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Episode 191 is here! This week, we're exploring innovative AI tools designed to create quizzes and practice materials quickly and efficiently. Today, we're highlighting two fantastic AI-powered quiz creators: QuizGecko and QuestionWell. These tools are perfect for generating additional practice materials for your students.
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[: [: [: [:So, and students. My top five reasons. Why you should question well, and quiz Gecko. Uh, first thing, they are quick. They are time savers. They are AI generated. So that is super helpful when we are like trying to support our kids.
[: [:This is one of those tools. Second, they are adjustable. And I'll kind of talk about that when I go through each tool. They adjust differently. One of them you choose by grade level. The other one you select if you want, like, easy, medium, or difficult. But you're able to adjust them and, and great thing about adjusting.
They also adjust languages so you can swap them out for all different languages, which is awesome. They both work across content areas, so you can use them in any content area, which is always helpful. So if you're teaching, like basic finance, you can use this. If you're teaching us history, you can use this.
If you're teaching biology, you can use this. If you're teaching English Language Arts, you can use this. So these tools, like these two tools will work for any content area. Art, music, all of them. They're great for additional practice, so if you are trying to reach students in different ways and maybe they need additional practice at home or in the classroom and you're doing small group or large group stuff and you're like, hey, this would be a great way to have them practice some more.
independently, and they also will help you support students needs. So if you're working with one group and you need some kids to, like I just said, do something independently, they can do this. Or, you can set them up and do it as a whole class. It's totally up to you. So it will support a variety of students needs.
as you support them with their additional help. So let's get into it. We're going to start with QuestionWell. When you go to pull it up, it works in both app format and web format. So when you go to QuestionWell, you can type in app. questionwell. org, or just type in QuestionWell and it will come up. And it's really nifty.
So basically you create like a little account. It's free, right, and you get the multiple choice questions for free with QuestionWell. If you want to upgrade and spend money, you can get more options. I have found that the free version works just great. So you can get however many, five, ten questions which you need for additional help, and then you can pick your topic.
So, today's topic is going to be Mount Rushmore. Do you want to know why? Because that is what's on your shirt across from me. So, we're going to ask questions about Mount Rushmore and the history of it. I want them in English. I have a ginormous list of languages to choose from. So if you're supporting students in a variety of languages, you can do that.
Or if you're teaching a world language, you could also support kids by asking questions in their world language they're I can choose my reading level from kindergarten All the way through graduate level, I'm going to choose fifth grade. I can put in a file if I want to, text, website, or video, which is awesome, so I can base my questions on, like, the National Park Service site.
And it can give me, whatever I need based on like their information. So I can choose direct text from classroom if I'm using some like a specific article in class, I can use that with students. Or I can pull from a video that we're watching in class. Or you can align it however you choose to, which is awesome.
I am loading in, information from the National Park Service, like I just said. So it's going to go right on into there. Go, save. It's very easy to do. Just load in the information that you'd like to. And then once I do that, I can align it to a specific outcome or standard as well. So if I want to load in a specific state standard, I can do that.
And then I click generate questions. They also have pre saved sets that you can choose from. And then this will, cute little robot, it's making my stuff. It takes my content, it takes my article, and it's going to make the best of my stuff. Sparkly, sparkly. And then once it's done, it has my questions based on the National Park Service website, and it's going to pull the information I need.
What's great about this is, again, whatever content you're teaching. So if you're teaching music class and you want it off a specific song, you can do that. And once you get the information, what's cool, or like article or video or whatever you're showing, it will give you, on one half of the screen, what you're the specific information, so this comes right from the National Park Service website, and then on the other side gives me the question sets, and I can answer them right there.
I can choose to answer questions, I can choose to download the questions, I can choose to print the questions, and it gives you a set of multiple choice questions to support whatever reading that you're doing. So it's a super fast way. To get additional content for your students in the classroom, or to, practice the skills you want them to know.
Or if you want them to do, like, additional help, like maybe you're teaching something and you're not quite sure, like, I'll be teaching something, like, yeah, I think we got that in class, but, like, thumbs up, thumbs down, we got a lot in the middle, kids. Like, this would be a great way to create some extra practice for them that you can do in class together or in small groups.
Just to see if they need additional questions and support. So you can go through and you can export the information, and you can print the information, and you can figure out what the questions are. It does give them to you in bold so you know the answers. So like that piece is in there as well. And it's a great way to create another question set.
It also gives you, so like that's comprehension questions. It will also give you discussion points if you choose to write from that article, or you also have the option for vocabulary. So like, I just click the vocabulary button, it's all there for me. Majestic, Heritage, Diversity, Preservation, Cultural, Prohibited, all came out of that article with the definitions, so if you need additional support for kids.
With vocabulary practice, you can do that too.
[: [: [: [:Like it gives me those learning outcomes right away. And like I said, then you can add more questions if you want to, you can print, you can share, but also it's done with AI. So please make sure that you check it out before you give it to your kids, but there's a lot of options with it.
[: [:There's more upgrades if you do the paid version, but that's the free version of Question Well.
[: [:You know, like, oh my gosh, I need to like quick get something out there.
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[: [: [: [: [: [:So this one will like save your stuff. And so you keep a little library of the questions. There are some limitations with this one, just because, again, we're working in the free version. Yep. Um, so if I go home, you should look Quiz Gecko, you decide what you want. Again, this is going to be a uploaded document, so if I'm starting from a short story that I'm using in class, or if I'm creating something, I can upload my information.
Then, I also have the option so I can upload, I can have AI totally generate everything by giving it a topic, I can add my text so what I want it to do, I can pick my subject area, or I can drop in a URL, or I can do things manually. So, I'm going to this time. Drop in a different URL. This time, we're going to visit New York City.
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So I'm gonna pick easy, and then max questions, you can do up to ten, unless you have the paid version. I click generate, and so it is going to pull information for short answer based on the Statue of Liberty. So like, you pulled lesson plans in PDF format, uploaded it, did you give five or ten questions?
[: [:Reveal the answer. So you can quiz, you can show answers, or not. And then you can go ahead and assign, or play, or download, which is cool. If you click play, which is the option with Quiz Gecko, you can play the quiz, or there's flashcards to study. So it automatically creates, like, quizzing for kids to test it out in class, or as you guys could do, like in a smart board, you guys could practice this as a class.
Or in small group as a quiz, you can assign it to kids. And so you have the option of making these questions and then you can, they can submit them and all kinds of stuff, which is pretty cool. Mm-Hmm. . So when you go to assign, which is one of the options, if you upgrade, you can then drop them specifically.
Sure. So that's just something to be aware, like depending on which tools you wanna have access to, some are paid and some are not. But yeah. So then Quiz Gecko gives you like little quiz flashcards. off of the information that you chose to share, which is pretty awesome. And what's really cool is once you have this done, you can go to the share button and you have the link so you could drop it into Google Classroom if you want to, and kids could have access to it that way if you choose to.
And then also, it goes into your library, which I appreciate, it automatically kicks into your library, so I can come back to this anytime I choose to. So like, I have physical education, team sports for second grade, like I've got a little quiz set up for that. And then now I have like the different fairy tips for Ellis Island, so there's different things that you can choose.
And again, it's all put into your own little library, which I appreciate, so you can come back to the stuff that you create, which is super fun. It
[: [:Always finding more ways to be able to help our kids and give them a variety of different things to learn from.
Indeed.
[:So, there you go. There's some hopeful Hopefully some time savers for you this week.
Ta da!
[: [: [:Thanks for listening. Go educate and innovate.
[:And we'll talk to you next time, right here on the Tech Tools for Teachers podcast.
