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Grading Online Quizzes Created by Google Docs Automatically

2009-10-27T00:57:00.001-07:00

For teachers, grading quiz results for paper test manually is definitely a hard job. Google Docs provides a good way for teachers to create online quizzes or surveys for teaching and learning, you can view the posts about creating quizzes and sharing quizzes with Google Docs. But teachers, do you know how to grade the quizzes automatically? If you don't know, this tutorial about how to grade the quizzes automatically will give you the details.

Google Docs for Online Classroom: Sharing Quizzes to Inviting Students to Take the Quiz

2009-10-21T03:00:00.001-07:00

At the last post about creating online quizzes with Google Docs, I showed you the steps to create online quizzes with Google Docs. In this post, I will guide you to share the quizzes you created and then invite others to take quizzes.

You can share the quiz spreadsheet with others or publish it. About sharing quiz spreadsheet online to let other take the quiz, there are 2 ways: embed the quizzes to blogs or websites, and Email others the quizzes.

You can get more information about how to share quizzes created by Google Docs, please click the link and do it for you.

Creating Online Quizzzes with Google Docs for Free

2009-10-13T02:28:00.000-07:00

Google Docs is a favorite thing for us teachers. It is a totally free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users, especially for teachers using it in online classroom. In addition to being a stellar way to write, store and manage your documents and slideshows, it is also a fantastically useful way to create online quizzes for online assessment.

Here are the step-by-step illustrations about creating an online quiz with Google Docs.

Step 1. Log in to Google Docs

To get started, log in at Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/) with Gmail account. If you don't have a Gmail account, come out from that rock you live under, boot up the computer, and get yourself a Gmail account.

Step 2. Start creating quiz

Once you're logged in, click "New", and then "Form".

To view more details, please go and view how to create online quizzes with Google Docs for free.

8 Ways to Create Online Quiz, Test, Exam

2009-09-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

Online test brings a lot of benefits to assessment: time-saving, flexibility and economical. For test-takers, they can take the online test at their own preferred time - great flexibility. For trainers/teachers, it spares the time to mark the test because the test is graded automatically - big time-saving. For organizations, it saves a lot of cost to employ instructor designers and print millions of test papers - more economical.

Thanks to companies develop tons of useful products for us to make online test, they plays an important role in improving productivity to a great online test. This article lists 8 ways to create online test.

» Create online test with Flash quiz maker
» Create online test with Google Docs
» Create online test with Adobe Flash
» Create online test with Microsoft PowerPoint
» Create online test with PHP Script or JavaScript
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5 Ways to Create Online Quiz

2009-06-17T01:57:00.000-07:00

Originated from: E-Learning Zone: 5 Effective Ways to Create Online Quiz

Online quiz becomes more and more prevalent in the web 2.0 era. For bloggers or webmasters, quiz is an outstanding way for engaging readers and growing blog or Web site traffic. For trainers, online quiz is a good e-assessment authoring tool. For business men, an online quiz can also be used as a sales tool. Here are 5 ways to create quiz for online use.

1. Create quiz with desktop Flash quiz maker

Some Flash quiz makers supply an easy way to create professional Flash quiz in minutes. With them, you could create Flash-based quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and Flash animations with up to 10 question types. You also could set feedback to each questions and randomize questions and answers. Some quiz maker also supply free quiz result tracking system, like QuizCreator. Users could track all the quiz results with email or free Quiz Management System. You could view the quiz below which is created by QuizCreator.

2. Create Flash quiz with Adobe Flash

If you are sophisticated with Adobe Flash editing, you could use Adobe Flash to make quiz for you. Adobe Flash MX and above versions have quiz templates included, and it is designed to automatically track results and send them to a learning management system configured for your quiz. Here is a tutorial about how to create Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template with Adobe Flash.

http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/flash-quiz-adobe-flash.html?page=110

3. Create quiz with php Script or JavaScript

If you are familiar with php script or JavaScript and HTML code, you could choose HTML code and script to create online quiz. Here are some tutorials to help you createquiz for your Web site.

Create quiz with php script, please have a peek at: http://www.trap17.com/index.php/php-quiz-script_t8729.html.

Create quiz with JavaScript, please have a peek at: http://www.spacefem.com/tutorials/typequiz.shtml.

4. Create quiz via free online quiz creation tool

There are numerous online quiz-building tools that can make quiz and grade less of a chore. Do a Google search for "make online quiz free", you will get many free online quiz tools.

ProProfs is a free program that is supported by ads, lots of ads. So it is a totally free online quiz program. It features 3 question types. It has many options that control the behavior of your quiz. You could add multimedia objects such as video and image to the quiz, this is rare to a free online quiz tool. Quibblo and Classmarker also have such features. However, ProProfs sounds the most powerful for a free quiz creation tool.

5. Create quiz with screen recorder

Some screen recorder has the feature of quiz creation. As far as I know, Adobe Captivate and Tech Smith allow user create Flash quiz with them. Take Captivate for example, it contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments.

In summary, all these 5 ways could help you make quiz for online use. Which way works for you is depending on your use. For blogger, choose free online quiz creation tool is the best way, such way will generate the quiz code automatically, and the quiz code could be embedded to blogs. For webmasters, using HTML JavaScript or desktop quiz maker way will be perfect. You could make professional flash quiz to engage the visitors. For trainers, please choose the desktop quiz maker to create Flash quiz. On the one hand, you could engage the learners by adding multimedia objects to the quiz with desktop quiz maker. On the other hand, you could use quiz result tracking system to track learners' quiz results without hassles.

Top 6 Quiz Makers - Easily Make Flash Quizzes

2009-05-14T04:21:00.000-07:00

Originated from: E-Learing Zone - Top 6 Quiz Makers

There are tons of quiz makers on the market, search it on Google, you will find more. Most of them are online test makers, now I choose some popular desktop test makers, and list some useful data for each test makers. Hope this information could give you some direction to when choose the right test maker.

Wondershare QuizCreator

Wondershare QuizCreator is a robust solution designed for teachers, testers, researchers and evaluators to create flash-baesd quizzes, online surveys and web assessments. This is one of the easy yet effective ways to access knowledge and get valuable opinions.

Price: $129.95
Question Type: 9 question types. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, Hot spot, and Short Essay.
Hot features:
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
Randomize questions and set Time Limit.
Track quiz results free with online quiz results tracking system.
7 major math and science symbols supported.
Publish for Flash, Word, Excel, QMS, CD and SCORM packages.
Recommended index: 5 Stars

Question Writer

Question Writer is a quiz authoring tool for Microsoft Windows. It is used for authoring questions and compiling them into quizzes in the Flash file format.
Price: Std: $195, Pro: $395.
Question Type: 8 question types. Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, Matching, Sequencing, Fill in the Blank, Essay, True/False, and Partial Credit.
Hot features:
Multiple languages supported.
20 quiz themes.
Randomize questions and set time limit.
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
Publish for Flash and SCORM packages.
Recommend index: 4 Stars

Articulate QuizMaker

Articulate Quizmaker gives you unprecedented power and freedom in a new streamlined interface. Whether you're a new or seasoned quiz creator, you'll easily create professional, custom Flash quizzes and surveys.
Price: $699.95
Question Type: 8. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Hot spot, and Word Bank.
Hot features:
PowerPoint-like interface.
Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz.
Randomize questions and set Time Limit.
Hassle-free question pooling.
Professional, customizable themes.
Publish for Flash, Word, Articulate Online, CD and SCORM packages.
Recommend index: 5 Stars

