Showing posts with label Assessment Tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assessment Tools. Show all posts

2009-05-20

How to Make a Flash Quiz Yourself

Many of us would want to make a quiz for our website or blog. Especially for many bloggers, add quiz to blog is a nice way to attract more visitors to blog. For teachers, a quiz is good assessment tool to test students' knowledge of learned course. So then, do you know how to make a quiz? You might and you might not, answer truthfully and find out. If not, you could continue to read this tutorial to learn how to make it.

### Step 1 - Prepare questions
First, think about which topic you make the quiz for. Make a list of all questions you want to include in this Flash quiz. Be creative. Challenge others with good questions. Are you ready to make a quiz for your challenging questions? Then, go to the next
step.


### Step 2 - Choose the right way to make a quiz
Many ways could help you do this work. If you only want to make a simple quiz without multimedia objects or complex question type, you could choose some free online service to make a quiz, such as http://www.quizyourfriends.com/.

If you want to make a quiz with multimedia objects, some Flash quiz maker could do this work, it is the easiest yet quickest way to make a multimedia quiz. Here are the following steps to make a quiz with QuizCreator.

Download and install QuizCreator

Add prepared questions to quiz
You could add as much as 9 question types (True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, Fill the Blank, Matching, Sequence, Click Map, Short Essay
and Word Bank ) with QuizCreator.


make a quiz with 9 question types






step 3 Customize Flash quiz

Add image, Screenshots, Flash, and music to enrich your quiz.


make a quiz with image, flash and music

Besides, you also could make intro page for the whole quiz, set time limit, and customize feedback for each questions.



step 4 Publish the quiz

Click the publish button, you could publish your quiz to webpage, Word, Excel or LMS, just do it according to your needs. What's more, you also could track the quiz results via E-mail, Web database, and free online reporting system - QMS.

### Step 3 - Host your quiz online
Now, only one thing left is putting your quiz on website or blog, tell your friends or students to take the quiz you make and view the quiz results.




That's it! Simple as can be, right? Right. So now you know how to make a Flash quiz by yourself, what the hell are you waiting for? Get started to make a quiz for you with QuizCreator!


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2009-05-14

Top 6 Quiz Makers - Choose The Right One For You

There are tons of quiz makers on the market, search it on Google, you will find more. Most of them are online quiz makers, now I choose some popular desktop quiz makers, and list some useful data for each quiz makers. Hope this information could give you some direction to when choose the right quiz maker to create Flash quiz....

viewletquiz


Wondershare QuizCreator

Wondershare QuizCreator is a robust solution designed for teachers, testers, researchers and evaluators to create flash-baesd quizzes, online surveys and web assessments. This is one of the easy yet effective ways to access knowledge and get valuable opinions.



Price: $129.95
Question Type: 9 question types. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, Hot spot, and Short Essay.
Hot features:
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
Randomize questions and set Time Limit.
Track quiz results free with online quiz results tracking system.
7 major math and science symbols supported.
Publish for Flash, Word, Excel, QMS, CD and SCORM packages.
Recommended index: 5 Stars

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Question Writer

Question Writer is a quiz authoring tool for Microsoft Windows. It is used for authoring questions and compiling them into quizzes in the Flash file format.
Price: Std: $195, Pro: $395.
Question Type: 8 question types. Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Matching, Sequencing, Fill in the Blank, Essay, True/False, and Partial Credit.
Hot features:
Multiple languages supported.
20 quiz themes.
Randomize questions and set time limit.
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
Publish for Flash and SCORM packages.
Recommend index: 4 Stars

questionwriter


Articulate QuizMaker

Articulate Quizmaker gives you unprecedented power and freedom in a new streamlined interface. Whether you're a new or seasoned quiz creator, you'll easily create professional, custom Flash quizzes and surveys.
Price: $699.95
Question Type: 8. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Hot spot, and Word Bank.
Hot features:
PowerPoint-like interface.
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
Randomize questions and set Time Limit.
Hassle-free question pooling.
Professional, customizable themes.
Publish for Flash, Word, Articulate Online, CD and SCORM packages.
Recommend index: 5 Stars

captivate


Tanida Quiz Builder

Quiz Builder provides an easy-to-use interface to design the quiz and does not require any Flash or programming knowledge. You can customize several aspects of the quiz appearance, add images to decorate the questions and preview the quiz at any time.
Price: $99
Question Type: 8 question types. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, and Hot spot.
Hot features:
Randomize questions and set time limit.
Publish for Flash, Word, and CD.
Recommend index: 3 Stars

quizcreator

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, and randomized quizzes in .swf format. It contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments.
Price: $799
Question Type: 6. Multiple choices, Short answer, Fill-in-the-blank, True/False, Matching, Hot spot, sequence
Hot features:
Capture and record screen activity and effortlessly synchronize audio and video.
Develop and deploy engaging computer simulations and skill assessments.
Rapidly develop soft-skills training with complex branching scenarios.
Create informal learning content such as podcasts and screencasts.
Recommend index: 5 Stars

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ViewletQuiz

ViewletQuiz enables the most sophisticated, fun and interactive quiz or survey you could possibly imagine. With ViewletQuiz, you can truly create your own “style”. You have full control of the timing of objects and can have them appear and disappear as you like.
Price: $299
Question Type: Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Hot spot, short answer, and Lickert.
Hot features:
Create Flash-based quiz and survey.
Randomize questions and set time limit.
Integrate images, Flash, and audio into the quiz.
Publish for Flash and SCORM packages.
Recommend index: 5 Stars

Frankly, I really like Articulate QuizMaker, the second is Wondershare QuizCreator. Adobe Captivate is definitely a good screen recorder, if you don't want the screen capture function, there is no need to choose this tool. However, for the point of price, I will choose QuizCreator, what is your choice? Take a look at these test makers and try these. Choose the right test maker for you.

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