Are you looking for ideas to spice up your digital learning offerings a bit? With a wink and creative implementations, learning is much more fun – and it also benefits the atmosphere in e-learning. Here in the blog, we present extraordinary use cases for your LMS. In this article: The Music Quiz!
Fun in Learning: An Important Factor for Adults as Well
To be honest: If it were a learning offer for children, everyone would immediately think, "How do I design my content in a way that makes learning fun?". When it comes to adults as the target audience, this thought is often pushed aside. Yet we want to have fun learning even after turning 18! The motivation and activity in the online course also increase for adults when the content is entertaining and varied.
You can make your courses more entertaining through several methods. For example:
Take yourself with humor – like Jörg Reimann.
Incorporate different formats, especially videos.
Offer challenges in a gamification format – like Alexandra Nagy
Create additional offerings that deviate from the actual learning offer.
The last point is what this article series is dedicated to: We present use cases for how you can motivate your participants and encourage more activity alongside your actual offering. This helps you as a self-employed trainer to make your courses more attractive to clients and sell them better. Additionally, it facilitates your access to your participants in e-learning and, depending on the implementation, also enhances the atmosphere between participants. Because an extraordinary measure like an Advent calendar or a music quiz provides plenty to talk about.
The Music Quiz – An Extraordinary Idea for Your Online Offering
In this article, we present the Music Quiz: A spontaneous idea from a blink.it employee to get to know the colleagues better, create conversation topics, and liven up everyday work a bit.
The mix of the quiz format and the topic of music is unbeatable: On one hand, quizzes are always a great method to boost activity. It's about participation! Not only thinking but also actively clicking – and then looking at the result. Therefore, a quiz or a survey is always a welcome change when learning.
On the other hand, the subject of music is interesting for many people and even somewhat identity-defining: Who would have thought that Hans likes pop music and Dennis prefers film scores? At the same time, the topic is not too personal. This makes it perfectly suitable for colleagues to get to know each other better! A quiz about political or family topics, on the other hand, would certainly be too intimate for some or even lead to conflicts. Another nice side effect of the music topic: You can wonderfully link to YouTube videos and make the quiz even more varied.
Note: When you embed YouTube videos on the blink.it platform, you don't have to worry about rights/data protection. The video is played directly on the learning platform but remains on YouTube and links there.
Use Case: The Music Quiz in the blink.it Team
This is how the blink.it team provided more variety beside work with a music quiz: In a secret survey, each employee was asked about two of their absolute favorite songs.
Ideas for Variation: Besides favorite songs, you can of course also ask about other personalized songs. For example, "What music do you listen to while working?" "What music puts you in a really good mood?" or "What song released in your birth year do you really like?"
A blink.it colleague was the all-knowing admin and collected the information and created the quiz on the blink.it learning platform. It looked like this:
Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz, here in overview – Screenshot from blink.it
After a brief welcome and introduction to the topic, the course is divided into several rounds. The more employees participate, the larger the number of rounds. Therefore, my tip is: From about 10 participants, it makes sense to divide them into several groups. Otherwise, the quiz becomes too long, too difficult, and too confusing.
The Blink (a content in microlearning) to welcome was as follows at the Blink.it team:
Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz, here is the welcome text – Screenshot from blink.it
The colleague explained in the quiz welcome what the purpose of the music quiz is: "Variety, conversation topics, and better acquaintance with each other". After the welcome, several music videos are played per round, embedded from YouTube. As an extra "treat", the colleague researched a short trivia information about each song and added it. For example, it looks like this:
Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz, here is an example video from YouTube embedded – Screenshot from blink.it
As a quiz participant, you click through the individual videos, listen in, and think about which colleague mentioned this song as their favorite. At the end of each round comes the actual quiz, which is incorporated here in a drag-and-drop format. This means you have to drag the matching answers together to solve it. It looks like this:
Video: How the Music Quiz Works via Drag-and-Drop
Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz on the blink.it learning platform – Screencast / screen recording from blink.it
Conclusion: A Music Quiz Provides Variety and Fun Besides Work
The music quiz works particularly well for smaller or medium-sized teams that already know each other a bit and should work or learn together over a longer period. This creates plenty of conversation topics and stays in memory: With some colleagues, one might guess the music style at first sight, while with others, one might have expected heavy metal instead of pop.
This is How the Music Quiz Works as an Extraordinary Idea:
Target Group: Smaller and medium-sized teams that should get to know each other better
Goal: Conversation topics, relaxation
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Did you get excited to offer a music quiz yourself? Feel free to write us a message if you have more extraordinary ideas for lightening up e-learning. Because even adults want to have fun while working and learning. 🎉😜
