A Kahoot alternative for training: live quiz or continuous microlearning?

Two kinds of online quiz

Search for a Kahoot alternative and you will mostly find other live quiz tools: the trainer projects the questions, participants answer on their phones and the leaderboard appears on screen. It is an excellent format for bringing energy to a session.

There is another format, less well known, designed for after the session: the continuous microlearning quiz. Each person plays on their own, whenever they have two minutes, and the system decides which questions to show again and when.

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Live quiz: when to use it

• To open a session and find out what the group already knows.
• To check understanding at the end of a module.
• To keep a long training day or an event moving.

The limit is time: it happens once, with everyone at the same moment. What people answered that day is subject to the forgetting curve like the rest of the session.

Microlearning quiz: when to use it

• When the team needs to know the content by heart weeks or months later.
• When people are spread across shifts, stores or countries.
• When you want to know, question by question, what is being forgotten.

Here the strength is spaced repetition: studying on separate occasions beats studying all at once (Cepeda and colleagues, 2006). We explain the mechanism in spaced repetition.

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How to write good multiple-choice questions

1. One question, one idea. Short sentences that read well on a phone screen.
2. A single correct answer. No “all of the above” and no partly correct answers.
3. Plausible wrong answers. With believable alternatives, multiple choice can trigger productive retrieval (Little and colleagues, 2012).
4. An explanation after answering. Feedback increases the benefits of multiple-choice testing and reduces its downsides (Butler and Roediger, 2008).
5. Images when they help. Free recall is generally higher for pictures than for words (Paivio and Csapo, 1973). Show the product, the equipment or the real situation.

What is wrong with the way this box is being lifted?

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Bent back

Box too light

No helmet

Narrow aisle

Score 403of 6½

Creating a microlearning quiz with the platform

1. Paste a text. A manual, a product sheet, a procedure.
2. Review the suggestions. AI suggests questions, each with the quote from the text that supports it. You choose which ones go in.
3. Organise into levels. One topic per level, with six questions per round, configurable up to ten.
4. Apply your brand. Logo, colours, font, background and medal names.
5. Invite the team. Each person signs in with an email and a code, in the phone browser, with nothing to install.
6. Track the results. Funnel by level, hardest questions and Excel export.

You can also write the questions in one language and create the versions in other languages with help from AI.