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5 Ways to Create Online Quiz

2009-06-17T02:30:09Z

Online quiz becomes more and more prevalent in the web 2.0 era. For bloggers or webmasters, quiz is an outstanding way for engaging readers and growing blog or Web site traffic. For trainers, online quiz is a good e-assessment authoring tool. For business men, an online quiz can also be used as a sales tool. Here are 5 ways to create quiz for online use.

1. Create quiz with desktop Flash quiz maker
Some Flash quiz makers supply an easy way to create professional Flash quiz in minutes. With them, you could create Flash-based quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and Flash animations with up to 10 question types. You also could set feedback to each questions and randomize questions and answers. Some quiz maker also supply free quiz result tracking system, like QuizCreator. Users could track all the quiz results with email or free Quiz Management System. You could view the quiz below which is created by QuizCreator.

2. Create Flash quiz with Adobe Flash
If you are sophisticated with Adobe Flash editing, you could use Adobe Flash to make quiz for you. Adobe Flash MX and above versions have quiz templates included, and it is designed to automatically track results and send them to a learning management system configured for your quiz. Here is a tutorial about how to create Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template with Adobe Flash.
http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/flash-quiz-adobe-flash.html?page=110

3. Create quiz with php Script or JavaScript
If you are familiar with php script or JavaScript and HTML code, you could choose HTML code and script to create online quiz. Here are some tutorials to help you createquiz for your Web site.
Create quiz with php script, please have a peek at: http://www.trap17.com/index.php/php-quiz-script_t8729.html.
Create quiz with JavaScript, please have a peek at: http://www.spacefem.com/tutorials/typequiz.shtml.

4. Create quiz via free online quiz creation tool
There are numerous online quiz-building tools that can make quiz and grade less of a chore. Do a Google search for "make online quiz free", you will get many free online quiz tools.
ProProfs is a free program that is supported by ads, lots of ads. So it is a totally free online quiz program. It features 3 question types. It has many options that control the behavior of your quiz. You could add multimedia objects such as video and image to the quiz, this is rare to a free online quiz tool. Quibblo and Classmarker also have such features. However, ProProfs sounds the most powerful for a free quiz creation tool.

5. Create quiz with screen recorder
Some screen recorder has the feature of quiz creation. As far as I know, Adobe Captivate and Tech Smith allow user create Flash quiz with them. Take Captivate for example, it contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments.

In summary, all these 5 ways could help you make quiz for online use. Which way works for you is depending on your use. For blogger, choose free online quiz creation tool is the best way, such way will generate the quiz code automatically, and the quiz code could be embedded to blogs. For webmasters, using HTML JavaScript or desktop quiz maker way will be perfect. You could make professional flash quiz to engage the visitors. For trainers, please choose the desktop quiz maker to create Flash quiz. On the one hand, you could engage the learners by adding multimedia objects to the quiz with desktop quiz maker. On the other hand, you could use quiz result tracking system to track learners' quiz results without hassles.

How A Good Quiz Maker Prevent Cheating On Online Testing

2009-04-07T05:56:35Z

As eLearning will become more necessary and popular for its low-cost and efficiency, online testing is a necessity for implementing eLearning. However cheating and security problem are pressing concerns for organizations adopting online testing. So when choose a quiz maker to create online test the abilities to prevent cheating and assure security effectively are the Paramount consideration.

What abilities should a good quiz maker possess?

** Access ability to quiz
The ability of accessibility to quiz is a telling strategy to assure the security of your quiz. You can protect your quizzes from spread spitefully by some badman. It would be better if you have more options to set the access ability with quiz maker. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, it supply four ways for users to access the quiz. Access with password only, access with user ID and password, online access control and domain limit online access. Of course, if you want the quiz spread anywhere by anyone, you also have the option to not set the accessibility.

** Shuffle choices
If the quiz maker let you shuffle choices, it means that the order of choices within each question will be randomly shuffled each time an examinee attempts this quiz. So this makes it a little harder for students to copy from each other. It is an effective way to prevent cheating to some extent. Many quiz tools have such feature, such as Articulate QuizMaker below.

** Time quiz
Looking up answers to questions in textbook/reading or searching the answers from website are the common issues for cheating. This is obvious when give giving a chapter check quiz. However, timed quiz is one of the most effective ways to eliminate such cheating. When students should answer the questions in a timed quiz in a certain amount of time, they won't have time to look up all the answers if you give enough questions and make the time short enough. Such as the quiz with timer below which created by Wondershare Quiz Maker.

