Transcript Quia - Ball State University

Quia
Courtney Breitenbach
February 9, 2006
What is Quia?
• Quia is pronounced key-ah and
originally was short for
Quintessential Instructional Archive.
• The world’s most popular “createyou-own” Web site.
What does Quia offer?
• Activities
 Templates for creating 16 different types of
online activities, including flashcards, matching,
concentration (memory), word search,
battleship, challenge board, columns, cloze
exercises, hangman, jumbled words, ordered
list, patterns, picture perfect, pop-ups, rags to
riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), and
scavenger hunt
Quia (cont’d)
• Graded Quizzes
 Tools for creating online quizzes with up to eight
question types
• M/C
• T/F
• Pop-up
• Multiple-correct
• Fill-in
• Initial answer
• Short answer
• Essay
**Note: Quia will even grade them for you!
Quia (cont’d)
• Class Management
– Online roster
– Gradebook (keeps track of quiz scores)
Quia (cont’d)
• Class Pages
– Create Web pages for communicating
with students and parents
• Online surveys
• Online calendar
• Upload files (images, audio, files
attachments, and video)
Quia (cont’d)
• Shared Activities
– Activities in 30 languages, from Spanish, French, and German
to Japanese, Hebrew, and Latin
– Math activities in topics ranging from addition of one-digit
numbers to algebra and trigonometry
– Science activities covering biology, physics, chemistry,
genetics, astronomy, medicine, and technology
– Activities for all age levels, from alphabet and counting
activities to university-level economics, history, and science
Quia allows you to search the shared activities area by keyword,
category, and textbook. You can easily copy and customize
these activities and share them with your class.
Why Choose Quia?
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It works for all grade levels and subjects
Students and parents will be impressed
Use it anywhere-from home or school
No software to install
It’s easy and quick
You can use activities created by other
teachers—over 2 million to choose from
• Save time grading
Resources
• Quia (n.d.). Quia. Retrieved January
27, 2006 from , Web site:
http://www.quia.com/index.html
• Quia information packet