Tanida Quiz Builder

Quiz Builder provides an easy-to-use interface to design the quiz and does not require any Flash or programming knowledge. You can customize several aspects of the quiz appearance, add images to decorate the questions and preview the quiz at any time.
Price: $99
Question Type: 8 question types. Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, and Hot spot.
Hot features:
Randomize questions and set time limit.
Publish for Flash, Word, and CD.
Recommend index: 3 Stars

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, and randomized quizzes in .swf format. It contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments.
Price: $799
Question Type: 6. Multiple choices, Short answer, Fill-in-the-blank, True/False, Matching, Hot spot, sequence
Hot features:
Capture and record screen activity and effortlessly synchronize audio and video.
Develop and deploy engaging computer simulations and skill assessments.
Rapidly develop soft-skills training with complex branching scenarios.
Create informal learning content such as podcasts and screencasts.
Recommend index: 5 Stars

ViewletQuiz

ViewletQuiz enables the most sophisticated, fun and interactive quiz or survey you could possibly imagine. With ViewletQuiz, you can truly create your own “style”. You have full control of the timing of objects and can have them appear and disappear as you like.
Price: $299
Question Type: Multiple choice, Multiple response, True/False, Fill-in-the-blank, Matching, Sequence, Hot spot, short answer, and Lickert.
Hot features:
Create Flash-based quiz and survey.
Randomize questions and set time limit.
Integrate images, Flash, and audio into the quiz.
Publish for Flash and SCORM packages.
Recommend index: 5 Stars

Frankly, I really like Articulate QuizMaker, the second is Wondershare QuizCreator. Adobe Captivate is definitely a good screen recorder, if you don't want the screen capture function, there is no need to choose this tool. However, for the point of price, I will choose QuizCreator, what is your choice? Take a look at these test makers and try these. Choose the right test maker for you.

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

2009-04-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-15T20:29:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-15T00:33:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-14T19:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-08T19:18:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-08T02:14:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-01T22:55:00.000-07:00

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

Wondershare Quiz Maker

Time quiz

Wondershare Quiz Maker

Shuffle choices

Articulate QuizMaker

Randomize questions

Limit answer attempts

Multiple question types supported

Articulate QuizMaker

Wondershare Quiz Maker

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.

Step-by-step Guide Video - Tech Support Solution

2009-03-26T01:24:00.000-07:00

As a technical support staff, a question that I am asked a lot by my customers is "Can you show me the solution of the problem step by step?" I try really hard to state the operating steps to them by the words in the email or on the phone, but they don’t get what I mean for most of times. In fact, the 80% questions have been asking again and again, but I still have to answer them one by one. Now the solution is clear for me: Creating the step-by-step video for troubleshooting.

Why create a video for technical support?

It is an easy way to explain your solution process
No continual stop/start grabbing screenshots and typing instructions
Easy to follow along and reproduce steps
Friendly to users
Reduce service costs with online customer self-service

To make a troubleshooting video, there are 4 steps to go: prepare your script, record screen activities, edit your recording, and publish your movie. There are some applications available to record what happens on your computer. A few of them are free, but with little editing feature. Some editing is necessary for making a compelling step-by-step video. Here I will focus on the editing feature of DemoCreator.

The advanced editing features enable you to edit the recording and add details to your video. Because the recorded movies are shown as a slide format in this screencasting tool, you can readily modify the pace and control the timing of objects such as visual components on the timeline editor for each slide. There is a library of available objects to decorate the recording, such as Flash animation, mouse movements, text box, edit entry, zoom-n-pan scale for specifying specific details for selected area, highlight boxes for spotlighting areas in a slide, and clickable buttons for directing users to a different slide or URL page. You can enhance the video by adding the objects to make the illustration explicit. Besides, you can rerecord the narration or import the music file to the video if it is in need. Furthermore, the existed project can be imported to the current recording project. It means that this screen recorder supports project reuse, and the multiple videos can be integrated as one.

To make a good step-by-step video, there are some useful tips:

Prepare your recording script: Be familiar with the software you are going to demonstrate, and know clearly of the operating steps. If you want to add the narration to the video, you’d better write down the script or prepare it in your mind.
Capture only the minimum screen area that you need. This will reduce the file size. And you can emphasize the important part by zooming and panning.
Adjust the screen resolution and color quality: To improve your computer’s performance during the screen-capture session, especially if you plan to capture the entire computer screen, reducing the screen resolution and color quality is good for the recording performance.
Be aware of your mouse movements: When selected the Taking screenshots recording mode, avoid the unnecessary clicks; when selected the Full motion recording, you may hang the mouse to the area which need to be selected or clicked for a second or two. For a video with audio, the synchronization is very important.
It's OK to pause. If there is a long video or if you have to pause when in recording, it is all right. And you can resume your recording by capturing additional slides.
Save your recording in the shareable format. To put the video on your websites, publish the output as Flash movie with Html page is nice. To share it on video sharing website like Youtube, you can publish it as Avi.

Well, have a try and make the video of screen for technical stuff. You may enjoy doing that.

6 Ways To Convert PowerPoint To Flash

2009-03-24T05:34:00.001-07:00

There are many benefits of converting PowerPoint to Flash, such as greater accessibility, compatibility, smaller file size, sound integration, streaming, secure, email-ready, etc. Here are 6 ways for you to convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash.

Convert PowerPoint to Flash with Wondershare PowerPoint to Flash
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Wondershare PowerPoint to Flash is a PowerPoint add-in which could help anyone convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash with one click. Here are the following steps :

1. Download Wondershare PowerPoint to Flash and install it on your computer.

2. Launch the program, import your presentation you want to convert.

3. Click Publish to convert your presentation to Flash.

Virtue:

Retains all the animations, hyperlinks, multimedia objects after conversion.

Has up to 90% reduction in file size after conversion.

Convert PowerPoint to Flash using OpenOffice
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1. Launch OpenOffice.org Impress.

2. File -> Open, open the PowerPoint presentation that you wish to convert to flash.

3. Click File -> Export.

4. Choose Macromedia Flash (SWF) (.swf) in the Filter box. Click OK.

Defect:

All the animations, multimedia files in the presentation will disappear after conversion. So it is ideal way for static presentations.

Convert PowerPoint to Flash manually with Adobe Flash
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Saving PowerPoint slide into WMF.

Office button -> Save As -> Other Formats, choose Windows Metafile (*.WMF) at Save as type drop-down list, and click Save. Then click Every Slide button in the pop-up dialog.

2. Importing the WMF files into Flash.

3. Exporting the FLA file to a SWF file.

For detailed, please refer:

http://www.sameshow.com/ppt2flash/convert-powerpoint-to-flash-manually.html#110

Defect:

So complicated and all the animations will disappear after conversion.

Convert PowerPoint to Flash via online file conversion
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/ is a web application to convert files. It allows user to convert files without downloading a software tool. Users can type in a URL or upload file from their computer, Zamzar then converts the file(s) to specified format. You could upload the presentation you want to convert, select swf format and then input your email to receive an email with a URL from where you can download the converted file.

Defect:

Conversion will often fail, limitation to file size, and most of the animations will disappear.

Convert PowerPoint to Flash with presentation sharing website
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Slideshare.net, slideboom.com and authorstream.com are good presentation sharing websites. You could upload your presentation to these websites, and then they will convert your presentation to Flash and share it on web.

