Create Quizzes with Scoilnet

Scoilnet, the Department of Education and Skills official portal for Irish education, provide a quiz portal where you can create and share multiple choice quizzes relevant to content for both the Primary and PostPrimary sectors.

Feedback is given either as you go through the quiz or in one go at the end.

You can search for quizzes via subject name or tag. I suppose post leaving cert content could be included in the post primary section though it may be better placed in a section on its own!

Here's a little Database quiz for you to try!

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Take The Traveler IQ Challenge

Travelpod provides the Traveler IQ Challenge, which is an interesting little interactive quiz to test "how well do you know your world".

Select a quiz from a number of categories including:
*The World, *North America, *Europe, *World Capitals, *Canada, *Asia, *UNESCO Sites, *Africa, *Latin America, *Oceania/Australasia, *Flags of the World, *Photos of the World, *USA Challenge or *Amazing Race

During the quiz, the question pops up and you must click as close as possible to the location on the map. Your score increases based on the speed and accuracy of your response. To progress onto the next level, in the world quiz, you must reach a certain score so you can't just click anywhere!!

A great little resource for geography or tourism students.

The Traveler IQ challenge ranks geographic knowledge of cities such as: San Jose Del Cabo, Mazatlan or Boston by comparing results against 5,888,795 other travelers. Brought to you by TravelPod, a TripAdvisor Media Network member

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Flash Game Based on the World Cup

The World Cup Game can be used to "test anything at all, from Maths and Science to French and Latin". The idea of the game is that you try to win the World Cup, as any of the 32 nations, by answering a set of questions.

You can use the existing sets of questions or create your own new set. Currently, there are over 60 question sets to choose from.

Recommended sets include: Spanish Verbs,  Multiplication Tables,  Tricky Spellings,  GCSE Maths, French Vocabulary (basic or advanced) and US State Capitals.

To use any of the other question sets just add the filename to the end of the following URL: "http://www.caniplaythisathome.com/play.htm?questions="

This is a wonderful example of increasing motivation by linking a current topical event to what might otherwise be normal mundane testing! The creator, Greg Pallis, had a great response from his students reporting "my students really enjoyed it when I used it with them, and made great use of it at home" and he is thrilled to be able to share the game with everyone.

You can also sign up for Greg's newsletter if you want to hear about any new games being released.

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Knowledge Sharing Tools from ProProfs

ProProfs provides free knowledge sharing tools in the form of quizzes, flashcards, games and polls.

Create your own examples or simply explore and use the shared content. You can, also, easily embed any of the content on your blog, website, social network or e-learning system as well as downloading it.

Free Online IT Certification Training is also provided, by ProProfs, for the following qualifications:
* CompTIA Certification
* Cisco Certification
* Microsoft Certification
* Prosoft CIW Certification
* SAT Test Training

The amount of ads displayed can be a bit of a distraction but, if you can get past this, there is lots of useful content included! This is a little spreadsheet quiz based on using Excel.

Excel Basics » Quiz School

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Thousands of Learning Activities at Quia

Quia Web provides a shared activities area where you can browse through thousands of learning activities grouped into different subject areas (300 categories provided to date).

Sixteen different types of online activities are available including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. The Quia Web activities are designed with different learning styles in mind to suit the needs of all students.

Check it out now, you are bound to find something that can be used!!

Try this Microsoft Word Challenge and win a cool 1,000,000 :-)

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Great ICT Resource Site

Teach-ICT provides many, many useful ICT resources including quizzes, screencast videos, notes, worksheets, posters and an ICT dictionary.

The materials cover several English examining bodies including GCSE, A-level, BTEC and ECDL.

A news section and newsletter are also provided. Teach-ICT is an amazing ICT resouce well worth visiting again and again!!

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Yacapaca 2008 Author of the Year Awards

Chalkface have just announced the winner of the 'Yacapaca 2008 Author of the Year Award'.

