The stakes are high in high school. From standardized state tests to college entrance exams, the sound of students frantically bubbling in answers and flipping test pages can be heard throughout the hallways.
To help students prepare for such exams, educators need to easily assess what their learners know and where they can improve. But with multiple class periods to manage, often covering different course levels or even subject areas, it can be difficult for high school teachers to create the appropriate assessments.
IXL Quizzes can do the heavy lifting for high school teachers who don’t have the time to write quiz questions, create new tests from year to year, or manually grade them. With IXL, you can create highly customizable quizzes in just a few minutes and receive scores instantly!
Let’s take a closer look at how IXL Quizzes can help you.
Generate quiz questions from 10,000+ skills
IXL’s curriculum is a vast skill map of over 10,000 interconnected skills, and IXL Quizzes give teachers access to this entire curriculum to easily create custom assessments.
Teachers can select any topic and IXL will automatically generate quiz questions. And if you don’t like a question, just click “generate a new question” to select new ones. Within a few minutes, you can build a test on virtually any topic without having to write your own questions!
Plus, IXL’s curriculum is carefully crafted to match your state standards, popular textbooks, and standardized assessments such as the ACT and SAT. You can easily find and add quiz questions that will match what you’re teaching, whether you’re following a textbook or preparing students for college entrance exams.
Customize quiz difficulty
High school classes are often designed to be complex to help students prepare for real-world problems and college courses. With such complex topics, it can also be challenging for teachers to design advanced test questions.
IXL Quizzes help high school teachers instantly create and grade rigorous question sets. When generating quiz questions, teachers can control the difficulty level of each item. This helps teachers create tests of varying complexities, without having to reuse old assessments or create new ones from scratch.
Plus, it’s easy to create multiple versions of the same test to tailor to different course levels or prevent academic dishonesty across your classes. Just click “create a copy” on an existing quiz and customize it to your needs!
Get instant feedback
With IXL Quizzes, you can say goodbye to manually grading tests or making students wait for their test results.
Once a quiz ends, you’ll get instant insights into how students performed. IXL also provides teachers with recommendations on the next steps based on quiz results, highlighting the most commonly missed topics that may need to be revisited. With immediate and actionable analytics, you can carefully adjust your upcoming lesson plans.
Students are also able to view their results when a quiz ends. Learners can see the name of each skill on the quiz, so they know exactly what skills to work on for questions they missed. Every quiz is an opportunity for students to spot and close knowledge gaps on their own.
Share quizzes across classrooms
Teachers can also share quizzes they’ve created on IXL with other teachers and staff at their school.
The receiving teacher can make further edits to their received quiz copy without affecting the sending teacher’s copy. For example, the receiving teacher can add or remove questions, or modify question difficulty levels.
This not only encourages staff collaboration but also offers an efficient way to create common assessments across teachers. It also makes it easy to share resources and expand teacher capacity.
Flexible for all use cases
IXL Quizzes are flexible and can be adapted for all your needs. Whether you want to build a 3-question exit ticket or a 50-question unit test, the choice is yours.
Here are a few ways you can implement IXL Quizzes in your classroom:
- Pre-assessment: Before starting a new unit or lesson, create a short test to see what students know. Use the quiz results to tailor your instruction: You’ll quickly see if you need to review some foundational concepts or if you can dive straight into the lesson.
- Exit ticket: Assess how well students understood the day’s lesson before they leave the classroom.
- Informal assessments: Low-stakes, informal assessments can help you gauge student understanding while taking the pressure off students.
- Unit assessment: Build a big test spanning multiple topics to cap off a unit.
What high school educators are saying about IXL Quizzes
IXL Quizzes are a teacher favorite, especially for high school teachers who don’t have time to create rigorous test questions. See what other educators are saying:
“IXL Quizzes have changed the way I can assess my students every day! I have accurate and concise data for every student. My summative assessment scores have increased under IXL.” – High school math teacher in Michigan
“Teachers are LOVING the quizzes! Several are using them as their bell ringer and then immediately adjusting course in their lesson based on the data. I had a teacher say, ‘Come watch me use quizzes in action. It takes me almost no time.’ I went and watched and as the students were walking into his room he created the quiz in minutes with 1-2 questions at each level of rigor and immediately pushed it out to the students. He collected the data in real time and made decisions about what to include in his lesson that day. It was incredible!” – District administrator in Connecticut
“IXL has been a great tool for assessing student learning and providing feedback quickly. My students are engaged and even become competitive.” – High school math teacher in Georgia
Ready to try out IXL Quizzes for yourself? Head to the “My IXL” tab to create a quiz now!
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