Defect:

Ideal way to share the Flash presentation online, you cannot download the Flash to your computer.

Convert PowerPoint to Flash with screen recorder
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Download and install Comtasia (http://www.techsmith.com) on your computer and then follow the steps below.

1. Save your PPT file as PPS file.

2. Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen.

3. Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press "F9" to start recording the screen.

4. When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter a filename.

5. Save your capture in SWF format.

Defect:

It will a little time-consuming if there are many slides in your presentation.

Which way works for you
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All the above methods can help you convert PowerPoint to Flash, which method works for you depends on your presentation. For static presentation with no music, videos and animations, you can use OpenOffice, Adobe Flash or online file conversion service for you. For multimedia presentation with music, videos and animations, Wondershare PowerPoint to Flash or screen recorder is a good choice. However, a good screen recorder is a little expensive than a PowerPoint to Flash.

How To Convert PowerPoint To SCORM Compliant Course

2009-03-11T04:22:00.000-07:00

Overview of SCORM
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What is SCORM?

Wikipedia: SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. It defines:

-- How to create Web-based learning content that can be delivered and tracked by different SCORM-compliant learning management systems

-- How content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file.

Why SCORM?

SCORM is the worldwide industry and government standard for collecting and organizing training content into uniform digital packages for use and tracking in Learning Management Systems, it has many good features, such as:

Reusability: It can be incorporated into multiple applications. You can mix and match content from different sources, without worrying about technical incompatibilities.

Accessibility: Accessing instructional components from one remote location and deliver them to other locations.

Interoperability: Courses can be shown on any platforms.

Durability: Operate instructional components when base technology changes, without redesign or recoding.

PowerPoint to SCORM recommendation
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There are a lot of SCORM tools available. Now I will only list some notable PowerPoint to SCORM converters which could help you convert your PowerPoint to SCORM compliant course.

Wondershare PowerPoint to Flash

SCORM/AICC compliant e-Learning course for LMS from PowerPoint with rich media, quizzes and simulations by converting PowerPoint to Flash

http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/adopters/adopter.aspx?i=240

Learning Essentials 2.0

Pointecast Publisher

Articulate Presenter

Adobe Captivate

Which PowerPoint to SCORM converter works for you?
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You could choose the proper PowerPoint to SCORM converter depending on your need. Here is a step-by-step tutorial about how to make SCORM compliant course for LMS from PowerPoint with above tool.

How To Make SCORM Compliant Course From PowerPoint

E-assessment, Say Goodbye To Paper-based Test

2009-03-10T01:49:00.000-07:00

For over a hundred years, paper-based test has been the only way to deliver robust, fit-for-purpose assessments of learning. At the advent of computer, e-assessment (Wikipedia definition, e-assessment is the use of information technology for any assessment-related activity.) will gradually get the better of paper-based test in teaching and learning. Is "paper-based test" still irreplaceable? NO. Just look through the following 5 questions, you will have the same answer.

Can you include multimedia objects in paper-based test?

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NO.

Letting a piece of paper play video and sound is absolutely impossible. At most, you can insert images to your paper, but the printing effects always disappoint you. E-assessment is different.
You will get it after you view this online multimedia quiz. You could insert music, narrations and animated images to testing to enrich the testing. Such multimedia quiz will encourage examinees to use their sense to interpret the words around them. In addition, such quiz is much more interesting and a good remedy to relieve nervous for examinees.

Can you lower cost in long term paper-based test?

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NO.

Suppose there are 1000 examinees to take a test, you should print 1000 more pieces of paper in paper-based test. If there is something wrong in the test paper, you will re-print 1000 more pieces of paper again. It is really a big waste of money yet time-consuming in long-term paper-based test. While, as to e-assessment, you make the quiz with some 3rd party quiz maker, only you should do is purchasing a quiz maker, creating a new quiz or correcting mistakes to made-quiz is as easy as take candy from a baby. Quizzes are reusable. No extra money required.

Does paper-based test as reliable as e-assessment in marking?

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NO.

For paper-based test, after exam finished, a squad of instructors would sit inside on a sunny Sunday afternoon, hand-marking each examination paper, while the administrative staff sorted them into piles according to scores, collating them with personal data in order to achieve gender and linguistic balance in each classroom. The staff would further type in class lists to be printed and posted for students to consult early Monday morning. E-assessment makes marking automatic. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, after the student finished the test, the instructors could simply and rapidly track all quizzes, answers, scores and participants in details, and review statistics in easy-to-understand reports for quick insights through QMS (Quiz Management System, FREE online results reporting system) without any hassles.

Does paper-based test secure as e-assessment?

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NO.

In paper-based test, it is difficult to make sure the examination paper not to be betrayed. However, this makes easy for e-assessment. Many assessment tools have the option to set password for your test. At the same time, you could set the order of each option for all questions. So it is ideal to control the chance that students might cheat, all assessment candidates have an equal playing field to take the assessment.

Can paper-based test be taken at anytime and anywhere as e-assessment?

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NO.

Test is fixed at specific time and specific classroom in paper-based test.
In contrast, e-assessment makes test more flexibility at anytime and anywhere. Examinees aren't at school at the best time to take the placement test. They can take the test at work, home, the library, in a community learning centre or from their hotel in Japan, Taiwan, France, Italy, and dozens of other places around the world. In other respects, test could be tested at any time that is convenient - not just during the specific time that is set before the test.

Overall, e-Assessment is here, and is set to transform the way we examine. As people become more technology-friendly, e-Assessment will become more and more accepted as the method of choice for examination, e-assessment is the future.

Can Moodle Do A Good Job In Importing PowerPoint

2009-02-24T03:15:00.000-08:00

Discussions from Moodle

Jean-Marc Leblond said:
I need some help, I am trying to import a Power Point into my lesson and I keep on getting the following error code:"PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10): Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature". Can any one give me any direction?

James Chan said:

I have installed Moodle 1.7 on my test server. I placed the SQL outside the public directory. Today, when I tried to import a PowerPoint into a lesson, it just gave me an error message "could not get data".

The two questions are only the tip of the iceberg about importing PowerPoint to Moodle. You can hear such and such discussions every day on Moolde.org. Can Moodle do a good job in importing PowerPoint courses? Maybe not.

There are many limitations about importing PowerPoint to Moodle

Complicated presentations with animations, transitions and graphic effects can not be imported
This feature does not work with PowerPoint 2003 and onward
Multimedia presentation with audios, videos and Flash movies cannot be imported normally

That is to say, you should keep your PowePoint course as simple as possible, and text only is the best. No image, no bullet, no audio, no animation and no...?However, such courses are none other than fatal points for effective course to catch the learners to performance.

Here is the way: Convert PowerPoint to SCORM compliant Flash courses

Why Flash?

Seamless conversion. You multimedia PowerPoint course could be converted to Flash
seamlessly, then the Flash course could be shown in Moodle as it is supposed to be.
Smaller file size. Flash files are highly compressed and therefore, the preferred streaming media for the internet, or for quick files distribution. Presentations, when converted to Flash will become very portable and can be easily shared on Moodle, and also do not take up much space.
Streaming technology. This enables you to play a movie file without waiting for the whole file to download. As the preferred streaming media, Flash can enhance your reach when you need to do big or lengthy presentations.
Playback control. Flash offers more flexible playback controls like stop, pause, replay and etc.

