Posts Tagged ‘quizzes’

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.

Google Docs supports 7 question types: Text, Paragraph text, Multiple choice, Checkboxes, Choose from a list, Scale and Grid. Only multiple choice questions created by Google Docs can be graded automatically. This tutorial will show you the steps to grade the multiple-choice quiz with Google Docs. (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

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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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