Archive for the ‘Tool Tips’ Category

Top 100 E-Learning Tools (And The Top 25 Free Ones)

Jane Hart over at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has compiled some great lists for e-learning tools. The lists are geared more toward educators, but I think a decent majority of the items are relevant for students as well, especially grad students who spend their days walking that line between penniless student and [...]

Posted by admin on January 5th, 2009

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How Much Do You Know about Halloween? - Take a Halloween Quiz

Halloween is just around the corner; how much do you know about this day of ghouls and ghosts? Using basic Flash skills you can create a trivia quiz (refer to How to Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template in Adobe Flash) that adds to calculates the total score at the end to determine if [...]

Posted by wpeterson on October 9th, 2008

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How to Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template in Adobe Flash

This article will demonstrate how to create a simple online quiz, complete with options for feedback, scoring and tracking, using free Flash quiz template. Please ensure you can manage to use Adobe Flash MX, Flash 8, Flash CS3, or Flash CS4 (http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/) before attempting this.
The quiz template is included in Flash MX and above [...]

Posted by admin on October 7th, 2008

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Advantage of SCORM Compliant Package: Switch among Blackboard, Moodle or Other LMS Systems

I’ve been asked many times for the immigration of quiz questions from Blackboard/WebCT to Moodle, or vice versa. And a lot of relevant discussions such as Using Moodle: Importing Blackboard Quiz into Moodle are rather hot in Moodle’s forum. I always suggest the instructors to publish quiz contents as SCORM compliant packages with any authoring [...]

Posted by wpeterson on September 28th, 2008

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Make Multiple Choice Questions in Online Quizzes for Quick Assessment

Online quizzes have become essential for teachers to assess distance students quickly and efficiently. The multiple choice questions in online quizzes are the easiest way to implement quick assessment on learning performance. One of the main benefit from using multiple choice questions (MCQ) with online quiz systems is automated marking. That is, the result of [...]

Posted by wpeterson on September 11th, 2008

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My YouTube Plays Well in Chrome: Install Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome

Since the first beta release of the hot Google Chrome, some users have doubted the compatibility of Adobe Flash Player in Chrome, as some YouTube video clips cannot be properly played in Chrome. The issue is so strange, as the same Webkit engine browser Apple Safari has no such problem.
As researched, I think if [...]

Posted by wpeterson on September 11th, 2008

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