Passage: Help Students Improve Reading Comprehension Skills

The Passage feature presents students with a passage or media, based on which they can answer a series of questions. This helps break down a complex question into multiple parts.

By dissecting the material like this, you can give your students the space to enhance their reading comprehension abilities, encouraging critical thinking and turbocharging reading skills — with a dose of gamified fun! This article illustrates how you can use and create a Passage, how students will experience it, and how you can view its insights and report.

This feature is available on the Quizizz School & District Plans.

Creating a Passage

1. Select 'Create’ from the left navigation pane
2. Click on 'Passage'
   
   
   
   
3. Now, you can choose to:
   1. Click on 'Search Quizizz Library' to pick curated Passages from the Quizizz Library
   2. Click 'Generate with AI' to generate a Passage and its questions for you in seconds
   3. Click on 'Bring your own' to import your own passages, upload a document, embed a website, or simply create a passage from scratch

You can add as many questions as you want to the Passage using 10+ question types like Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Hotspot, Dropdown, Categorize, Drag-and-Drop, Match, Reorder, Draw, Poll, Audio Response and Word Cloud, and Open-ended questions.

You can also:

1. add images, audio, video, and equations to your question
2. add an answer explanation if required
3. set the points to be allotted to the question
4. set the time allotted to the question
5. tag standards to the question

When you're satisfied with your Passage and its questions, click on 'Publish' from the top-right corner of your screen to host it as a live game or assign it as homework.

Keep reading to learn more about how to effectively create and use the Passage feature.

Pick curated Passages from the Quizizz Library

1. Select 'Create’ from the left navigation pane
2. Click on 'Passage'
3. Click on 'Search Quizizz Library'
4. Browse through the curated Passages and their question sets in the Library
   1. Search for a topic using the search bar and filter by grades, number of questions, question types, etc.
   2. You can also click on the ' Filters' button to further refine your filter search results by language and subject
      
      
      
      
5. Hover over a Passage to preview its content on the right side of your screen. You can view its question set by clicking on the 'Question sets' tab in the preview section
   1. Some passages include word lists and can be viewed by clicking on the 'Word List' tab
   2. Additionally, some passages offer the 'Listen to Passage' option for listening to the narration
      
      
      
      
6. Once you have chosen a Passage you want to use, click on the 'Use this Passage' button

Now, feel free to adjust this passage and its questions to fit your needs. You can add, edit, or remove questions, as well as modify the content of the passage.
When you're satisfied with the changes, click on 'Publish' in the top-right corner to host the Passage as a live game or assign it as homework.

Use Quizizz AI to generate a Passage and its questions

1. Select 'Create’ from the left navigation pane
2. Click on 'Passage'
3. Click on 'Generate with AI'
4. Now, add the necessary information for Quizizz AI to generate a perfect Passage and its question set for you
   1. Enter the desired topic or content to get started
   2. Optionally, you can include any specific words that you want to be added to the Passage. Simply list the words in the 'Ensure usage of specific words' field and separate them with commas
   3. Set preferences by output language, genre, grade, subject, number of paragraphs, etc.
      
      
      
      
5. Once you've provided the required information, click on 'Generate Passage' at the bottom right of your screen
   1. Optionally, select up to three subtopics so Quizizz AI can generate the content based on your specific requirements
6. Click on 'Continue'

Once Quizizz AI generates the passage and its question set, you can customize them further to fit your needs. You can add, edit, or remove questions and modify the passage's content. When you're satisfied with the changes, click on 'Publish' in the top-right corner to host the passage as a live game or assign it as homework.

Bring your own content from a document, website, etc., or create from scratch

1. Select 'Create’ from the left navigation pane
2. Click on 'Passage'
3. Click on 'Bring your own'

To create a Passage from a document or image,

1. Click on 'Upload PDF, Doc, Image'
2. Here, you can upload a document or image from your Google Drive or directly from your device
   
   Note: Supported file formats are PDF, PNG, and JPEG, and the file size should be up to 5 MB and less than 10 pages

Once the website content has been imported, you can manually add questions using 15+ question types or click on 'Generate with AI' for Quizizz AI to create questions based on your content.

To create a Passage from a the content of a website,

1. Click on 'Embed website'
2. Enter the URL of the website from which you'd like to extract content for your Passage
   
   Note: Ensure that the URL is not hidden behind a login
   

Once the website content has been imported, you can manually add questions using 15+ question types or click on 'Generate with AI' for Quizizz AI to create questions based on your content.

To create a Passage from scratch,

1. Click on 'Create from scratch'
   
   
   
   
2. Now, you have 3 options to add the content of the Passage:
   
   1. Generate a with Quizizz AI: Click on 'Generate with AI', enter the content description, grade, paragraph count, subject, and language, then click 'Continue'. Adjust the number of questions and choose up to 3 subtopics. Finally, click 'Generate'.
   2. Add text & media manually: Click on 'Add text & media manually' to type in your passage. Optionally, you can also upload audio clips, images, and videos with the passage. Then, manually add questions using 15+ question types or let Quizizz AI generate questions based on the content on the left-hand side of your screen.
   3. Use content from a PDF file: Click on 'Upload PDf', select the PDF file from your device, add any desired text and annotations to the file, and click on 'Save'. You can add questions manually with 15+ types or use Quizizz AI to auto-generate them based on the content of your PDF file.

Once you've created your Passage and its question set, you can add, edit, remove questions, or make any other modifications.

When you're satisfied with the changes, click on 'Publish' in the top-right corner to host the passage as a live game or assign it as homework.

Student experience

When students attempt a Passage, they will be able to view the material on the left and a list of all the questions they need to answer on the right. 

The questions do not have to be answered in the order in which they appear. Students can click on any of the questions to answer them. 

They can click the left and right arrow icons to switch between questions. They can also click on the 'Go back' button to see a complete list of the questions to be answered as well as view the Passage for reference.
In the case of Passages created using a PDF file, students can use the PDF editor to highlight, annotate, or make notes for themselves while answering questions. But, these annotations will not be saved for teachers to refer to.

After answering each question, students can click on the 'Submit' button. Once all the questions for the Passage have been answered and submitted, students can click on 'Proceed' to submit all their answers. 

Viewing Reports 

Within a Report, you can see responses for each question, within the Passage, separately. Click on the 'Questions' tab or the 'Overview' tab to see how students have responded to each question. 

Every question within a Passage can be tagged to a separate standard. So, you can also click on the 'Standards' tab to gain insights on accuracy per standard. 

You can even let Quizizz AI analyze the report for you and recommend practice assignments for your students. Read more about this here: Analyze Reports with Quizizz AI

Try it out now!

Note: 

1. A Power-up, when applied, will affect only one question within the Passage activity 
2. Quizizz AI is still learning and evolving. In some cases, it may generate inaccurate results. Please ensure you review the content generated before publishing it