Research and Markets: The E-Learning Market in India Was Estimated To Be Worth USD360 Mn In 2008

Research and Markets: The E-Learning Market in India Was Estimated To Be Worth USD360 Mn In 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “e-Learning - India” report to their offering.
Original Article: Research and Markets: The E-Learning Market in India Was Estimated To Be Worth USD360 Mn In 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

How to Create Your Own Online Course: 100 Tools, Guides, and Resources

Perhaps you have a special skill, talent, or knowledge-base that you want to share with others, and maybe you’ve heard that teaching online courses can make you a little extra money. The resources below will help you discover how to combine both what you have to offer and what you wish to gain by guiding you through creating and establishing an online course. No matter what age of student, subject you want to teach, or size of the class, you will find resources and information to bring your class online.

Learning Management Systems
Learning Management Systems host your online class and provide a place for students to receive and turn in assignments, class communication, and more.

Moodle. This free and very popular course management system allows you to design a course for thousands or only a few students and gives access to creating forums, wikis, databases, and much more.
Blackboard Learn . Blackboard is used by many institutes of higher learning, as well as other organizations, as a source of online classroom management.
eLearningZoom. Take advantage of the free trial to see how this application works for education, organizations, and businesses.
Nicenet’s Internet Classroom Assistant. Set up your course here and have access to conferencing, scheduling, document sharing, personal messaging, and link sharing.
FlexTraining. This e-learning system offers a low-cost solution to providing online training and education. The home page also offers plenty of thinking-points for considering a learning management system.
Backpack. While not specifically a learning management system, this app is great for organizing groups and sharing information–and is available at no charge for the basic services.
OPEN Learning Management System. This open-source management system helps online teachers with course building as well as class management activities such as creating a syllabus, discussion forum, file uploader, a grade book, calendar, and more.
Manhattan. This free system is run on Linux and is currently being used at many colleges and universities for their online education programs.
ATutor. ATutor is an open-source web-based management system that is easy for administrators to install and easy for instructors to utilize.
.LRN. .LRN was developed at MIT, is currently used in a wide range of educational settings, and is open-source.

Resources for Getting Your Class Online
Read these articles to find out everything from using a free blog to host your class to selecting and implementing a Learning Management System.

How to Teach an Online Course using WordPress. This article clearly outlines how you can use a free WordPress blog to create a simple online class.
How to Create Your Own Website to Support an On-line Course: tips, hints and practical information. If you want to design a website to support your online course, then check out this article that gives technical step-by-step directions.
How to Set Up an Online Class Using WebCT 6. Find out how to set up your class with this Blackboard application.
How to Write a Free Online Course to Promote Your Website. This article offers suggestions for creating an online course as a marketing tool.
How to Create a SCORM Compliant Quiz. Learn to make quizzes that work seamlessly in your online environment and effectively measure student progress.
Online classrooms for FREE?! A Review of Free Online Learning Management Systems (LMS). This article takes a look at several different free learning management systems and offers suggestions for ease-of-use and other criteria.
White paper provides advice for implementing an LMS. This article offers a synopsis of a white paper that offers suggestions to get your LMS going with few problems and also includes where to access the white paper for free.
Learning Management Systems (LMS). Find many resources to learn about the various LMS available and help you choose the right one for your online course.
7 Tips for Selecting a LMS. These seven tips will put novice online course developers at ease when considering an LMS.
LMS 2.0: How to Select an Advanced Learning System. Read this white paper to learn what to consider when selecting a system for your course.

Resources for Developing Your Class
You may have plenty of great ideas for your class in your head, but you will need to translate those ideas into approachable tasks for the online environment. These resources will help you do that.

Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning. Click through these selections offering advice and information on what a good online class should provide and how to create an online learning environment.
SCORM Explained. Learn what SCORM is and why it may be important to your online learning environment.
How to Develop Your Online Course. This article offers a wealth of information and points of consideration when developing an effective online course.
Sloan-C Events. Many of the workshops listed here are perfect for learning how to set up your online course.
E-CLASS: Creating a Guide to Online Course Development For Distance Learning Faculty. Written by a professor, this article offers an in-depth look at how you can start a distance learning class or program within an institute of higher learning.
Develop Online Courses. This self-paced online course offers information that you may find helpful when first developing your online course.
Nine Tips for Creating a Hybrid Course. If you will have students in a combination of face-to-face and online classes, this article offers plenty of suggestions.
Planning online courses. While this class requires a fee to take, it teaches both new and experienced instructors how to get their course online.
Writing online courses. Pay to take this class that brings together the best in teaching methods and technology to help you learn how to write a quality online course.
Tips for Developing Media-rich Online Courses. From thinking about the learners’ perspective to providing regular feedback to content preparation, this article helps you create an engaging, media-rich class.

