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Quia
Web (at www.quia.com/web),
Quia Corporation's subscription Web site, is a showcase of Quia's
innovative technologies. Through word of mouth alone, Quia
Web has become the Web's largest educational technology resource,
attracting over 500,000 unique visitors and 20 million page
views monthly. Around the globe, educators and learners in
over 120 countries use Quia Web on a regular basis.
For subscription rates and ordering information, click here.
Quia provides a variety of educational services, including:
- A directory of thousands of online activities and quizzes in more than 50 subject areas
- Templates for creating 14 different types of online activities, including
flashcards,
matching,
concentration (memory),
word search,
hangman, jumbled words, ordered list, picture perfect, pop-ups,
challenge board, scavenger hunt, rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game),
columns, and cloze exercises.
- Tools for creating online quizzes with up to eight question types
- Quiz administration and reporting tools
- Class Web pages
- Calendars and schedules
- Online surveys
The Quia Directory
Free feature
The Quia Directory is a great starting point for new users. It is a
collection of thousands of activities categorized into 50 subject areas. All of the
activities in the directory were created by educators using Quia's tools and templates.
These activities are the best of the more than 1,200,000 activities that Quia's users have
created since the site's inception.
Quia's editors continually update the directory with new activities and new categories. Here
is a sampling of what you can find:
- Activities in 15 languages, from Spanish, French, and German to Chinese, Turkish,
and Esperanto
- 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
- Games and quizzes for studying vocabulary words from popular textbooks. Spanish
covers 20 textbooks;
French, 19; and German, 7
Spanish topic page ( visit )
Activity creation templates
With Quia's tools and templates, you can create your own activities on Quia Web using your own educational content. You can choose from 14 types of activities,
including flash cards, matching games, concentration (memory) activities, word search puzzles,
hangman, and challenge boards. The activities reside on the Quia Web site where anyone
with a Web
browser can use them. High-school Spanish, fifth-grade math, university-level art history . . . no matter what subject you teach, creating your own activities is easy and fast, and your students will thank you for it.
Not pictured (click to see a demo): Flashcards,
Word Search, Concentration,
Jumbled Words, Rags to Riches, Ordered List, Picture Perfect, Scavenger Hunt, Columns, Cloze
Quiz creation templates
Not only are Quia's quiz tools easy to use, but they also offer the most functionality available in any online product. You can choose from eight question types, including multiple choice, true-false, pop-up, fill-in,
multiple correct, short answer, initial answer, and essay. Images and sounds can be embedded into the quiz layout. Your quiz can be entirely computer-graded, or you can choose to grade some parts, like essay questions, yourself, while leaving the computer to grade other parts, like multiple choice questions.
Quiz administration, reporting, and grading tools
Instructors can administer online quizzes. Students submit the quiz online and
their names and scores are recorded in the instructor's account.
The instructor can analyze and print the results using Quia's
reporting tools. With Quia's quizzes, educators can instantly
discover information like:
- What was the class average? What were the high and low scores?
- Which students scored the highest? Who were the lowest-scoring students?
- What percentage of the class missed a particular question? Who got the question
right?
- Which questions were missed by the most students? Which questions were the easiest?
- What did a particular student score on his or her first, second, and third attempts?
- What was the most common answer for a particular question? What percentage of the
class chose a given answer?
Instructors can also change student scores and grade short answer and essay questions using Quia's grading tools. Instructors can add bonus points and provide comments for each student.
A summary of the student's final score along with the instructor's comments, can then be printed out and provided for each student.
Question summary
Class Pages
With Quia class pages, you can create your own Web page for posting homework assignments,
class schedules, calendars, contact information, and links to your favorite Web resources, including
Quia activities and quizzes. It's fast, easy, and you don't need to know HTML.
Class page ( visit )
Instructor Zone
The Instructor Zone is your starting point for creating and maintaining your Quia
activities. Access is password-protected to ensure that only you can make changes to your
activities and view your students' scores. Whether you have created one activity or a
hundred, you will find it easy to:
- Create new activities, quizzes, and surveys
- Make changes to existing activities and quizzes
- Create and update class pages
- Remove activities
- E-mail activities to students, colleagues, and others
- Create reports on students' quiz performance
Instructor Zone
How Do I Get Started?
Go straight to the Quia Directory to browse through
activities and quizzes in your areas of interest. Or, to try making your own
activities, sign up for a free 30-day trial.
Comments?
Do you have any comments, questions, or suggestions? We are continually
working to improve Quia, and your thoughts are important to us. Most of the new features
we develop are inspired by your suggestions.
Please e-mail us at info@quia.com or fill out our
online comments and suggestions form.
We'd like to hear from you!
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