A knowledge check that plays like a game and grades like an ordinary quiz.
Alma's learning engineers build each knowledge check from your question bank, or write one to your standard. It opens in your LMS as a graded quiz, and every answer comes back with the reason, right or wrong.
- Where it runs
- Any LTI-compliant LMS
- Question types
- 8, from typed numbers to select-all
- After every answer
- The reason, right or wrong
- A typical three-credit course
- About 20 knowledge checks
The student answers a question and sees right away why it was right or wrong.
The steps below follow one check from a negotiation course. Whoever takes the course, at a university or a company, opens it inside the LMS.
Step 1
Opens the check in the LMS
It sits on an ordinary page in the course. Inside is a stage with a host, and a ladder across the top shows the dollar amount each question is played for.
Step 2
Answers in the form the question needs
Some questions ask for a typed number, some for one choice, some for every option that applies. The first asks for the highest renewal price to accept before walking away, given 3 costs of switching provider.
Step 3
A right answer is explained
The card says the answer is correct and adds a sentence on why a clear walk-away point matters.
Step 4
A wrong answer gets a hint
The card says “Not quite” and names the principle the choice missed, without handing over the answer. The host then introduces the next question.
The game plays on an ordinary course page in your LMS.
The score goes to your gradebook
The score for each check goes to the gradebook in your LMS.
Every question is open to review
Your faculty, experts, or learning designers can read each question, and the explanation written for each answer option, before anyone takes the check.
You decide which checks count toward the grade and how many attempts each allows.
After the lecture and the reading
A knowledge check usually follows a lecture and its reading, and shows what stuck.
Practice or graded, check by check
A check can count toward the grade or be practice only, and the choice is yours.
One attempt, several, or unlimited
You set the number of attempts for each check, whether questions are shuffled, and whether correct answers are shown afterward.
Other ways a course checks what the student can do.
Scored simulations
When the work to grade is a live conversation, scored against a rubric.
See scored simulations
Assignments, projects & capstones
When the student should produce written work, get comments, and revise it.
See assignments
Grading options
Who grades each piece of work, against which rubric, and where the score goes.
See grading options
See a knowledge check play inside an LMS.
Book a demo and bring a quiz you already use. We will talk through a knowledge check built from your own questions.