Resources for Teaching Online
Find plenty of suggestions to enhance your teaching skills and to learn about special issues for online teaching with these resources.

How to Teach an Online Class. These steps provide plenty of information on various aspects of teaching, including creating a syllabus, creating lessons and tests, and student contact.
How to Set Up an E-Course. The advice here provides helpful ways to ensure your online class goes smoothly with tips on welcoming students, setting up "office hours," and more.
Online Courses - Tips for Making Them Work. This veteran online educator shares her experience and offers suggestions for creating an online educational environment that promotes student learning and satisfaction.
Tips for Training Online Instructors. Whether you will be hiring someone to teach your online course or you will be doing it yourself, this article offers plenty of good advice on how to make sure the teacher is prepared and equipped to teach online.
Six Tips for Students’ Online Success. This article offers advice for ways to acclimate students to an online learning environment after leaving a traditional classroom setting.
Teaching Online: Tips and Advice. This site offers a listing of helpful resources that cover such topics as tips and opinions, teaching with technology, journals for teachers, and discussions.
CTDLC: Teaching Tips. From the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, get links to information on what students want from online teachers to what students say about online assessment to preventing cheating in online classes.
Teaching Tips Index. This site is full of resources that any teacher, online or in the classroom, can use and range from preparing lesson plans to creating a syllabus to using inclusive language.
Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online. This resource includes help with everything from designing the online course to assessment ideas and even includes some Blackboard tutorials.
Tips for Teaching Online. This article offers great advice for such aspects of online teaching as keeping the lines of communication open, coping with workload, and using discussion as a tool.
Teaching Online: Tips and Tricks Part 1. From creating a sense of community to contact with the instructor, this article offers plenty of sound suggestions for making your online teaching experience a positive one.

How-to Videos
Watch these videos to get help with everything from creating your class in Moodle to using audio and visual media in your class to best teaching practices.

How to Create an Online Course in Moodle!. This video shows how to get started creating your course with Moodle.
How to Create an Online Course in Minutes. Using eLearningZoom, this video tutorial will walk you though the initial course set-up.
Best Practices in Online Education. Learn how UMBC motivated and stimulated students in this 2-hour presentation on best practices.
Second Life: NC State Classes Go Virtual!. Learn how two classes at NC State successfully incorporated Second Life into their structure.
Narrative Forms in the Digital Classroom. Discover how this literature class at Vanderbilt University utilized online technology to teach students how to improve their critical thinking and composition skills.
Opencast Project Open House at UC Berkeley. This 1 hour video presentation discusses using audio and visual media as a tool for learning, including online learning.
Earth Internet Solutions. Watch this video to learn how Earth Internet Solutions can help you get your class online.
Tips and Tricks for Teaching Math Online. Whether you are planning to teach math or not, this PowerPoint presentation offers great suggestions for keeping online students engaged.
Teaching Excellence Workshop Session 4 - It’s Showtime!. Watch as these instructors discuss tools used to enhance their online teaching.

Resources from the Student’s Perspective
Good educators have the ability to put themselves in their students’ shoes in order to understand how best to reach them. These resources provide information about what makes a good online learning environment for students. Make sure your online classes provide plenty of these opportunities or even point your students to these links.

How Students Develop Online Learning Skills. From online discussions to instructor techniques to connections with fellow students, you will find lots of information about how online students learn best.
Tips for online courses. Texas A&M offers these tips to students taking online classes to ensure they get the most out of their experience.
Survival Tips for On-line Courses. These ten tips offer sound advice for students in general as well as online students.
The 7 Mistakes Distance Learners Make. Help ensure your students don’t make these mistakes while taking your online class.
Study Tips for Distance Learners. These tips include suggestions such as "Check your email at least once a day" and "Demonstrate good communication skills."
7 Success Strategies for Distance Learners. These basics can apply to any student, but even more so for distance learners.