Why SCORM compliant?

Once your PowerPoint is converted to SCORM 2004 or compliant Flash SCORM 1.2 compliant Flash, your course becomes "track-able", meaning, you can track the presentation in your Moodle. Progress tracking features like, accessed time, number of viewed slides, presentation time and whether or not the presentation was completed by the user - are all available to you. It is ideal for instructional designers to focus on creating better e-learning content, in effect creating a force multiplier for e-learning effectiveness.

In summary, PowerPoint to Flash converter that allows you to "boost" your PowerPoint course presentations into and interactive and engaging, multimedia experience for your learners. The SCORM compliant feature will let your presentation be track-able.

Which tool to create Flash compliant course from PowerPoint?

There are several tools that can export Powerpoints or other presentations as SCORM compliant Flash movies, you could go to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content to get more. Take Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional for example, this tool can help you convert PowerPoint course to SCORM compliant Flash for high-impact Web presentations and eLearning Courses with rich media, quizzes and simulations.You could view the details about how to convert PowerPoint course to Flash and upload to Moodle at:
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash/howto3.html#110

How to Make a Quiz and Upload to Moodle with SCORM Compliance

2009-02-18T22:44:00.000-08:00

As I wrote Exam 2.0: how to make exam and track exam results online several days ago, now I write a step-by-step tutorial of how to make a quiz and upload to Moodle with SCORM compliance. By this way teachers can easily to track the exam results online immediately.

There are two ways to make quizzes and track results in Moodle, one way is create quizzes by third-party quizzes like QuizCreator, and another way is use the Moodle Quiz Module. As I wrote the article of how to make online quizzes in Moodle, today I write a tutorial of how to make a quiz through Flash quiz tool and upload to Moodle with SCORM compliance.

The following is a step-by-step tutorial of how to make a quiz and upload to Moodle with SCORM compliance.

Step 1: Download QuizCreator and Install it.
Download QuizCreator and install it with all of the default settings.

Step 2: Build quizzes with up to 9 question types.
Run QuizCreator, add questions with up to 9 question types, such as True/False, Multiple Choice (Single Answer), Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers), Fill in blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, Click Map and Short Essay.

Step 3: Add images, audio, media files, math symbols to quizzes.
You could add images, backgrounds, Flash video, sound (Record narration/Import music) and math symbols to make the quizzes interactive. By this way teachers could easily to engage the students.

Images (*.jpg, *.bmp, *.emf, *.wmf, *gif)

Audio Files (*.wav, *.mp3)

Media Files(*.swf)

Math Symbols

Step 4: Set quizzes with time limit and randomization.
QuizCreator provides many customization features for teaches. Teachers could easily set up the randomization, time limit, domain limit, attempt times, login name and password for quizzes to keep up the examination security and accurately. Evenmore, QuizCreator provides quiz bank and quiz merger function for teachers to manage and reuse quizzes conveniently.

Step 5: Publish quizzes to Moodle as SCORM/AICC compliant package.
QuizCreator enables users publish quizzes as Flash, Word, CD/EXE for sharing anytime and anywhere. Evenmore, it enables teachers publish quizzes as SCORM/AICC-Compliant quizzes for Moodle.

Run QuizCreator, go to “Publish” menu, click “LMS” and select “SCORM 1.2/2004/AICC” protocol to publish. QuizCreator generates a .zip SCORM package for teachers upload it to Moodle.

Step 6: Upload quiz to Moodle.
Go to Moodle and select a course, go to “Add an activity” and select “SCORM/AICC”, type the course name and summary, go to the “Package File” and click on “Browse” to select the SCORM compliant quiz package and upload it. Set up the “Attempt times” and the stage width and height, click “Save changes” to save the settings. Then you could view the quiz in Moodle.

Related links:
Samples created by QuizCreator >>

QuizCreator Homepage >>

28 Web Conference Training Tips

2009-02-18T00:53:00.000-08:00

28 Web Conference Training Tips

Syberworks, an LMS and web conferencing solution provider, has posted an article listing 28 tips for web conference training. Most of them are well-known and obvious, but there are still some good thoughts worth reviewing, even for seasoned veterans.

Here are some highlights:

2. When developing PowerPoint slides to use in web conference training, follow these guidelines:
· Simplify content.
· Use a large, bold, simple font like Arial.
· Have no more than 6 to 8 lines of text per page (fewer are better).
· Make no more than 4 to 5 training points per page (fewer are better).
· Use plain backgrounds that contrast well with the text without clashing.
· If possible, avoid complex animations (i.e. no spinning text, etc.)

5. Test all aspects of your presentation ahead of time. (Enlist the help
of an online facilitator or a student for these tests.)
12. Limit each session to 60 - 90 minutes. Longer sessions are not productive.
13. Limit your audience. When possible, keep the number of people attending small. (No more than six people are best.)
14. You might want to ask your technical people to set up a dual monitor configuration on your PC (or laptops) for you, so that your presentation appears on one display (as others are seeing it), while your delivery screens and notes appear on the other.
19. Have more than one Web Conference option ready to use. Then, if some participants can’t connect, you can create a new conference on the spot, with different conference tools.
27. Follow up with your learners after their web-conference training. This could be by email or perhaps even through a test to gauge their understanding of the material.
28. Keep a log of all training and notes. It can help improve your future training.

From: http://learningonlineblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/28-web-conference-training-tips.html

DemoCreator - Screen Recorder for Learning

2009-02-11T21:49:00.000-08:00

Screen recorder is the software for recording screen activity and mouse movement to create movies and interactive demos. It is useful for creating training materials, software tutorials, presentations, and product demonstrations. As a powerful presentation tool, nowadays screen recorder is widely used in teaching and learning.

The research about screen recording suggests that screen recordings increase teaching presence and thus improve students' learning experiences.- For teachers, they can perform demos in an online learning environment; the tutorials can be edited with multiple interactive elements before delivery, the demos support reuse...- For students, the presentations created by screen recorder is clearer and more engaging than written instructions or static screen shots; the demos can be played as many times as needed; the tutorial videos is for "anytime/anywhere" learning...

Using screen recorder to create presentations for online teaching becomes more and more popular in edu 2.0. DemoCreator - is widely used in universities and institutions, DemoCreator is a nice screen recorder for creating electronic learning presentations. It provides friendly interfaces and powerful editing features. No need of multimedia and programming skills to make interactive tutorials. We will take a look at this screen recorder in details.

Record the onscreen activity as slides
DemoCreator record video tutorials with audio by screen capture, and show exactly how the application (such as PowerPoint, Photoshop and website) or system runs. The screen recording is saved as slides. The slide format makes it easy to edit. For example, the mouse curse is recorded as an editable object in the timeline of a slide, users can change its clicking area, clicking effect, movement route and time. A mass of slides for a lengthy presentation could be a disadvantage for some users, but this enables users to save the desired slides and discard the unwanted slides for their presentation.

Edit the recording tutorial with interactive objects
Because tutorials and simulations are shown as a slide format in DemoCreator, users can readily modify the pace and control the timing of objects such as visual components on the timeline editor for each slide. There is a library of available objects to decorate the recording, such as Flash animation, mouse movements, text box, edit entry, highlight boxes for spotlighting areas in a slide, and clickable buttons for directing users to a different slide or URL page. Users can enhance the presentation by adding the objects to make the illustration explicit. Users can rerecord the narrations for the tutorials, or they can import the music files to their tutorials. Furthermore, the existed project can be imported to the current presentation project. It means that DemoCreator supports tutorial reuse, and the multiple tutorials can be integrated as one.

