‘Quiz’ was once a word, which was used in relation to interrogation and questioning. This later evolved to give its most common use today, a game or a mind sport employed to test an individual’s knowledge or intellect.

Quizzes, as we know, may be held on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from General Knowledge to Music, employing suitable formats.

Quizzing, as a sport or an activity, has been known to provide a huge array of benefits:

They have been known to improve the comprehension skills of an individual. We all know how easy it can be to get thrown off track, when we come across a slide with too much of information. Quizzes help our focus and enable us to look in the right direction.

One might even find themselves paying attention to the smaller details in life, which you usually miss otherwise.

Quizzing also change one’s approach to learning. It shifts the focus away from the relentless memorization of Data, onto a puzzlesolving approach.It requires contestants to piece together the clues provided in a question and then to arrive at an answer. By not just memorizing information, but by trying to understand how random bits of information come together, and getting to know the bigger context, it provides a solid structure manner for learning.

These, among other reasons, are reasons why we have more and more people embracing Quizzing, either as an activity or as a hobby.

But the next question that comes to mind is: How do Quizzes fare when it is employed as a tool for e-learning?

But, what is e-learning?

A good way to think about e-learning is as employing the usage of electronic media, Devices (PC’s, Phones or Tablets) or any other Information or Communication technology, to support or facilitate the process of learning.

The broad benefits of e-learning are its ability to facilitate distance learning where there might be no other options, the option to customize the pace of learning as per your scheduling constraints, and the consistency with which content can be delivered or the ease with which it can be repeated, if required.

But coming back to our question, let’s look at the role Quizzes can play when it comes to e-learning.

According to experts, cognitive psychology suggests that, retrieval of information to the mind, as a process, is equivalent to learning. This could turn out to be a powerful mnemonic tool which helps individuals to learn quickly and effectively.

Another benefit is the all-important role that Quizzes can play in e-learning, in motivating the individuals, which can otherwise get tricky in the absence of the physical presence of an instructor. The idea is based on a technique called ‘Gamification’, which seeks to employ and apply the video game design and game elements or rules to real life experiences, so as to maximize the enjoyment, and through this increasing the engagement of the User, thus inspiring or motivating the User to continue.

This address the issue of signing up for courses online, only to quickly lose interest in them.

The third benefit that Quizzes can play is in the identification of any gaps that might need to be filled in the process of e-learning. By helping learners identify what they know and what they do not know, they give them a better idea of how well they are able to grasp the topic at hand. It address the important issue of providing feedback to the learner.

By allowing you to create Quizzes quickly and easily, with the content of your choice. The unique features of the Dashboard allow you to create Quizzes of different types, be it a Classroom Quiz or an Entrance exam, along with host of options to customize the Quiz. Even the Designing of the Quiz is made simple, with an easy to use interface, enabling you to add your own questions along with adding other details such as Event Prizes, Team and Time settings, Leader-board etc. Even the hosting of the Quiz is made a breezy process, by allowing the Participants to register in Teams along with the provision of a social media integration to login. QuizzingInc provides a visually appealing interface that makes Quizzing as easy to host, as it is to participate in one!