Creating Content
If you need help creating content for your class, check out these resources.

OER Commons. Get free content for K-12, college-level classes, and other educational courses at this invaluable resource for online instructors creating their own courses.
Quia. Access online text books; create educational games, quizzes, and other online activities; and get unlimited math questions that cover hundreds of topics.
The Online Books Page. Find a free text for your class among over 35,000 available at this site.
Open Courseware Consortium. Why reinvent the wheel when you have access to so many great classes already developed. Check out the open courseware classes on the subject you hope to teach and see about incorporating them into your class.
Cool School. This Canadian company will develop dynamic content targeted for K-12 for your online lessons available for a fee.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Browse through the many available resources here which include primary documents, photos, videos, and animation in subjects ranging from jazz to American literature to astronomy–and they are all free of charge.
Biz/ed. This British site offers educational materials for students and educators in the fields of business, accounting, economics, travel and tourism, and sports and recreation.
Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies. Find math lessons, worksheets, and more at this site.
Distance Learning Center: Creating Online Content. The resources at this site from Community College of Allegheny County offer suggestions and links to places that will help you create content for your online class.
Guide to Create Content. If you want to stream digital media for your online class, learn how to do so with this resource.
Topmarks. Another British website, this one finds teaching resources and educational websites based on the criteria you select. They find content for early education through adult education in a variety of subjects.

Helpful Tools
Use these tools that range from catching plagiarism to reference materials to assistance with organization.

CopyCatch. Find out if students are plagiarizing their work by using this application.
Alphabetizer. Paste any list into this tool to immediately create an alphabetized list easily.
Writeboard. Create online text documents that can be edited and shared with this tool that also integrates with Backpack.
WordCounter. See if your students’ 1000 word papers are actually 1000 words with this online word counter tool.
Google Alerts. Find new information on your research topics or ideas for new classes by receiving email updates on any topic through Google Alerts.
Bartleby.com. Access several handy reference books for your own personal use or to encourage students to use.
Connotea. Research is much easier with this tool, specifically designed for researchers, that manages online references.
SiteTradr. Find out what sites educators are recommending with this tool that takes the worry out of Internet reading.
Nozbe. Keep yourself organized with this application that allows you to keep to-do lists, manage class projects and tasks, get reminders, share with students, and even access from your mobile phone.
Notely. Recommend this app to your students. Notely provides tools such as note-taking, a scheduler, homework planner, a calendar, and is made especially for students.

Collaboration Tools
These tools will help keep your online class connected through group projects, communication, and more.

Zoho Show. Zoho Show helps students create awesome presentations that can also be shared with others.
Campfire. Set up instant chat rooms with your class or study groups using Campfire and help facilitate communication between students.
MeetWithApproval. Plan a virtual meeting with your students with this meeting planner.
Thinkature. Students can collaborate with each other, organize thoughts and research, and prepare papers and projects with this tool.
Wizlite. Students can use this tool to highlight any text online and share with others while working on group projects or collaborating on assignments.
ProBoards. Create a discussion board easily and quickly so you can create an area for class collaboration.
CiteULike. Share scholarly articles on the Internet or have students research them, then use this tool to store, organize, and share with ease from any browser.
Google Calendar. Use this shareable calendar to keep track of assignments, tests, deadlines, meetings, and more while keeping the whole class informed.
ThinkFold. ThinkFold allows groups to create interactive, real-time outlines collaboratively.
Notefish. Students and instructors alike can save web content on Notefish notes, then organize and share notes with the class.
PBwiki. Group collaboration is easy with this popular wiki platform.
writewith. For writing projects, this app keeps students working together with shared documents and tasks, discussions, and more.

Distance Education Blogs
These blogs offer the latest information on distance education, including news and information for teaching and learning online. Stay on top of what is happening in the distance education world in order to keep your online courses on the leading edge.

