Theta Homeroom How-to:
On-line Quizzes & Other Activities

There are two basic ways to generate quizzes to incorporate into your web page:

  • web sites that generate the quiz for you
  • software that you put on your computer that generates the quiz for you

 

Web Sites that Create Quizzes

The site most often used by WIT participants is probably Quia.

Quia is pronounced key-ah and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services, including:

  • A directory of thousands of online activities and quizzes in more than 50 subject areas
  • Templates for creating 14 different types of online activities, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, jumbled words, ordered list, picture perfect, pop-ups, challenge board, scavenger hunt, rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), columns, and cloze exercises.
  • Tools for creating online quizzes with up to eight question types
  • Quiz administration and reporting tools
  • Class Web pages
  • Calendars and schedules
  • Online surveys .

Free 30-day trial period, $49/year thereafter.

 

Another (more expensive) site is QuizBuilder

  • Create your own online quizzes quickly and easily
  • Release them onto the web for respondents to complete
  • You don't need a website and there's no software to download
  • If you do have a website, you can link your quizzes to it for seamless access
  • They store the response data for you
  • You can access, analyze online, and download your responses whenever you want

$49 per quiz

 

Software to generate quizzes

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.

You download the authoring application, install on your computer. Run it to produce HTML pages with JavaScript included, which you upload to server. The page on server provides quiz to visitor.

Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

Here is a sample quiz created with Hot Potatoes.

 

 

 
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