Online assessment and offline assessment are the main forms of assessment right now. Each type of the two assessments has its own advantages and disavantages. However, we can combine these two types of assessment together by using teacher test maker software. Let’s start the journey by understanding these two assessments.

Online assessment

Online assessment is fairly popular. A lot of people learn and take tests online. This is a symbol of the Information Age.

Real example of using online assessment

Examples of using online assessment include state drivers’ license exams, military training exams, job application exams in the private sector, entrance exams in postsecondary eduction, and certification exams by professional groups.

Benefits of online assessment

There are many potential benefits and advantages associated with computer-based tests including immediate scoring and reporting and greater test security. Additional advantages include flexible test administration schedules, reduced costs compared to handling paper-based test materials, the use of multimedia item types, and the ability to measure response time.

View a sample quiz created by Wondershare QuizCreator

Offline assessment

A computer-based test involves either keyboarding skills or the manipulation of electronic mouse devices, both of which operate at various levels of efficiency. For kids, old people or someone don’t use computer very much, a paper-based test may sound more practical.

Put the online test on paper

Paper-based test is the tracditional form of assessment and it is still very popular today. As a teacher, you may have to spend a lot of time designing amd making a test. One tip for reducing the time is to simplify the formating process. Take the above Flash test as example. We can just fill the preset forms publish the test as a formated Microsoft Word file. The following image shows you the result.

To generate a paper test like this, you just need to select the Microsoft Word file as the publishing option in the publishing window of the teacher test maker–QuizCreator.(Check the following image.)

Combine online assessment with offline assessment

As we have mentioned at the beginning, paper-based and computer-based test both have its own advantage and disavantage. The paper-based test requires a lot of time to do the grading while the computer-based test requires there should be a computer around. However, using a teacher test maker, we can combine these two types of assessment together to achieve a better education effect.

First, issue the paper-based test to your students and let them finish it. Then, put the test online to maximize the education utility of the test. Set the feedback for each question so that your students can learn why they are right or wrong through the feedbacks themselves. In the long run, the Flash quiz test can be a fantastic tool for you students to do a review.

When combining online assessment with offline assessment, we can maxmize the utility of the available resouces. Students can get more knowledge they want, teachers can enjoy more spare time. Teaching can become much more easier. Therefore, take action right now, make your teaching full of flexibility.

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As we all know, taking a quiz is a good and necessary method to test students’ performance and do other assessment work. Quizzes become more and more advanced and diverse with the development of computer technology. It has been an important means of learning and entertainment. There are three main types of quiz: paper based quiz, plain online quiz and Flash quiz. What are they exactly? Let’s see the sample for each.

Quiz based on paper:

Paper based quiz is the traditional form and used frequently, but it is too demanding to make one and you cannot share the quiz with others except print it or mail the paper.

Plain text quiz:

You can share the online plain text quiz easily through Web. A small number of the quiz creation sites can also support some advanced function like grading automatically, inserting picture and other settings. The problem is that you need to register and obey various rules on these sites when making and taking the quizzes.

Flash quiz:

Flash quiz is quite popular recently. People like making and taking such kind of quiz. The popular Flash quiz has many advantages and you can benefit from making a Flash quiz. Check the details:

Interactivity – add sound, images, Flash movie, feedback, etc. in the quiz to cheer up the participants

Time limit & Randomization – set more strict time control to avoid cheating in a test and add fun in a quiz game

Automatic marking – grade the questions instantly after submittal

Wide sharing – upload the Flash quiz to Websites to share with more people

Having watched the above samples, which one do you like best? Actually according to different needs, you can choose any of the three quiz forms. Quizzes based on paper nearly have no special skill required, as long as you have careful design; plain text quiz is easily made on the quiz creation Websites like Easytestmaker, Quizbox, etc. ProProfs is recommended among these Websites because of its more functions like inserting pictures, grading automatically, etc; in terms of Flash quiz, it is not difficult to make one. Here will show you two ways to make Flash quizzes.

