Week 4


 

Interactive exercises and quizzes

  

(Week 4: Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2015)

 

 

 

Moderators:

 Svetlana Obenausova (Czech Republic), Helen Davies (France)

 

 

 

Objectives: 

 

By the end of this week you will have:

  • explored different tools to create online interactive exercises, quizzes, and surveys
  • created activities using some of these tools and shared them with the community using the Participants' Production Page and in your blog/wiki  
  • commented on exercises or quizzes of other participants in the Participants' Production Page
  • got  acquainted with Big Marker
  • commented on the readings using this link in the Edmodo Group

 

Activities

 

Task 1

 

Task 2

 

 

Task 3

 

 

Task 4 

 

Task 5

 

Task 6

 

Task 7

 

Here are some useful tutorials to get you started 

 

Choose the language of the tutorial by clicking the flag in the upper right-hand corner. The easiest way to start with this tool is browsing apps of other people, choosing one you like and then clicking the button Create similar app. Then you erase the content and leave just the template of the exercise. You need to create your account to do that, of course. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tools to explore

 

 

Interactive exercise and quiz creators 

No registration needed Registration needed
Hot Potatoes  [download] There are detailed tutorials above with pictures and explanations
Learning Apps highly recommended, easy to use and exercises look really good

Web Sequitur & Web Rhubarb [download]

(demo version is free)

Edmodo - you can create quizzes for your classes and see students' results. This can be done only once you create a teacher's account and create your own class there

 

Quandary  [download] There is a detailed tutorial above
More optional tools for those who want to experiment more:

Eclipse Crossword [download] - great for printed worksheets, yet you can also create html exercises.

Educaplay It is very easy to create exercises here, just view some samples in their gallery and start your own. Their video quizzes are worth watching.  
   Quizstar you can create online quizzes for your students, these will be automatically graded 
  Quizlet - you can use a large database of activities or create your own
  PhotoPeach quizzes
  Kubbu

Online worksheets

No registration needed Registration needed
Tools for Educators  Worksheet Wizard
   

Online Surveys and Poll creators

No registration needed Registration needed
 Google account holders can create easy surveys through their Drive - you need to create a Form, as it is called in Google.
SurveyMonkey the best tool for your surveys
  Edmodo - you can create polls for your classes once you create a teacher's account
  Micropoll
  Survey tools - a selection of 9 tools
  Surveys and polls - a selection of 10 tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self-check

I have....

  • explored at least one tool (interactive exercise, worksheet or survey)
  • created at least one activity with one of these tools and posted the activity link to the Participants' Production Page and in my blog/wiki
  • commented on exercises or quizzes of other participants in the Participants' Production Page 
  • commented on the readings using the Edmodo Group
  • raised all questions I wanted to during our Big Marker session 

 

 

To get a badge for this week, you need to

 

 

 

Suggested readings - if you want to send us your reading comments, please do it through this link only.

 

 

 

 

A short note: HotPotatoes terms of use have changed:

"Hot Potatoes is now freeware. The complete version of the programs is now available for free, from the Downloads section . The free version of Hot Potatoes for Windows is version 6.3, and the Java version is 6.1."
"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source."

 

(This article focuses on this utility of the Internet. Some sites are presented where teachers can easily design activities and exercises online, such as quizzes, tests, puzzles or surveys, which require no advanced computer skills. Included are only those tools that are free for educational use for obvious reasons.)

 

A short note:

2 of the sites mentioned in the article no longer exist; one is Headline Makers:  lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index;

when you click on the link you get the message: The server at lang.swarthmore.edu is taking too long to respond.

You can find the old site here and a new one here

 

The other is Trackstar; the link takes us to a site about Online Casino and Gambling; the present site is:

http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp

 

 

Looking for more inspiration?