William Peterson's Posts - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T11:07:08ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPetersonhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1949930807?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=WPeterson&xn_auth=noPowerPoint for Educators: How to Make Multiple-choice Quizzes with PowerPoint via VBAtag:www.classroom20.com,2009-09-02:649749:BlogPost:3785722009-09-02T03:36:42.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<a href="">PowerPoint</a> 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 <strong>how to create multiple-choice quizzes with VBA in PowerPoint</strong> for your courses with step-by-step illustrations.<br />
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Supposing you want to create…
<a href="">PowerPoint</a> 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 <strong>how to create multiple-choice quizzes with VBA in PowerPoint</strong> for your courses with step-by-step illustrations.<br />
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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.<br />
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<strong>Step 1 - New a blank presentation</strong><br />
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<strong>Step 2 - Customize feedback to each question with macro</strong><br />
You may be confused with the first step because the first step in all of the related quiz tutorials online is creating questions and answers. In order to simplify the steps to create multiple-choice quizzes, in this tutorial, I bring forward the feedback customization.<br />
1.Set security options<br />
a. Before you can run VBA code, you need to set PowerPoint's security options to permit macros to run.<br />
b. Click the Office button -> PowerPoint options.<br />
c. On the left of the PowerPoint Options dialog box, Click Trust Center, then click Trust Center Settings on right.<br />
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d. Click Macro Settings on the left of the dialog then choose Disable all macros with notification.<br />
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2. Start the VBA Editor<br />
Please press Alt+F11 to start the VBA Editor.<br />
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3. Customize feedback to wrong answer and right answers<br />
a. In the VBA editor, Choose Insert -> Module, and then insert a code module for feedback to wrong and right answers.<br />
b. Customize feedback to wrong answers:<br />
In the big blank space on the right, type the following 3 lines:<br />
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Sub Wrong()<br />
MsgBox ("Sorry, that's not right. Please try again.")<br />
End Sub<br />
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Customize feedback to right answers:<br />
Sub Right()<br />
MsgBox ("That's right! You are so smart!")<br />
SlideShowWindows(1).View.Next<br />
End Sub<br />
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This code for right answer is similar to the wrong answer, except for its "SlideShowWindows" line, which advances the quiz-taker to the next slide.<br />
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4. Return to PowerPoint from the VBA Editor<br />
Please press Alt+F11 to return to PowerPoint. Leave the Visual Basic Editor open in the background. In PowerPoint, save the presentation, this will save the new macros as well.<br />
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<strong>Step 3 - Create questions and answers</strong><br />
1. Create question slides<br />
Within PowerPoint, start a new slide using the Title Only slide layout. Type the first question in the title-text placeholder.<br />
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2. Add multiple-choice answers<br />
a. From the Insert menu, click Autoshapes -> Action Buttons. Then choose the blank action button.<br />
b. Resize and position the button on the slide.<br />
c. Right click on the button, choose Add Text from the subsequent menu, and type the first answer. Now select the button, copy and paste the button for the remaining answers you'll need on the slide.<br />
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3.Add macro to answers<br />
a. Right click on the button, select Hyperlink. The Action Settings dialog box will appear.<br />
b. Choose the Mouse Click tab, and from the "Action on click" area, check the "Run macro" radio button and select "Wrong" macro from the drop-down list. Click OK. Repeat the same setting to other remaining answers.<br />
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4. Duplicate the slide to as many as 10 slides<br />
a. Duplicate the slide and substituent the questions and answers to other questions.<br />
b. Repeat this step 3 to the right answers for each question, and select "Right" macro from the drop-down list.<br />
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<strong>Step 4 - Save the quiz presentation</strong><br />
Press F5 to preview the quiz presentation and save it to PPSX format. Now everything is ok, you create a quiz PowerPoint slideshow successfully.<br />
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Besides creating quiz with VBA via PowerPoint, you also can make more interactive Flash quizzes for your PowerPoint presentation with 3rd party Flah quiz makers that can generate stand-alone Flash quiz. <a href="http://www.quiz-creator.com/#110"><b>Wondershare Quiz Creator</b></a> is such a Flash quiz maker to help educators create multimedia Flash quizzes for teaching.Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiztag:www.classroom20.com,2009-06-08:649749:BlogPost:3506522009-06-08T07:00:00.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
Originated from: <a href="elearning-zone.blogspot.com/2009/05/liven-up-elearning-course-to-engage.html">E-Learning Zone: Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiz</a><br />
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<p>Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. As a trainer, your goal is to make the training memorable. As you design the course, you must design not only the "what" (or content), but also the "how" (the delivery mechanisms). Integrating funny quiz (like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") into eLearning…</p>
Originated from: <a href="elearning-zone.blogspot.com/2009/05/liven-up-elearning-course-to-engage.html">E-Learning Zone: Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiz</a><br />
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<p>Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. As a trainer, your goal is to make the training memorable. As you design the course, you must design not only the "what" (or content), but also the "how" (the delivery mechanisms). Integrating funny quiz (like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") into eLearning course is an easy way to capture the attention of learners and make your course memorable. Learners will interact with key concepts for your course quickly.</p>
<p>A funny quiz can energize almost any content and produce powerful new understanding for your learners. Funny quiz promote learning – more than revive tension, it creates opportunities for the learners to "interact" with the quiz so as to demonstrate learners' understanding of the course. Many benefits would funny quiz holds to course:</p>
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<li>Funny quiz entertains learners with a purpose</li>
<li>Funny quiz gives learners valuable feedback</li>
<li>Funny quiz gives trainers feedback</li>
<li>Funny quiz motivates learners</li>
<li>Funny quiz accelerates learning process</li>
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<p>So then, there comes into the question: how to integrate the right funny quiz into your course? Let's take a look at the following steps.</p>
<p><strong>Step 1 - Identify your course objective.</strong><br/> What objective you want your course to achieve after training, please take careful consideration. Specifically, what skills and knowledge do you want your learners take from your course. Then think about it how the funny quiz will help the learners meet the course objective.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2 - make course plan</strong><br/> After determining the objective, what you should do is making the lesson plan according to the course objective. Analyze and list the task you wish to cover in your course plan. Supposing you are going to explain the details about H1N1 flu in one course, you list would look something like this:<br/> course objective for swine flu knowledge: learners will be able to master the details about H1N1 flu.