1. Make a Flash quiz with Quiz maker software

Quiz maker software is the most professional tool to create Flash quizzes. Usually it is easy to handle and can support more attractive multimedia elements, various publishing channels and also detailed settings. Take QuizCreator for example, you can also track the quiz results without hassles via e-mail, LMS and its add-on Quiz Management System.

2. Make a Flash quiz with Adobe Flash

You can make a Flash quiz with Adobe Flash quiz template. Adobe Flash MX or higher version including quiz templates allows users to create Flash quiz with 6 interaction question types. Each template has a different graphical look and feel. Click to view the tutorial about how to create Flash quiz with quiz templates and detailed instructions on how to customize the quiz template.

The quiz is widely used in testing and also entertaining in recent years. Make the proper one according to your needs, and it is more beneficial to make a Flash quiz which brings us more wonders!

With the popularity of Flash quiz, more features and functions are added to quiz maker. Time limit is one important property of quiz settings. It enables users to set time for the entire test and also for the individual question, so that the test gets a strict time limitation and a good guarantee of the fairness in the process of taking a quiz.

Users can set time limit for the whole test; thus all the participants must finish the quiz in due time. If it is out of time, quiz takers can’t answer the question any more. Compared with this function, the time limit for each question seems to make the quiz more efficient in time control. People are also able to set different time limit for each question. Users can adopt this function in several situations like the following ones.

1. Avoid cheating. Once the quiz publisher adds proper time limit to each question, the participants will get no extra time to cheat through searching internet or books for answers. Quiz participants would probably just get enough time to take the quiz by themselves, so the fairness can be comparatively well guaranteed.

2. Make strict time-limit questions. Some tests require the strict time limit in parts of the questions such as the part called “Fast Reading” in language test. Thus it is necessary to set the time limit for each question in the quiz. Also because of the powerful time control, time limit can add more fun to quiz game. To save testing time, it is also necessary to set different time limit for the questions according to the level of difficulty.

There are various uses of the quiz with time limit for each question. To make this function well served, users need to pay attention to some details:

1. Set proper time limit. Never set the time too short or too long. If it is too short, the quiz takers may not get enough time to answer the question and feel nervous; if too long, the setting of time limit for each question is meaningless at last. Before making the time limit, users are supposed to set the clear purpose of the quiz, evaluate the questions, and also know more about the basic feature of target participants.

2. Offer time limitation instruction clearly to participants. The quiz with time limit for each question has the strict constraint on time. If the participants overlook or don’t know that, they may not finish the quiz in time, and it can result in a failure in test. Users can use the function called “blank page” to add the time limitation instruction for the quiz.

Quiz makers are easy to find in the market. There are online Webs and also the standalone software can help you to create quizzes, but few can support the time limit for each question well. The following quiz maker software are worth trying: QuizCreator and articulate QuizMaker.

H1n1 flu is sweeping across our campus, are you ready to protect your student interests under the name of a conscientious teacher?

H1N1 flu has frightened us for months. According to the statistical data from IDPH, there have been 272 people at age of 5~24 being confirmed to get hospitalized and 7 of them dead from the disease as of October 30, 2009, accounting for 37.5 percent of all patients in the country. The health and life of youth, especially including students of all ages, are now threatened.

More and more pupils are forced to leave school for isolation therapy, there’re huge numbers of schools and colleges suspending classes due to the wild spread of H1N1 flu, indicating the readjustment of teachers’ curriculum. In view of this situation, now many schools are attempting the online distance learning programs to give lessons to students. However, the most difficult tackle for teachers and educators is how to guarantee the quality of such online education. Have you ever think of a practical way to ensure the actual result of their study?

Thanks to the internet, now we have certain programs and tools to make it. With quiz maker software, teachers can make online test and get feedback statistics from the exam result so as to sum up the study situation of students.

