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Engage Learners by Integrating Funny Quizzes to Courses
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By: Jenny Wise Email Article
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Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. As a trainer, your goal is to make the training memorable. As you design the course, you must design not only the "what" (or content), but also the "how" (the delivery mechanisms). Integrating funny quizzes (like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") into eLearning course is an easy way to capture the attention of learners and make your course memorable. Learners will interact with key concepts for your course quickly.

Funny quizzes can energize almost any content and produce powerful new understanding for your learners. Funny quizzes promote learning – more than revive tension, they create opportunities for the learners to "interact" with the quiz so as to demonstrate learners' understanding of the course. Many benefits would funny quizzes hold to course:
- Funny quizzes entertain learners with a purpose
- Funny quizzes give learner valuable feedback
- Funny quizzes give trainer feedback
- Funny quizzes motivate learners
- Funny quizzes accelerate learning process

So then, there comes into the question: how to integrate the right funny quizzes into your course? Let's take a look at these following steps.

Step 1 - Identify your course objective.
What objective you want your lesson to achieve after training, please take careful consideration. Specifically, what skills and knowledge do you want your learners take from your lesson. Then think about it how the funny quiz will help the learners meet the course objective.

Step 2 - Make the course plan
After determining the objective, what you should do is making the course plan according to the course objective. Analyze and list the task you wish to cover in your lesson plan. Supposing you are going to explain the details about swine flu in one lesson, your list would look something like this:
Lesson objective for swine flu knowledge: learners will be able to master the details about H1N1 flu.
- List what is H1N1 flu
- List the Signs and symptoms about H1N1 flu
- Describe how to prevent H1N1 flu

From this list you will develop a set of task that to achieve your course objective. The next step is crux to import funny quiz to your course and enhance your course.

Step 3 - Choose the funny quiz for your lesson plan
The right funny quiz makes a difference in motivate learners. Here are some criteria to select a right funny quiz:
- Corresponding with the major lesson objective
- Create an opportunity to practice skills
- Challenge the learners intellectually

So, follow the criteria to select the right funny quiz. This will do as a Catalyst to help learners master the major point of your course.

Step 4 - Create funny quiz for your course
After choosing the right funny quiz, the following step is creating the funny quiz with the questions you have prepared. Which quiz tool you should choose? Quiz in Flash format instead of plain text quiz would really attract learners' attention, especially for eLearning course. Luckily, some quiz tool could help you create great-looking flash quizzes in minutes without programming skills, such as Wondershare QuizCreator(http://www.quiz-creator.com/#110).

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The author is a senior expert in eLearning who works at Wondershare E-Learning department. Wondershare E-Learning Software is an industry-leading learning and training software application provider. You could get Quiz Maker and other eLearning tool for your teaching and training at: quiz-creator.com.

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