Of the resources currently available to faculty for which JSRCC has a dedicated server, there are trade-offs, as usual.
- Web Course in a Box currently will make various types of practice objective quizzes and tests, including feedback forms for objective formats, but access is restricted to the people you register as students. WCB allows 3 tries per question and gives feedback in an upper frame for each answer choice. Here's a sample WCB multiple-choice quiz. (You will be asked for a user ID and password--which must be arranged with me during a training workshop or by email.)
- Front Page 98 allows you to make a quiz or test that is accessible to anyone on the Web or to a restricted set of users that you control, but you would have to link make your own feedback form--which requires knowledge of a database--or not have a feedback form. To grade an online quiz, you need a server that will email the comprehensive response file to you or you need to access the file via the FP98 authorware to process it yourself manually or to export it to a database that you have programmed to handle the file for scoring and reporting (e.g. Microsoft Access). Here's #1 of the same sample quiz as a FP98 real quiz and then as a practice question.
Other resources include these:
- The University of Hawaii will let you use
their server to give your quizzes online; they will also provide the server software and
license to the college for a nominal fee. You should preview this site by looking at
- demo quizzes -- several in a few subjects made by registered users
- demo survey maker -- Make a sample survey that will be emailed to you for "uploading." Here's mine; and here's a copy of the response sent to my email address when a respondent clicked the "Submit" button.
- demo of the quiz maker software