Advantages of using quiz maker software as an essential educational assistant:

• The online education pattern overcomes the several difficulties caused by long distance in region, indicating that no matter wherever students are or for whatever reason they cannot attend your class. All tests can go through smooth and easy by distance learning.
• Teacher can gather plenty of information about study progress of students by online test tracking system, including the strong or weak point students have mastered or be poor at, the common issues in certain section of textbook and the extra additional knowledge they eager to know.
• Teachers can have the situation of student’s learning well in hand. It’s very helpful for them to make the next-step academic teaching plan, also they can easily find out the weakness of every one in class and help students to make progress.
• Quiz creating software provides more new types of question in online test: sequence, click map and matching questions have been introduced into E-learning quizzes. The short essay feature even allows teacher to create learning by doing course which combines textbook and test in one quiz together.
• Teacher can publish their tests in sorts of format on demand. Flash-based, SCORM or AICC compliant package, or burn it to auto-play CD/EXE for off-line distribution and backup resources.

Now the assessment tools make the distance nothing to worry about. It turns to be a comprehensive E-learning solution rather than a simple test maker. H1n1 flu might take student apart from school, but the assessment tools offer a more encouraging and creative way to share knowledge worldwide. As an aggressive teacher with desire for continuous improvement, the stuff stops you is not that horrible disease but the thought of teaching in new pattern.

H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, has greatly threatened people’s health and daily life. Facing the serious situation, it becomes more urgent to keep students, the group with great possibility to be infected, away from the terrible flu. For you, the teachers who are good guides to introduce the knowledge of H1N1 flu to students, a multimedia swine flu quiz can help you offer students a vivid lesson to strengthen their consciousness of prevention!

To teach students knowledge about swine flu, you can make some instruction with PowerPoint presentation. However, can you guarantee that the students have really understood the content? Making a multimedia swine flu quiz will impress the students, help them understand the swine flu more profoundly to protect themselves from swine flu.

Benefits of making a multimedia swine flu quiz:

1. Students can learn the knowledge efficiently with deeper impression. In a multimedia quiz, you can add some interesting elements like pictures, audios, flash videos, etc to make the quiz more palatable. Also, what students have really done before is usually what impresses them more. Students would get a more effective lesson about swine flu from the process to do the quiz.

2. Students’ action against precautions can be corrected in time by parents, friends, and others with whom the students share the quiz. The multimedia quiz can be shared on line and sent to others through E-mail. The More people students share the swine flu quiz with, the more people know the knowledge and then warn and help the students when they behaved against the precautions.

3. Students can redo the quiz for better understanding easily. The multimedia quiz can be used repeatedly. Some students may not master the knowledge first, but later they can do it again easily after learning more about H1N1 flu. The swine flu quiz saves students out of the and the devotion of vigor to check whether they really master the knowledge.

To make a swine flu quiz, more knowledge about the flu must be used. The following webs are recommended as a reference:

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

http://www.medicinenet.com/swine_flu/article.htm

http://www.wikihow.com/Prevent-and-Prepare-for-H1N1-(Swine-Flu)

It is beneficial to make a swine flu quiz and there are also many materials, then how to make one? You can make a multimedia swine flu quiz on online quiz maker like ProProfs , Classmaker , Quiz Center, etc. However, there are some limitations on the quiz quantity, output formats and so on.

A good multimedia quiz maker can support you to make an interesting quiz with colorful elements, such as feedbacks, audios, flash videos, etc. You can make a swine flu quiz with the quiz maker software , such as Quizcreator, the quiz maker software with rich elements and output formats. Here is a sample:

The swine flu is nothing to fear once we take proper actions to deal with it. You, the teachers, should take the responsibility to introduce the knowledge and precautions of H1N1 flu to the students. A multimedia quiz about swine flu is a good way to help the students set up the consciousness of protecting themselves against swine flu! The more we learn about the swine flu, the more we can enjoy our study and life.

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.

Then, how can you use YouTube videos for your quizzes?