Virtual High School Meanderings. This blog looks at the many issues of distance learning, but with a specific eye on high-school online learning.
California Dreamin’. Learn about course development, conferences on distance education, and much more with this blog.
e-Learning Evangelist. Working in the world of e-learning since the mid-1990’s, this veteran online educator has plenty to share.
My State of Flux. Find resources, reflections, and information about online learning in this blog.
BestOnlineHighSchools.com. Find out what’s going on in the world of high school distance education by reading the information here.
Teaching and Developing Online. This blog offers lots of advice and links to resources to enhance the online learning environment.
Thoughts from BFE. The technology director from the only fully online high school program in the US blogs about technology as well as online learning in both high school and higher education.
Online Learning Update. This news aggregator offers all the latest trends and developments in online learning.
Inside eLearning by Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.. Find information on creating effective teaching tools such as effectively using visuals in papers and how to use statistics to support your research.
Inspiration for Education. The news articles and interviews here offer uplifting stories that usually revolve around online education.
Michelle’s Online Learning Freakout Party Zone. Get tips and resources to enhance your online learning environment with this blog.

originated from: http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/how-to-create-your-own-online-course-100-tools-guides-and-resources/

Quiz Maker - Easily Create Flash-Based Online Quizzes

You could conduct training by dimming the lights, running a presentation, and hoping that everyone is awake and, you know, learning. You can hand out printed packets, and email documents to everyone, and hope that your staff takes the time to read and absorb the stuff that you need them to know to do their jobs.

Or, you could quiz them, with the explicit understanding that performance reviews will be tied to their demonstrated knowledge of your products and services! Whether you're ominous or shiny-happy about administering it, there's no arguing with the score on a quiz. There's no better way to enforce learning and improve performance!

Wondershare Quiz Maker is a robust Flash quiz maker for you. With it, you can produce professional Flash-based quizzes, accompanied by images, sounds, hyperlinks, animations, and narration. Results are available immediately through the FREE online reporting system QMS, or via email, and visual reports help you to identify areas of weakness.

As quiz administrator, Wondershare Quiz Maker always gives you perfect control over all aspects of your quizzes - set time limits, minimum passing scores, shuffle questions or answers, and restrictions on the number of quiz attempts!

There's no limit to the variety of questions that you can devise with Wondershare Quiz Maker! Your questions can be true or false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, sequence, word bank, matching, click map, or essay form. There's even full support for mathematical symbols and equations, perfect for quizzing scientific, financial, and engineering groups!

You also could track the quiz results with free online Quiz Management System (QMS), it provides smart tracking and reporting kits for quiz data for free. When a participant completes a quiz online, the quiz results will be sent to QMS automatically. You could explore a live, online QMS demo at: http://www.sameshow.com/samples/qms-tour/qms-tour.html#110

3 Steps to make Flash quiz with Quiz Maker

Step 1: Build Quizzes

Step 2: Publish Quizzes Online

Step 3: Track Results with QMS (free)

Wondershare Quiz Maker lets you:

* Create Flash-based interactive quizzes with images, sounds, animation, and voiceover narration.

* Choose from a variety of question styles including true or false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, sequence, word bank, matching, click map, or short essay.

* Have quiz results automatically emailed to the address of your choice.

* View performance results as colorful charts and detailed reports.

* Share the quiz online and track results for FREE

* Reinforce training by testing for areas of weakness.

Who Needs Wondershare Quiz Maker?

You do if you've ever:

* Had doubts as to whether your static presentations were effective at educating your audience.

* Needed an objective way of measuring the knowledge and skill level of your staff with respect to your products and services.

* Wanted to create professional quizzes and assessments that could be easily hosted online.

Conclusion

Overall, Wondershare Quiz Maker offers some very powerful features to create quizzes. The professional look and feel of the quizzes, the simplicity and ease of use, the flexibility in creating quizzes, the customization of messages, the instructiveness that it offers in quizzes, the flash animations that can be included, the variety of questions, ability to send results via e-mail, the ability to post results to a database, the various options to publish all make Quiz Maker and excellent program to create quizzes. Best of all there is absolutely little to no learning required to use Quiz Maker. This software is a big bang for the buck.

5 Must Read Articles on Open Source CMS

You aren't interested in SharePoint, so our piece on 7 Must Read Articles for SharePoint didn't tickle your fancy. Instead, you spend your time in the world of open source.

Fortunately for you, so do we. At a time of tight budgets and whispers of interoperability are everywhere, open source is something you can't ignore. Whether your interest is Joomla!, Drupal, XOOPs, Alfresco or one of the many other open source content management systems available, we have the information to guide you on your path.

Here are five must read articles on Open Source Content Management Systems.

