Curtis J. Bonk said in book “The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education”: “Shared online video sites such as YouTube and Teacher Tube are places where researchers and other educators can share their ideas and activities and put them up on display for their world.” We could see that online videos are good resources to help us make online quizzes and tests engaging and meaningful. Especially on YouTube.com, there is even YouTube Edu and hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube which host many useful course resources.
Then, how can you use YouTube videos for your quizzes?
- Use the YouTube video to illustrate quiz questions powerfully
Generally, video includes more information than words. So, playing a specified YouTube video when appropriate to illustrating quiz questions is an effective way to let quiz-takers understand the question fleetly. Especially, when conducting an online test, videos are quite attractive to make quiz-takers fix attention on these quizzes. The most important is that, you find the proper relevant YouTube video to encourage students to reflect on these questions. - Use the YouTube video to provide information needed to answer a question
There are hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube, many courses are hosted on specified channels. If the answers to the questions can be finded from one of the YouTube video courses, please get the course video and then use it as feedback or explanations to assigned questions. Usually, students prefer to watch such videos to find the answers and learn knowledge more than plain text as explanation. For most quiz creators, you can’t use YouTube video in feedbacks. However, you can use a blank page to integrate with YouTube video. Wondeshare QuizCreator ( has a blank page feature. You can add the YouTube video on the blank page and set your question feedback option to branch to the blank page.