Formative assessment is a powerful tool in any teaching arsenal. Formative assessment provides a way for students to check, in a low-stakes way, their knowledge of class material. There are many ways to implement formative assessment in your classes. Some faculty opt to provide "review" quizzes to students to check their knowledge after lectures. However, many of those same faculty would prefer to have those quizzes appear during the playback of lectures as students view them. This is possible in CoursePlus with the use of in-lecture quizzes.
You can add formative assessment quizzes to online lectures produced by the Center for Teaching and Learning and delivered via PageBuilder. In-Lecture Quizzes (ILQs) are a special kind of quiz that are created just like any other quiz, and then added to a specific lecture section via an intuitive, visual tool. You manage ILQs from inside the Quiz Generator tool in CoursePlus, but the quiz questions appear during playback of an online lecture at the time(s) you specify.
There three steps to creating an In-Lecture Quiz:
Limitations of In-Lecture Quizzes and Other Considerations
Although online lecture videos in CoursePlus are viewed on desktop and laptop computers in over 95% of all cases, ILQs work on mobile devices. Students can complete ILQs while viewing lectures on a smartphone or tablet.
If a student downloads the MP4 (or MP3) of a lecture section with an ILQ, the ILQ is not included and not displayed during playback on their local computer. Faculty will need to communicate to students their expectations about ILQ completion and should remind students that ILQs can only be completed when students view the lecture in the course website.
Finally, if you import Page Builder lecture pages from one class into another, any ILQ in that lecture will be copied into the other class site during the page import process. It's important to note that this only occurs when you import a page into a class site. Adding an ILQ to a lecture that's already used in other classes will not automatically add the ILQ to the same lecture in other classes.