Thursday, June 18, 2015

Review of a quiz maker and video tool


ProProfs Quiz Maker (http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/create-a-quiz.php) is a Chrome app. I chose this one because I have been looking for quite a while to find an online secure Quiz taking feature that is flexible for my Moodle course. I think this one has what I am looking for in a program. There are various templates you can use, pre-fab questions set up for different things--personality quizzes and all kinds of funny stuff--and a place where you can create your own quiz that is scored for you. There is a free version for educators, but there are limited features in that version. I think I will use this to provide quizzes in an online course environment, but I think it would be easy to use this with a link on a blog, wiki, or whatever else.

Zaption (http://www.zaption.com/) is a program that you can use to make videos interactive. You choose a video and put it in the program. You can stop the video at any point and insert questions which will pop up when the students watch it. You can see their answers under the analytics tab by downloading them and the students can rate the video. There are lots of options and I really like it so far. I think educators use videos a lot and this allows the students to interact and process the video as they go through it instead of zoning out during the video and then wondering what they just saw at the end.

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