Assign or Launch a Quiz

With a video or standard quiz, teachers can either assign or launch the quiz for students. 

Note: Quiz is available to our full Discovery Education partners only.

Assign a Quiz

When you assign a quiz, it will appear on the student's homepage, like other Discovery Education resources, and they can complete the quiz at their own pace within an assigned timeframe.

When content is assigned to students, the following options are available:

• Step 1 - edit the title and directions for the assignment, if desired
• Step 2 - select the date you want content to appear on the student homepage as well as the date for when content or work should be completed by
• Step 3 - select the class (or grouping of students) to which something should be assigned
• Step 4 - confirm the settings of your assignment and click okay

A student can launch the assigned quiz from their homepage and complete it at their own pace. For a video quiz, they will play the video and answer questions as they appear. For a standard quiz, they will advance through the questions on their own. 

Once finished, they will submit the quiz. They will be able to view their answers and results (for auto-graded items) automatically at the end of the quiz. Learn more about managing quiz results. 

Launch a Quiz

When you launch a quiz live, a student will have a code to enter to access the quiz. Live Quizzes have two options: 

• • Teacher-Led: The teacher controls the pace of the quiz. This is the default option. 
    • 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.  
  • Student-Led: The student progresses through it at their own pace. 

During a live quiz, teachers can view results as they come in live and grade them then, or wait until the end. 

Live Quizzes have two ways for students to join:

• Invite with Link: Post this link in a Learning Management System or any other way you communicate with students. They will click this link to access the quiz. Students will be asked to log into Discovery Education, if they are not already logged in. Students can join as a guest, however, to ensure the data is tied to the student account, they should log into Discovery Education. 
• Invite with Code: Post this code in the classroom or in a Learning Management System for students to use. Students will click Join Live Activity in the upper right corner of their Discovery Education homepage and enter the code to access. 

The live quiz will default to teacher-led. However, if you prefer it to be student-led, you can toggle that option in the bottom right.