• Use the YouTube video to illustrate quiz questions powerfully
  Generally, video includes more information than words. So, playing a specified YouTube video when appropriate to illustrating quiz questions is an effective way to let quiz-takers understand the question fleetly. Especially, when conducting an online test, videos are quite attractive to make quiz-takers fix attention on these quizzes. The most important is that, you find the proper relevant YouTube video to encourage students to reflect on these questions.
• Use the YouTube video to provide information needed to answer a question
  There are hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube, many courses are hosted on specified channels. If the answers to the questions can be found out from one of the YouTube video courses, please get the course video and then use it as feedback or explanations to assigned questions. Usually, students prefer to watch such videos to find the answers and learn knowledge more than plain text as explanation. For most quiz creators, you can’t use YouTube video in feedbacks. However, you can use a blank page to integrate with YouTube video. Wondeshare QuizCreator has a blank page feature. You can add the YouTube video on the blank page and set your question feedback option to branch to the blank page.
• Use the YouTube video as a quiz question
  For some questions that are difficult to describe with words or some questions are only about movie clips, etc, using YouTube video as the quiz questions are necessary. Integrate the YouTube video and ask students to answer the questions based on the content of the video after viewing the video. Students will tend to do those practice tests or quizzes a little bit more readily.

How to get these videos for your quizzes?

Well, there are number of ways you can download YouTube videos from online. Just paste the address of YouTube video you want to http://keepvid.com/, you will get the YouTube immediately on your local disk. If you want some other shared online videos other than YouTube video, here are 10 ways to download shared online videos that can help: http://www.tothepc.com/archives/10-ways-to-download-online-videos/

Integrate videos into quizzes

Videos downloaded from YouTube are usually in FLV format, you can integrate these YouTube videos into quizzes via some quiz software, like QuizCreator and QuizMaker.

With YouTube, the Internet is a television. The Internet is home to programmed instruction as well as spontaneous learning. Actually, besides YouTube video you also can integrate other shared online videos for your quizzes, such as CNN Video, MIT World, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Discovery Channel Videos, National Geographic Video, Hulu, TeacherTube, Link TV, NomadsLand, and so much more! There are a lot more creative uses for YouTube videos in quizzes, just make your smart online quizzes right now.

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.

Step 1. Create Quiz and Adjust Settings

1. Log on your Moodle site as usual.
2. Click on the link of course name in which you want to create a quiz.
3. In the upper right-hand corner of the front page of your course, click Turn Editing On.
4. In the section where you want to make a quiz, click “Add an activity”, and select “Quiz” in the drop-down list.
5. Give your quiz a name and add an introduction to your quiz.
6. Select the date and times for the quiz to make it accessible by the students, and then click Save Changes.

Step 2. Create Questions

1. Create a Category to store your questions in the database. Click Edit Category.
2. Type in the name of the category and any category information in the Category Info field. Then click Add.
3. Choose the question type you want to create from the drop down menu called Create New Question. This will take you to the question form.
   There are 10 question types you can create in Moodle: Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Numerical, True/False, Matching, Embedded Answers (Cloze), Random Short-Answer Matching, Description, Calculated, and Essay.
4. Type in question name (it helps you find this question again when you need), question text (it means to ask the question you want others to answer) and some answers. For multiple choice questions, please identity the correct answer. You also can fill out feedback if you want students to have some additional information after they answer the question.
5. Click Save Changes and finish the work to add one question.
6. Follow the steps to create other more questions.

Step 3. Put Questions into Quiz and Assign Points

1. Click Edit to return to the Edit Quiz screen. Tick the boxes next to the question names which you want to add to quiz and then click Add to Quiz.
2. Change the points in the grading boxes if you want them to be worth more than one point and then click Save Changes.

After these steps, a quiz is created. As the easiest way to create quizzes in Moodle quickly, Quiz module offers fundamental and flexible features to meet the practical requirements. Therefore, it may not support some advanced applications such as importing audio, customizing background or collecting results. For making multimedia interactive quizzes for your Moodle, you could use desktop quiz maker, such as Wondershare SCORM quiz software.

