Thursday, November 13, 2008
Wondershare QuizCreator
PART I.
1. What is Wondershare QuizCreator?
Wondershare QuizCreator is a program used for designing interactive flash-based quizzes, tests, and assessments. It is not free, but you can download free 30-day-trial and experience it before purchasing. It costs $129.95. It integrates with multimedia and interactivity. Users of the program can create a variety types of questions including single or multiple answer multiple choice, true-false, fill in the blank, matching, word bank, sequence, click map, and short essay. By the help of its features, users can also add sounds, flash animations, images, narrations, hyperlinks, and screenshots to the questions and answers they prepare. QuizCreator supports arranging quiz player templates, forming feedback according to the responses of people who take the quiz and following results online with one of its features, Quiz Management System (QMS). After creating the quiz, users can add it to their own web pages, blogs or forums. When the quiz is completed, quiz takers can view the results with scores and send quiz reports via e-mail to their directors or teachers.
2. Who designed Wondershare QuizCreator?
Wondershare QuizCreator has been created by a company, Wondershare. The company was established in 2003 and since then it has been dedicated in improving innovative multimedia applications for individuals and businesses. One of its customers describes it as responsive support staff, progressive development offering the best value for your money.
3. What is Wondershare QuizCreator designed to do?
Wondershare QuizCreator is designed to create quizzes and tests easily in a short time. Everybody can use this program without having difficulty just by installing it. By this program users can design different kinds of questions and track the results. Wondershare QuizCreator is a tool used in the field of education. Teachers who want to test their students can prepare quizzes and tests with this program and give feedback in question or answer level to their students.
4. How is Wondershare QuizCreator used?
After installing the program, you can easily and quickly create quizzes with images, sounds and various color schemes. Then you just need to enable Quiz Management System (QMS) and set up QMS accounts in a few step to start the tracking and reporting. Wondershare QMS is a hosted quiz results tracking and reporting service for Wondershare QuizCreator. To start using QMS just follow the steps given below:
4.1. Set Intro Page to Identify Quiz Takers
In QuizCreator, go to Quiz Properties tab → Info and ensure that the ‘Display Intro Page’ is selected. The option ‘Display User Mail’ must be selected and another option ‘Allow anonymous user Mail’ must remain unselected to identify every quiz taker in QMS by means of their e-mail account. So participants need to enter their e-mail addresses to create their QMS accounts.
In Quiz Properties tab → QMS Settings section, ensure the ‘Enable QMS’ is selected to post results to QMS database.
4.3. Register and Define Instructor’s Account in QMS
In Quiz Properties tab → QMS Settings section, trial version users can register Instructor accounts in QMS Demo Site; Registered Full version users can register Instructor accounts in QMS without time limit. Click ‘Create QMS Accounts’ to register a new account. So you can login to QMS to check test results anytime.
4.4.1. Publish Quizzes to Web
QuizCreator generates a web site for your quizzes. You can upload the files generated by QuizCreator to your web space and post the link of the quiz page on your web site.
4.4.2. Publish Quizzes on Your Own Web Page
If you have your own web page, you can add your quizzes to it. Since QuizCreator creates Flash-based quizzes, you can insert a quiz in the same way you insert a Flash file. When you publish a quiz for web, QuizCreator will generate three files: .html, .swf, .xml. With the .swf and .xml, you can create your own webpage for the quiz.
4.4.3. Publish Quizzes on a Blog
You can insert a quiz with .swf extension to your blog.
4.4.4. Publish Quizzes on a Forum
The way of inserting a quiz into a forum is similar to inserting into a blog, but not all forums support the feature of inserting a flash file.
1. What is Wondershare QuizCreator?
Wondershare QuizCreator is a program used for designing interactive flash-based quizzes, tests, and assessments. It is not free, but you can download free 30-day-trial and experience it before purchasing. It costs $129.95. It integrates with multimedia and interactivity. Users of the program can create a variety types of questions including single or multiple answer multiple choice, true-false, fill in the blank, matching, word bank, sequence, click map, and short essay. By the help of its features, users can also add sounds, flash animations, images, narrations, hyperlinks, and screenshots to the questions and answers they prepare. QuizCreator supports arranging quiz player templates, forming feedback according to the responses of people who take the quiz and following results online with one of its features, Quiz Management System (QMS). After creating the quiz, users can add it to their own web pages, blogs or forums. When the quiz is completed, quiz takers can view the results with scores and send quiz reports via e-mail to their directors or teachers.
