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:
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Click the
Generate Code button.
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Go to the
View menu and choose Source (Internet
Explorer) or Page Source (Netscape).
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Go to the
Edit menu and choose Select All.
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Go to the
Edit menu again and choose Copy.
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Open SimpleText
using the Launcher window.
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Go to the
Edit menu and choose Paste.
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Go to the
File menu and choose Save.
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Type quiz.html
in the Save this document as: field.
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Navigate
to the location where you would like to save your quiz
(either on ETC or on a disk).
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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:
