Quia

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Quia

• Courtney Breitenbach
• February 9, 2006

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What is Quia?

• Quia is pronounced key-ah and originally was
  short for Quintessential Instructional Archive.
• The worlds most popular create-you-own Web
  site.

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What does Quia offer?

• Activities
• Templates for creating 16 different types of
  online activities, including flashcards,
  matching, concentration (memory), word search,
  battleship, challenge board, columns, cloze
  exercises, hangman, jumbled words, ordered list,
  patterns, picture perfect, pop-ups, rags to
  riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), and
  scavenger hunt

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Quia (contd)

• Graded Quizzes
• Tools for creating online quizzes with up to
  eight question types
• M/C
• T/F
• Pop-up
• Multiple-correct
• Fill-in
• Initial answer
• Short answer
• Essay
• Note Quia will even grade them for you!

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Quia (contd)

• Class Management
• Online roster
• Gradebook (keeps track of quiz scores)

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Quia (contd)

• Class Pages
• Create Web pages for communicating with students
  and parents
• Online surveys
• Online calendar
• Upload files (images, audio, files attachments,
  and video)

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Quia (contd)

• Shared Activities
• Activities in 30 languages, from Spanish, French,
  and German to Japanese, Hebrew, and Latin
• Math activities in topics ranging from addition
  of one-digit numbers to algebra and trigonometry
• Science activities covering biology, physics,
  chemistry, genetics, astronomy, medicine, and
  technology
• Activities for all age levels, from alphabet and
  counting activities to university-level
  economics, history, and science
• Quia allows you to search the shared activities
  area by keyword, category, and textbook. You can
  easily copy and customize these activities and
  share them with your class.

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Why Choose Quia?

• It works for all grade levels and subjects
• Students and parents will be impressed
• Use it anywhere-from home or school
• No software to install
• Its easy and quick
• You can use activities created by other
  teachersover 2 million to choose from
• Save time grading

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Resources

• Quia (n.d.). Quia. Retrieved January 27, 2006
  from , Web site    http//www.quia.com/index.htm
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• Quia information packet