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<li>List what is H1N1 flu.</li>
<li>List the Signs and symptoms about H1N1 flu.</li>
<li>Describe how to prevent H1N1 flu.</li>
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From this list you will develop a set of task that to achieve your course objective. The next step is crux to import funny quiz to your lesson and enhance your course.<p></p>
<p><strong>Step 3 - choose the funny quiz for your lesson plan</strong><br/> The right funny quiz make a difference in motivate learners. Here are some criteria to select a right funny quiz:</p>
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<li>Corresponding with the major lesson objective</li>
<li>Create an opportunity to practice skills</li>
<li>Challenge the learners intellectually</li>
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So, follow the criteria to select the right funny quiz. This will do as a Catalyst to help learners master the major point of your course.<p></p>
<p><strong>Step 4 - Create funny quiz for your course</strong><br/> After choosing the right funny quiz, the following step is creating the funny quiz with the questions you have prepared. Which quiz tool you should choose? Quiz in Flash format instead of plain text quiz would really attract learners' attention, especially for eLearning course. Luckily, some quiz tool could help you create great-looking flash quizzes in minutes without programming skills, such as <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html#110">QuizCreator</a> and QuizMaker.</p>
<p><strong>Step 5 - place the funny quiz in your course</strong><br/> Where the funny quiz should be in your course is also important. Generally, placing a funny quiz at the beginning of your course is a good way to take learners into your course. This starter quiz can establish a comfortable environment for learner. Learners will quickly access to the role of the course. On the other hand, you could integrate some outstanding questions into the funny quiz, these questions will cause learners to seek the solution in the course consciously.</p>
<p>The end of the course is a prime time to place the funny quiz. You can add some questions corresponding to the starter funny quiz. This will help you test whether the learners acquire the knowledge or not. If they acquire it, you could advance to the next lesson, and learners will have the feeling of success and be interesting about the next lesson. If don't, you could direct the learners to review the course.</p>
<p>Design eLearning course and apply funny quizzes to your eLearning courses. They'll make your courses better and help you be more productive.</p>Top 6 Quiz Makers - Easily Make Flash Quizzestag:www.classroom20.com,2009-05-14:649749:BlogPost:3418362009-05-14T11:35:10.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
Originated from: <a href="http://elearning-zone.blogspot.com/2009/05/top-6-quiz-makers-choose-right-one-for.html">E-Learing Zone - Top 6 Quiz Makers</a><br />
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There are tons of quiz makers on the market, search it on Google, you will find more. Most of them are online test makers, now I choose some popular desktop test makers, and list some useful data for each test makers. Hope this information could give you some direction to when choose the right test maker.…
Originated from: <a href="http://elearning-zone.blogspot.com/2009/05/top-6-quiz-makers-choose-right-one-for.html">E-Learing Zone - Top 6 Quiz Makers</a><br />
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There are tons of quiz makers on the market, search it on Google, you will find more. Most of them are online test makers, now I choose some popular desktop test makers, and list some useful data for each test makers. Hope this information could give you some direction to when choose the right test maker.<br />
<a href="http://online-quiz-creator.com/#110"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_g7A_Nvs5gw0/SggFohq3R4I/AAAAAAAAAA0/dlLkOyxlg2M/s320/qc.jpg" alt="viewletquiz"/></a><br />
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<strong><a href="http://online-quiz-creator.com/#110">Wondershare QuizCreator</a></strong><br />
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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.<br />
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<strong>Price</strong>: $129.95<br />
<strong>Question Type</strong>: 9 question types. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, Hot spot, and Short Essay.<br />
<strong>Hot features</strong>:<br />
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.<br />
Randomize questions and set Time Limit.<br />
Track quiz results <strong>free</strong> with online quiz results tracking system.<br />
7 major <strong>math and science symbols</strong> supported.<br />
Publish for Flash, Word, Excel, QMS, CD and SCORM packages.<br />
<strong>Recommended index</strong>: 5 Stars<br />
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<a href="http://www.questionwriter.com/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_g7A_Nvs5gw0/SggE47yqwFI/AAAAAAAAAAs/oWRS31vXhc0/s320/questionwriter.jpg" alt="quiz builder"/></a><br />
<a href="http://www.questionwriter.com/"><strong>Question Writer</strong></a><br />
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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.<br />
<strong>Price</strong>: Std: $195, Pro: $395.<br />
<strong>Question Type</strong>: 8 question types. Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Matching, Sequencing, Fill in the Blank, Essay, True/False, and Partial Credit.<br />
<strong>Hot features</strong>:<br />
Multiple languages supported.<br />
20 quiz themes.<br />
Randomize questions and set time limit.<br />
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.<br />
Publish for Flash and SCORM packages.<br />
<strong>Recommend index</strong>: 4 Stars<br />
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<a href="http://www.articulate.com/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_g7A_Nvs5gw0/SggiOS15EbI/AAAAAAAAAA8/kfueMCusrHc/s320/articulate.jpg" alt="questionwriter"/></a><br />
<a href="http://www.articulate.com/"><strong><span style="color: #336699;">Articulate QuizMaker</span></strong></a><br />
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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.<br />
<strong>Price</strong>: $699.95<br />
Question Type: 8. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Hot spot, and Word Bank.<br />
<strong>Hot features</strong>:<br />
PowerPoint-like interface.<br />
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.<br />
Randomize questions and set Time Limit.<br />
Hassle-free question pooling.<br />
Professional, customizable themes.<br />
Publish for Flash, Word, Articulate Online, CD and SCORM packages.<br />
<strong>Recommend index</strong>: 5 Stars<br />
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<a href="http://www.quiz-builder.com/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_g7A_Nvs5gw0/SggE4mwn9xI/AAAAAAAAAAk/SU7vhvguNZA/s320/tanida.jpg" alt="captivate"/></a><br />
<a href="http://www.quiz-builder.com/"><strong>Tanida Quiz Builder</strong><br />
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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.<br />
<strong>Price</strong>: $99<br />
<strong>Question Type</strong>: 8 question types. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, and Hot spot.<br />
<strong>Hot features</strong>:<br />
Randomize questions and set time limit.<br />
Publish for Flash, Word, and CD.<br />
<strong>Recommend index</strong>: 3 Stars<br />
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<a href="http://www.adobe.com/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_g7A_Nvs5gw0/SggE4j1kBDI/AAAAAAAAAAc/gO5cN1_2enQ/s320/captivate.jpg" alt="quizcreator"/></a><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Captivate</a></strong><br />
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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.<br />
<strong>Price</strong>: $799<br />
<strong>Question Type</strong>: 6. Multiple choices, Short answer, Fill-in-the-blank, True/False, Matching, Hot spot, sequence<br />
<strong>Hot features</strong>:<br />
Capture and record screen activity and effortlessly synchronize audio and video.<br />
Develop and deploy engaging computer simulations and skill assessments.<br />
Rapidly develop soft-skills training with complex branching scenarios.<br />
