Are you looking for ideas to liven 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 Too

Let's be honest: If it were a learning offering for children, everyone would immediately think, "How can I make my content enjoyable for learning?" When it comes to adults as the target audience, this thought is often pushed aside. However, we also want those over 18 to have fun while learning! Even among adults, motivation and thus activity in the online course increases when the content is entertaining and varied.

You can make your courses more enjoyable through several methods. For example:

• Taking yourself lightly – like Jörg Reimann.

• Incorporating different formats and especially videos.

• Offering challenges in gamification format – like Alexandra Nagy

• Creating extra offers that deviate from the actual learning offer.

The last point is what this article series is dedicated to: We present use cases on how to 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 customers and sell them better. Additionally, it especially facilitates access to your participants in e-learning and depending on the implementation, also improves the atmosphere among participants. Because an extraordinary measure, such as an Advent calendar or a music quiz, provides topics for conversation.

The Music Quiz – An Extraordinary Idea for Your Online Offering

In this article, we introduce the Music Quiz: A spontaneous idea from a blink.it employee to get to know colleagues better, provide topics for discussion, and lighten up the daily work routine.

The mix of the Quiz format + the theme of music is unbeatable: On the one hand, quizzes are always a great method to boost activity. It's about participation! Not just thinking but also actively clicking – and then looking at the results afterwards. Therefore, a quiz or a survey is always a welcome change in learning.

On the other hand, the theme of music is interesting for many people and can even be identity-forming: Who would have thought that Hans is into pop and Dennis prefers film music? At the same time, the theme 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 would undoubtedly be too intimate for some and could even cause conflicts. Another nice side effect of the topic of music: You can wonderfully link YouTube videos, making the quiz even more varied.

Note: If you embed videos from YouTube in the blink.it platform, you don't have to worry about rights/data protection issues. The video plays directly on the learning platform but remains on YouTube and links back to it.

Use Case: The Music Quiz at Team blink.it

This is how the blink.it team created more variety alongside 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 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 "Which song released in your birth year do you really like?"

A blink.it colleague was the all-knowing admin and collected the info, setting up the quiz on the blink.it learning platform. It looked like this:

Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz, overview here – Screenshot from blink.it

After a short greeting and introduction to the topic, the course is divided into several rounds. The more employees participate, the greater the number of rounds. Therefore, my tip is: From about 10 participants, it's advisable to split them into multiple groups. Otherwise, the quiz becomes too long, too difficult, and too confusing.

The Blink (a content in microlearning) for the greeting looked like this at Team Blink.it:

Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz, here’s the greeting text – Screenshot from blink.it

The colleague explained in the quiz greeting the purpose of the music quiz: "Variety, topics for discussion, and better acquaintance with each other." After the greeting, several music videos, embedded from YouTube, follow in each round. As an extra "treat," the colleague researched and included a short trivia information about each song. For example, this looks like:

Extraordinary idea in online learning: The Music Quiz, here’s an example video embedded from YouTube – Screenshot from blink.it

As a quiz participant, you click through the individual videos, listen in, and think about which colleague mentioned that song as a favorite. At the end of each round, the actual quiz follows, which is integrated in a drag-and-drop format. This means you have to pull the matching answers together to solve it. This looks like:

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 with smaller or medium-sized teams that already know each other a bit and are supposed to work or learn together over a longer period. This provides plenty of topics for discussion and sticks in memory: With some colleagues, you could guess their music style immediately, while others you might have expected to prefer 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: Topics for discussion, relaxation

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• Entertainment Value: ▪️▪️▪️▪️▫️

Have you become interested in offering a music quiz yourself? Feel free to write us a message if you have more extraordinary ideas for relaxation in e-learning. Because adults also want to enjoy working and learning. 🎉😜

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