Quizizz

The collaborative learning application that I selected and tried this week is named Quizizz.  Quizizz is a simple, user-friendly and interesting technological learning tool, whose design was clearly made with the student in mind. It is an interactive learning application, which has increasingly gained popularity because, among other things, it is gamified.  The Quizizz is an interactive learning and teaching tool that is made specifically for assessing the students to know what they know and what they need to improve. This is a powerful and useful for teachers, as it allows them to select from millions of pre-developed quizzes and assign them to their students. The existing quizzes are created by competent teachers, and they can be modified to suit any classroom and level. Alternatively, teachers can quickly design their quizzes, as well as modify already existing ones, depending on the assessment needs of their students. One of the most outstanding benefits of this application for the teacher is that it frees up time that would otherwise be used for developing assessments, marking, and grading. The teacher can use that to teach, create learning material, or answer student questions, among other things. All the teacher needs to do (after assigning the assignment) is to give feedback to each of the students.

Quizizz is also useful in engaging the students in the learning process, as it allows the students to share their work, through the Live Game features. Teachers can make the classroom lively and engaging, by allowing the students to play a live game together, which is also possible for the students as they undertake their quizzes. The Homework Mode further allows for student collaboration, which promotes hands-on learning and can improve learning outcomes. On the same note, students and teachers can use any device and is so easy to use that any student with digital literacy can use it independently.

The fact that Quizizz offers self-paced, interactive assessment environment, and does not require the teacher to do any grading makes it a valuable teaching and learning tool. Perhaps more interesting is that the app allows parents to have an account, and can take part in their children’s learning process, by either seeing what their children are doing, what they know, and where they are going next.

Quizizz is without a doubt a useful learning and teaching application, which can fit in the school library, as well as the classroom setting as a technology to enhance learning. In the school library setting, the educators can rely on the tool as an interactive student-friendly assessment tool, which a school librarian can use to evaluate whether the students have understood the content that was taught, and where they will go next. School librarians working with teachers can also select or design quizzes, and assign them to the students through the app, and then give feedback to the students. A similar process is possible for the ordinary classroom, as the teacher is able to create an interactive and engaging classroom environment, allow the students to play educational games together to augment the learning materials, and give student-specific feedback to guide their students to improve where necessary.

Link: https://quizizz.com