Yacapaca, reviewed in an earlier post, is an excellent online assessment resource where you can create and access quizzes, surveys, tests and eportfolios. Yacapaca provides an easy way to discover, modify and share assessments.

This year, for the first time, Chalkface have honoured the best authors through the Author Awards. Seven nominees were selected from the most popular subjects in Yacapaca. Each being very different, but they have all shown excellence in creating assessment resources.

And the winner is .......... Ralph Holmes of Langley School, Norfolk with runner up Hannah Mohon of Huntcliff School in Saltburn-by-Sea. Congratulations to the winners and all the nominees.

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Create Mobile Phone Quizzes

Mobile Study enables you to create multiple choice quizzes that can be downloaded to mobile phones.

With Mobile Study, you can take the quiz online, in facebook or download it to your phone - something that might appeal to our social networking, 'txting' generation :-)

In the feedback section, after each question, you can add extra interesting information as well as indicating if the question was answered correctly or not.



I'm looking forward to trying out Mobile Study with unsuspecting students next term!!

Update - 27/12/08
You can now embed your quiz in any blog or website!!

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Play, Learn and Contribute!

The AidtoChildren.com is an interesting site where you can test and improve your vocabulary and at the same time contribute to one of the World Vision Canada causes.

At AidtoChildren.com, you are presented with a word and four different meanings. As well as getting some satisfaction from selecting the correct meaning, you also get to contribute 0.25c to World Vision Canada for each correct answer.

This contribution is made by the site's sponsors and runs through until 30th September 2008.

I'm not sure just how real the donations are or if they do go to the right place or not, as I am a bit of a cynic, but it is a great concept and the vocabulary testing game is definitely quite useful. 

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Easy Authoring with Dragster

Dragster 2 is a simple tool for creating "sophisticated drag and drop image labeling and categorisation activities".

Many "innovative features and rich feedback" are also incorporated in Dragster 2.

This is a great little tool, which does exactly what it says on the box!

After creating your activity, you download the required files (zip file) to your PC.

You can then edit the resulting html code to adjust the look of the flash player to match the colour of your website.

The final version can then be installed on your web server or in your VLE. Have a look at the Earths Structure to see just how well it works.

Found this thanks to Stephen and Scott.

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Yacapaca for your Online Assessment

If you haven't tried it already then you should sign up for Yacapaca immediately!

Yacapaca is an excellent online assessment resource. In Yacapaca you can create and access quizzes, surveys, tests and eportfolios.

Yacapaca allows you to make student sets, containing your list of students, or simply allocate access keys. Once you have created your assignment it becomes available at a given address on the Internet.

For corrected assignments, not only is a markbook provided, which can be downloaded in csv format, but also detailed analysis of how the assignment was completed.

Authoring groups are available and once you have joined a group you can:

• use assessments that are only available to group members
• compile your own quizzes and surveys from the group question bank
• create short-text tests, eportfolios and more
• clip them together into complete courses

There is an astonishing 554 courses available to use, across a big range of subjects, including mainstream and niche areas.

This is a truly amazing collaborative resource and all free!!!

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Qedoc - The Queen of Quiz Makers

Qedoc provides interactive educational resources that anyone can use and change. The resources on the Qedoc Wiki Site are centred on quiz-making and quiz-taking. However, Qedoc is much more than just quiz making software and it can be used to build meaningful interactive learning content.

All quizzes are made using the Qedoc Quiz Maker. The completed quizzes are accessed through the Qedoc Quiz Player.

The Quiz Maker software is free to use provided that you share your quizzes on the Qedoc Wiki Site and provided that they have "acceptable content".

The Quiz Maker provides for 94 different types of questions including variations of multiple choice, cloze, matching, typed response and mathematical. Likert scale survey questions are also included.

Some of the resources can be exported to other platforms including Moodle. The submitted quizzes are organised into categories using keywords to allow for easy searching. Several super-categories (portals) have also been created to assist with finding relevant quizzes - as shown below.

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Technorati Tags: likert scale, moodle, qedoc, quiz, wiki

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