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4 Free Quiz Makers to Create Your Own Quiz Online The single most effective tool in education is the quiz. Although the structure and design of quizzes may change through the years according to the latest educational standards, there are still few better methods to gauging the knowledge that students retain than the quiz. In this article you'll discover four of the best free quiz makers that you can use to modernize your testing efforts.

The Internet is a fact of life. It's here to stay, and it is becoming entrenched into every aspect of daily living. The children of today are more aware of and capable with computer technology than any of their counterparts from previous decades. This also means that most children entering public schools are already familiar and accustomed to learning information and skills on the Internet. Educators can harness this interest by creating quizzes that students can take online, either at school or from home.

Entering Questions into ProfProfs Quiz


ProProfs.com is one of the most professional free quiz making websites that lets you create quizzes of many varieties. Your quizzes can include multiple choice, fill in the blank and even essay questions.



ProfProfs Quiz Options


If you're overwhelmed with the time demands of grading quizzes, why not let the ProProfs automated grading system collect and grade all of the quiz results from your students? You can select what grading scheme you want to use and any limitations you'd like to place on the quiz (like time limits). Once you're done, you can either embed your quiz into a Facebook page or your own class blog or website. If you prefer to use a separate web page for your quiz, ProProfs also provides you with a link for your quiz that's hosted on the ProProfs website.



Entering Questions in ClassMarker


ClassMarker.com is one of the best free quiz makers for instructors because it allows you to create private classes where only registered students can take the tests that you create. While you need to upgrade to the paid premium version for things like follow-up comments and other features - the free account is fully functional and very useful for creating graded online quizzes for your classes using multiple choice, true or false, free text and other question formats.



Viewing ClassMarker Statistics


The feature that makes ClassMarker so useful for teachers is the statistics section. In this area, you can view the overall success rate (difficulty) of your questions, the overall score stats for each of your students, and you can see all of your tests sorted by the average score students achieve when they take them. Both the automatic grading feature and the historical analysis of grades that this free quiz maker tool offers will help transform your classroom quiz making process into one that is much more efficient and effective with testing students.



Creating Questions in eQuizzer


Another "class" oriented quiz making tool created specifically for teachers is eQuizzer.com. The eQuizzer online quiz maker is one of the few online quiz tools that offers 100 percent of all features for absolutely free. The question entry screen is very straightforward, with the option to create a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, multi-marked, short answer, and more. The tool even offers the ability to add formatting and images to your quiz.



The Many Features in eQuizzer


While your account offers a valuable treasure trove of useful features like managing quizzes, managing students and monitoring statistics for all quizzes, the process of creating quizzes and associated questions can take a little bit of getting used to. The quizzes are called "topics," and you need to create the questions on a separate form, but once you get used to the process, this free online quiz tool offers one of the best quiz solutions for teachers.



Creating Your Quiz in MyQuizCreator


For teachers who need a very quick and easy way to post an online multiple choice quiz online, MyQuizCreator.com offers the fastest and most convenient solution. Sign up at MyQuizCreator requires only an email address, and once you have an account you can create a quiz by simply specifying the title and how many questions the quiz has. For each question, you can specify up to five choices and provide the correct answer.



Your Quiz View in MyQuizCreator


When you're done creating your quiz, you have the option to copy the HTML code into your own blog or web page, or you can use your unique link at MyQuizCreator.com to share your quiz with your students. Quizzes can be either public or private. The final format of the quiz, as shown above, is fairly simple, but the final results provide the correct and incorrect answers as well as the overall percentage score.

The area to manage your quizzes provides very simple feedback such as the number of people who have taken your quiz, the average of correct answers for each question, and the average overall score. While this doesn't offer all of the functionality of the class-based tools, it does provide a very quick way that you can help students study for a larger exam.

Using free quiz makers allows educators the freedom to test the overall knowledge retention of an entire class of students, regardless of size. It removes the time-consuming task of manually grading quizzes, provides important and useful statistical feedback about the progress of learning within the class, and it provides a paperless method of testing students that is far more economical, effective and convenient than the traditional paper based quiz.

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Written February 19, 2010 by Ryan Dube

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