Web quiz software comes in many varieties and flavors, making it difficult to compare applications. The proper Web quiz software will help you improve efficiency while the wrong software can throw your financial records into a tailspin that will cost you both productivity and money to recover from. This article will give you some simple guidance to choose the right Web quiz software.

The other day, Dottech.org did a professional review for a Web quiz software QuizCreator. It evaluated the quiz software from the aspects of ease of use, usefulness, performance and arbitrary equalizer, this provides some references for Web quiz software seekers. So, I will set forth my guidance based on this review.

1. Intended Usage
   What do you intend to use the web quiz software for? This is one of the key considerations when purchasing Web quiz software application. Make a list of the needs you’d like the software to address. Your needs list should consist only of the features absolutely necessary in order for the software to work for you. For instance, you may need SCORM compliant Flash quiz output in order to use for your learning management system. Then, the SCORM feature is the primary factor when you picking out Web quiz software.
2. Budget
   Calculate how much you can afford for the Web quiz creator software. The price of Web quiz software varies from 0 to €998, so identify the budget before choosing the software. If you want to free Web quiz tool, Proprofs quiz will be the right one.
3. Ease of Use
   Ease of use is the important factor when you choose a software application. “Time is money”, we all know that. The original intension of utilizing software is mean to help you work more smoothly and simply. Just assuming that you should make a test for tomorrow’s testing, your work will become more complex and inefficient if you have to spend a lot of time in learning how to use the quiz software and asking for help from customer support. “QuizCreator works great for its Office 2007 ribbon interface. It will be friendly for users.” Said the reviewer of Dottech.org.
4. Performance
   The more smoothly the software runs, the better it will be. The quiz creation process will be more smoothly if the quiz software runs stably, no errors alert frequently. Beautiful quizzes can be created quickly, easily without hogging up computer resources. It will give you a good mood while doing the quiz work and you will be more productive.
5. Usefulness
   Productivity will be doubled if the Web quiz creator has multiple uses. Take trainers for example, creating pre-test and post-assessment are popular in training. However, if the software lets trainers generate funny quizzes and share the quizzes on your blogs, it will maximize its utility in on Web. The most important thing is that it saves some money to purchase quiz software.
6. Features
   Web quiz software should provides an easy way to make quizzes for Web usage. Here are some features you should refer:
   • Quiz output. HTML, Flash, Word, Excel or Text format. If you want to use quizzes in your LMS, SCORM/AICC compliant quiz maker should be in consideration.
   • Question type. Normal question type are True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Fill in the Blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, Click Map and short assay.
   • Multimedia supported. Enrich your quizzes with audios, images, and videos.
   • Quiz results tracking. The quiz can be marked instantly after quiz takers take the quiz, big-time saving for your assessment work. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, it provides E-mail tracking, QuizCreator Online tracking and LMS tracking options for users.
   • Randomization and reusability. o Randomization and reusability. Randomization allows users to create different quizzes in one time – avoid cheating. The created quizzes can be reused, that will save you a lot of time if you need to use the quiz again.

Conclusion
In summary, buying good Web quiz software is a matter of doing your research by considering each of the factors above. Download the software and then do a fully trial. Good luck!

Web based exam is widely used in online education. And when we say web-based, we may want the exam to be more than just an online quiz. We want to put this exam online for long distance training and also control the test process and track the results. Here are 4 ways to create web based exam, hope you could find the proper one that meets your need to make your web based exam.

1. Create Web Based Exam with Web Based Exam Software

There are many excellent web based exam software available online to hlep you create web based exam. You could use them to make web exams which interacted with images, sound, etc. The published quiz would be in Flash format, which is compatible with web; or SCORM, which could be used in your LMS. Some web exam software even provide their own Quiz Management System, such as QuizCreator Online. Its quiz management system could help easily achieve the control of your web based exam.

2. Create Web Based Exam using PHP Script or JavaScript

You could learn some simple code of PHP Script or JavaScript to make web based exams. The two articles below has told you something about making web exam with PHP Script and JavaScript.

http://www.trap17.com/index.php/php-quiz-script_t8729.html
http://www.spacefem.com/tutorials/typequiz.shtml

However, in this way, the management of your web quiz would be a big problem. Unless you are such an expert and can write the codes to follow all the results, then it would be quite hard to know who has taken the quiz and who has passed.

3. Create Web Based Exam via Free Online Exam Maker

Don’t ever underestimate free online exam tools. They are free for you to use only because that they got many ad incomes. Free online quiz maker such as ProProfs is functionally robust. Though it only has three question types, it could also be interacted with multimedia. And it has this online exam results tracker which could get you powerful results and analysis.

4. Create Web Based Exam in Moodle

Moodle is a free and open source e-learning software platform which provide quiz module for you to make quizzes or exams that compatible with it. And you could use these quizzes in your moodle courses. You could say that Moodle is a very ideal way to create web based exam but it need some skills to made good use of it. Here is a demo shows you about how to create a quiz in Moodle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFnoNNrTx3c

In brief, I recommend QuizCreator Online for schools and training organizations to use and ProProfs for individual entertainment. And of course if you are tech enthusiast, you could try JavaScript or Moodle, they are also not very hard to control. In a word, a right tool can make a thing much easier.