Web Resources: Quiz Makers

Self-assessment: Quiz makers

Quiz Center

Quiz Center is a powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Without any Web development background whatsoever, you'll be able to make online quizzes that provide instant feedback to you.
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html

QuizStar

With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the internet, then QuizStar is for you!
http://quiz.4teachers.org/

Quiz Lab

Quiz Lab makes it quick and easy to create online quizzes. It's loaded with features to help you manage your classroom and communicate with students and parents. Registration required; basic program is free; full-featured program is commercial.
http://www.quizlab.com/

Quia

Create activities and quizzes. 30-day free trial; subscription required after that.
http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager

Quiz Builder

Create your own quiz on the Web with no programming skills required.
http://www.quizbox.com/builder/

 

Online Assessment: commercial packages

There are also commercially available software packages that can provide schools or universities with many web-based resources, including online assessments. Some of the more popular of these packages include WebCT and Blackboard. Many higher education institutions have contracts with the companies that produce these packages, allowing all faculty access to the tools.

Blackboard

http://www.blackboard.com/

WebCT

http://www.webct.com/

A comparison of Blackboard, WebCT and Prometheus

http://www.bu.edu/webcentral/research/courseware/

Online Assessment: JavaScripts

In addition to quizzes, there are software packages and web sites that will create the JavaScripts for other online activities such as crossword puzzles and word searches.

Hot Potatoes

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web."
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Puzzlemaker

"Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents."
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Crossword Express

"Crossword Express is the most Feature Packed Crossword Compilation program available today."
http://www.crauswords.com/

Crossword Construction Kit

"Crossword Construction Kit is a great tool for educators, students, publishers, corporate trainers and puzzle enthusiasts to quickly produce professional looking puzzles."
http://www.crosswordkit.com/

X-Word

"Windows crossword maker with everything you need to create great educational, professional, and interactive crossword puzzles."
http://www.x-word.com/