Making Interactive Activities
There are 2 different types of interactive activity maker:
- Interactive e-Worksheet
- Interactive Quiz
You can create interactive activities just like any other kind of worksheet by selecting "Interactive e-Worksheet" or "Interactive Quiz" from the "New Worksheet" menu at the top of the screen.
Use the "Add Question" buttons shown below to add questions and activities to your e-Worksheet or quiz.
As you add, edit, and delete questions your changes will be automatically saved.
Question Types
The following types of question can be created on an e-Worksheet (only the first two types are applicable to interactive quizzes):
1. Short answer
A short answer question includes a free text field for the student's response. The response must match the answer text exactly. Responses are not case-sensitive.
If you are making an Interactive Quiz you will also have the option to set a time limit for this question.
This question will appear on the e-Worksheet as follows:
If you check "Speak this question instead of showing text" the e-Worksheet will have a "speak" button. When clicked the device's speech synthesiser will speak the question.
If you check "Letter Guides" the e-Worksheet will show one box per letter to make the question easier.
2. Multiple Choice
A multiple choice question includes two or more choices from which the student must select an answer. You can add as many choices as you wish.
If more than one choice is required to be selected for the answer to be correct, you can use the "More than 1 correct answer" checkbox. Students will then be required to select all correct answers to get a mark.
If you are making an Interactive Quiz you will also have the option to set a time limit for this question.
This question will appear on the e-Worksheet as shown below. The order of the choices will be randomized each time the activity is loaded.
3. Open-ended (ungraded)
An open-ended question allows a student to write several sentences in response. As there is no correct answer this question is ungraded.
You can use this to collect long-form answers for manual grading, or as a means of soliciting opinions such as in a survey.
4. Matching Pairs
This activity creates a set of pairs that students must correctly match.
This question will appear on the e-Worksheet as shown below. Students can drag blue pieces and drop them next to corresponding gray pieces, or click on blue pieces and click on the corresponding position to match them. Students can remove a match by clicking on the circular X icon on the blue piece.
5. Fill Blanks
This activity allows you to create an interactive "cloze" activity by entering a passage of text and replacing some words with blanks.
This question will appear on the e-Worksheet as shown below. Students use the drop-down menu at each blank to select the correct word.
If you chose the word bank option at "Blank selection options" above, words will be disabled in the dropdown menu if they have already been placed in another blank. Students can unassign a word they have previously assigned by choosing the empty option at the top of the drop-down menu. The word will then become available to place elsewhere.
Other Features
Here are some other features of interactive e-Worksheets.
Word List Wizard
You can quickly populate an e-Worksheet with questions by using the "Word List Wizard".
At step 1, enter a list of words or click on "Use a word list..." and select a pre-existing list.
Click "Next" to proceed to the second step.
At step 2, choose what to do with the words you entered in step 1. Refer to the description in the yellow box for information on what each option does.
Media
You can click on the image picker (initially labelled "no image") on the left-hand side of any question to add an image. You can use the standard Quickworksheets image library.
While Quickworksheets does not provide audio or video storage, you can embed media that is hosted elsewhere, such as on YouTube. Click on "Embed external media..." at any question to do this.
Color Scheme
Choose any colour scheme that you like. This will affect the background and button colours on your final e-Worksheet.
Marks
The assignment of marks and grading is automatic. Marks are assigned as follows:
- Short answer - 1 mark
- Multiple choice - 1 mark
- Open-ended - 0 marks (this question has no fixed answer)
- Matching pairs - 1 mark per pair
- Fill blanks - 1 mark per blank
Student Access
Every interactive activity has an "access link" that you can give to your students / participants to allow them to complete the activity on their device. They do not need to create a Quickworksheets account.
After you have finished adding questions to your activity click on the "Assign" button at the bottom to reveal the access link. You can use the "Copy" button to copy this link to your computer's clipboard. You can then "paste" it into an e-mail, your Learning Management System, or share it using whatever means you normally use to communicate with your students.
You can also ask your students to scan the QR code with their smartphone or tablet. You can download the QR code using the "Download as Image" button, after which you can insert it in a poster, presentation or handout.
Finally, you can use the "Share to Google Classroom" button if you and your students use the Google Classroom platform. (Please note that activity results are not automatically transferred to Google Classroom.)
For previously created activities you can view the access link and other assignment options by clicking on "Access link..." for the relevant activity on the My Worksheets page.
Please take care not to reveal this link publicly as anyone who knows it can access and respond to your activity.
Viewing Responses
You can view student responses by clicking the "Responses" button for the relevant activity on the My Worksheets page.
This will display a bar chart of respondent scores in deciles (bands of 10%).
Below that is a table of results by participant. You can view the completed response for any student by clicking on the "View Response" button.
You can sort this table by using the arrow buttons in the column headings, and search by using the search box to filter the list by name.
Use the "Download Responses as CSV" to download all responses as a .csv (comma separated values) file that you can open in other software to analyse or process.
Below this table is the "Results by Question" table, which will summarise the percentage of correct answers for each worksheet question. This helps you to identify areas of syllabus where overall student knowledge is weak.
Click on the "Breakdown" button next to a question to see all the different answers students provided for this question. This may help you to identify common misunderstandings.
