A guide to exploring Discovery Education's Quiz feature.
Note: Quiz is only available to our full Discovery Education partners.
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 a variety of question types in Discovery Education videos to create quizzes. Video Quiz offers three question types: short answer, poll, and multiple choice. See Video Quiz to learn more.
Standard Quiz: Create quizzes with multiple formats. Use a variety of question types such as short answer, poll, multiple choice, multiple select, draw, and annotate. See Standard Quiz to learn more.
Ask Live Quiz: Facilitate a live activity and verbally dictate quiz questions. Students respond from their own devices in a short answer format. See Ask Live Quiz to learn more.
Explore Your Quiz Homepage
From your Quiz homepage, you can access previously created quizzes. When you view your quizzes, you have several options:
- Filter the quiz list by Video Quiz and Standard Quiz.
- View the status of a quiz - Draft or Launched.
- View who updated a quiz, and when.
- View the # of Questions or Times Used of a quiz.
- Take actions: Continue Planning, Assign, Delete, etc.
From the left side bar menu, you can view Results, My Quizzes, Quiz Library, Published Quizzes, and Trash.
Create a Quiz
To get started with the quiz feature, select Create New in the upper right corner. Then, select your activity. Build a new Video Quiz or Standard Quiz, or launch an Ask Live Quiz.
Assign or Launch a Quiz
There are two ways to share a quiz with students.
Assign: You can assign a Video Quiz or Standard Quiz to students to complete on their own within an assigned timeframe.
Launch Now: You can launch a Video Quiz or Standard Quiz live. Share the provided activity code with students so they can access and enter the quiz. Live quizzes have two options:
- Student-Led: The student progresses through at their own pace.
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Teacher-Led: The teacher controls the pace.
- With a Video Quiz, play the video to the whole group and questions appear on the student screen at the marked moments.
- With a Standard Quiz, questions appear on the students screen based on a student's pace.
View Quiz Results Dashboard
From the Quiz homepage, select Results from the left sidebar menu to view all assigned and launched quizzes. Then, select a quiz title to view specific results for that quiz.
The results dashboard will give you a class summary, this includes the number of correct responses, participants, and questions on the quiz.
There are three ways to view the quiz results:
Report View: This gives a quick glance at a class as a whole and their progress by question.
Question View: This gives graded results and a view of trends by question.
Student View: This gives graded results and view trends by student.
