I have already put a quiz together and thought I would try out other features of the tool.
I took a class of fifth form students along to the computer room without preparing them for the activities I had designed.
- I asked them to register with Mystudiyo giving minimal instructions. students seem to be very familiar with the process (name then email addres)
- Gave them the name of my quiz (reactions of metals) and asked them to do it. The whole process took about 20 mins and they were all happily engaged.
- I set up a quiz that allowed collaboration
- Asked students to design questions based on the topic they were studying (microrganisms but genetics if they wanted)
- There was limited time left so only indicated that it would be good if they googled pictures then embedded.
- The questions they came up with were quite interesting in that they went well beyond the scope covered in class
- I initially thought I would need to give more prescriptive instructions but then decided it was better to have a bank of questions that covered a wider range.
The class enjoyed both activities and I will routinely use Mystudiyo to build up banks of questions perhaps to use in a school quiz.
Making their own questions challenged them to think about work covered in class and was just as valuable as attempting the quizzes.
The quiz has some obvious limitations. In a number of instances students simply didn’t have enough time and cobbled something together to complete the exercise. (they won a Mars bar if they completed both exercises……never underestimate the power of a bribe)
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