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Crowdsignal: Make Online Quizzes, Polls

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Activity Description

Use this Web site to make online quizzes, polls, ratings, or surveys for your classes. The  account provides 2,500 signals for free, then requires an upgrade to a paid account.

Preparation

  1. Make sure that the site is not blocked at your school.
  2. Download and review the document with instructions on creating a crowdsignal account and creating a poll.
  3. Choose questions for a quiz or other assessment instrument (poll, rating, or survey) from current course content (grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, writing).
  4. After signing up, you can make a poll (one question—such as a voting ballot—or survey (multiple questions) with a free account or develop a survey for your students to take..
  5. Media—.jpeg, .png, or .gif images or .mp3 audio files—can be embedded or linked to questions.
  6. Consider how you will share the URL for the quiz or survey you create with students (via e-mail, linking on a class Web page, having students type in the URL, etc.).

How-To

  1. Pre-teach any necessary vocabulary or technology skills they will need to access the poll/survey online.
  2. Share the URL for your poll with your students so they can complete the poll or survey.
  3. Discuss the results with your students as part of a follow-up activity.

Teacher Tips

You can use as a classroom assessments to follow up on students' learning and get their input on a variety of class topics. 

More Ways

For ratings, students can be asked to rate restaurants, movies, songs, TV programs, politicians... even your teaching!

Program Areas

  • ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

  • All Levels

Documents

Tags

grammar, listening, reading, speaking, writing, collect data, computer skills, digital literacy, evaluate, interpret data, online literacy, online quizzes, polldaddy, Polldaddy, polls, ratings, surveys, vocabulary
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN240137 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.