1. Now is the Time to Consider Open Source
Bad Economy Is Good for Open Source: Word on the street is what's bad for the economy is good for open source. According to a recent survey, web content management is a key target for open source. Open source vendors rejoice, closed source companies nod in agreement and utter the magic word "interoperability." Read the article to learn more about the survey results and see how some vendors are working with it.
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2. So Which One is the Most Popular
Survey: Most Popular Open Source CMS: This report on the most popular open source Content Management System was conducted by Water and Stone, a web development company specializing in open source solutions. The research was based on Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength. Who leads the pack? Read this and find out.

3. Need to Manage More than One Website?
Multi-site Management with Drupal, Plone and Joomla!: Enterprises tend to have more than one website and the need to manage them within a single content management system is critical. We took a look at the multi-site management capabilities of three web content management system: Drupal, Plone and Joomla. Who does it better? Read for yourself.

4. What's Happening with Joomla! Anyway
State of the Project Report: Joomla! Web CMS: Take a deep dive in the community of Joomla! Between license issues and striving toward a more open, welcoming process, the Joomla! community has had their work cut out for them. Along the way they've made mistakes, but they've also made a popular and powerful open source content management system that promises to only get better in the years to come.
If you like what you see, then our deep dive into the world of Plone — coming soon — will also be a must-read.

5. Even Microsoft is Getting in on the Game
Microsoft's New Open Source Web CMS: Yes, they have one of the most used platforms with SharePoint, but Microsoft isn't stupid. They know they need to play in the open source waters to survive. One of their first efforts is an open source web content management solution called Oxite.

originated from: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/5-must-read-articles-on-open-source-cms-004358.php

Open Source LMS - 10 Alternatives to Moodle

Since the economic downturn began I’ve noticed much more interest in open source Learning Management Systems (LMS), and it’s no surprise that when people ask what the options are, the answer is usually Moodle. Now, there’s nothing wrong with Moodle, but it certainly isn’t the only open source LMS out there.

Because there is no licensing cost involved with open source solutions, its easy for organisations to just jump in and set up the first solution that comes along. There is however a cost to installation and support, either financial or time related. Anyone setting up an LMS has a responsibility to research and choose the solution that is right for the learners and the organisation.

As a starting point here are 10 open source alternatives to Moodle. These are deliberately brief descriptions, and I would encourage you to visit these sites and explore each solution in some detail.

Docebo In use in corporate and higher education settings. Offers support for a number of different learning models and is compatible with SCORM 1.2 and 2004. It offers interfaces to external systems such as video conferencing and HR systems.

eFront The base install is quite minimalist, but this is easily extended with modules available from the site. Commercial versions with additional features are also available.

Dokeos A very well featured LMS that also offers content authoring and video conferencing tools. Supports converting Office documents into Flash. Offers user synchronisation with HR management systems such as Oracle and SAP.

Claroline Aimed more at the educational than corporate arena, this system is based around specific pedagogical principles (as is Moodle). Supports SCORM content as well as a built in Wiki and other online content tools.

ATutor Actually an LCMS, ATutor also offers tools for the management of learning. The “A” stands for Accessible and it has excellent support for key accessibility standards as well as support for SCORM, IMS etc.

ILIAS Provides testing and assessment tools as well as collaboration tools such as chat and forums, and distribution technologies like RSS and podcasts.

OLAT A well featured system in its tenth year of development, but has quite steep server requirements.

Sakai Aimed at Universities, this project has a clear roadmap and has seem considerable development in the last few years. Backed by the Sakai Foundation which manages relationships with educational and commercial supporters.

.LRN Originally developed at MIT, .LRN claims to be the most widely adopted enterprise class open source LMS solution.

openelms Marketed specifically as a business solution, and claims a diverse customer base that ranges from Merrill Lynch to Queens Park Rangers football club.

Ganesha This LMS developed by Anema, has been around since 2001 and is in use in several large organisations. The site, and the LMS itself, are in French but it can be translated.

Originated from: http://barrysampson.com/2009/04/open-source-lms-10-alternatives-to-moodle/

Two drawing tools you could use in your elearning courses

Originated from: http://www.brandon-hall.com/workplacelearningtoday/?p=4045

Tom Kuhlmann wrote a post about telling stories visually in e-learning courses rather than making them information heavy. He demos LectureScribe, a free tool for capturing whiteboard lectures. He notes that LectureScribe outputs to Flash so you can insert it into your e-learning course if the authoring tool you use supports that. Tom works for Articulate, a rapid e-learning development tool, so his demo uses that product. Do you have a situation where a whiteboard demo would make sense? If so, you might want to check it out.