Create informal learning content such as podcasts and screencasts.<br />
<strong>Recommend index</strong>: 5 Stars<br />
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<a href="http://www.qarbon.com/presentation-software/viewletquiz/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_g7A_Nvs5gw0/SggE4dVzMJI/AAAAAAAAAAU/KBUuWCvNiIQ/s320/viewletquiz.jpg" alt="quizmaker"/></a><br />
<a href="http://www.qarbon.com/presentation-software/viewletquiz/"><strong>ViewletQuiz</strong></a><br />
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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.<br />
<strong>Price</strong>: $299<br />
<strong>Question Type</strong>: Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Hot spot, short answer, and Lickert.<br />
<strong>Hot features</strong>:<br />
Create Flash-based quiz and survey.<br />
Randomize questions and set time limit.<br />
Integrate images, Flash, and audio into the quiz.<br />
Publish for Flash and SCORM packages.<br />
<strong>Recommend index</strong>: 5 Stars<br />
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Frankly, I really like Articulate <a href="http://www.articulate.com/products/quizmaker.php"><span style="color: #336699;">QuizMaker</span></a>, the second is <a href="http://online-quiz-creator.com/#110"><span style="color: #336699;">Wondershare QuizCreator</span></a>. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">Adobe Captivate</span></a> 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.Exam 2.0 - Make Exam Online and Get Results Automaticallytag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-21:649749:BlogPost:2684892009-01-21T09:23:21.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
Now that the New Year’s Day hangovers are a thing of the past, it’s time to trade in the warm sofa for cold, hard desks as the spring semester approaches. As technology is developing so fast last year, Web 2.0, E-Learning, Mobile Learning and collaborative learning are changing the way we live, learn and teach. As a teacher in 21st century, how do you take the new technology to your classroom becomes a popular problem, especially for the non-technical teachers.<br />
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Now that the New Year’s Day hangovers are a thing of the past, it’s time to trade in the warm sofa for cold, hard desks as the spring semester approaches. As technology is developing so fast last year, Web 2.0, E-Learning, Mobile Learning and collaborative learning are changing the way we live, learn and teach. As a teacher in 21st century, how do you take the new technology to your classroom becomes a popular problem, especially for the non-technical teachers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/index.html#109"><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/other/exam-20.jpg"/></a><br />
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Exam 2.0 makes online examination and gets students’ results automatically. It is what most teachers expect for: the efficient solution to host exams anywhere and anytime. Transferring traditional exams to online exams will help teachers or trainers a lot, from making interactive quizzes and tests with multimedia enhancement to tracking test results with insightful reports.<br/>
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<b>With Exam 2.0, teachers could:</b><br/>
- No need to wait a long time at the end of the queue to print the examination paper;<br/>
- No need to take a lot of time to review the examination, the Quiz Management System could review the answers and export the report automatically;<br/>
- Easy to reuse the quizzes from the quiz database;<br/>
- Easy to add some audio and media files for the examination;<br/>
- Easy to track the details of the takers on the quiz.<br />
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How to implement Exam 2.0 in teaching? Nowadays there are many Exam 2.0 tools to make the online examination. The following are some must have features of Exam 2.0 tools.<br/>
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<b>The features of Exam 2.0 Tools must have:</b><br/>
1. <b>Support many question types</b>: Many online exam creation tools provide true/false, multiple choice, fill in blank, click map (perfect for geography examination), and so on.<br/>
2. <b>Randomization of the questions and answers</b>: So students could get different sequence number of the questions and answers.<br/>
3. <b>Import the audio file or record narration for the examination</b>: Perfect for the language training and scenario-based learning.<br/>
4. <b>Import media file to the exam</b>: Teachers can easy to add videos to the examination. It is an easy way to catch students’ eyes in minutes.<br/>
5. <b>Deploy the examination virtually anywhere</b>: Now many teachers have their own blogs on Ning or Google blogger, they could easy to upload the exam to their blogs. Even more, many of the exam creation tools support SCORM. So teachers can upload the exam to Moodle, Blackboard for students to take.<br/>
6. <b>Provide the result tracking system to collect the results automatically</b>: With this function teacher do not need to review the examination papers one by one. The examination results report would be created automatically after the students finish the examination.<br/>
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An Exam 2.0 tool – <a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/quiz-creator.html#109" style="color:#990000;"><b><u>QuizCreator</u></b></a> - which is widely used in schools and institutions, is a great exam tool providing Free Quiz Management System to track quiz results online. It includes all of the features which Exam 2.0 Tools must have above. Learn more about it from: <a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/index.html#109" style="color:#990000;"><u>http://www.online-quiz-creator.com</u></a>How Much Do You Know about Martin Luther King?tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-19:649749:BlogPost:2666252009-01-19T11:25:48.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
How much do you know about Martin Luther King, Js.? The following is a quiz about Martin Luther King, Js.’s life, click the following picture and go to test now!<br />
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<a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/samples/martin-luther-king-quiz/martin-luther-king-quiz.html#109"><img src="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/samples/martin-luther-king-quiz/martin-1.jpg"></img></a><br />
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Or <a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/samples/martin-luther-king-quiz/martin-luther-king-quiz.html#109">click here to take the quiz…</a>
How much do you know about Martin Luther King, Js.? The following is a quiz about Martin Luther King, Js.’s life, click the following picture and go to test now!<br />
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<a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/samples/martin-luther-king-quiz/martin-luther-king-quiz.html#109"><img src="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/samples/martin-luther-king-quiz/martin-1.jpg"/></a><br />
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Or <a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/samples/martin-luther-king-quiz/martin-luther-king-quiz.html#109">click here to take the quiz >></a>3 Tips Help Online Training Far Away From Devils in 2009tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-13:649749:BlogPost:2614642009-01-13T10:59:35.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<i>We have all heard the claims that implementing eLearning and online training in corporation will significantly reduce the training costs and improve performance. But the fact is that eLearning projects rarely produce a significant Return On Investment (ROI).</i><br />
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Corporate University Xchange's Pillars of e-Learning Success indicated that nearly 75 percent of corporate learning professionals reducing education and training costs was their main driver for launching an e-learning initiative.…
<i>We have all heard the claims that implementing eLearning and online training in corporation will significantly reduce the training costs and improve performance. But the fact is that eLearning projects rarely produce a significant Return On Investment (ROI).</i><br />