Publish the presentation for online learning
To make interactive presentations, the predominately used publishing output media type in DemoCreator is Flash movie. The main drawback is that lengthy presentations can result in a large number of slides that can be time consuming to publish and result in a larger file size. And DemoCreator enables teachers to provide students with record results through Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) or Aviation Industry Computer-based Training Committee (AICC). SCORM and AICC courseware are available through both commercial and open source learning management systems for school education and enterprise training.
"Teaching is a performing art."— Bob Ross, professional speaker and humoristEasy to make your presentation with screen recorder. But remember, to make a good presentation, instructor enthusiasm and creativity are the key.

Exam 2.0 - Make Exam Online and Get Results Automatically

2009-01-21T01:37:00.000-08:00

Now that the New Year’s Day hangovers are a thing of the past, it’s time to trade in the warm sofa for cold, hard desks as the spring semester approaches. As technology is developing so fast last year, Web 2.0, E-Learning, Mobile Learning and collaborative learning are changing the way we live, learn and teach. As a teacher in 21st century, how do you take the new technology to your classroom becomes a popular problem, especially for the non-technical teachers.

Exam 2.0 makes online examination and gets students’ results automatically. It is what most teachers expect for: the efficient solution to host exams anywhere and anytime. Transferring traditional exams to online exams will help teachers or trainers a lot, from making interactive quizzes and tests with multimedia enhancement to tracking test results with insightful reports.

With Exam 2.0, teachers could:
- No need to wait a long time at the end of the queue to print the examination paper;
- No need to take a lot of time to review the examination, the Quiz Management System could review the answers and export the report automatically;
- Easy to reuse the quizzes from the quiz database;
- Easy to add some audio and media files for the examination;
- Easy to track the details of the takers on the quiz.

How to implement Exam 2.0 in teaching? Nowadays there are many Exam 2.0 tools to make the online examination. The following are some must have features of Exam 2.0 tools.

The features of Exam 2.0 Tools must have:
1. Support many question types: Many online exam creation tools provide true/false, multiple choice, fill in blank, click map (perfect for geography examination), and so on.

2. Randomization of the questions and answers: So students could get different sequence number of the questions and answers.

3. Import the audio file or record narration for the examination: Perfect for the language training and scenario-based learning.

4. Import media file to the exam: Teachers can easy to add videos to the examination. It is an easy way to catch students’ eyes in minutes.

5. Deploy the examination virtually anywhere: Now many teachers have their own blogs on Ning or Google blogger, they could easy to upload the exam to their blogs. Even more, many of the exam creation tools support SCORM. So teachers can upload the exam to Moodle, Blackboard for students to take.

6. Provide the result tracking system to collect the results automatically: With this function teacher do not need to review the examination papers one by one. The examination results report would be created automatically after the students finish the examination.

An Exam 2.0 tool – QuizCreator - which is widely used in schools and institutions, is a great exam tool providing Free Quiz Management System to track quiz results online. It includes all of the features which Exam 2.0 Tools must have above. Learn more about it from: http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/index.html#109

Martin Luther King Online Quiz

2009-01-19T18:36:00.000-08:00

How much do you know about Martin Luther King, Js.? The following is a quiz about Martin Luther King, Js.’s life, click the following picture and go to test now!

Or click here to take the quiz >>

Top E-Learning Tools of 2009 You Shouldn't Teach Without

2009-01-15T22:55:00.000-08:00

Nowadays, many predictions come forth from every industry. 9 E-Commerce Predictions for 2009, 10 tech predictions for 2009, eLearning predictions for 2009 and so on. Though we know none of us can see into the future, we cannot deny that these predictions play significant roles in guidance for our future work. Below I list some eLearning tools I gather up for 2009, hope these could give you some help in your future teaching and learning. I will classify these tools into 6 different types. Most of them are Free.

Presentation Tools

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Zoho Show is an FREE online presentation program allows users to create presentations from scratch or (as is often the case) import from their library of Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps) or OpenOffice (.odp, .sxi) presentations.

280 Slides is a notable Free online replacement for desktop presentation apps.With it, you can create a presentation, theme it, add graphics and video, and then present it, share it via Slideshare, or download it as a PowerPoint or PDF file.

PowerPoint is a versatile presentation tool. It is ideal for creating professional presentations that integrate text, charts, diagrams and clip art images.

Wondershare PPT2Flash lets non-technical users create high-impact Flash presentations and eLearning courses from PowerPoint with rich media, quizzes and simulations. PPT2Flash content runs on any Web server, any LMS. For organizations with Learning Management Systems, PPT2Flash creates SCORM and AICC-compliant content so learner results can be tracked.

Simulation Tools
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ScreenToaster is a Free online screen recorder paired with a video platform dedicated to screencasts. Just the perfect tool to search and find tutorials, howtos, reviews, tips and tricks, showcases, walkthrough and e-learning formations.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

DemoCreator is a professional screen recording tool to create better-than-live software video tutorials, presentations and training courses.

Adobe Captive is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format.

Assessment Tool

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Hot Potatoes provides a suite of tools that enable you to create interactive web-based activities for self-assessment purposes. It is free of charge for publicly funded, non-profit, educational users.

Qedoc Quiz Maker is a FREE teaching tool for making interactive lessons & quizzes and test preparation.

Online QuizCreator is a powerful assessment tool that you can create Flash online exam, quiz, test and survey. It combines interactivity and multimedia to engage learners through the learning process and offers flexible results tracking and score reporting.

Articulate QuizMaker is a commercial tool that generates web-based quizzes and surveys.

Virtual Classroom

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WiZiQ offers free online e-teaching and e-learning using web conferencing with document and whiteboard sharing, teacher resumes and presentation sharing.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is the complete Web communications solution that enables live online meetings, virtual classes, and group collaboration.

Course Management System

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Moodle is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals.

Blogging Tools
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Blogger is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals.

Edublogs is “the largest education community on the Internet” where you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog.

3 Tips Help Your Corporation Training Far Away From Devils in 2009

2009-01-08T18:09:00.000-08:00

We have all heard the claims that implementing eLearning and online training in corporation will significantly reduce the training costs and improve performance. But the fact is that eLearning projects rarely produce a significant Return On Investment (ROI).

Corporate University Xchange's Pillars of e-Learning Success indicated that nearly 75 percent of corporate learning professionals reducing education and training costs was their main driver for launching an e-learning initiative. But the corporate learning practitioners indicated they saved less than 20 percent in training-related expenses by delivering programs via eLearning.

How to advance the ROI of online Corporation training?

Tip 1: Think Better of Choosing Commercial LMSs

Many LMSs (Learning Management Systems) cost companies in excess of $750K per year for license, maintenance and student access fees. Some corporations are paying more for their LMS technology than they are for the eLearning content they deliver. LMSs are essentially high-tech warehouses for training management and eLearning content. Many research indicated that the full cost of LMS technology can be significantly higher than the returns it can provide. Most of these commercial LMSs are very expensive and the investment in LMSs always goes up to 80% of the training cost. Maybe you could choose Open Source LMSs such as Moodle or local LMSs which have strengths that suit certain organizations.

