Thursday, June 23, 2011

Which tool am I? (Quizmaker '09!)


My Strengths

I can create graded or survey questions
I have 20 powerful question types to chose from
With me, you can simply fill out a pre-made form when making quizzes

I offer form view mode, a simply quiz design tool, where quizzes can be made in minutes and adding images is simple, there are no worries about resizing
I am versatile, as I can also offer a slide view mode if you want to be more custom when creating your quiz. In slide view I offer professionally designed themes, audio, image effects, transitions and animations.
I allow you to preview quiz to view what it will look like
I am the only quiz builder that enables switching between simple and complex design

My quizzes can provide feedback to support learners
With my branching feature learners can be directed to different slides depending on learners' answers
I also offer a randomize feature to avoid ever generating two quizzes that are the same

Weaknesses

A HUGE weakness of mine is that I am VERY costly after my free 30 day trial. Boooo!!!
I am traditionally designed for business use. 
I am a little bit time consuming to learn the program initially.

How can be you used/repurposed for an educational setting?

I can be used for formative/summative assessment use.
I automatically grade student responses.
I offer differentiated questioning opportunities with my branching feature.
I keep records of student answers and student use.
I allow students computer time.

Quizmaker relates to TPACK because you can easily make quizzes for any content area. As part of my pedagogy knowledge, I know that it is so important to have formative assessment in every lesson, in order to adjust instruction as needed. Quizmaker is a perfect tool to support formative assessment. It is also a technology related tool that requires some general technology knowledge, but is overall user friendly and applicable to TPACK.



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