** Randomize questions
Randomizing questions reduces the chance of cheating. I will expound the reasons from the following two points.

Firstly, randomized questions make the printouts a lot less useful. Especially, when there are amount of questions in the question banks, students can only print a small number of questions at a time, if they want to get the full questions they will need to view the test again and again, and then sort the questions to eliminate duplicates.

Secondly, if students are on the same campus, they may get together in a lab and try to take the quiz together. Random question order is an easy strategy to thwart cheating. If my screen doesn't look like yours, then it's harder for students to quickly answer all of the questions.

** Limit answer attempts
Set a reasonable time limit for completion. Limiting the amount of time to answers attempts for which students can access a test makes any form of cheating difficult to implement. Note: Don't be too restrictive, but don't give students forever either. Do not make the test available until the day you want students to begin taking it.

** Multiple question types supported
The more quiz types the quiz maker has, the more efficacious the quiz to overcome online cheating. Particularly, Essays, case studies, and other complex question types can be challenging to answer even if students look up book. Students have to understand the material and apply it creatively to answer the questions. So how many question types a quiz maker supports is an important factor when choosing a quiz maker.

As far as I know, Moodle quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types. But it is a little complex to create quiz. Take a view of the popular quiz makers, Articulate QuizMaker supports 9 types, Wondershare Quiz Makersupports 9 quiz types...

Of course, easy-to-use feature is also another factor to choose a quiz maker. There are also many free online quiz makers available: easytestmaker, classmaker and proprofs quizschool, you could make some small quiz with them. To make powerful multimedia Flash quiz, I suggest you choose some stand alone quiz maker. Articulate quizmaker is great, but it is a little expensive, you could take it into consideration. As for me, Wondershare Quiz Maker will be more cost-effective from its price and function.

Top E-Learning Tools of 2009 You Shouldn’t Teach Without

2009-01-09T01:54:38Z

Nowadays, many predictions come forth from every industry. 9 E-Commerce Predictions for 2009, 10 tech predictions for 2009, eLearning predictions for 2009 and so on. Though we know none of us can see into the future, we cannot deny that these predictions play significant roles in guidance for our future work. Below I list some eLearning tools I gather up for 2009, hope these could give you some help in your future teaching and learning. I will classify these tools into 6 different types. Most of them are Free.

Presentation Tools

Zoho Show is an FREE online presentation program allows users to create presentations from scratch or (as is often the case) import from their library of Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps) or OpenOffice (.odp, .sxi) presentations.

280 Slides is a notable Free online replacement for desktop presentation apps.With it, you can create a presentation, theme it, add graphics and video, and then present it, share it via Slideshare, or download it as a PowerPoint or PDF file.

PowerPoint is a versatile presentation tool. It is ideal for creating professional presentations that integrate text, charts, diagrams and clip art images.

Wondershare PPT2Flash lets non-technical users create high-impact Flash presentations and eLearning courses from PowerPoint with rich media, quizzes and simulations. PPT2Flash content runs on any Web server, any LMS. For organizations with Learning Management Systems, PPT2Flash creates SCORM and AICC-compliant content so learner results can be tracked.

Simulation Tools

ScreenToaster is a Free online screen recorder paired with a video platform dedicated to screencasts. Just the perfect tool to search and find tutorials, howtos, reviews, tips and tricks, showcases, walkthrough and e-learning formations.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

DemoCreator is a professional screen recording tool to create better-than-live software video tutorials, presentations and training courses.

Adobe Captive is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format.

Assessment Tool
Hot Potatoes provides a suite of tools that enable you to create interactive web-based activities for self-assessment purposes. It is free of charge for publicly funded, non-profit, educational users.

Qedoc Quiz Maker is a FREE teaching tool for making interactive lessons & quizzes and test preparation.

Online QuizCreator is a powerful assessment tool that you can create Flash online exam, quiz, test and survey. It combines interactivity and multimedia to engage learners through the learning process and offers flexible results tracking and score reporting.

Articulate QuizMaker is a commercial tool that generates web-based quizzes and surveys.

Virtual Classroom
WiZiQ offers free online e-teaching and e-learning using web conferencing with document and whiteboard sharing, teacher resumes and presentation sharing.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is the complete Web communications solution that enables live online meetings, virtual classes, and group collaboration.

Course Management System
Moodle is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals.

Blogging Tools

Blogger is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals.

Edublogs is "the largest education community on the Internet" where you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog.

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