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Quiz: what it is and how to make one
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What it is
The Quiz is a question-and-answer game for assessment or review. Players type or select the correct answer.
Each question can have text, audio, images, video or a combination.
Modes
The Quiz offers two different experiences for the player:
- Game: grades each question as it's answered, with real-time feedback. Ideal for reviewing, practising or running a contest.
- Exam: grades all the questions when the Quiz is submitted. The player can navigate between questions and change answers before submitting. Ideal for assessment.
Examples of use
- Knowledge: reviewing any subject before an exam.
- Entertainment: trivia about general knowledge or about the players themselves.
- Languages: grammar or listening comprehension.
- Vocational training: regulations, protocols or procedures.
- Corporate onboarding: assessing the initial training of new employees.
How to create a Quiz with Ray
- Click Create game and select Quiz.
- Enter a topic, add instructions and/or attach a file with the content.
- Ray automatically generates a game ready to publish (with a title and description). You can review and change anything you like before publishing it.
Ray's advanced options
The gear icon gives you options to configure how Ray generates the game. Some are common to all game types:
- Output content: choose text only, or text plus automatically generated speech. Speech is capped at 1,000 characters in total per account on the Basic and Advanced plans; on the Academic plan and Commercial plan it is unlimited.
- Output language: the language of the game content. If you don't specify it, Ray detects it from the prompt or the file.
- Difficulty: easy, medium (default), hard, or a custom level (for example, “for primary school students”).
The Quiz also has specific options:
- Questions: how many to create (10 by default), or as many as the content you attach contains.
- Answer type: Multiple choice (the player chooses from several options) or Written.
- Answers per question: how many options to generate for each question (4 by default).
- Explanation: Ray adds clarifications to reinforce learning.
Source library
With the Sources button you can upload files to Ray (PDF, Word, images…) or select your own games for it to use as content for the new one. For example, generate a review Quiz from the PDF of a History unit, or create a Quiz with the questions from a Froggy Jumps.
How to create a Quiz without Ray
- Click Create game and select Quiz.
- Close the Ray window.
- Enter the first question and its answer options, marking the correct one.
- Repeat the process for each question.
Answers can have text, images and/or audio; questions can also contain video. For each question, you can allow more than one correct answer, ask for a written answer, or add an explanation to reinforce learning.
Game options
In addition to the game mode, you can customize the Quiz with these options:
- Deduct points for wrong answers: in Exam mode, deduct points for each mistake.
- Explanations only at the end: in Game mode, explanations are shown after each question by default. Turn on this option to see them only on the results screen.
- Lives: the maximum number of mistakes in Game mode (unlimited by default).
- Time: the time limit per answer (unlimited by default).
- Set the number of questions: how many questions appear in each game, picked at random from the ones created. By default, all are shown.
- Random order: questions in random order.
- Shuffle answers: options in random order. If it's off, they appear in the editor's order.
- Sensitive to capitalization and accents: counts mistakes in written answers as errors.
With an Advanced plan you can remove the ads, add a background image, change the visibility (Public or Hidden), configure player identification (Optional, Required or no method), hide elements of the interface (Ranking, Restart, Social media or Correct answers) and add a custom final message.
With an Academic plan you can restrict the visibility to your guests or to the integrations you create (Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas…), and remove the player identification link.
With a Commercial plan you can also customize the game with your logo and corporate footer, choose the colors and hide the Educaplay brand.
Information and publishing
On the Information tab you set up what your player will see before and during the game. Ray automatically generates the Title and Description; if you created the game without Ray, you add them yourself. Here you also choose the Language of the game interface (you can present the game to your players in any of the 27 available languages, regardless of the language of the content), set the Education level and add Tags so your game is easier to find in the search engine. Before publishing, use Preview to check that everything looks the way you want.
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between Game mode and Exam mode?
In Game mode, each question is graded as it's answered, with immediate feedback. In Exam mode, the player can navigate between questions, change them and review before submitting; grading happens at the end.
Can I show each player different questions?
Yes. Create more questions than will be shown and use Set the number of questions so that a few are picked at random in each game.
Can I make a question have more than one correct answer?
Yes. When you create the Quiz without Ray, you can mark several answers as correct in the same question.
Can I import a question list I already have ready?
Yes. Paste or attach your list in the Ray box or with the Sources button.
Can I add audio, images or video to the questions?
Yes. Answers accept text, audio and images, and questions can also have video. You can generate the voice reading automatically.
Can I change the language of the game interface?
Yes. On the Information tab you can choose from the 27 available languages: Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The interface language is independent from the content language: you can have a game written in English and show the interface in Japanese for your Japanese students, for example.
Which features require a paid plan?
With the Advanced plan you remove the ads, add a background image, manage visibility and player identification, hide interface elements and add a final message. With the Academic plan you can also restrict access to your guests or to your integrations (Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas…). With the Commercial plan you customize the game with your logo, corporate colors and hide the Educaplay brand.
