Quia

· Go to www.quia.com

· Click on Instructor Zone

· Enter the User Name

· Enter the Password

Search For Activities

· Click on Shared Activities

· Click on Search (see search help below)

· Popular Categories allows you to select a subject area and then view the most used activities in that area.

To Search

· Enter your keywords

· Select a category

· Click Submit

· Click on the activity you would like

If you find an activity that you like, you can Copy this to my account and modify it.

Click on Edit to edit the activity or if you are happy with it, copy the URL and paste it in a web page or Word document for students to access.

Create your own activities

This link gives a good overview of activities and quizzes: http://www.quia.com/key.html

Activities

Each activity page has very good directions on creating that activity. Students do not receive a “score” on most activities.

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Quizzes

Each quiz page has very good directions on creating that quiz. If you want to keep scores for students, you need to have them stop after the quiz on the page that shows their results.

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When you are finished creating the activity, copy the URL and paste it in a web page or Word document.