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How to Create an Online Quiz for Your Classroom: A Teacher's Guide

Create an online quiz in minutes, share it with your students and grade it automatically. A step-by-step guide for teachers, from first question to results.

The Skolina team 6 min read

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Teacher tools

Auto-grade a classroom quiz: what to trust, what to review and what to teach next

Auto-grade objective classroom questions without losing sight of ambiguous items and open reasoning. Use a review checklist, worked example and feedback plan.

The Skolina team6 min read

Pedagogy

Choose a school quiz platform: privacy, workflow and support checklist

Compare school quiz platforms through a real pilot: student access, marking, privacy, accessibility, staff workflow and support. Use a practical decision grid.

The Skolina Team5 min read

Pedagogy

Exit ticket questions for teachers: three prompts that shape the next lesson

Use three practical exit ticket questions to reveal misconceptions, sort responses and plan tomorrow's lesson. Includes examples and a quick review routine.

The Skolina team6 min read

Pedagogy

Flipped Classroom Quiz: What to Ask Before, During and After Class

Use a flipped classroom quiz to check preparation, guide in-class work and revisit ideas afterward. Includes a geography example and an access-friendly plan.

The Skolina team6 min read

Pedagogy

Homework quiz with feedback: what to automate and what to review

Design a homework quiz that gives useful feedback without turning every answer into a grade. See a worked example, marking rules and a next-lesson plan.

The Skolina Team5 min read

Pedagogy

Low-pressure live quiz: get every learner thinking without a leaderboard

Run a low-pressure class quiz with wait time, private answers and a useful debrief. Includes a science example and a guide to Skolina's current tools.

The Skolina team5 min read

Pedagogy

Math practice quiz with numerical tolerance: mark answers fairly

Set numerical tolerance in a math practice quiz with examples for exact answers, rounded measurements and units. Includes a marking check and feedback plan.

The Skolina team6 min read

Pedagogy

Multiple-Choice Distractors That Diagnose Misconceptions, Not Just Wrong Answers

Turn common student errors into useful multiple-choice distractors. A worked fractions example shows option design, response patterns and next-step teaching.

The Skolina team6 min read

Pedagogy

Online diagnostic quiz for prior knowledge: five questions before a new unit

Build a low-stakes diagnostic quiz that reveals prior knowledge before a new unit. Includes five worked questions, a response guide and a next-lesson plan.

The Skolina team6 min read

Pedagogy

Open response vs multiple choice: choose the evidence your quiz needs

Choose between open response and multiple choice by learning goal. A science claim example shows keys, rubrics, marking time and a transfer task.

The Skolina team5 min read

Teacher tools

Build a Question Bank for a Teaching Unit: Tags, Variants and Review

Build a useful unit question bank with a coverage map, item tags, variants and a review cycle. Includes a science example and a realistic Skolina workflow.

The Skolina team7 min read