Create an Online Quiz

Everyone loves online quizzes.

You answer a series of questions, and then the computer analyzes you, and comes back and tells you, which famous person were you in a previous life, or what color you like best, or what is your real star sign.

Quizzes are a very successful way to drive traffic to a website. They don't cost much to make and people seem to like them.

The most popular of these seem to come from Buzzfeed, a publication that seems to be a combination of facebook, with some kind of style magazine. Their first really popular quiz was on "What City Should You Live in". It quickly went Viral on Facebook, and got millions of hits.

Here's a link to Buzzfeed.

Your task: go to buzzfeed and take three quizzes. Share the results to Facebook.

Next let's talk about creating your own quiz.

This could be fun.

http://www.playbuzz.com

http://www.tryinteract.com

On both of them you need to create an account to creat a quiz.

Your task: create two quizzes, one on each of the above sites, each with at least five questions. Ten questions is better.

When you are making a quiz, try to think of something that will be fun, and they try to think of visual images that will go with the questions. For instance, if the question is what "fruit do you like," then it might be nice to have pictures of the fruits.

Share or email me a link to your quizzes.

Example

I'm going to create a personality quiz on Playbuzz, called "What kind of car should you be driving?".

If you want to see the quiz here's the address

http://www.playbuzz.com/jimpjo10/what-kind-of-car-should-you-be-driving

I'm going to pick a few cars, then ask some questions, and see what kind of car you should drive based on the answers to those questions.

Let's go to the Playbuzz.com web page. Click on

Click on the "Create" button.

This page comes up

This is the create page. You can choose what kind of quiz you want to make. Choose "Test Yourself".

Playbuzz will now ask you to either sign in via Facebok, or use your email address to login. It is easier to use facebook login. So probably best to sign in to playbuzz before you try to make your quiz.

I will click on the Facebook button and it logs me in.

Now we are at the "Create a new test yourself game".

First I am going to choose a Game Name, a Description, and I'm going to add a photo.

Since my topic is cars, I'm going to choose a photo of a car. These are easy to find on Google.

To upload a picture you found on google...

Go to the page that has the picture you want. Right click and save it to disk. Then go to the Quiz and find the spot where you want to place the image. Click to add it, and then show the computer where you saved the downloaded image. I usually save the images to the desktop so they are easy to find.

Now I am going to choose the possible results of the quiz. Each of these is a different kind of car.

Again, I found all these images on Google.

You also need to put in the names of the cars, which are the results of the quiz. My choices are Prius, Beetle, Land Rover, Ferrari, Cadillac, and Tesla.

Here's what it looks like now:

 

If you want to add more cars or more quiz results, then click "Add Result".

Now we will start adding questions.

Here's my first question: "Are you a risk junky?". I found a picture of Evel Kneivel to go with this question and uploaded it.

Now I have to choose questions, and the score for each answer.

Each car has a running score, and the car with the highest score, will be the suggested car.

The riskiest car is the Ferrari so I'm giving that 2. The Prius, Beetle and Cadillac are not risk junky cars, so I give them 0 points. The other cars get 1.

So if you just answered one question, and you said risk junky, the cars that would be suggested would be the Ferrari.

You can add as many answers as you like to each question, though I think more than about 6 becomes confusing.

Here's my second question:

And here are the answers.

From time to time you might want to hit "Save Draft" so your document will be saved.

When you are done hit "Preview" to see what the test look like.

When you are happy with the test, hit "Publish".

Note that you have to complete all photos and question scores before it will let you publish. You also need to choose some tags.

And here's what the quiz looks like:

 

If you want to see the quiz here's the address

http://www.playbuzz.com/jimpjo10/what-kind-of-car-should-you-be-driving