3 Reasons You Need to Add Digital Quizzes to Your Courses

Are you looking for ways to improve your online course? You might find it difficult to generate interest in your classes, or perhaps you're trying to enhance learner engagement.

Fortunately, digital quizzes can increase engagement levels at every stage of your course. These tests can encourage users to enroll in your online course, improve learner performance, and motivate them to finish.

In this post, we'll share 3 benefits of adding digital quizzes to your online course. Let's get started!

An Overview of Digital Quizzes

A digital quiz has relevant, suitably challenging questions, often assessing a learner's knowledge. Your course will typically have several exams tailored to the learner's stage in your curriculum.

There are different ways that you can build your digital quiz. For example, you might use multiple-choice questions, where you provide more than one answer for your students to choose from.

Alternatively, you might prefer something more straightforward, such as true/false questions. Or, if you're seeking more information from your students, free-form essay questions can be helpful.

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Fortunately, it's easy to add quizzes to your online course with our MemberPress Courses add-on:

Forget about needing to know code. With our built-in pagemaker ReadyLaunch™ you can create pages (including courses, certificates, and quizzes) that are…

• Mobile-responsive
• Optimized to sell
• Branded

…and beautiful. All with a few clicks of the mouse.

3 Benefits of Adding Digital Quizzes to Your Online Course

Adding digital quizzes to your online course can make it more engaging and valuable for your students. Here are 3 key benefits!

1. Encourage Users to Enroll in Your Course

You can use a non-graded pre-course quiz to promote your course. Think of it as a chance to show users why they should enroll. This short test can be an excellent way to motivate people to want to learn and fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

For example, FutureLearn offers an introductory quiz that helps you decide which online course you should choose from its platform:

Additionally, for users who decide to purchase your course, your quiz can identify the areas they may need to pay extra attention to based on the questions they skipped.

If users know these limitations before starting the curriculum, it can increase their chances of success.

If you create digital quizzes to advertise your course, it's essential to cover its significant learning points. We also recommend drawing attention to the most exciting parts of your curriculum to incite curiosity.

There's also no harm done if users choose not to continue. If they've hung around long enough to complete a quiz on your site, they might continue reading other content on your website.

2. Repeat Digital Quizzes to Boost Recall

Furthermore, including digital quizzes at regular intervals in your online course lets users review what they've learned and how much has been absorbed.

Repetition is a key part of learning. Therefore, you might aim to add a quiz after completing each major topic:

Digital quizzes at this stage of the course are simply for the benefit of your learners. These exams can help students absorb information better, so they don't need to be graded.

Some quiz types, such as labeling tasks and sequencing quizzes, are good options. A labeling task involves multiple statements, each featuring a blank space for your student to fill in the answer.

Then, you might have a list of all the possible answers mixed up at the bottom of the screen for students to choose from.

Alternatively, a sequencing task works especially well for information that follows a chronology. Students are asked to order this information during the quiz.

Using quizzes also provides a way to repurpose content. For example, you might supply users with course content during their online, send resources to their email addresses, and reuse material for a digital quiz.

Those are three opportunities to repeat essential information you'd like your students to learn and retain.

When designing your digital quizzes, try to keep things simple, especially at earlier stages of your course.

If you push too hard, it may discourage students from continuing. This is important because your completion rate can be a significant factor for users deciding whether to enroll in your course.

3. Assess Learning and Improve Your Online Course

Students taking your course most likely want to learn. Therefore we recommend introducing graded quizzes throughout your course.

At this point, you can design digital quizzes with the following question types:

• multiple-choice,
• multiple answers,
• true/false,
• short answer,
• fill in the blank,
• sort the values,
• match matrix,
• and Likert scale.

These questions have definitive right or wrong answers, allowing you to calculate immediate results for self-assesssment.

Not only are graded quizzes valuable for your students, but they can also help you discover trends in your course.

For example, you might find that the same sections of your curriculum seem to generate poor results from your students. These low scores might indicate topics that are poorly explained and confusing.

Alternatively, the course might be moving too quickly, leaving learners behind. In this scenario, it might be worth adding to your curriculum content and explaining its topics more deeply.

With these insights, you can start making improvements to your online course. With our MemberPress plugin, you can quickly edit your curriculum using our specialty blocks:

Our plugin also offers progress tracking, enabling you to gain insight into the user-friendliness and popularity of your course. This feature also helps students stay on top of their learning and celebrate their achievements.

Go Deeper With NEW Assignments

For deeper evaluation, you can also take things a step further by incorporating assignments.

While quizzes are great for helping students self-assess after each lesson, you can use assignments at the end of modules or the course to give students more in-depth tasks.

With the new Assignments feature in MemberPress Courses, you can create projects like uploading presentations, submitting audio, or sharing design work.

These assignments allow you to assess your students’ understanding beyond more simple quiz questions, while the built-in Gradebook makes manual grading easy.

Want more inspiration? Check out our blog post on the Assignments and Gradebook features to explore creative ways to use this tool!

Conclusion

Adding digital quizzes to your online course helps your students track their progress and feel more engaged. Additionally, these tests can entice new people to enroll.

To recap, here are three benefits of adding digital quizzes to your online course:

1. Motivate people to enroll in your course.
2. Help learners boost their recall by completing quizzes regularly.
3. Assess what has been learned and identify areas to improve your course.

Do you have any questions about adding digital quizzes to your online course? Let us know in the comments section below!