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Corporate University Xchange's Pillars of e-Learning Success indicated that nearly 75 percent of corporate learning professionals reducing education and training costs was their main driver for launching an e-learning initiative. But the corporate learning practitioners indicated they saved less than 20 percent in training-related expenses by delivering programs via eLearning.<br />
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<b>How to advance the ROI of online Corporation training?</b><br />
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<b>Tip 1: Think Better of Choosing Commercial LMSs</b><br />
Many LMSs (Learning Management Systems) cost companies in excess of $750K per year for license, maintenance and student access fees. Some corporations are paying more for their LMS technology than they are for the eLearning content they deliver. LMSs are essentially high-tech warehouses for training management and eLearning content. Many research indicated that the full cost of LMS technology can be significantly higher than the returns it can provide. Most of these commercial LMSs are very expensive and the investment in LMSs always goes up to 80% of the training cost. Maybe you could choose Open Source LMSs such as Moodle or local LMSs which have strengths that suit certain organizations.<br />
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<b>Tip 2: Take Pre-Assessments and Post-Assessments in the Training</b><br />
<a href="http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/index.html#109"><b><i>Online Assessment (e-Assessment)</i></b></a> can significantly reduce the training costs and enhance the training effectiveness. Instructors need to know the overall schedule of the training to grade whole learning process. With different levels, make exact schedule of assessments to examine all learners' performances. The good point is, instructors can benefit from those results of assessments as feedback, and add improvements in the learning courses of next level. For online training, the scheduled assessments could be easier to be integrated into original learning timeline. Assessments and courses can be based on feedbacks from previous assessments to engage learners with interactions. At the end, assessment in traditional way also makes sense with maximum efforts.<br />
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<b>Tip 3: Using Open Source or Rapid E-Learning Software to Reduce the Costs on Course Contractor</b><br />
Open source software is free to download and use owing to the absence of license costs and, according to a report this June in The Financial Times, even the European Union's competition commissioner has urged the European Commission to use software from open sources. And there are many rapid E-Learning tools for corporation employees to create engage courses from PowerPoint without any programming skills.<br />
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Here are many known Open Source, Free and Commercial rapid E-Learning authoring tools for reference.<br />
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<b>eXe OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package</b>:The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup.<br />
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<a href="http://www.courselab.com/"><b><i>CourseLab</i></b></a>: CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.<br />
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<b>Articulate Studio</b>: Articulate Studio gives you Presenter, QuizMaker, Engage and Video Encoder in one integrated package. It’s very professional and known in E-Learning area.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/e-learning-suite.html#109"><b><i>Wondershare Rapid E-Learning Suite</i></b></a>: It integrates PPT2Flash Professional, QuizCreator, DemoCreator and WebVideo Author in one package. You'll have everything you need to quickly create e-learning courses from PowerPoint and develop stunning interactive content, quizzes, assessments, surveys and simulations. All of these tools are easy to use without any programming skills.Screencasting Software - Easily Make Stunning Demostag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-30:649749:BlogPost:2460472008-12-30T13:39:39.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html#107">Screencasting software</a> — for screen capture, editing, and publication of video files - has been used to market software products and website service, and to train people in the use of those products and service. Screencasting is a powerful tool for presentation; if screencating software can be properly used it will enable us to achieve many of our goals, such as making a software tutorial, creating a shot how-to video, and producing a…
<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html#107">Screencasting software</a> — for screen capture, editing, and publication of video files - has been used to market software products and website service, and to train people in the use of those products and service. Screencasting is a powerful tool for presentation; if screencating software can be properly used it will enable us to achieve many of our goals, such as making a software tutorial, creating a shot how-to video, and producing a website demo. If you would like to make stunning software products demonstrations and website service guides, you will find out that screencasting software is in need.<br />
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Basics of screencasting software<br />
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Screencasting software is designed to record what is going on the computer screen as a digital movie with audio narration which describes the on-screen action, so that the audients can learn the software products and website service more effectively than still screenshots. Especially now that animations and video are much more readily created and incorporated into presentations. This make it easier to <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/democreator/create-software-demo-samples.html#107">"show how"</a> as well as "tell how" in presentations. While examining the screencasting software we can see that most of these solutions enable the following: screen recording, scene editing, and video publication.<br />
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Advantages<br />
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Using the screencasting software can definitely make our tech presentation easier. There are some advantages:<br />
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* Record exactly what happened on the computer. The project file can be edited with annotations, audio, images, interactivities and even animations to enhance the screencasting.<br />
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* Improving the presentation solution of software products and website service. The screencasting tool can be used to make simulation tutorials for the software training and presentation, which guide the audience to learn to product and service step by step. And you can make how-to videos for remote technical support.<br />
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* Publish format make it easy to deliver on web: Flash .swf file format has very good file compression capabilities; Video .avi file format is easy to upload to video sharing website like YouTube.<br />
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If we learn it further we would probably find additional features that aren't described in this the user instruction, as this tool keeps improving, bringing us new solutions that help us on improving our screencast editing skills and presentation skills.<br />
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Quick summary<br />
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For a longtime, software developers, software vendors and webmasters had looked for a better solution for creating great software demonstrations and website service video guide; now there is screencasting software for them. That is a new solution to introduce your products and websites to audience. Screencasting software can be used to create standalone tutorials, training sessions and web demos that can be distributed directly, over the Web and in specialty EXE/CD/DVD. There will be more and more powerful new feature in screencasting software. The screencasting software and screencating will influence us much more in the later days.<br />
