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Quiz Builders

Online quizzes are a great addition to your web lessons because they allow you to add interactivity and immediate feedback. There are several different websites available that will build a quiz for you based on the questions that you would like to have asked. Some drawbacks of online quizzes compared to paper/pencil tests are that you are limited to using certain types of questions and that they can be difficult to monitor. Multiple choice and true/false questions work best in this format as apposed to short answer and essay questions so keep this in mind as you design your quiz.

The following quiz builder has been selected for you to use when you are creating your web lessons: http://ils.unc.edu/balus/oit/quizv2/quizftp/. It was chosen because it does not require you or the student to login to use it. It allows you to email the quiz answers to a specified email address, and you can save the ¸code” that it creates for the quiz.

Follow the directions provided by the quiz builder website. When you are done entering your questions and answers, you will need to do the following to save the "code" for your online quiz so that you can use it in a web lesson:

  1. Click the Generate Code button.

  2. Go to the View menu and choose Source (Internet Explorer) or Page Source (Netscape).

  3. Go to the Edit menu and choose Select All.

  4. Go to the Edit menu again and choose Copy.

  5. Open SimpleText using the Launcher window.

  6. Go to the Edit menu and choose Paste.

  7. Go to the File menu and choose Save.

  8. Type quiz.html in the Save this document as: field.

  9. Navigate to the location where you would like to save your quiz (either on ETC or on a disk).

  10. Click the Save button.

You will learn how to edit your quiz (by adding color, formatting the text, etc.) in the Dreamweaver section of this document. The quiz file was saved with .html as the extension to indicate that it is a web page that can be edited with Dreamweaver and viewed using Internet Explorer or Netscape.

If you are interested in finding out about some of the other quiz builders that are available, try the following websites:   

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