Make an interesting quiz, keep boredom away

As a teacher, making an interesting quiz will be a good way to keep students far away from boredom and help students make progress. But how to make an absorbing quiz is one of the biggest challenges to teacher. I take a Solar System Quiz as an example to you:http://www.sameshow.com/samples/halloween-quiz/halloween.html#155
As soon as I take this quiz, I am attracted by its many types of questions, multimedia, customized feedbacks, etc.

I write this article for showing you some tips to make an interesting quiz.

Select suitable software

The proper quiz software will help you improve efficiency while the wrong software will cost you both time and money. So it is extremely important to choose the right quiz software.

I read an article 12 Free Online Quiz Makers to Create Online Quizzes before. The best of these software is ProProfs Quiz School. It is totally free and easy to create quizzes, tests and exams online with colors and images. But if you want to get more advanced functions to enhance your quiz, such as recording some narration, adding multimedia, etc, I think you have to try desktop software. This Solar System Quiz with nice music and video is made by QuizCreator. So I think QuizCreator is a good option for you.

Write a good test questions

Writing effective questions takes time and practice. But well-designed test provides an accurate measure of students’ knowledge, here are some strategies and tips to write good test questions:
*Keep stems and statements as short as possible and use clear, concise language.
*For multiple choice questions, randomly distribute the correct answer options so that there is not a clear pattern that becomes obvious to the student.
*Make sure that answers are clear enough to avoid confusion.
*Use vivid words in your question can make this quiz not so formal.

Optimize your quiz

After adding the questions, it is necessary to read your quiz again and optimize it.
I think there are 4 strengths used in this quiz that can help you to make your quiz more interesting by QuizCreator.
 Multiple question types. There are 6 types of questions including True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Matching, Sequence, and Click Map in this quiz. Each of the question types has its own utility. Take Click Map for example, it is great if you want to test the quiz takers for positioning something right on the map. It is widely use in Geography quizzes.
 Add multimedia to the quiz.
*Seeking for some nice background image and music relevant to your subject and importing them to your quiz can make your students focus on the testing topic better.
*You also can insert image, flv, and video into your quiz. Take the third question as an example. Adding an flv video about the question, can lively illustrate the questions.
 Add customized feedbacks to questions. You can get the feedbacks with answers after finishing the question. You can edit your feedbacks more vividly such as “Good job” instead of “Correct” or”Incorrect”. You also can add more knowledge in the feedback, then student can know why you are wrong.
Add Blank page to quiz.
*Create a blank slide for your feedback and add your addition question content.
*Create a blank page for introducing your quiz first to guide the student to take the quiz.
*You also can add blank page at the end of quiz as a summary.

Give your attention to these points as the article has, when you create a quiz. You will get unexpected effects.