A guide to exploring Discovery Education's Quiz feature.
Note: Quiz is available to our full Discovery Education partners only.
Access Quiz
Launch Quiz from the tile at the top of your My DE homepage or from the grid navigation in the upper right corner.
Quiz Types
There are three different quiz types available:
- Video Quiz: Embed questions in Discovery Education videos to create quizzes, with a variety of question types. Video Quiz offers 3 question types: short answer, poll, and multiple choice.
- Standard Quiz: Create multiformat quizzes, with a variety of question types such as short answer, poll, multiple choice, annotate, draw, multiple select, and audio.
- Ask Live Quiz: Facilitate a live activity and ask students verbal questions, with them responding from their own devices in a short answer format.
Explore Your Quiz Homepage
From your Quiz homepage, you are able to view any previously created quizzes as well as results from the left options.
When viewing your quizzes, you have several options:
- Filter the quiz list by video quizzes and standard quizzes.
- View the status of a quiz - draft or launched.
- View the number of questions or number of times the quiz has been used.
- Take actions: Continue Planning, Assign, Delete, etc.
Create a Quiz
To create a new video or standard quiz, select the Create New button in the upper right corner. Alternatively, you can launch an Ask Live Quiz immediately from this section as well.
Assign or Launch a Quiz
Once you have finished creating your quiz, there are two methods for getting the quiz to students:
- Assign: Video and Standard Quizzes can be assigned to students to complete on their own timing within an assigned timeframe.
- Live: Video and Standard Quizzes can be launched live. A student will have a code to enter to access the quiz. Live Quizzes have two options:
- Student-Led: The student progresses through it at their own pace.
- Teacher-Led: The teacher controls the pace.
- Video Quiz: The teacher would play the video whole group and questions would appear on the student screen at the marked moments.
- Standard Quiz: The questions appear on the students screen based on the teacher advancing the questions at their own pace.
View Quiz Results Dashboard
From the Quiz homepage, select My Results to view all quizzes that have been assigned or launched. Then, select the title of the quiz to view specific results for that quiz.
The results dashboard will give you a class summary at the top, including the number of questions, participants, and success on the quiz.
There are three ways to view the quiz results:
Report View: Gives you a quick glance at your class as a whole and their progress by question.
Question View: Grade results and view trends by question.
Student View: Grade results and view trends by student.