2. Who designed Wondershare QuizCreator?
Wondershare QuizCreator has been created by a company, Wondershare. The company was established in 2003 and since then it has been dedicated in improving innovative multimedia applications for individuals and businesses. One of its customers describes it as responsive support staff, progressive development offering the best value for your money.
3. What is Wondershare QuizCreator designed to do?
Wondershare QuizCreator is designed to create quizzes and tests easily in a short time. Everybody can use this program without having difficulty just by installing it. By this program users can design different kinds of questions and track the results. Wondershare QuizCreator is a tool used in the field of education. Teachers who want to test their students can prepare quizzes and tests with this program and give feedback in question or answer level to their students.
4. How is Wondershare QuizCreator used?
After installing the program, you can easily and quickly create quizzes with images, sounds and various color schemes. Then you just need to enable Quiz Management System (QMS) and set up QMS accounts in a few step to start the tracking and reporting. Wondershare QMS is a hosted quiz results tracking and reporting service for Wondershare QuizCreator. To start using QMS just follow the steps given below:
4.1. Set Intro Page to Identify Quiz Takers
In QuizCreator, go to Quiz Properties tab → Info and ensure that the ‘Display Intro Page’ is selected. The option ‘Display User Mail’ must be selected and another option ‘Allow anonymous user Mail’ must remain unselected to identify every quiz taker in QMS by means of their e-mail account. So participants need to enter their e-mail addresses to create their QMS accounts.
In Quiz Properties tab → QMS Settings section, ensure the ‘Enable QMS’ is selected to post results to QMS database.
4.3. Register and Define Instructor’s Account in QMS
In Quiz Properties tab → QMS Settings section, trial version users can register Instructor accounts in QMS Demo Site; Registered Full version users can register Instructor accounts in QMS without time limit. Click ‘Create QMS Accounts’ to register a new account. So you can login to QMS to check test results anytime.
4.4. Publish, Take and Track your Quizzes
4.4.1. Publish Quizzes to Web
QuizCreator generates a web site for your quizzes. You can upload the files generated by QuizCreator to your web space and post the link of the quiz page on your web site.
4.4.2. Publish Quizzes on Your Own Web Page
If you have your own web page, you can add your quizzes to it. Since QuizCreator creates Flash-based quizzes, you can insert a quiz in the same way you insert a Flash file. When you publish a quiz for web, QuizCreator will generate three files: .html, .swf, .xml. With the .swf and .xml, you can create your own webpage for the quiz.
4.4.3. Publish Quizzes on a Blog
You can insert a quiz with .swf extension to your blog.
4.4.4. Publish Quizzes on a Forum
The way of inserting a quiz into a forum is similar to inserting into a blog, but not all forums support the feature of inserting a flash file.
PART II.
1. How easy or difficult is Wondershare QuizCreator to use?
Wondershare QuizCreator is very easy to use. When you want to create a quiz, you just click on ‘Add Question’ and choose the type of question you want to use and insert your questions, answers, and feedback. The choices you can use are true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, matching, sequence, word bank, click map, and short essay. You can also add an image, an audio file or a hyperlink, feedback to your questions. You can arrange the fonts as you want.
2. Who would most benefit from using Wondershare QuizCreator?
I think that Wondershare QuizCreator is one of the best tools which can be used in education. Teachers, instructors can benefit from this program in their teaching experiences. They can design a variety kind of quizzes easily and quickly. They can make use of the features of the program in most of their courses.
3. How could Wondershare QuizCreator be used to enhance language learning?
Teachers can use these different kinds of question types to improve language learning of students. I have installed the trial version of Wondershare QuizCreator to my PC and used its features. I have liked especially one of its question types, Click Map. In that option you can enter the question, import an image and add a hotspot on that image so that quiz takers can find the answer in a visual way. This feature is very suitable for learners who can learn better with visual aids. Besides Click Map, teacher can use other features of the program easily in a classroom environment. Also they can keep the results of the quizzes by the help of QMS. I have nearly explored the whole features of the program and I haven’t had any problem with it. I really suggest Wondershare QuizCreator to all instructors. It will be very helpful for them. I also will use it in my future teachings.
REFERENCES
Quiz Maker- Wondershare QuizCreator, Create Online Quiz, Quiz Creator, Make Flash Quiz, Quiz Software, Online Assessment. (2008).Retrieved Nov 9, 2008 from
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