Quiz and Test Making Programs

Quia

Quia is an impressive online subscription-based service ($49/yr) for creating games, quizzes, web pages, surveys, calendars, and more. It features a directory of thousands of online activities and quizzes in more than 50 subject areas and templates for creating 14 different types of online activities, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, jumbled words, ordered list, picture perfect, pop-ups, challenge board, scavenger hunt, rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), columns, and cloze exercises.

http://quia.com

EasyTestMaker

With Easy Test Maker you can create free online multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. You can also print a master answer sheet.

http://www.easytestmaker.com/

Discovery School Quiz Center

Quiz Center is a free tool to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Discovery School Quiz Center provides a web address for students to access the quiz and emails the graded and corrected results to you, but has no database to keep the scores.

http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html

Quiz Star

QuizStar is a free web-based program to create a custom quiz that others can take online. Quiz Star provides a web address for students to access a quiz and tells you when a student takes it. It also keeps aggregate data on the website for all quizzes taken by students.

http://quiz.4teachers.org/

Hot Potatoes

The Hot Potatoes downloadable program 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 not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

ArgoSphere

Argoshphere is an award-winning UK website for children that offers original and interactive activities via the net. It also features a free and easy-to-use test maker that anyone can use to make interactive tests. No downloads; you work it right from the Web.

http://www.futurecomputers.co.uk/education/internetcontent.html

QuizLab

Generate online quizzes for any lesson or select from a library of teacher-created quizzes. Free 30-day trial.

http://funbrain.com

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