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Watch how an screencasting tool <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/democreator/create-software-demo-samples.html#107">DemoCreator</a> can do and learn more about innovative technologies that can help you make to make software demonstrations and website service video guide.<br />
Learn more about <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html#107">screencasting software</a>.Report Wisely: Make Sense of Your Online Assessment Resultstag:www.classroom20.com,2008-09-27:649749:BlogPost:1935532008-09-27T02:19:04.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<i>To maximize the learning efforts of online tests in virtual classroom, teachers need quick insights of miscellaneous test results in a simple yet smart report.</i><br />
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<b>September 25th, 2008</b> - More and more teachers are benefiting greatly from the simplicity and flexibility of online tests and exams to measure learning performances. Teachers would have obtained the value of assessment results for effective teaching and learning, with detailed test items and responses in an intuitive report…
<i>To maximize the learning efforts of online tests in virtual classroom, teachers need quick insights of miscellaneous test results in a simple yet smart report.</i><br />
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<b>September 25th, 2008</b> - More and more teachers are benefiting greatly from the simplicity and flexibility of online tests and exams to measure learning performances. Teachers would have obtained the value of assessment results for effective teaching and learning, with detailed test items and responses in an intuitive report of scoring statistics. However, due to the lack of systemic analysis and reporting tools, actually most teachers are muddled by those enormous raw data of test results. That's the reason why an easy-to-use tracking and reporting system is so essential for the teachers at this time.<br />
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There have been some existing solutions to track and analyze test results, such as statistics capabilities in Learning Management Systems, or dedicated assessment servers for results management. But if these independent solutions are beyond the budget, do the teachers have to build such a reporting system by hands? Certainly not. Fortunately, the promising authoring tool Wondershare QuizCreator now comes with a built-in reporting service Quiz Management System for all users.<br />
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<b>Quiz Management System (QMS)</b> is such a cost-effective solution as intensive online reporting system for QuizCreator, the online test creation tool. This built-in reporting feature helps all QuizCreator users track, analyze and report test results through reliable QMS without any hassles. Just with reliable Internet connections and standard Web browsers, teachers will be saved from the waste of time, energy and money dramatically.<br />
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Major advantages of QMS for teachers include:<br />
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- Simply track all test results in real-time statistics online;<br />
When a participant finishes a quiz, its personal information, responses, scores as well as the quiz will be sent to QMS via Internet immediately.<br />
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- Rapidly maintain quizzes, responses and scores in arrangement;<br />
QMS stores all data safely on the remote server, and allows users to access detailed contents online as needed.<br />
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- Flexibly review results in easy-to-understand chart reports for quick insights.<br />
QMS users can easily view quiz summary, answers and scores statistic for intuitive analysis and reporting.<br />
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"Kudos on the QuizCreator software." said Kevin Aulow, one teacher from a Miami-Dade school who's using QMS. "The QMS feature in particular is really unique to the product. QuizCreator is the first product I've found that allows you to create and publish quizzes and TRACK RESULTS for a very competitive price."<br />
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Complete details about QMS are available at http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/quiz-online-reporting-system.html. And for Wondershare QuizCreator, please visit http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html<br />
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<b>About Wondershare E-Learning</b><br />
As the professional developer of e-Learning authoring tools, Wondershare E-Learning has served thousands of organizations from Stanford University, US Air Force to Siemens AG with preferred solutions. Visit www.sameshow.com for more about Wondershare E-Learning.More than Online Tests, Get Values from Your Assessment Resultstag:www.classroom20.com,2008-09-19:649749:BlogPost:1912692008-09-19T03:18:22.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
To measure learning performance in a flexible approach, many instructors have successfully implemented online tests and exams with e-learning authoring tools. Theoretically instructors would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and generate analysis report of scoring statistics for effective teaching and learning. However, due to the lack of system-based tracking support or tech knowledge, most instructors are muddled by these enormous raw data of test results from participants.…
To measure learning performance in a flexible approach, many instructors have successfully implemented online tests and exams with e-learning authoring tools. Theoretically instructors would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and generate analysis report of scoring statistics for effective teaching and learning. However, due to the lack of system-based tracking support or tech knowledge, most instructors are muddled by these enormous raw data of test results from participants. That's why such an easy online reporting system is so essential for the online assessment. <br/><br/>Fortunately, there have been some existing solutions for teachers to track and analyze test results, such as statistics capabilities in most Learning Management Systems (LMS), or some specialized assessment management systems, or any built-in reporting services included in the authoring tools. Which is the best solution for you? Now let's review them in details. <br/><br/><strong>Statistics Reporting in LMS System</strong> <br/>Most Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard (<a href="http://www.blackboard.com/">http://www.blackboard.com/</a>) have the scoring capabilities to track and report e-learning activities. However, these learning systems may not have such proficient test results analysis, and be not that really easy to use for novices. If the instructors just need overall statistics, and have already managed the systems, the solution could be considered with further development. <br/><br/><strong>Assessment Management Server</strong> <br/>As specialized solution, there're some assessment management servers such as Questionmark Perception with Results Management System, which provide professional management works from tracking, scoring to reporting. Don't doubt their capabilities to conduct all test items and scoring reports. Instructors would get the most values as they want with the elaborate servers. Certainly, you have to take enough time and money to get used to the systems. <br/><br/><strong>Free Built-in Reporting System</strong> <br/>Besides any expensive independent solutions above, some instructor can try those built-in online reporting service within authoring tools, like Quiz Management System (<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/quiz-online-reporting-system.html">http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/quiz-online-reporting-system.html</a>) for the assessment authoring tool <strong>Wondershare QuizCreator</strong>. Kind of these hosted systems are free and easy-to-understand, and helps instructors track, analyze and report test results without any hassles, similar to what LMS systems or assessment servers can do on most stages. <br/><br/>Definitely, the instructors with high-end requirements may deploy the assessment servers, while some others will use the built-in reporting for assessment authoring tools. Whatever the choice they make, as online tests have helped access learning in an easy yet smart way, now instructors should have an efficient solution to get most values from the assessment results of online tests.Building E-Assessment: The Practical Guide to Online Quizzes in Moodletag:www.classroom20.com,2008-08-19:649749:BlogPost:1788272008-08-19T08:16:50.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education. It seems like lately a lot of educators have been trying to make quizzes in Moodle, as a part of their online learning courses for effective practices.<br />
