USER GUIDE

QUIZ

The Lab 100 Quiz is a quick and easy way to see how well the students answer the questions you ask. Just select the answer type, play a question, and start the answering time.

Students’ answers appear on your screen and you can immediately let the students know whether they answered correctly or not with the True and False keys on your GUI.

You can also save your quiz settings as a ready-to-use quiz file. This way there is no need to manually reselect the settings every time you use the Quiz activity.

DEFAULT RECORDING SETTINGS

PROCEEDING WITH QUIZ

SELECTING THE ANSWERING MODE

1. Before starting the quiz, select the answering mode according to the quiz type. should be answered True or False.

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be in numeric mode. After selecting the option, define the number of the answer choices (max. 8) by entering the number in the field accordingly. For example, entering the number 5 means that for each question there are five answer options.

STARTING THE QUIZ

2. To initiate the activity, click Question. The source is connected to students and you can now ask or play the first question.

If your source is an MSU file, the activity starts when you click the Question button. If the source is any other than an

MSU file, remember to start also the source player. For example, to start to play a CD, click play in the CD player.

Clicking the Question button also opens a Quiz Graph that indicates the distribution of student answers.

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The graph as no answers are given yet

At this stage of the Quiz, the students have not yet given their answers, so the only block seen in the diagram is that of

NA, “No Answers”.

3. To let students answer the question, click Start.

If your source is an MSU file, the source pauses. If your source is any other than an MSU file, remember to pause the source device or player manually.

On the User Audio Panel, the LED indicators of the possible answer options start to blink. Students answer the question by pressing an answer key on their audio panel. The pressed key switches on and the other key(s) remain blinking.

In the diagram, the blocks stack as the students give their answers.

On the class view on your GUI is displayed a block diagram on the distribution of the students’ answers.

Answer option

NA = No Answer

Each student’s answer appears also under his or her icon.

4. To end the answering time, click Stop. The answer keys on the students’ audio panels are disabled, and the LED indicators next to the keys switch off.

You can now either repeat the steps 2, 3, and 4 to ask/play the next question or you can give the right answer. To give the right answer, do as follows.

GIVING THE CORRECT ANSWER

5. Click on the correct answer’s button. A symbol (correct or incorrect) on the students’ audio panel’s display tells the students whether they answered the question correctly or not.

In the diagram, the block of the correct answer is highlighted in orange.

Correct answer

On the class view, the correct answers are highlighted in pink.

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6. To ask the next question, repeat step 2. Repeat steps from 2 to 5 until the end of the quiz.

QUIZ REPORTS

7. To end the quiz, click End. A quiz report appears.

Quiz date and time Session color-code

Close the window

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Students who participated in the

Quiz

T. Dixon

4 answers of 5 correct = 80 %

PRINTING THE QUIZ REPORTS

[ ] = correct answer

F = False

T = True

You can print the report by clicking the printer symbol on the upper left corner of the report window. The report is printed to the Windows default printer.

SAVING THE REPORT

By clicking the disk symbol on the upper left corner of the window, you can save the report to your computer or anywhere in the network.

ZOOMING IN AND OUT THE REPORT VIEW

Note that the font size in the printed report is the same as the one seen on your screen. To zoom the font size in or out, click the symbols on the upper part of the report window. If you zoom the report in or out and print it out, the font size of the print is changed accordingly.

VIEWING RESULTS FOR ALL OR BY STUDENT

You can select whether you want to view (and print) a table of all the results, or a list of the results according to individual students.

ADJUSTING THE REPORT VIEW

The print sheet scales automatically on your screen; to fit the whole report to the sheet you want to print on, you may want to enlarge the report window.

To change the size of the report window, click on a side or a corner of the window, and the mouse button pressed down drag the side or corner to adjust the window size as appropriate.

CLOSING THE REPORT WINDOW

To close the report window, click on the symbol in the upper right corner of the window.

REPORT WINDOW TOOLTIPS

In the Quiz report window, when you move the mouse pointer over a control button, a tooltip text appears telling you what each button on the toolbar does.

8. To quit the session, click Exit Session.

OPEN / SAVE QUIZ

If you are going to use the same Quiz settings again in the future, you can save them as a ready-to-use quiz file. This way there is no need to manually define all the settings every time you use the Quiz activity.

The information in the saved quiz files includes the msu audio file, number of questions, type of test (multiple choice, true/false), correct answer, and answering time per question.

You can set the default folder for saving quiz files in Menu –

Properties.

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