Tip 2: Take Pre-Assessments and Post-Assessments in the Training

Online Assessment (e-Assessment) can significantly reduce the training costs and enhance the training effectiveness. Instructors need to know the overall schedule of the training to grade whole learning process. With different levels, make exact schedule of assessments to examine all learners' performances. The good point is, instructors can benefit from those results of assessments as feedback, and add improvements in the learning courses of next level. For online training, the scheduled assessments could be easier to be integrated into original learning timeline. Assessments and courses can be based on feedbacks from previous assessments to engage learners with interactions. At the end, assessment in traditional way also makes sense with maximum efforts.

Tip 3: Using Open Source or Rapid E-Learning Software to Reduce the Costs on Course Contractor

Open source software is free to download and use owing to the absence of license costs and, according to a report this June in The Financial Times, even the European Union's competition commissioner has urged the European Commission to use software from open sources. And there are many rapid E-Learning tools for corporation employees to create engage courses from PowerPoint without any programming skills.

Here are many known Open Source, Free and Commercial rapid E-Learning authoring tools for reference.

eXe OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package:The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup.

CourseLab: CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.

Articulate Studio: Articulate Studio gives you Presenter, QuizMaker, Engage and Video Encoder in one integrated package. It’s very professional and known in E-Learning area.

Wondershare Rapid E-Learning Suite: It integrates PPT2Flash Professional, QuizCreator, DemoCreator and WebVideo Author in one package. You'll have everything you need to quickly create e-learning courses from PowerPoint and develop stunning interactive content, quizzes, assessments, surveys and simulations. All of these tools are easy to use without any programming skills.

Exam 2.0: Host Your Next Exam Online at Online-Quiz-Creator.com

2008-11-18T03:00:00.000-08:00

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Though little research indicates how we can upgrade our traditional exams with newly educational technologies, taking the advantages of Internet really will change any traditional ways. That’s what we expect from Exam 2.0: the efficient solution to host exams anywhere anytime. Transferring traditional exams to online exams at Quiz Paradise will help teachers or trainers a lot, from making interactive quizzes and tests with multimedia enhancement to tracking test results with insightful reports.

Make Online Exams Effortlessly with QuizCreator

With the powerful online exam creation tool, everyone can create professional-looking online exams quickly with no more hassles. Particularly, it is so easy to customize Flash-based interactive tests with pictures, sounds and videos, which make the contents more appealing and intuitive than any plain texts questions online. Quiz Paradise offers some good examples at http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/quiz-zone.html.

Report Exam Results Online with Quiz Management System For FREE

Not only the quizzes can be generally used on any Web pages and shared with anyone anywhere, also teachers or trainers get an enhanced results tracking system for free, where they will be able to see all the details about how people take the quiz, and overall statistics as insightful reports. It is bringing online exams to a new level where they become easy to create, share and track as the real Exam 2.0.

Online-quiz-creator.com is one such Exam 2.0 site offering solutions to the next generation exams with educational technologies for teachers and trainers. Are you ready to Exam 2.0? Just try out at Online-Quiz-Creator.com.

Best Online Flash Quiz Maker For Training

2008-11-05T22:26:00.000-08:00

We highly recommend powerful flash tool Flash Quiz Maker which helps to build rich-media quizzes and track results without any programming skills for learning and training.

Key Features:

Easily make your own quizzes in minutes

Integrate images, Flash and audio into the quiz

Apply powerful but easy quiz settings in building

Create various scenarios with flexible quiz player

Share the quiz online and track results For FREE

View Samples >>

Link to official website >>

5 Ways to Put PowerPoint Presentation on Web

2008-11-04T18:20:00.000-08:00

Want to share your original and creative presentations with others all over the world? Putting PowerPoint presentation on Web sounds a good idea. Especially in this era of Internet on which everyone can view various resources using their computers.

Here are 5 different ways to put PowerPoint presentation on Web. Each way has its cons and pros.

Method 1 Upload and link PowerPoint File directly

Yes, you could just upload PowerPoint file to your web site and link to it. Visitors click and download the file to view the presentation on their computers.

Cons:

Visitors should download the presentation before viewing.

Visitors should install PowerPoint app or PowerPoint viewer to view it.

The presentation file may have a big file size.

Pros:

Just upload your presentation to your Website and link to it.

Share your presentation with all the animations and special effects.

Method 2 Share presentation on Slideshare.net

Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. Think of it as something like YouTube for slide shows. You can upload your presentations in PPT, PPS or POT formats to SlideShare and they're converted into shared media.

Cons:

All the animations, multimedia files in the presentation will disappear.

Pros:

The presentation can be viewed on any computers.

Method 3 Publish as HTML web page

PowerPoint lets you save your presentation as HTML, as a web page (Office button -> Save As -> Other Formats, and then choose Web Page in the "Save as type" pull-down menu).

Cons:

Each slide is saved as a separate image, with its own page, so you have to upload an entire folder of files to your server.

It will not display properly for website visitors who aren't using IE.

Free open source software may be a stronger choice in this instance. OpenOffice Impress, the PowerPoint look-alike from http://www.OpenOffice.org, lets you create a PPT presentation from scratch, and it will also convert an existing PowerPoint presentation to HTML in a form that's compatible with a broader range of browsers.

Method 4 Flash it using Wondershare PPT2Flash

Actually, OpenOffice even offers to export your presentation as a Flash (SWF) format, but animations will disappear.

Wondershare PPT2Flash, an add-in of PowerPoint, lets you convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash with one-click.

3 steps to convert your presentation to Flash:

Download and install PPT2Flash -> Import PowerPoint presentation -> Click "Publish" to convert.

Pros:

Has up to 90% reduction in file size after conversion.

Flash can be shown properly on any computers.

The conversion retains all the animations, hyperlinks, multimedia file in your presentation.

Flash is difficult to modify.

Method 5 Record it using Camtasia Studio

Download and install Comtasia (http://www.techsmith.com) on your computer and then follow the steps below.

Step 1, save your PPT file as PPS file.

Step 2, Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen.

Step 3, Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press "F9" to start recording the screen.

Step 4, when you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter filename.

Step 5, save your capture in SWF format.

Cons:

It will a little time-consuming if there are many slides in your presentation.

Best way to publish your presentation on Web

If you want to make animated and protected presentation on Web in minutes, converting PowerPoint to Flash using Wondershare PPT2Flash sounds downright elegant!

Showing a Flash movie on web is most often as easy as uploading your SWF file to your web space and using a few lines of object / embed code (http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp) to embed the file on your page.

Camtasia can record the screen and sound when your play your PowerPoint, but should pay $299 to buy which is higher than PPT2Flash($59.95). For Mac users, you can upload your presentation to slideshare.net. If you only want to create static presentation on web, using OpenOffice to export your presentation to HTML or Flash would be better.

I hope you can use these 5 methods to share your presentation on web easily. Of course, if you have any other good methods, please let me know. Thanks!

Web as Desktop: Live presentations on the web!

2008-09-10T00:58:00.001-07:00

Are you suffering the high cost and continual repetition of live presentations?

"As a president, I always join many meetings and trade shows to present our products or corporation. There is no problem with the live presentation. But I’m stuck when I want to sharing the meeting with others after it. Because I need present the same presentation again and again even spend additional high costs on driving or flying. The boring continual repetition makes me crazy. Is there any way to take my live presentation to the web? – Mr. Cooper”

PowerPoint is still the most popular tool for presentations now. It could integrate images, movies, narrations, animations to make the presentation animated and interactive. But the PowerPoint file is big and hard to share on the web, hard to integrate with the presenter’s video and narration to live up the presentation.

