A high school teacher once said to me: “Every time I talked about Filling in the Blanks, students would complaint things like ‘again?’ It makes me feel like fill in the blanks is the most boring thing to do in the world.” However, for e-learning assessment, fill in the blank quiz is still on the must-to-do list, just as in paper test. So here I will first talk about several ways to make online fill in the blank quiz and make your fill in the blank quiz more attractive.
1. Make a fill in the blanks quiz with Wondershare QuizCreator
The advantage of using software to make quizzes is that it’s not tricky. You just need to click “Fill in the Blank” option on interface and follow the instructions to write your questions and answers into the corresponding field.
With these tools, you could make Fill in the Blank quiz integrated with multimedia and publish the quizzes to web, LMS or excel, etc. The alternating elements would definitely make your students feel inspired.
2. Using javascript to make Fill in the Blank quiz for website
Just use the code below in the html code of your website:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function valid() {
cor = “0″
incor = “0″
test0 = document.myform.elements[0].value;
test1 = document.myform.elements[1].value;
if (test0.toLowerCase() == “codingforums.com”) {
++cor; }
else ++incor
if (test1.toLowerCase() == “chrismiceli”) {
++cor; }
else ++incor
alert(”you got ” + cor + ” right\n And you got ” + incor + ” wrong. You got ” + cor/2 * 100 + “% correct!”);
}
</script>
<body>
<form name=”myform”>
1. which city is the capital of the USA?
<input type=”text” name=”q1″>
2. who is the president of America?
<input type=”text/javascript”>
<br>
<input type=”button” onClick=”valid()” value=”check answers”>
All above is just an example for making 2 questions. And this method is kind of an old fashion. If you have some basic knowledge of webpage making, you could choose to write Javascript to make Fill in the Blank quiz for web.
3. ProProfs can make Fill in the Blank quiz too
ProProfs is a popular online quiz making site. It only has 3 question types and Fill in the Blank is one of them. The process of making Fill in the Blank quiz with ProProfs is basically the same with QuizCreator, just a few clicks and edit. However the out put is slightly different. You can still share the quiz online, but no single flash would be generated.
4. For Mac, use Hot Potatoes to make quiz
I have known Hot Potatoes for not a long time. And it’s quite popular among Mac users, although it has the version for windows. Hot Potato is also a web quiz creation tool. It has the feature to make a gap-fill quiz. Now Hot Potatoes announce that they will release a freeware version for all users on September 1.
5. Try to do more with the originality of your quiz
Finally I want to say if you really want to make your Fill in Blank quiz more attractive, you need to think up more creative ideas before you start to make the quiz. For example, I once saw a quiz online which leave the punctuations as gaps for test takers to fill. This is a language test and this question is to test control over grammar. Sometimes you just need to have this kind of innovations in order to make the old fashion Fill in the Blank quiz a new fashion.
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Hi, thanx for the info. The script almost works. The check button doesn’t appear, therefore there’s no finale.