Posts Tagged ‘make quizzes’

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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8 Ways to Create Online Test

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Online test brings a lot of benefits to assessment: time-saving, flexibility and economical. For test-takers, they can take the online test at their own preferred time – great flexibility. For trainers/teachers, it spares the time to mark the test because the test is graded automatically – big time-saving. For organizations, it saves a lot of cost to employ instructor designers and print millions of test papers – more economical.
As the times progress and society advances, online test will become more and more prevalent in the future assessment work. Thanks to companies develop tons of useful products for us to make online test, they plays an important role in improving productivity to a great online test. This article lists 8 ways to create online test.

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Making Online Quizzes with Google Docs – Part 3 – Grading Quizzes

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

For teachers, grading quiz results for papers manually is definitely a hard job. Google Docs provides a good way for teachers to create online quizzes for teaching and learning, you can view the last posts about creating quizzes and sharing quizzes with Google Docs. But teachers, do you know how to grade the quizzes automatically? If you don’t know, this tutorial will give you the details. (more…)

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Making Online Quizzes with Google Docs – Part 2 – Sharing Quizzes

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

At the last post about creating online quizzes with Google Docs, I showed you the steps to create online quizzes. In this post, I will guide you to share the quizzes you created and then invite others to take quizzes.

As soon as you’re done and your quiz form has been saved, you can go ahead and close this window. Your form will feed into a spreadsheet in Google Docs. The spreadsheet is private by default, even though your form is public.

If you wish, you can share the quiz spreadsheet with others or publish it, but the choice is yours. You can also go in and manually add data to your spreadsheet without having to rely on the form or use the data to make charts. About sharing quiz spreadsheet online to let other take the quiz, there are 2 ways: embed the quizzes to blogs or websites and Email others the quizzes. (more…)

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Making Online Quizzes with Google Docs – Part 1 – Creating Quizzes

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Google Docs is a favorite thing for many educators. It is a totally free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users, especially for trainers using it in online classroom. In addition to being a stellar way to write, store and manage your documents and slideshows, is also a fantastically useful way to create online quizzes for assessment.

Here I will discuss the details about creating an online quiz with Google Docs. Now, you could view the quiz created by Google Docs below.

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Making Quizzes for Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress and so on

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Make your pages (Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, Friendster or other platforms) interactive by adding funny quizzes to your pages on Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, Friendster or other platforms. Not only will they give their readers something to do at your pages, you can also collect some information from them.

Then how to make funny quizzes for your Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, Friendster or other personel pages? For Facebook, there are many quiz applications on Facebook for users to create funny quizzes. However, for other platforms such as Myspace and Blogger, there aren’t any applications with them. Is there a once for ado way to make such quizzes for Myspace or other platforms? Yes, online quiz making tool could help you. Take a look at these tools. (more…)

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3 Ways to Make a Flash quiz

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

We will see varieties of quizzes online while surfing the Web every day. These quizzes are plain text quizzes, JavaScript quizzes or interactive Flash quizzes. Flash quizzes are matter-of-course the most attractive quizzes to fresh your eyes no matter from its multimedia or interactivity. Now, this article will show you three ways to make an interactive Flash quiz.

Make a Flash quiz with Flash quiz maker
Making quiz with Flash quiz maker is the best way to make a quiz whether from the aspects of easy-to-use or functions. No programing skills required. About functions, Flash quiz maker also supports up to 10 question types. Not only could you set personalized feedbacks and time to each questions and quiz, you also could shuffle and randomize questions and answers. Furthermore, you could create Flash-based quizzes with multimedia elements, such as images, sounds, narrations, Flash movies and so on.  Take QuizCreator for example, you also could track the quiz results without hassles via its free quiz result tracking system. (more…)

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How to Make Multiple Choice Quizzes

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Multiple Choice quiz requires users to select the single correct choice among a set of possible choices. It is an easy way to implement quick assessment on learning performance. When making a multiple choice quiz you need to prepare the questions and answer options. To make the quiz a formative learning experience, you also need to customize feedbacks on each answer to give more additional information for the question.

This tutorial explains how to make a multiple choice quiz and grade automatically with  Flash Quiz Maker. Please Make sure that QuizCreator is installed on your computer. (more…)

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Introduction to 3 Popular Math Test Makers

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Math is usually considered as a profound and dull subject and it arouses many complaints from students, so teachers always need to wrack their brains to make teaching job more inspiring. When it comes to online teaching, the online math test comes as an effective assistant for math teachers. It helps them ensure the concentration of their students in test. Then how could teachers make a math test effectively? Of course, the tool, I mean, math quiz creator is quite critical. Here I will introduce 3 popular math test makers.

1. Wondershare QuizCreator – Flash math test maker

Wondershare QuizCreator is one of the few Flash quiz making software which enable users to make math test. It has an equation editor which allows you to edit all the mathematical symbols. Now I will show you the steps to make a math test with this math quiz creator.

First, launch your Wondershare QuizCreator and choose to create a new quiz. Pick one question type you want from the nine question types it provides. I will take “multiple choice” for example.

In the question panel, you could add math symbols both in questions and answers. Click the “Equation” button and a math symbol panel would pop out. You can choose any symbol you want and edit the math formula.

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After making the quizzes, you could publish them as Flash, SCORM, exe, word, excel, etc. Also you can publish them to Quiz Management System which helps teachers track, analyze, and report the test results.

2. Math Test Creator from Software Reflections – specialized math quiz maker

Math Test Creator is the math quiz creator which allows teachers and parents to create many different types of math tests. These tests are designed for students of grades 1st-7th. Teachers and parents can select a variety of options to generate the math test with the answer sheets quickly. All the math tests generated are automatically saved and can therefore be retaken by the students or children.

Math test Creator has a free evaluation version. With this version, you could make four question types. The insufficiency of making math tests with specialized math quiz creator is that you can only make math quiz. Unlike Wondershare QuizCreator, the pure math test maker could not make stunning Flash quiz with multimedia which may turn the test more interesting.

3. Math Test Worksheets – the printable math quiz creator online

There’re lots of math test worksheets you could download online to make a math test. They’re free, easy to use, and effective in creating printable quiz, but they cannot well support online test. The following are some math test worksheets Websites for teachers:

http://www.mytestbook.com/

http://www.math-drills.com/

http://www.tlsbooks.com/mathworksheets.htm

So above are the 3 popular math test makers for teachers to make mathematic quizzes. They enable teachers to create effective Flash math quiz, professional math test, or printable math quiz. Facing so many choices teachers can choose the proper one according to their own needs.

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