

Quiz Software
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What is Quiz Software?
Quiz software is a web-based application that allows you to ask your learners questions and track their scoring in either an individual or team format.
Other Common Names
Other common names for quiz software include:
- Polling
Key Properties
While there are many quiz software platforms on the market, this element is typically characterized by:
- Digital-based media (often online, but can also be installed on a local machine)
- Use of a back-end database to track participant scores, which can be accessed at any time

Resources From The Train Like a Champion Blog
- "When I was teaching GED classes at the youth center, we’d review the week’s content every Friday with a Jeopardy-like review game. I had created a gameboard to display in the front of the classroom using a giant, laminated piece of flipchart. While it worked for our purposes, I eventually tried to update my gameboard by transitioning from the flipchart to PowerPoint. This also worked, but it took quite a while to put together all the animation triggers, and every week I had to swap out questions. In more recent years, I began turning to element 9, Quiz Software. There are many online quizzing platforms—some free, others available on a subscription model—that allow you to quickly turn your content into any number of trivia-style games or quizzes. Honestly, there are so many uses for this element that you’re limited only by your imagination (or more realistically, what your organization will allow you to do)."
- "When I worked for one organization, I spoke with our CEO and head of talent management about transforming our monthly all-staff meetings using quiz software. Traditionally, each C-level executive would share high-level departmental metrics from the past month. We experimented with sending out monthly metrics in advance of the all-staff meetings, and then using quiz software to ask all employees—whether they were attending the all-staff at our headquarters or joining virtually—to use their smartphones to respond to several high-level questions about each department’s monthly performance. It was a more engaging way to focus attention on key statistics for the organization, and it reduced the amount of meeting time we spent listening to executives recapping last month’s performance, which freed up time to spend on discussions, interactions, and presentations on current and upcoming initiatives."
- "After I’ve run a session that has incorporated quiz software into the flow of the learning experience, it’s become quite common for participants to approach me and say they plan to use the same platform the next time they’re in front of their learners. Incorporating quiz software into a training program in an intentional way so you’re accomplishing your learning objectives can demonstrate to your learners and your organization what’s possible when it comes to a learning experience."