For other quiz creation question in Moodle, go to Moodle Quiz Module for more information.

Math test is a very important part of the math learning process. However, it is students’ worst nightmare. As a teacher, making an effective math test will be a good way to keep students far away from nightmare in learning math and help students make progress. This article will show you some tips to make effective tests.

Identify the goal of math testing

Generally, math testing is intended to measure students’ math related knowledge, skills or aptitudes. With math testing, teachers can find the weakness from students, evaluate the effect of math learning and teaching, and finally improve students’ learning experience.

Tips for writing a good math test questions

Writing effective questions takes time and practice. Well-designed test provides an accurate measure of students’ math knowledge, here are some strategies and tips to write a good math test questions:

• Keep stems and statements as short as possible and use clear, concise language.
• For multiple choice questions, randomly distribute the correct answer options so that there is not a clear pattern that becomes obvious to the student.
• Make sure that answers are clear to avoid confusion and difficulty grading.

Tools to make math test for computer based test or paper test

Utilizing test tools to make tests is an easy way to help you assessment work more smoothly and simply. In general, math test is administered on paper (paper based test) or on the computer (computer based test).

For paper based test, Microsoft Word would be enough to make math test with its powerful math equation editor. However, formatting the Word math test will be a little fussy, some paper based test tools provide an easy way to create printable math test, such as Math Quiz Creator.

Computer based test which makes use of a computer or an equivalent electronic device to administer testing is more feasible and popular because it is time-saving and money-saving. To make tests for computer based test, there are multiple quiz/test tools to choose from, but for the part of math features supported, QuizCreator will be a good math test tool whether from its powerful feature or ease of use.

Grade math test and analyze test results

Grading the math test is a necessity in the process of assessment work. For paper based test, grading testing papers is really a taxing work. Luckily, for computer base test, many quiz tools can help teachers grade the test automatically and instantly. It is easy to get the complex grading work done.

After grading the test, analyzing test results plays an important role in assessment work. It will let you know more details of this testing and you can do further improvement. Summarizing test papers will cost a lot of time, many teachers even overlook such analysis work. However, the aspect of grading the test is right the advantage of computer based test. All the test results are automatically graded after students taking the test, especially for some free quiz results tracking system supplied by test makers, such as QuizCreator Online for QuizCreator. QuizCreator Online can provide elaborate results analysis by questions, score or students with tables and graphics.

Optimize your testing work and maximize learning effect

The analysis of test results gives you more insightful viewpoint. You can find out the weakness in students, optimize the writing of test questions, teaching methods, teaching contents and make changes, and finally optimize the learning experience and enhance the math knowledge of the students.

Making SCORM compliant quizzes has many benefits for online assessment. Accessibility, interoperability, durability and reusability are excellent aspects of benefits. SOCRM quiz software can help trainers and educators generate SCORM compliant quiz package that allowing the quiz to integrate with popular Leaning Management Systems with ease. So, you don’t require complex skills to create SCORM compliant quiz for your LMSs.

There are lots of quiz software applications that allowing educators and trainers to create quizzes, but only a few tools can help users make SCORM compliant quizzes. Here are some outstanding SOCRM quiz software applications. You can choose the right SCORM quiz tool for you to create SCORM compliant quizzes.

Wondershare QuizCreator

Wondershare QuizCreator is an ideal SCORM quiz application for trainers, teachers and educators to create SCORM/AICC compliant Flash based quizzes.Key features:

• 9 question types supported.
• You can integrate images, music, narrations and Flash movies to enrich your quizzes and make quizzes amazing.
• You can add math symbols to questions and answers, ideal to create math quiz.
• Publish quizzes for Flash, Word, Excel, SCORM packages, or to QuizCreator Online, which will track quiz results and generate reports automatically.
• Question randomization and time-limit allowed.
• Multiple quiz themes for choose to create a unique quiz looking.
• It supports SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004, and it was proven to pass the SCORM Conformance Test Suite.