And, speaking of drawing, Wesley Fryer notes that Google had added vector drawing capability to Google docs. From Google's blog

…create drawings using lines, free hand scribbles, text labels and a large
choice of shapes that you can move, resize, rotate and adjust. Group, order,
align and distribute and other features are available when you select objects
you’ve drawn. You can also customize a range of shape properties, from line
widths to fill color, and from arrowheads to font size, and much more. If you
change your mind, there is undo and redo. You can collaborate with a friend or
colleague on a drawing, or work alone, just as you can in Google Docs today.

Seems this also has some potential use for elearning. Looking at existing free tools you can use with your current e-learning authoring tool(s) is just one way to expand your options. (JC)

How A Good Quiz Maker Prevent Cheating On Online Testing

As eLearning will become more necessary and popular for its low-cost and efficiency, online testing is a necessity for implementing eLearning. However cheating and security problem are pressing concerns for organizations adopting online testing. So when choose a quiz maker to create online test the abilities to prevent cheating and assure security effectively are the Paramount consideration.

What abilities should a good quiz maker possess?

• Access ability to quiz

The ability of accessibility to quiz is a telling strategy to assure the security of your quiz. You can protect your quizzes from spread spitefully by some badman. It would be better if you have more options to set the access ability with quiz maker. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, it supply four ways for users to access the quiz. Access with password only, access with user ID and password, online access control and domain limit online access. Of course, if you want the quiz spread anywhere by anyone, you also have the option to not set the accessibility.




• Time quiz

Looking up answers to questions in textbook/reading or searching the answers from website are the common issues for cheating. This is obvious when give giving a chapter check quiz. However, timed quiz is one of the most effective ways to eliminate such cheating. When students should answer the questions in a timed quiz in a certain amount of time, they won't have time to look up all the answers if you give enough questions and make the time short enough. Such as the quiz with timer below which created by Wondershare Quiz Maker.




• Shuffle choices

If the quiz maker let you shuffle choices, it means that the order of choices within each question will be randomly shuffled each time an examinee attempts this quiz. So this makes it a little harder for students to copy from each other. It is an effective way to prevent cheating to some extent. Many quiz tools have such feature, such as Articulate QuizMaker below.



• Randomize questions

Randomizing questions reduces the chance of cheating. I will expound the reasons from the following two points.

Firstly, randomized questions make the printouts a lot less useful. Especially, when there are amount of questions in the question banks, students can only print a small number of questions at a time, if they want to get the full questions they will need to view the test again and again, and then sort the questions to eliminate duplicates.

Secondly, if students are on the same campus, they may get together in a lab and try to take the quiz together. Random question order is an easy strategy to thwart cheating. If my screen doesn't look like yours, then it's harder for students to quickly answer all of the questions.


• Limit answer attempts

Set a reasonable time limit for completion. Limiting the amount of time to answers attempts for which students can access a test makes any form of cheating difficult to implement. Note: Don't be too restrictive, but don't give students forever either. Do not make the test available until the day you want students to begin taking it.


• Multiple question types supported

The more quiz types the quiz maker has, the more efficacious the quiz to overcome online cheating. Particularly, Essays, case studies, and other complex question types can be challenging to answer even if students look up book. Students have to understand the material and apply it creatively to answer the questions. So how many question types a quiz maker supports is an important factor when choosing a quiz maker.

As far as I know, Moodle quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types. But it is a little complex to create quiz. Take a view of the popular quiz makers, Articulate QuizMaker supports 9 types, Wondershare Quiz Maker supports 9 quiz types...

Of course, easy-to-use feature is also another factor to choose a quiz maker. There are also many free online quiz makers available: easytestmaker, classmaker and proprofs quizschool, you could make some small quiz with them. To make powerful multimedia Flash quiz, I suggest you choose some stand alone quiz maker. Articulate quizmaker is great, but it is a little expensive, you could take it into consideration. As for me, Wondershare Quiz Maker will be more cost-effective from its price and function.