Archive for October, 2009

Make a Hotspot Quiz with Multiple Hotspots

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

A hotspot question is a question that requires the quiz taker to click on the correct areas within the image to answer the question. Hotspot questions are used widely in software simulations, geography, and where users have to identify something from a picture. It is an excellent way to add more interactivity to your quizzes by adding hotspot questions.

QuizCreator has the feature of adding hotspot questions to quizzes. The hotspot questions feature allows users to create multiple hotspots in one image with multimedia supported. Let’s take a simple example about how to make hotspot questions with QuizCreator.

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Using YouTube Video to Make Online Quizzes More Engaging

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Curtis J. Bonk said in book “The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education”: “Shared online video sites such as YouTube and Teacher Tube are places where researchers and other educators can share their ideas and activities and put them up on display for their world.” We could see that online videos are good resources to help us make online quizzes and tests engaging and meaningful. Especially on YouTube.com, there is even YouTube Edu and hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube which host many useful course resources.

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Wondershare Launches Windows 7 Compatible Quiz Maker 3.1

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Make More Interactive Multimedia Flash Quizzes (with YouTube Video) without Programming Skills in Minutes

ShenZhen, China, Oct. 21 – After several months’ development to continually improve its products, Wondershare today unveils QuizCreator 3.1. QuizCreator 3.1 features 4 worth mention features to enhance quiz authoring experience for users, respectively as enriched multimedia support with .swf, .flv, .png and gif, optimized player templates and operation logic, enhanced quiz setting functions, and Windows 7 compatible. Now, users can make more interactive multimedia Flash quizzes with ease in minutes. 

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Wondershare QuizCreator 3 Receives Windows 7 Logo Certification

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 20 – Wondershare Software Co., Ltd, professional developer of e-Learning authoring tools, today announced that its assessment tool, QuizCreator 3 has passed the Windows 7 certification process and received the official “Compatible with Windows 7″ logo from Microsoft Corp.

Wondershare QuizCreator, which is a Flash quiz maker, enables educators/trainers to create SCORM compliant Flash quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and Flash animations. You also could publish quizzes as Flash movie, Word, Excel, and CD or you can upload them on Web, LMS and QuizCreator Online.

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How to Make Quizzes in Moodle

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Moodle is the best one of free course management system (CMS) which helps educators create effective online learning communities. The quiz module in Moodle offers an easy way for educators to make quizzes as a part of their online learning courses for effective practices.

There are three steps to making a quiz in Moodle. Just look at the following steps. (more…)

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