The Guide to Test Maker for Teachers: Educational Technology Essentials

Regarding Tony Karrer’s article Flash Quiz Tools: eLearning Technology, it gave us the best list of Flash-based test/quiz tools selected from eLearningGuild’s 360 Report. As these test tools are mainly selected according to satisfaction ratings of eLearningGuild’s members, more individual teachers may need some other handy test makers besides these big shots in eLearning industry. Here I arrange my overall experiences on the online assessment authoring tools, and recommend the test makers below:

Class Maker - Test maker for online testing

Free for initial uses. Create multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank and punctuation quizzes directly online.

Wondershare QuizCreator - Make online tests in minutes

Wondershare QuizCreator is a robust solution designed for teachers, testers, researchers and evaluators to create Flash-baesd quizzes for effortlessly tracking and reporting test results with its management system online. It is reported that the new features of online surveys will be available in October.

Hot Potatoes - Create interactive tests for online education
Educational software to help teachers make multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web with its interesting app suites.

Qedoc Quiz Maker - Make tests technology for educators
Full-featured educational software for making online tests, exams and quizzes: free and powerful.

Here, with test maker mentioned above, teachers will definitely like the educational tools to empower their learning assessment. Whatever, the educational technology actually advances the learning by helping teachers from the lecture presentation authoring to online tests making.