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For those of you that don't know Moodle, it is the best one of free, open source course management system (CMS) designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning…
Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education. It seems like lately a lot of educators have been trying to make quizzes in Moodle, as a part of their online learning courses for effective practices.<br />
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For those of you that don't know Moodle, it is the best one of free, open source course management system (CMS) designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.moodle.org">http://www.moodle.org</a>.<br />
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Actually we have at least two preferred methods to create a quiz in Moodle. The option depends on what you want the quiz to be in Moodle.<br />
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<b>Create Simple Quizzes with Quiz Module in Moodle</b><br />
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Fortunately, Moodle already has a <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module">Quiz module</a> allowing the instructors to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types in the easiest way. With this module, creating a new quiz is just a two-step process.<br />
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<b>Step 1: Create the quiz activity and set options to interact with the quiz.</b><br />
- Ensure your role in Moodle is switched to Course creator, Teacher or other editing roles;<br />
- Within the course you enrolled, click "Turn editing on" on the Administration panel;<br />
- On the exact week in outline, click "Add an activity", and select "Quiz" in the drop-down list;<br />
- Specify the Quiz options such as Name, Timing, Display & Attempts, and save.<br />
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<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2486033064_51c264a529.jpg" width="500" height="367" alt="new-quiz"/><br />
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<b>Step 2: Edit the quiz and add specified questions from various question types.</b><br />
- In the created quiz, click "Edit" on the top navigation bar to edit the quiz detail;<br />
- Switch to the "Questions" section on second-level navigation;<br />
- In the "Question Bank", go to "Create new question", and choose the types you like.<br />
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<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/2485215295_9e00d6fc62_o.jpg" width="404" height="474" alt="new-question"/><br />
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As the easiest way to create quizzes in Moodle quickly, Quiz module offers fundamental and flexible features to meet the practical requirements. Therefore, it may not support some advanced applications such as importing audio, customizing background or collecting results.<br />
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<b>Make Rich-Media Quizzes with SCORM/AICC Module in Moodle</b><br />
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Besides the simple quizzes making, some instructors may need to build the assessments with multimedia, as well as results tracking and reporting. Upon these requirements, Flash quiz is the perfect solution with multimedia authoring. With <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/mod/scorm/index">SCORM/AICC</a> module in Moodle which allows you to upload any standard SCORM package, you can easily create and incorporate a SCROM compliant Flash quiz in your course.<br />
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<b>Step 1: Make Flash-based quizzes with SCORM compliance.</b><br />
- Make Flash quiz with some assessment tool, such as <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html">Wondershare QuizCreator</a>;<br />
- Create questions in different question type, like true or false, multiple choices, short essay, click map, matching and sequence;<br />
- Use Excel template in QuizCreator to deign a Excel-based quiz and then import;<br />
- Publish the quiz for LMS as specified SCORM compliant package.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/2485215413_05fb3b7016.jpg" width="500" height="381" alt="flash-quiz" border="0"/></a><br />
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<b>Step 2: Add Flash quiz as SCORM compliant content into the course.</b><br />
- Ensure your role in Moodle is switched to Course creator, Teacher or other editing roles;<br />
- Within the course you enrolled, click "Turn editing on" on the Administration panel;<br />
- On the exact week in outline, click "Add an activity", and select "SCORM/AICC" in the drop-down list;<br />
- Specify the settings such as Name, and choose the SCORM compliant package to upload, then save the course.<br />
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<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/2486033536_8e3bd7242d.jpg" width="500" height="381" alt="add-scorm"/><br />
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Finally, as you can see in the course contents as Student role, and the results report as Teacher role, the SCROM compliant Flash quiz can work well with and report results to Moodle. It greatly enhances the quiz with rich media and interactivity to help the learning process.<br />
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<b>NOTES:</b> Moodle can be a very complicated system to install, like many other Open Source applications, if you are not an advanced computer user. I would recommend getting the help of an advanced user before attempting to install and user Moodle.<br />
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For more reference information on this subject please visit the following sites:<br />
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<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module">Quiz Module in Moodle</a><br />
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<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/mod/scorm/index">SCORM/AICC Module in Moodle</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/quiz-creator-scorm.html">Create a SCORM Compliant Quiz</a>Online Training Needs Assessments: How to Measure Learning Performance Effortlesslytag:www.classroom20.com,2008-08-19:649749:BlogPost:1788092008-08-19T05:38:02.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<i>For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue.</i><br />
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Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during the learning process through traditional summative evaluation. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it only considers final learning outcomes without considering the learning process of learners. Actually, learning performance can be tracked by related online…
<i>For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue.</i><br />
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Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during the learning process through traditional summative evaluation. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it only considers final learning outcomes without considering the learning process of learners. Actually, learning performance can be tracked by related online assessments in the process of online training. With meaningful and periodical performance assessments, instructors would easily and efficiently measure all performances and provide valuable feedback to learners in training progress.<br />
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<b>How to Conduct Assessments in Online Training?</b><br />
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<b>1. Schedule all assessments, not just at the end</b><br />
