Posts Tagged ‘quizzes’

Make Effective Math Test and Keep Students’ Nightmare away

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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. (more…)

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How to Make Flash Quizzes without Adobe Flash

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

As we know, Adobe Flash is a powerful tool to create any Flash movies. Making an interactive Flash quiz is one of the common uses. However, not everyone could afford $699 to possess such a tool, also, not everyone has a good command of Action Script. So, when you want to make a Flash quiz, Adobe Flash may be not always the idea tool. Some 3rd party Flash quiz software could help you create Flash quiz with ease. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a Flash quiz with QuizCreator. (more…)

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Conducting New Hire Training to Reduce Turnover

Monday, September 21st, 2009

High turnover is a head-breaking problem for companies. For many companies, new-hires leave before their probationary period is ended. If your company has a high turnover rate than your competitor, you will lose your good employees to your competitors. Also, your business will also suffer from high costs of attracting, recruiting and training the new staff. So, new hire training is the first important thing to reduce the rate of turnover and enhance the acculturation and productivity of new employees in companies.

new hire training Conducting New Hire Training to Reduce Turnover

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12 Free Online Quiz Makers to Create Online Quizzes

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

I often receive a lot of questions about how to make online quizzes for free. Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz making applications I collect after days’ collection. These apps will help you make quizzes for online use for free. Do you know of any other free online quiz makers that can be helpful? Please add your favorites in the comments.

ProProfs | Classmaker |QuizCenter | QuizBox | Google Docs | MyQuizCreator |

Quibblo | eQuizzer | Quizilla |Quizz.Biz | MyStudiyo | EasyTestMaker |

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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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PowerPoint for Educators: How to Make Multiple-choice Quizzes via VBA

Monday, August 24th, 2009

PowerPoint is a multimedia courseware to create multimedia courses to enhance the classroom experience. Also, it is a great assessment tool to create quizzes. The VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) feature in PowerPoint gives educators an accessible way to easily create interactive multimedia quizzes. Here I will teach you how to create multiple-choice quizzes with VBA in PowerPoint with step-by-step illustrations.

Supposing you want to create a quiz with 10 multiple-choice questions and only one correct answer for each question. Take PowerPoint 2007 for example, here are the details.

Step 1 – New a blank presentation

Step 2 – Customize feedback to each question with macro (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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