How to distribute the live presentations to web to reduce the cost?

As everybody knows that, web presentation is a big cost and time saving solution. If we could run the presentation with the presenter’s video and narration online, it will be perfect. The difficulty of the web presentation is hard to integrate the presenter’s video and narration along with the PowerPoint presentation content. Is there any way to fix this problem?

A brand new service gives you an easy-to-use way to integrate the presenter’s video with PowerPoint slideshows, sharing the results online. This simple tool makes it a piece of cake to run the presenter’s video content side-by-side with PowerPoint presentations. So the audience could get the presentation running alongside with presenter’s video and narration in action, likes that the presenter stands by them. This really has the power to bring online presentations to life. There are many tools such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional and services like Omnisio, Zentation to integrate the video along with the PowerPoint slideshows. Here is the comparability of the two ways.

PPT2Flash Professional converts the PowerPoint presentations to Flash with presenter’s video and narration in one click. It works as a PowerPoint add-in. Presenter could easily distribute the Flash presentations to their website or training center for sharing. The Flash format is safer and smaller for web distribution.

Learn more about Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional from: http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html

View samples from here: http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash/samples.html

Omnisio and Zentation are simple online applications for the synchronization and sharing of the Slideshare-hosted PowerPoint decks and Google Video-hosted content. You could upload your video to Youtube and then upload the PowerPoint presentation to Slideshare, use Omnisio and Zentation to synchronization them together. They will generate one webpage for you. You could share the content with others on this webpage.

For inner continual presentations, PPT2Flash Professional seems a better solution.
For external one time presentation, Omnisio and Zentation are better solutions.

PowerPoint Tips - How to Change the Default Hyperlink Color of PowerPoint

2008-08-14T01:13:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, I found many guys are complaining about how to change the Default Hyperlink corlor in PowerPoint. Sometimes the default hyperlink color (Deep Blue) could not fit other content in the PowerPoint presentation. They need to change the hyperlinks color to fit others. This article teaches you how to change the default hyperlink color step by step.

Here is a step-by-step tutorial teaches you how to do it in PowerPoint 2007.

1. Run PowerPoint, Go to "Design" > "Colors", there are many built-in themes in the pull-down menu such as "Grayscale","Apex", "Aspect" and so on. You could select one theme from them directly.

2. Or you could click "Create new theme colors" in the pull-down menu to set a color by yourself. Go to "Hyperlink" and set up the color of the hyperlink. Click "Save" to save your settings.

Learning in a Web 2.0 World: Don’t Miss DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo

2008-08-12T20:33:00.000-07:00

News from Wondershare Blog

DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo is where the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the e-Learning industry convene each year to explore, discuss, and learn about the best ideas and technologies for e-Learning. It’s for learning design, development, and management professionals who are leading e-Learning efforts, and who need to keep abreast of the most successful and emerging technologies, strategies, and best-practices in order to effectively deploy them in their organizations.

DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo
November 11 -14, 2008 | San Jose, CA
Official Homepage:
http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.918

Our theme this year is Learning in a Web 2.0 World, because our focus is on the enormous potential these technologies offer us as learning professionals. As always, the DevLearn 2008 program is filled with content that addresses every aspect of e-Learning initiatives, and your personal professional skills and knowledge.

DevLearn 2008 also incorporates the Training Technology in Action Conference & Awards, and is co-located with the Adobe Learning Summit, which collectively make this the single most comprehensive event you could attend this year.

So, if you’re on the leading edge of e-Learning, then you need to attend DevLearn 2008!

Convert PowerPoint to Flash and Upload to Moodle

2008-08-05T22:22:00.000-07:00

If you are using Moodle, you can use PPT2Flash Professional to create a learning course with SCORM or AICC compliance and upload it to your Moodle.

Create a SCORM/AICC course with PPT2Flash Professional

1. Download PPT2Flash Professional and install it with all default settings.

2. Run "PPT2Flash Professional", select "Launch PowerPoint" on the start menu, go to the Plug-in menu of "PPT2Flash Professional" in PowerPoint, there is a embed menu of PPT2Flash Professional in PowerPoint.

3. Open your course in PowerPoint and click "Publish" button to publish the course with SCORM/AICC compliance.

4. When conversion is completed, select "Open output folder" and go to the published folder, there is a .zip file in there. Upload this .zip file to your Moodle.

Upload the course to Moodle

1. Login your moodle, run a Moodle course in Edit mode.

2. Select "Add an Activity", and select "SCORM/AICC" from the drop-down list.

3. Browse to the SCORM Zip file created by PPT2Flash Professional.

4. Upload the zip file to Moodle.

Click to download PPT2Flash Pro free trial and create the eLearning courses now>>

Buy PPT2Flash Professional now with $199.95 and get 30+ PowerPoint templates For Free>>

3 Must Know Tips to Create Multimedia Courses and Engage your Learners

2008-07-23T05:33:00.000-07:00

Nowadays distance teaching and learning becomes more and more popular. Without the face to face feeling and feedback, as a teacher, how to attract learners’ attention during the distance teaching becomes a popular question. This article gives you some tips and resources empower nontechnical subject matter experts to create engage courses using nothing more complicated than Microsoft PowerPoint. Click to view sample courses>>

Courses with Pictures

Anyone who’s ever designed an eLearning course, corporate brochure or any form of graphic design, has at one time or another been asked to replace one or more images that could be perceived to be offensive or biased.

Lee and Bowers (1997) studied a group of university students to determine under which set of conditions people learned best. The participants were given a pre-test, they then learned the material, and then were given a post-test. Their learning was compared with the learning of a control group that took the same pre- and post-tests, but studied a different topic in-between. When compared with the learning performance of the control group, the people in the different groups always demonstrated more learning:

• Hearing spoken text and looking at graphics – 91% more learning,
• Looking at graphics alone – 63% more,
• Reading printed text plus looking at graphics – 56% more,
• Listening to spoken text, reading text, and looking at graphics – 46% more,
• Hearing spoken text plus reading printed text – 32% more,
• Reading printed text alone – 12% more,
• Hearing spoken text alone – 7% more.

Courses with teacher’s Narration

Students who listened to a narration explaining how a bicycle tire pump works while also viewing a corresponding animation generated twice as many useful solutions to subsequent problem-solving transfer question than did students who listened to the same narration without viewing any animation (Mayer & Anderson, 1991,1992). It’s so easy to record the narration for the eLearning courses from microphone.

Many eLearning tools help you to create multimedia eLearning courses with narration and video clips. Such as Articulate Presenter, Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional, Adobe Presenter, and so on.

Courses with featured sample video

The multimedia effect is consistent with a cognitive theory of multimedia learning because students given multimedia explanations are able to build two different mental representations – a verbal model and a visual model – and build connections between them. A sample video could give the students an engaged impression.

Free Image Resources

• Microsoft Office Online. Microsoft offers quite a few really nice images. For example, just do a search of “business people” to start.

• Stock.xchng. This is a good blend of free images and links to relatively inexpensive stock images.

• Flickr. There are many photo community sites like Flickr where people upload their photos for use based on the Creative Commons license.

Broadcast Software Demos, Tutorial Videos, Online-help videos with Youtube

2008-05-29T06:00:00.000-07:00

YouTube generation has been coined as the group of internet users who are making use of today’s technology of video sharing with the ease of personal video uploading. Its strong traffic and intuitive video could help you to promote your products in a quick way.