Regarding the flexibility of online assessments, instructors need to know the overall schedule of the training to grade whole learning process. With different levels, make exact schedule of assessments to examine all learners' performances. The good point is, instructors can benefit from those results of assessments as feedback, and add improvements in the learning courses of next level. For online training, the scheduled assessments could be easier to be integrated into original learning timeline. Assessments and courses can be based on feedbacks from previous assessments to engage learners with interactions. At the end, assessment in traditional way also makes sense with maximum efforts. In scheduled training, performance assessments are really helpful to control entire learning process.<br />
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<b>2. Customize assessment creation, with right tools</b><br />
To author online assessments with specified requirements, instructors will create and implement quizzes to test undergoing training. Types of quizzes may differ and may feature formats ranging from multiple choice answers, plain typed text responses and true/false and yes/no questions. Instructors should carefully select the assessment authoring tools, according to the usages. Creating quizzes as performance assessments in online training has two categories of tools: desktop applications, or Web applications. Desktop apps such as <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html">Wondershare QuizCreator</a>, or Web apps such as <a href="http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager">Quia Web</a> have similar features to customize assessment creation, but the online usages. Desktop apps usually have plentiful contents and take Flash technology to Web compliance; while Web apps offer easy-to-use quizzes creation online directly but exact enhancements.<br />
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<b>3. Track and evaluate results, under management</b><br />
As feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment, online training instructors really need to analyze all results of performance assessments. In order to evaluate the whole learning process and know the exact data, all assessment results must be properly collected and processed in the learning system. Most LMSes (Learning Management System) such as <a href="http://moodle.org/">Moodle</a>, <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/">BlackBoard</a> can track assessment results within the system. And the Web quiz apps Desktop quiz apps usually come with a results component, for example, Questionmark's <a href="http://www.questionmark.com/us/rms/index.aspx">Results Management System</a>, QuizCreator's <a href="http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/quiz-online-reporting-system.html">Quiz Management System</a> as professional assessment management, to make all results data from performance assessments arranged as report. Whatever the systems you use, just summarize the reports in the meaningful points you need.<br />
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<b>4. Take actions on feedbacks, performances focused</b><br />
The best part of performance assessment in online training is not just reporting the differences of individual learning process, or scoring the final exam as performance. The results in assessment report aim to inspire instructors to keep improving the efficiency of entire online training. Just take actions on the feedbacks. Instructors must manage all assessment results as different reports in those assessment management systems, or deal with them using other professional statistical analysis software like <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/excel">Microsoft Excel</a> or <a href="http://www.spss.com/">SPSS</a>. With meaningful result of these assessments, instructors have the opportunity to maximize the value of any public or corporate training.<br />
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From the approach to performance, knowledge and the core management of entire training and learning process, efficient online assessment can really increase productivity for organizations. Furthermore, based on proper measurement of learning performance, instructors would improve the process of training with better interactions.Presentation Veteran Insight: PowerPoint 2007 Review with Recommendationstag:www.classroom20.com,2008-01-24:649749:BlogPost:1006672008-01-24T01:42:23.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<strong>Presentation Veteran Insight: PowerPoint 2007 Review with Recommendations<br></br><br></br></strong><em>This essay just provides personal perspective on using PowerPoint 2007 as presentation tool and share the proven methods and techniques I've developed after the throughout year of facilitating PowerPoint 2007 presentations.<br></br><br></br></em>Read the full article if you like the topic at…
<strong>Presentation Veteran Insight: PowerPoint 2007 Review with Recommendations<br/><br/></strong><em>This essay just provides personal perspective on using PowerPoint 2007 as presentation tool and share the proven methods and techniques I've developed after the throughout year of facilitating PowerPoint 2007 presentations.<br/><br/></em>Read the full article if you like the topic at <a href="http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000453931b,00.htm">http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000453931b,00.htm</a><br/><br/>Perfectionist's PowerPoint Tip: How to E-mail Your PowerPoint Presentations to Others Perfectlytag:www.classroom20.com,2008-01-21:649749:BlogPost:1000222008-01-21T06:19:32.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<i>It's so easy and too easy to make mistakes. You may need to know more about multiple ways to email your PowerPoint presentations, in the right version to play, with background music or movies included, and without any hassles.</i> <br></br><br></br>You probably think emailing a PowerPoint presentation as easy as "just attach it". But sometimes, your recipients may complain that they can't view your presentations properly. Can't open, no sounds or totally deranged. What happened to this easy job?…
<i>It's so easy and too easy to make mistakes. You may need to know more about multiple ways to email your PowerPoint presentations, in the right version to play, with background music or movies included, and without any hassles.</i> <br/><br/>You probably think emailing a PowerPoint presentation as easy as "just attach it". But sometimes, your recipients may complain that they can't view your presentations properly. Can't open, no sounds or totally deranged. What happened to this easy job? Let's clean it up today. <br/><br/><strong>Which Version of PowerPoint Are You Talking About</strong> <br/><br/>The first issue which should be considered is whether your viewers can open your presentation. PowerPoint Presentation in .PPT and PowerPoint Show in .PPS are the most popular formats for presentations. They can be viewed by PowerPoint Viewer without PowerPoint installed. Just provide the download link of <b>PowerPoint Viewer 2003</b> for your recipients without PowerPoint: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en</a>. And for PowerPoint 2007 Presentation in .PPTX and Show in .PPSX, use <b>PowerPoint Viewer 2007</b>: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en</a>. <br/><br/>Besides, as PowerPoint 2007 is not generally compatible with PowerPoint 97-2003, the compatibility issue happens sometimes. PowerPoint 2007 can read PowerPoint 97-2003 files in compatibility mode, but not vice versa. Therefore you'd better add the official solution "<b>Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats</b>": <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en</a>. With this compatibility pack from Microsoft, most PowerPoint 2007 files can be viewed in compatibility mode. <br/><br/>However, the compatibility mode has drawbacks: some elements or effects are changed or missing. The official solution is worth trying unless you choose other preferred formats for your presentations. <br/><br/><strong>Package All as One Presentation and Go</strong> <br/><br/>Not all inserted files in PowerPoint is embedded, and most sounds and videos are saved on your local disk. Therefore if you just send the PowerPoint file, you recipients cannot open or play your multimedia contents which are just linked in the presentation. Therefore you need to combine all files into one presentation. <br/><br/>Besides, you'd better not attach files with large size within email. Reducing file size is necessary for further delivery easily. What you can do is to compress all images, audios, etc. in PowerPoint or archive all files with the presentation as one package. <br/><br/>In