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Bensky, Tom - CSU Quiz: An In-Class Instant Student Feedback System - Page 2
Exchanges: The On-line Journal of Teaching and Learning in the CSU
Procedure
The solution I found uses familiar technology—a computer with an Internet Web browser—and works as follows: I write a quiz in conjunction with my lecture preparation, inserting the quiz at a point where I'd like to know how the students are doing. I type the quiz into an editing program, like SimpleText on Mac or Notepad on a Windows operating system. (This system supports multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.) I then run the quiz file through a software program that converts the text of the quiz into an HTML [1] file. The HTML file (the now Internet-ready quiz) is then placed on the school's Web server, which I can access in the classroom, using a computer connected to the Internet. (The requirements and process are described in more detail on page 5.)
My classroom does not have an Internet computer for each student, so during the lecture I present the quiz questions using an overhead projector. As students arrive at their answers, they walk up to a computer that I set up in the classroom. The computer is configured with a Web browser that students can use to access the quiz document (the same graphic they see from the overhead projection).The overhead slide of the Web document is "clickable" from the computer, and the students may "click in" their answers, which are subsequently logged and saved by the Web server. A sample quiz, as a student would see it, is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Sample Quiz, Students' View
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