Quizizz Leaderboard

[Robyn Ruder]

Sometimeswhen there is only a single slide, meaning you are not receiving power ups, seeing a meme, or seeing your placement on the leader board, Quizizz can become very slow to switch to the next question. I also find it frustrating when I have the x1.5 for 20s power up, because it does not always go straight to the next question but instead shows you a meme and your leaderboard placement.

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Many teacher may already be familiar with Kahoot, which is very similar. I prefer Quizizz because it gives me more options. If I don't want to reward faster thinkers, I can turn off the timer option. If I don't want kids to see how they rank in the leaderboard because they just learned the material I can turn off that option. Furthermore, the student screen is better for students. With Kahoot students had to see the answer choices on the teacher's screen projected. Quizizz puts the answer choices on the student screens. My students prefer this. They say it is easier for them to play the game without having to look up at the teacher screen and then find the corresponding answer on their screen. Kids also like the memes and the sound effects. Teachers will be happy to learn that they can search for quizzes that have already been created. This can be an incredible time saver for a busy educator. With more tech tools, I feel like the power of the tool comes from how the teacher uses it. This product is only as powerful as the teacher using it. If a teacher doesn't take student thinking beyond these multiple choice questions, this tool becomes merely a fun game. However, if a teacher follows up the Quizizz time with activities that deeper more cognitive power, this tool serves as an excellent review activity.

As an English teacher, I used Quizizz as a way to review material with students. Because Quizizz is a multiple choice question game activity, it doesn't allow students to get to the deeper levels of thinking that we need them to get to. This is not a criticism of the product. This product gets kids excited and involved. They answer the questions. I would recommend and encourage educators who use this to follow up Quizizz games with other activities. For instance, a high school teacher could make a set of questions about plot details from Chapter 4 of The Lord of the Flies. The students answer the questions. When they answer questions, they get immediate feedback and fun memes. They know when they answer questions wrong. They often want to find out the correct answer. After the review of the chapter through Quizizz, teachers can ask students to write an argument about the chapter citing textual evidence. Because they review the events in the chapter, they invariably write better analyses. What is great about using Quizizz is that I am guaranteed that all students will be engaged in the review process. I can see all of the responses. I can see which questions were the hardest for students and adjust instruction accordingly. Quizizz now has a homework option so kids can work on sets of questions at home at different times and still see how they rank in the leaderboard. If you do not want students to see the leaderboard, you have the option to turn that feature off. I would caution teachers against using this TOO often in the class. I have noticed that students like it unless they feel like they are using it too often. Kids who used in in math, chemistry, and my English class were less enthusiastic than kids who were using it less frequently.

I am a regular user of Quizizz and it has been my firm favourite for low stakes quizzing in the classroom for a few years now. My claim that it is the best online website/app for low stakes quizzing is simply my opinion. I have no connection or affiliation with Quizizz, this is not a sponsored post. As always context is key. For example, if a school has limited access to technology in classrooms then I would suggest Plickers as the best option. If a teacher is looking to carry out a more formal end of unit assessment (this is different to low stakes retrieval practice) then Google Forms could be the best option.

When it comes to implementing retrieval practice as an embedded classroom routine I think variety is key. Therefore as great as Quizizz is, I do use and would highly recommend other retrieval strategies such as my retrieval grids or the retrieval roulette concept created by Adam Boxer, explained in the video below.

This is incredibly important, for both teachers and students. If I try a new online tool and I find it complex and difficult to understand then it is very unlikely I will use it during my lessons. Technology can be unpredictable and it can go wrong with WiFi issues or lack of battery on a device! When we use tech in the classroom we want something that is reliable and that we can use with ease without worrying it will let us down. Simplicity is key when using technology.

When I originally started using Quizizz the main focus was multiple-choice questions. Multiple-choice quizzes involve the process of recognition as students have to simply identify the correct answer. This is obviously much easier than recalling information without any support however, there are various benefits of using multiple-choice quizzes. I would recommend reading the work of US educator Blake Harvard, as he has written a lot about how multiple-choice questioning can be a valuable learning opportunity, you can read that here.

There are now a lot more different possibilities in regard to the types of questions that can be included in a Quizizz quiz. The other options include a checkbox, poll, fill in the blank and free recall with open-ended answers where students are required to write an extended answer. Free recall is more challenging and requires more effort from the student but in terms of retrieval is very effective.

There are also options to include images, this is a good option to provide some retrieval support for younger students. Equations and audio can also be included too which naturally lend themselves well to Maths and MFL. Quizzes can be completed during a lesson or as a homework assignment. Questions can be imported from a spreadsheet, the Quizizz functions continue to develop and expand to support teachers and students.

There is now also the option to deliver lessons through Quizizz where a teacher can create slides and upload audio and video as well as presenting through Quizizz, controlling the content students can view. This is something I have read about but not yet tried although with some schools still using distance learning as a result of Covid-19 I am sure this has great potential to support teachers with online learning. You can read more about the Quizizz lessons feature here.

Competition can work in a classroom environment but it can also be a distraction or have a negative impact on the class and on the retrieval process itself. There is the option with Quizizz to keep or remove the leaderboard feature, this is your choice.

Quizizz allows the teacher to also remove the question timers. I really dislike that students are often rewarded for answering questions quickly. This encourages very bad habits such as rushing. We often tell students to take time to read the questions carefully in exams they should do the same with low stakes quizzing. Removing the question timer on Quizizz stops students from rushing their answers but instead allows them to carefully read the question and consider their answer carefully before selecting an option or submitting an answer.

If anyone has a preferred option, as I know Google Forms, Quizlet, Kahoot and Padlet are popular with teachers and students then please do let me know. You can reply via my contact page or tweet me @87history.

I am a learning coach at an international school in South America. We are looking for a tool to manage a huge bank of multiple choice questions that can be used to generate various quizzes with both ideas and terms from the current unit, but wrapping in questions in each quiz from previous content (interleaving). The goal is to offer a small low stakes quiz every lesson.

Although I uncheck the option show leaderboard after question for every question, at the end of the quiz, the performance of the quizzers is shown. I do not need to show this table in any quiz. Please let me know how to disable this feature.

Hi Cori. Thank you very much for your prompt response. The idea to disable this function is to avoid shaming those participants that didnt get a good score. Including top management. Nobody wants to be exposed with their scores. Certainly, this happens in a low competitive audience.

If you are presenting a quiz that in integrated into a power point presentation, is there a way to avoid the leaderboard from the power point itself or do I need to turn off the quiz from the website as instructed above?

Once you have an account and sign in, you will see this page. Here you can choose to search for an already created quiz or create one of your own. I always look to see if someone has created something that I can either use as-is or modify to better suit my students.

This sounds like a great resource. I am continuously working towards flipping my classroom and look for tools to show my students understanding of the videos they are watching. I think this could work well to send home for my students and give me some great feedback! Thanks for sharing!

I found this after playing with Kahoot. I like the versatility of Quizizz. My students tend to work through problems very slowly so when we play with a timer, many of them get frustrated and give up. I can turn the timer and the leaderboard off on this one, putting the focus back on the process where it should be.

Thank you so much for your detailed post, Lisa. I have used both Kahoot and Quizlet Live, but had never even heard about Quizizz. My kids love the competition aspect of the other two tools, but I agree with you that at times being able to turn those off would be very advantageous.

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