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.

Christmas will be on our doorstep soon! What have you prepared for this happy moment? Have you got any special ideas for the celebration? Can we enjoy the holiday and also pass the knowledge to the young at the same time? To achieve these, the multimedia Christmas quiz is a good way to share Christmas knowledge and liven up your holiday.

The multimedia quiz embedded picture, audio, Flash movie, shows us a vivid quiz show. This funny Christmas quiz with our careful design offers him, her, you and me a chance to enjoy the exciting Christmas season but also test their understanding of Christmas. Here are some sample questions you may use in your multimedia Christmas Quiz:

Which picture includes Santa Claus? – Make a Flash quiz with picture to share cute Christmas image riddles. Pictures are always more attractive than the plain text. Colorful images help the quiz taker have a good mood. Search your favorite Christmas pictures.

Guess the name of this Christmas song? – We can test the quiz takers’ knowledge of the Christmas tradition, and we can add some audio files in the quiz to test more. For example, we can insert a few songs in the quiz and ask the takers to give the name to them. Search the charming Christmas songs.

Have you ever seen this Christmas film? – Christmas quiz with Flash movie adds wonders to the riddle game. The Flash movie can also be part of the illustration of the Christmas quiz. Search the Christmas Flash movies.

Christmas quiz can be a entertaining part of your Christmas holiday, especially the Christmas quiz with picture and audio and Flash movie. Let’s view a terrific sample multimedia Christmas quiz.

A wonderful multimedia Christmas quiz? Actually whether the Flash quiz is marvelous or not depends on our novel ideas. The multimedia quiz is interesting, while how can it liven up the Christmas?

Culture spreaders? – Make a multimedia Christmas quiz about the history as well as custom of this festival from sight and listening. Share the quiz online with students, friends, and even the strangers. It devotes to helping people spend the holiday with entertaining study about songs, culture of Christmas, and so on. Nothing is more exciting than sharing the knowledge with others.

Teachers? - Hold a quiz competition before Christmas and offer prize to the excellent performers. The multimedia Christmas quiz competition can check students’ knowledge from more dimensions. It also offers them chances to feel the happiness of competition. Share the happiness, good luck and knowledge with dear students in this Christmas season.

Businessmen? – Upload a Christmas Flash quiz with picture, audio, Flash movie to Websites. Interesting elements always attract people’s eyes; meanwhile, it is also a good way to increase the traffic. Show the customers what they care and you can also hold a little Christmas quiz competition with award. Seize the chance to increase Christmas sales and enjoy the Christmas!

Party organizers and participants? – Share this multimedia Christmas quiz with other participants. The colorful quiz with vivid elements must surprise the participants in the Christmas party. Who gets the highest score? Who are the winners? Ok, liven up the Christmas party with wisdom and knowledge.

Men looking for fun? – Create a multimedia Christmas Flash quiz, and place it on Webs or your own blogs. Wait for the quiz takers and discuss the feelings about the quiz together with them. Boredom will run away in the Christmas season, because you will get so many internet friends to discuss and compete together on your own topic.

No matter who we are, the multimedia Christmas quiz with picture, audio, and Flash movie is a good catalyst to liven up our Christmas season. Why not try to make one? There are many quiz maker software for us to make a multimedia Christmas Flash quiz, such as QuizCreator. Wish everyone Merry Christmas!

Nowadays, e-learning gets more and more popular and becomes an important and efficient way for educating and training. Online testing is one important process of e-learning. Teachers, trainers, human resource directors, etc have shown their great interests on making quizzes with Flash quiz makersoftware like QuizCreator. Users can make quiz easily with this tool; nevertheless, some users may get confused about how to use the function called Blank Page. Thus, in the following text we will take QuizCreator as an example to suggest you some uses of “Blank Page”, the interesting and practical function.

Blank Page is specially designed to works as a complementary tool to the 9 question styles that makes your quiz more wonderful and efficient. We can use it in many aspects.

Let’s explore the use together:

1. Show an integrated quiz in different parts

If you are a teacher or HR, for oft, you may need to check the quiz takers’ knowledge in several aspects, such as the use of language, the ability of logic thinking, the knowledge of math, and many others. It is not suitable to mix all the different subjects together, because this mixture could disturb the participants’ thoughts. At this time, if you can separate the quiz into several parts using Blank Page, the whole test will show in clear and fresh outline.

In the Blank Page, you can mark out the name or subject of the particular group of questions. It offers a smooth transition for the test.

2. Add specific feedback to the quiz

One of the important intentions of taking a quiz is to let participants know the knowledge exactly. Therefore, the feedback part seems significant in the testing. QuizCreator enables users to add feedback to questions and answers, but when the explanation is too complex, the narrow space may not hold the large volume of information. So, a Blank Page can be added to offer you enough space to show the feedback.

3. Put more instruction to the question or the whole quiz

In some complex or entertaining quiz, you may want to offer the participants more information and instruction to the question. We know that the page for one question is limited and strictly formatted which may not meet your need of adding more details. In this situation, the Blank Page comes to help you. You can make full use of this special function to have the questions well explained.

4. Set relaxing atmosphere in the quiz and show your thanks to the quiz participants

When taking quizzes, the participants may feel nervous. In this situation, you can use this Blank Page to show some interesting things that can make them relaxed. In some tests before festival and holiday, it is also marvelous to end up the quiz with some greetings and wishes. Besides, you may use QuizCreator to generate a survey. Don’t you think it is more wonderful to show your gratitude to those participants? This “thank you” page will show your gratitude to this survey and meanwhile let the participant know your great gratitude for their help.

Also in QuizCreator, it supports you to add multimedia elements like movie, sound, image, hyperlink, etc. to the Blank Page. Therefore, you can modify your Blank Pages into colorful ones by adding the elements you want.

The above four uses are just a reference for you. We believe you can think out of more creative ideas in the process of using the Flash quiz maker.

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.

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!

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.