IXL Quizzes are a handy tool for teachers to gauge student learning. Create custom assessments in a snap and receive scores as soon as students are done, no grading required.
Plus, we’re constantly adding new features to make them even better! For example, to help you collaborate on IXL more effectively, we recently expanded the quiz sharing feature so you can share quizzes with teachers at other schools in your district, not just at your own school.
Here are six ways you can use IXL Quizzes in the classroom to save time and solve common problems.
Make entrance and exit tickets
IXL Quizzes are extremely flexible, helping you quickly create both formative and summative assessments. This makes them perfect for making entrance and exit tickets without much preparation.
For an entrance ticket, all you need are a few minutes before class to build a short quiz covering the lesson you’re going to teach. After a lesson, you can put together an exit ticket while your students are working independently. Being able to make entrance and exit tickets on the fly gives you more freedom to tailor your assessments to your class’ daily progress.
Easily create pretests and posttests
In addition to short entrance and exit tickets, with IXL Quizzes you can easily make longer assessments, like pre- and posttests. You can copy quizzes you’ve created, saving so much time!
After making a pretest, make a copy of it. You can then go through that copy and select the “Generate a new question” button to draw new questions from the same skills. In a flash, you’ll have a posttest that covers the exact same material but asks new questions.
Identify small groups for reteaching
IXL’s Quiz Analysis report makes it easy to find groups of students who need help with the same concept. After you get your class’ quiz results, the report will reveal shared trouble spots based on the questions that multiple students missed.
You can use these trouble spots to identify sets of students who had difficulty with concepts from the quiz, then provide targeted assistance.
Encourage student self-remediation
IXL Quizzes don’t just help you see what students know. Every quiz is also an opportunity for the students themselves to see their own knowledge gaps and close them.
Quiz results make it seamless for students to shore up their knowledge. Students can access their own results and see not only how they did on the quiz, but also which skill each question was drawn from. By looking at the questions they missed, they’ll know exactly what skills they need to work on. With a click of a button, they can jump into one of those skills for extra practice.
Cut down on answer sharing
Keep assessment results accurate with IXL Quizzes’ features that make it harder for students to share answers with each other. First, when creating quizzes, you can opt to randomize the order of questions for students. Common methods of answer sharing, like one student telling another, “Here’s what I got for question #3,” become much harder when everyone’s question #3 is different.
Second, you can control when students can access their quiz results, including the questions they got correct and incorrect. By keeping quiz results hidden from students until you end a quiz, students who finish early can’t give the correct answers to students who are still working.
Share resources with other teachers
When teachers work together, everybody wins! With IXL Quizzes, you can collaborate on resources and create common assessments by sharing the quizzes you’ve created with other educators at your own school or schools in your district.
Receiving teachers can further customize their quiz copies without it affecting the original quiz, so they can add questions or modify question difficulty levels to suit their needs.
Ready to put these tips into practice? Go to the “My IXL” tab while signed into your teacher account to create a quiz!
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