QuiaQuia Courtney Breitenbach February 9, 2006
What is Quia? Quia is pronounced key-ah and originally was short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. The world’s most popular “create- you-own” Web site.
What does Quia offer? Activities Templates for creating 16 different types of online activities, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, battleship, challenge board, columns, cloze exercises, hangman, jumbled words, ordered list, patterns, picture perfect, pop-ups, rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), and scavenger hunt
Quia (cont’d) Graded Quizzes Tools for creating online quizzes with up to eight question types M/C T/F Pop-up Multiple-correct Fill-in Initial answer Short answer Essay **Note: Quia will even grade them for you!
Quia (cont’d) Class Management –Online roster –Gradebook (keeps track of quiz scores)
Quia (cont’d) Class Pages –Create Web pages for communicating with students and parents Online surveys Online calendar Upload files (images, audio, files attachments, and video)
Quia (cont’d) Shared Activities –Activities in 30 languages, from Spanish, French, and German to Japanese, Hebrew, and Latin –Math activities in topics ranging from addition of one-digit numbers to algebra and trigonometry –Science activities covering biology, physics, chemistry, genetics, astronomy, medicine, and technology –Activities for all age levels, from alphabet and counting activities to university-level economics, history, and science Quia allows you to search the shared activities area by keyword, category, and textbook. You can easily copy and customize these activities and share them with your class.
Why Choose Quia? It works for all grade levels and subjects Students and parents will be impressed Use it anywhere-from home or school No software to install It’s easy and quick You can use activities created by other teachers—over 2 million to choose from Save time grading
Resources Quia (n.d.). Quia. Retrieved January 27, 2006 from, Web site: Quia information packet