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Quizzes
Did it land? Ask on the spot.
How do you teach?
You find out a student didn’t understand when the homework comes back wrong, days later. Quizzes give you a built-in quiz with multiple-choice and short-answer questions, so you see what landed before you move on.
Your student nods along, then gets the homework wrong. A three-question quiz at the end of the topic shows you what actually landed, while you can still fix it.
In an online class, you can’t see 25 notebooks. Run a quick quiz with multiple-choice and short-answer questions, and see who understood before the next topic.
Training that ends without a check leaves you guessing what stuck. A short quiz at the end of each module shows you, and the participants, where the gaps are.
Exit tickets on paper take an evening to mark. With students on their own devices, run a short quiz in the Space and see the results before they leave the room.
Paper quizzes at the end of a workshop rarely get marked. Participants answer a short quiz on their laptops, and you see the gaps before the day ends.
It’s hard to tell whether your child really understood a lesson. A short quiz at the end shows you what stuck and what to revisit tomorrow.
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What it solves
- “I get it” that isn’t true
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Running the lesson
The problem
You find out too late what didn’t land
Students often seem to follow along, then struggle on their own. Without a quick check in the lesson, gaps show up days later in homework or tests.
The usual way
Teachers ask “any questions?”, open a separate quiz site with its own logins, or mark paper exit tickets after the lesson.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
A built-in quiz applet with multiple-choice and short-answer questions, run during the lesson inside the Space.
What changes
You see what students understood before moving on, not days later.
What it looks like
In practice
Before moving on from fractions, a teacher runs a three-question quiz. Two students miss the same question, so she reviews it with them right away.
In a 1:1 lesson
You end the topic with a four-question quiz. Your student gets the short-answer question wrong, so you spend the last ten minutes on it.
In a group class
A five-question quiz shows most of the class mixed up two terms. You clear it up in five minutes before starting the next unit.
In a virtual training
At the end of the security module, participants take a short quiz. Everyone misses the same question, so you revisit that policy together.
In your classroom
Students answer a three-question quiz on their Chromebooks at the end of the period. You plan tomorrow’s warm-up around the question most missed.
In the training room
Participants take a short quiz on their laptops before lunch. The results show which part of the morning to recap in the afternoon.
At home
After a lesson on the water cycle, your daughter takes a short quiz. She misses the question on evaporation, so you go over it together.
