term with student-created quizzes

🧐How do they work?

After learning, students come up with one question that could be asked on a quiz.

Collect the questions and use them to help students retrieve and review.

Here's what I love about this. For one, it puts students in the quiz creator's seat. It's a different perspective that helps them understand the whole process better.

Second, it's not something imposed on them by a teacher. They're the ones making the questions.

Also: you don't have to grade these quizzes. One more time: you DON'T have to grade them! Again, remember, low-stakes leads to long-term memory. It's a learning strategy, not an assessment. 

🤷🏽‍♀️How do I get started?

Here's a fun, techy way to make these quizzes: Collect student questions in a Google Form and import them into a Quizizz game. Check out this slide deck tutorial or follow these instructions …

• Create a Google Form with the following questions: Question (short answer), Option 1 (short answer), Option 2 (short answer), Option 3 (short answer), Option 4 (short answer), Option 5 (short answer), Correct Answer (multiple choice: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Time (number of seconds) or make a copy of this template.

• Share a link to fill out the form with your students. They type their question and possible answers, identify the correct answer, and choose how much time.

• When they're done, download the responses spreadsheet as an Excel spreadsheet.

• Go to Quizizz (quizizz.com) and create a new quiz. Choose the "Import from spreadsheet" option to pull in your students' questions.

• Complete your quiz and share a link with students so they can take it!

⬇️ Go deeper

• 10 ways to improve students’ long-term learning

• How to create a student-created Quizizz game

• Quizizz certification course

💻 Tech Tip

🤳🏽 Social media style summary

Free this month!

In this Google Slides based activity from Diffit, students create a caption for a "social media" post to summarize what they learned.

The activity also includes slides for reading the passage and taking notes, short answer questions, multiple choice questions, and a discussion worksheet for open-ended prompts.

How to use it

• Go to beta.diffit.me and either log in or sign up for your free account.

• Choose what you want to generate resource for. You can insert a URL, any text or excerpt, or search for “literally anything”.

• Click “Generate resources”

• Once your resources have been generated click “Get student activities” and scroll over to “Social media style summary slides” under Summarize Learning.

• Click “Get activity” and open in Google Slides!

Your Google Slides presentation is completely editable so change it up however you’d like before assigning to your class.

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