Online Learning & Assessment Blog

Many of you reading this will admit to the joy of taking multiple-choice question (MCQ) tests as students. Multiple choice questions are quick and fun. Instead of typing-in long answers, you get to pick the correct answer out of multiple answer choices.  But, MCQ quizzes are much more than a fun way to test knowledge....

Picture walking into a classroom buzzing with a different kind of energy – where every student is not just learning but also actively understanding and shaping their educational journey. This is the power of student self-assessment. Beyond mere academic evaluations, self-assessments are a transformative tool. They foster self-awareness, goal-setting, and critical thinking, driving students toward...

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers, educator & artist Have you ever wondered why your learners can retain information only for a short time?  Or do you often need help with assessing their knowledge retention? Well, it can be because you need to create...

You can’t cook great pasta without the right ingredients. You’ll need the right amounts of flour, eggs, tomato, cheese, and more. Individually, they’re okay, but combine them and cook them perfectly — you’re in pasta heaven. Quizzes work in the same way. It’s never a single element that makes a great quiz but many. And...

Online teaching software can be of great assistance to teachers. Here’s a real-life example that demonstrates how it’s so. John Mitchell, the Chairman of the Department of Science at Lincoln High School, Harrison County, West Virginia, faced a challenge. He had 125 classroom students and over 700 students worldwide. Teaching them using conventional methods was...

Do you want to develop your marketing strategy to offer a customized experience? Do you want to test the consumer response/expectation before a product launch? Do you want to know how to improve an existing product or do better than the big brands out there? Do you want to improve brand loyalty by engaging your...

After BuzzFeed’s success with the quiz We’ll Guess Your Secret Talent Based On Your Ice Cream Preferences, many brands started including fun quizzes in their marketing strategy.  Source Not all of them were able to ace the race, though. Why? Well, one of the biggest reasons was that those quizzes simply couldn’t keep the participants...

Online learning is certainly one of the most useful tools for career growth because it lets students access to knowledge by providing them with an exclusive opportunity to discover and obtain fresh information at their own pace. Nowadays, a growing number of working students and professionals are being attracted by the benefits from online education...

Until a few years ago, teachers, trainers, and recruiters relied on age-old paper-based tests for their assessment needs. This assessment method required them to navigate through a series of tasks, including Coming up with the right questions Printing the test papers Setting up an assessment center Invigilating the assessment Manually grading the responses Phew! Then...

On July 5th, 2014, a food blog called Food52.com posted a quiz titled- Which Cake Are You? on Facebook. By July 7th, 20,000 people had taken the quiz, which helped Food52 drive loads of people back to their website and created hundreds of dollars in ad revenue. Even though the quiz title may sound weird...