Question Writer

Question Writer is a Flash quiz maker for authoring questions and compiling them into quizzes in the Flash file format.

Key features:

• 8 question types supported.
• Multiple languages supported.
• Question randomization and time-limit allowed.
• You can integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
• Publish quizzes for Flash and SCORM packages (SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004).

QuizForce

QuizForce is a MS Windows program that provides a comprehensive but easy-to-use set of tools for creating highly customized Flash-based quizzes and surveys for non-programmers.

Key features:

• 9 question types supported for quiz and 9 question types supported for survey.
• Create Flash-based quiz and survey.
• Question randomization and time-limit allowed.
• You can add images, Flash and audio into the quiz or survey.
• Publish quiz for Flash and SCORM packages (SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004).

Besides the three SCORM quiz software I listed above, there are also many tools could help you generate SCORM quizzes, such as Adobe Captivate and Articulate QuizMaker. Here is a list of tools to create SCORM content on Moodle, you can pick out the specialized quiz tool to help you create SCORM compliant quizzes for your LMS.

Multiple choice is a form of assessment in which test-takers are supposed to select the “best” answer/answers among a set of options. It plays an important role in educational testing and could be the most widely used question type on examinations nowadays.

There are many advantages to multiple choice quiz. If item writers are well trained and items are quality assured, it can be a very effective assessment technique. As multiple choice quiz is a good assessment tool, there are many strategies for writing multiple-choice test items online to test makers; “How to take a multiple choice test successfully” is also a hot discussion all the time to test-takers. Here, I will discuss the utilization of quiz makers to assist educators to make multiple choice quiz efficiently.

Why multiple choice quiz maker? In traditional paper-based test, making a different test on the same topic for each of your classes is impossible unless you retype everything again, LOL. At the same time, randomize the order of the questions and options is time-wasting and trivial, especially when the quiz includes many questions. There are many limitations with manual paper-based test. However, with multiple choice quiz maker you can do all these tasks very easily. It is wise to have such multiple choice quiz makers at your fingertips.

Which quiz maker fits you best? No definite answers. It depends on test’s form and specified features you required. When we refer to the quiz maker to create multiple choice test, there are two forms. One is online test, the other is printable paper test. It will be a good quiz maker for multiple choice if it supports both forms. Talking of specified features, shuffling questions and answers yet selecting question at random would be ideal to save time and low the cheating risk. Next, I will explain why these factors should be considered when you select the quiz maker to make multiple choice test.

Test created can be used for online testing

Online testing is necessary for implementing eLearning, especially in this Web 2.0 era. It will lower much training expenditures in long term. You don’t have to cost so much time to mark examination papers, online testing makes marking automatic. So the ability to allow users to create a quiz for online testing is vital for choosing a quiz tool.

Test created can be generated to print for paper test

Online testing isn’t always effectual if there is no Internet available. Besides, online testing doesn’t do a good job for subjective item test. Many certification tests also adopt this test form(paper-based test). So, paper-based test feature should also be consider in test tool selection.

Randomize and shuffle questions and answers allowed

Reducing the chance of cheating and time is the obvious advantages for randomizing and shuffling questions and answers. For making paper test, you could make a different test on the same topic for each of your classes. It will be big time-saving. For online testing, shuffling choices out of question bank makes test different each time when one test-taker attempts the quiz. So this makes it a little harder for students to copy from each other, and this also makes the print impossible, a good way to reduce the chance of cheating.

In addition, reusability is another consideration when you pick out a multiple choice quiz maker. Therefore, when you want to select the right quiz maker from numerous quiz tools, you could take these above aspects into consideration. Of course, the most important element is  meeting your needs. This tutorial  will show you how to use QuizCreator to make multimedia multiple choice quizzes.