What are Pre-requisite quizzes?
Pre-requisite quizzes are short, three-question quizzes designed to check whether your students have the key skills they’ll need before starting a new topic. They make sure the foundations are secure, so students are ready to build on their knowledge.
For example, before teaching expanding double brackets, a pre-requisite quiz might ask about:
Multiplying a single bracket
Multiplying negatives
Collecting like terms
This gives you (and your students) a clear sense of what’s already understood and what needs revisiting.
Why use them?
Pre-requisite quizzes give you useful insights before you start teaching:
Spot misconceptions early, so you can address them in your lesson (or let Eedi do some of the work for you).
Find out what students are already confident with, so you can save time covering it in the lesson.
Pinpoint individual students in the class that might need extra support with one of your previously learned topics before building on it
Helps students to feel more confident in the lesson by activating their prior knowledge to boost their understanding
💡 Suggestions for using pre-requisite quizzes:
In class: introduce them at the start of a lesson to get students thinking and talking about what they already know.
Before class: set them as homework or an in-class task ahead of the lesson, so you can plan based on what you discover.
Where do I find pre-requisite quizzes?
Select your class using the drop-down class selector.
Go to your "Plan" page and click the "+ Set work" button.
Find a quiz on the topic you're going to teach next, then scroll down to find the "Prepare" section.
You click to see how our AI model predicts your students will perform in the chosen topic. We do this by using previous students' answers to predict their success. This can help to give you a sense of which students may struggle most.
You can choose to either "Assign to class" and have your students complete the quiz online, or "Present" to discuss the questions in the classroom.
Note: We don’t yet have pre-requisite quizzes for every topic quiz, but we’re adding more all the time. While you’re waiting, you can still use our AI prediction model to get a good sense of how your students are likely to perform!