order to make your presentation email properly and easily, you can package them up. Just make sure that all linked files are placed in the same folder as the presentation even before your insert them within the presentation. Thereafter package the entire folder into one archive file. Do not create self-extracting (SFX) archive since most email block EXE files by default. <b>WinZip</b> (<a href="http://www.winzip.com/">http://www.winzip.com</a>) is still the default compression utility for Windows and <b>WinRAR</b> (<a href="http://www.rarlab.com/">http://www.rarlab.com</a>) features the most popular archiver ever. They are both recommended to archive your presentation files for emailing perfectly. <br/><br/><strong>E-mail PowerPoint and Other Solutions</strong> <br/><br/>Attach the archived file with your email message and send your presentation now. If the attachment is still too large to send, try to split the archive to several volumes with WinRAR and attach them separately. Alternatively, you might also want to consider uploading the archive file online and just including the download link with the file size in the body of your email message. <br/><br/>Actually there're some other solutions to make all the process proper and easy. As well as PowerPoint version compatibility, converting your presentation to other preferred formats compresses and combines files into one presentation. RealMedia in RMVB and Flash in SWF is recommended if you'd like to do so. You can try <b>Wondershare PPT2Flash</b> (<a href="http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html">http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html</a>) for high-quality PowerPoint to Flash conversion. For RealMedia files, test drive some PowerPoint to video converters for AVI file, then try <b>RealProducer</b> (<a href="http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/index.html">http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/index.html</a>) to create RMVB file. <br/><br/>It's almost about the delivery details of PowerPoint presentations via email. More than "just attach it", you have the opportunity to express yourself in your email perfectly. <br/><br/><br/>How to insert Flash into PowerPoint 2007tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-10-19:649749:BlogPost:624422007-10-19T01:45:08.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
<b>How to insert Flash into PowerPoint 2007, and make it play automatically</b><br></br><b>How to embed Flash movie into PowerPoint 2007, and play automatically</b><br></br><br></br>Ensure the Flash Player is installed on your computer, and then please follow the stejps below: <br></br><br></br><b>1.</b> Click <b>Microsoft Office Button</b> on the top left corner > click "<b>PowerPoint Options</b>" at the bottom of the panel > go to the "<b>PowerPoint Options</b>" window > click "<b>Popular</b>" on the…
<b>How to insert Flash into PowerPoint 2007, and make it play automatically</b><br/><b>How to embed Flash movie into PowerPoint 2007, and play automatically</b><br/><br/>Ensure the Flash Player is installed on your computer, and then please follow the stejps below: <br/><br/><b>1.</b> Click <b>Microsoft Office Button</b> on the top left corner > click "<b>PowerPoint Options</b>" at the bottom of the panel > go to the "<b>PowerPoint Options</b>" window > click "<b>Popular</b>" on the left column > select "<b>Show Developer tab in the Ribbon</b>" on the right column > click "<b>OK</b>" at the bottom<br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/2007-op.jpg"/><br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/2007-dev.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>2.</b> On the "<b>Developer</b>" tab > go to "<b>Controls</b>" group > Click the icon of hammer and nail for "<b>More Controls</b>" > go to the "More Controls" window<br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/2007-ctrl.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>3.</b> On the "More Controls" window > select "<b>Shockwave Flash Object</b>" in the list > click "<b>OK</b>" at the bottom > use your pointer to <b>drag on the slide to draw and resize</b> the control <br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/2007-flash.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>4.</b> <b>Right click</b> the control you draw > click "<b>Properties</b>" in the right-click menu > go to the "Properties" window <br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/2007-properties.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>5.</b> On the alphabetic tab > click the "<b>Movie</b>" property > <b>type the full drive path</b> in the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), including the <b>file name</b> (e.g. C\:a.swf) or <b>URL</b> (e.g. http://www.a.com/b.swf)<br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/2007-path.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>6.</b> To make the Flash paly automatically when the slide is displayed, set the "<b>Playing</b>" property to "<b>True</b>"; To embed the Flash into PowerPoint, set "<b>EmbedMovie</b>" property to "<b>True</b>" <br/><br/><b>7.</b> Finally close the "Properties" window and save your presentation. <br/><br/>On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, you can click Slide Show or press F5 to preview your presentation. <br/><br/><b>An alternative solution to insert Flash into PowerPoint 2007</b><br/><br/>Actually it's sort of troublesome to someone who needs to insert Flash into multiple sildes within PowerPoint 2007 directly. You may want to know: is there a shortcut to insert Flash like inserting other media files in PowerPoint? Probably no. <br/><br/>An alternative solution is using some third-party tools to achieve this, such as <b>Wondershare PPT2Flash</b>, which has a feature of "<b>Insert Flash</b>" to add Flash files instantly. Through PPT2Flash, you can directly select Flash files and manage to insert them into any slides in PowerPoint 2007 and any earlier versions. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/p2fs_2007.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/p2fs_2007-s.jpg" border="0"/></a><br/><br/><b>Learn more</b> about Wondershare PPT2Flash at <br/><a href="http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html">http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html</a><br/><a href="http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html">http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html</a><br/>And you can get the <b>FREE FEATURE</b> of "Insert Flash" instantly. <br/><br/><img src="http://www.sameshow.com/images/articles/insertf_2007.jpg"/><br/><br/>By the way, since Flash is widely supported by most browsers, converting PowerPoint to Flash by PPT2Flash is really convenient to share your presentations over the Internet. <br/><br/>see more details about <b>converting PowerPoint 2007</b>:<br/><a href="http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-2007.html">http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-2007.html</a><br/>Top 6 Quiz Makers - Easily Make Flash Quizzestag:www.classroom20.com,1999-11-30:649749:BlogPost:3418301999-11-30T20:00:00.000ZWilliam Petersonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WPeterson
Originated from: <a href="http://elearning-zone.blogspot.com/2009/05/top-6-quiz-makers-choose-right-one-for.html">E-Learing Zone - Top 6 Quiz Makers</a><br />
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There are tons of quiz makers on the market, search it on Google, you will find more. Most of them are online test makers, now I choose some popular desktop test makers, and list some useful data for each test makers. Hope this information could give you some direction to when choose the right test maker.<br />
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Originated from: <a href="http://elearning-zone.blogspot.com/2009/05/top-6-quiz-makers-choose-right-one-for.html">E-Learing Zone - Top 6 Quiz Makers</a><br />
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There are tons of quiz makers on the market, search it on Google, you will find more. Most of them are online test makers, now I choose some popular desktop test makers, and list some useful data for each test makers. Hope this information could give you some direction to when choose the right test maker.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://online-quiz-creator.com/#110"><span style="color: #336699;">Wondershare QuizCreator</span></a></strong><br />
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