Still be Annoy by Extra Credit? Let’s Try Online Quizzes!

As a new semester comes, there're many things for teachers and students to worry about. For students, besides purchasing all the glittering new stuff for the new school year, what's more important is to sign up for the courses of this semester. And for teachers, they are all busy preparing teaching plan which include classroom lessons and extra credit opportunities.

Many teachers would complain it's hard to find methods to provide extra credit opportunities. So are you still using the old fashion ways like assigning additional homework and experiments or providing teaching assistant positions? In these ways, you really don't know how much the students would gain from it. What's more, you can't ensure that these extra credit opportunities are equally available to all students.

Recently I notice that one of my teacher friends Mr. Stanley is using QuizCreator to post reviews and extra credit opportunities on his website. This is what I always support teachers to try on. Go online and be much closer to these kids of computerized generation. So I talked to him the other day and Mr. Stanley said something about why using online quizzes to provide extra credit opportunities.

"First, online quizzes connect your extra credit to your lessons and standards."

According to Mr. Stanley, quiz is the better way to connect extra credit to teaching content, compare with other kinds of extracurricular work. And if you want to know your students' understanding of some other fields, you can just make a quiz and put it online.

"Second, I can use online quizzes to provide the same extra credit opportunities to all students."

As long as you put a quiz online, it's equally available to all students. And Mr. Stanley said: "A good quiz tool such as QuizCreator will help me prevent online cheating and set the available time. So I can put all the quizzes online without worrying that students may fake the results."

"Thirdly, online quizzes guarantee that I will use same standard to grade each student's extra credit."

The score point of each question in an online quiz is preset, and it's clearly shown to all students when they are taking the quiz. "So they don't need to worry about that I would use different standards to grade them. You know, teenagers are quite cynical."

"Forth, online quizzes make extra credit assignments interesting and pertinent for students."

"Somebody may say that after all it's an education program, how could it be interesting as well as pertinent?" Mr. Stanley laughed when he talked about this. "Actually a good online quiz maker can help you manage it. One of my friends, who's an English teacher, once used QuizCreator to make a pronunciation quiz with some interesting sound. She told me that a student said he never laughed so loud when taking test.""We are always talking about educate through entertainment, and I think this is a lively example." Mr. Stanley said.

"What's more, online quizzes save my grading time when assigning extra credit."

As Mr. Stanley said, if it would take lots of the teacher's time to grade for these online quizzes, extra credit would be a heavy burden. But some quiz tool such as Wondershare QuizCreator provides a quiz management system to automatically generate result report for teachers. Mr. Stanley speaks highly of this point: "It's a big saving of labor and time. And you can send those customized certificates to your students. That can be called online encouragement! Really exciting!"

In the end of our conversation, Mr. Stanley kept saying that the things he listed are just tip of an iceberg. "There're many good points left for you to explore." So I share Mr. Stanley's words with all the teachers who are still annoy by this issue, hoping that you can see an option here to create online quizzes for extra credits. For a period of practice, you will surely find a way your students like better.