May 23, 2008 – Wondershare Software, the rapidly growing content authoring tool provider, today announced the availability of its simulation tool –DemoCreator 2.1.0, which was dramatically enhanced with AVI output format. With this significant feature, end users could publish their product demos and presentation videos to Youtube, Myspace and other video sharing websites easily and widely.

DemoCreator automatically records exactly what users see on a computer screen, what they say, and how they interact with PowerPoint or any Windows-based application or Web site. End users can then add the interactive content to the flash movies with annotations, cursor moves, voice-overs, animations, user interactions, and more. Especially the new feature of upload to Youtube could help end users to promote and market their products by sharing the product presentation videos.

- Broadcast Application Tutorials on Youtube

DemoCreator is particularly good for software developers who need to create computer-based tutorials for their applications but don’t want the bother of learning a complex authoring tool or the expense of outsourcing their demos to high-priced consultants. With the option to publish as AVI Video in DemoCreator, software developers could share the tutorials on Youtube or blog for web sharing.

Take a Tour of This New Feature>>

- Teaching on Youtube

YouTube’s development of an education category “is a direct response to our community's interest in this type of content,” said Obadiah Greenberg, YouTube’s strategic partner manager, in an e-mail interview. “As more colleges and universities upload content and create channels, we expect that Education will be a vibrant category on YouTube.”

Educators and eLearning Creators can use DemoCreator to upload demo video to Youtube and share their courses online. The amazing AICC/SCORM compliance for LMS function helps them share the courses easily and conveniently.

- Broadcast the Products on Youtube

Sales and Marketing Personnel can make a bigger impact by using DemoCreator’s audio and animation effects to bring sales and marketing pieces to life.

Pricing and Product info

Price of DemoCreator: $69.95 (The Special Offer will end on May 26, 2008).
Product Page: http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html

View samples: http://www.sameshow.com/democreator/create-software-demo-samples.html

About Wondershare Software

Wondershare Software is an industry-leading learning and training software application provider. Wonder share’s innovative tools for rich media content development quiz and test authoring, simulation creation and streaming video design let end users without technical skills to create content for web publishing, online education, and business presentation.

Contact Us

Address: 3/F, Fucheng Hi-Tech Building, Gaoxin South Road 1, Nanshan District,Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Postcode: 518057
Tel: +86-755-86185517
Fax:+86-755-86117737
zip:518057
Contact: Sabrina Fu
E-mail: biz-el@wondershare.com

Rapidly Create Online Flash Movies to Help Users Market, Sell and Support Software and Hardware

2008-05-04T23:13:00.000-07:00

Screencasting is the new hip term for recording computer screens as flash video tutorials to help users market, sell and support software and hardware. Wondershare DemoCreator 2.0 comes with a new recording mode of full motion video recording and enables users to record everything on computer screens and enrich the demo content with a powerful editor.

April 3rd , 2008 – Wondershare Software, the rapidly growing content authoring tool provider, today announced the availability of its simulation tool – DemoCreator 2, which was dramatically enhanced with full-motion video recording. DemoCreator 2 enables end users with no programming or multimedia expertise to quickly create professional software training and demonstrations, online marketing presentations, screencasts, and training materials to help sell and support software and hardware.

DemoCreator 2 is a huge upgrade over the previous version of the product, bringing the Wonsershare simulation tool fully into modern times. The new recording mode of full motion video recording enables users to record everything on the computer screens and create flash video tutorials in minutes.

Full Motion Video Recording
DemoCreator automatically records exactly what users see on a computer screen, what they say, and how they interact with PowerPoint or any Windows-based application or Web site. End users can then add the interactive content to the flash movies with annotations, cursor moves, voice-overs, animations, user interactions, and more.

View one-minute sample from: http://www.sameshow.com/samples/flash-powerpoint/insert-flash-to-powerpoint-manually.html

Record by taking Screen shots
With this recording mode, DemoCreator captures the screenshots with mouse clicks and keystrokes. And it can automatically add text boxes as it is recording an application. After users finish recording and go to preview and editing stages, descriptive text boxes had been added to any places where users had clicked a button or link or added content to a field or form. This feature alone saves a lot time and improves productivity greatly!

DemoCreator is particularly good for software developers who need to create computer-based tutorials for their applications but don't want the bother of learning a complex authoring tool or the expense of outsourcing their demos to high-priced consultants.

Technical Support and Help Desk Staff can eliminate trouble tickets before they get raised by providing users with flash movies that enable them to clearly see all the steps, clicks and other actions they need to make for using an application successfully.

Educators and eLearning Creators can use DemoCreator's capture, audio-visual and editing capabilities to shorten the time it takes to create high quality courses. The amazing AICC/SCORM compliance for LMS function helps them share the courses easily and conveniently.

Sales and Marketing Personnel can make a bigger impact by using DemoCreator's audio and animation effects to bring sales and marketing pieces to life.

Pricing and Product info

Price of DemoCreator: $69.95 (Special Offer and Academic discounts available).

Free trial: http://download.sameshow.com/democreator_trial.exe

Product Page: http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html

Demo Videos: http://www.sameshow.com/democreator/create-software-demo-samples.html

About Wondershare Software
Wondershare Software is an industry-leading learning and training software application provider. Wonder share's innovative tools for rich media content development quiz and test authoring, simulation creation and streaming video design let end users without technical skills to create content for web publishing, online education, and business presentation.

Contact Us
Address: 3/F, Fucheng Hi-Tech Building, Gaoxin South Road 1, Nanshan District,Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Postcode: 518057
Tel: +86-755-86185517
Fax:+86-755-86117737
zip:518057
Contact: Sabrina Fu
E-mail: biz-el@wondershare.com

How to Record the Computer Screen without Camera

2008-01-11T22:14:00.000-08:00

Why do you need to record the computer?
"What's wrong with my computer/this tool?" When you have problems of trying new applications or system, and have no idea of how to describe what happened on your computer, you may need a tool to mirror your operations, and then send it to a computer guru or technical support for help. It need to show exactly what you have done and how can this happen, so the technical staff can understand you clearly and give you the quick solution within minutes. It’s efficient for you to get the quick response.

Do you really need a camera to record your computer screen? A camera face to your computer is not the best way for these purposes. First, the camera can not record the screen exactly. Second, you can not edit the video by adding some instructions or narrations. Third, the video file is too big for web sharing and transmission.

Maybe you need an application to record your screen, not a camera! Screen recording software helps you to record the screen to mirror all of your operations without camera. You can add tips to highlight the important functions. Furthermore, you can add narration from microphone easily to enhance the demo. At last you can publish the flash movie and transmit to the technical guys. As you know, the flash format with smaller size and better for network transmission.

It's very popular that these demo creator tools work with three steps, record screen, enhance with annotations and publish to movie. A good one in this area is Wondershare DemoCreator, with the excellent functions of Auto-annotation and click zone. It’s suitable for individual uses, no need of programming or media skills.

Especially, DemoCreator's build-in ready-for-use after capture, adds the annotation and click zone to recorded screens automatically when recording is being done. After recording is completed, you can just publish the movie immediately. The actions of mouse movements and application operations are recorded automatically already. Audiences can know how to use your products step by step when playing the demo. Furthermore, you can add some animations or interactivities to enhance the software demo, thus making the demo more animated and interactive.

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