I personally like to have several quizzes throughout a course, just as kind of a checkpoint for the learner. For example in a 20 minute course, I might have four or five short quizzes, and then a longer one at the end (that's the one I track with my LMS). Is there a rule of thumb about how many quizzes to have? Sometimes I wonder if I'm going overboard.
the way I look at it the goal is to see what they have learned and then give them feedback. I think the number of quizzes or assessments should be based on how to determine their abilities
You might try asking a handful of your learners what they think. Maybe having lots of quizzes mid-way through is helpful, or maybe it's annoying - I think it depends a lot on your content, your learners, and the way you've crafted your quizzes. One thing I often do is, if the quiz isn't absolutely essential I set up the properties so that they can skip it if they want. You can do that by going to your placeholder slide and clicking Properties at the bottom.
For general courses, we try and insert a quiz or activity for each learning objective. Quizzes might be a single question or many questions. But this helps expectations for our learning designers as well as our subject matter experts.
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the way I look at it the goal is to see what they have learned and then give them feedback. I think the number of quizzes or assessments should be based on how to determine their abilities
You might try asking a handful of your learners what they think. Maybe having lots of quizzes mid-way through is helpful, or maybe it's annoying - I think it depends a lot on your content, your learners, and the way you've crafted your quizzes. One thing I often do is, if the quiz isn't absolutely essential I set up the properties so that they can skip it if they want. You can do that by going to your placeholder slide and clicking Properties at the bottom.
For general courses, we try and insert a quiz or activity for each learning objective. Quizzes might be a single question or many questions. But this helps expectations for our learning designers as well as our subject matter experts.