Hot Potatoes
- Half-Baked Software:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
- Free to educators (but you do have to register at
the above website to get a registration code).
- Includes six different types of interactive
Web-based exercises: Multiple Choice, Cloze (fill-in-the-blank) Items,
Crossword Puzzles, Matching, Jumbled Sentence, and Short Answer.
- Highly customizable.
- You develop and save exercises in Hot Potatoes
format and then convert to Web pages as the final stage. The program
creates extensive JavaScript programs to present exercises to students.
- Questions must be entered one at a time, although
future versions promise good importing. Not clear whether database
tables of test items will be possible.
- Cannot mix item types in a quiz.
- Best used for student self-tests and exercises
from your website. Current version has limited means for sending the
results of tests to the instructor. Future versions will work with a
server (which charges a fee) to save results in formats that instructors
can access.
- All security problems associated with online
testing apply to Hot Potatoes exercises.
Respondus
- Respondus:
http://www.respondus.com/
- KSU has site license for Respondus, so you can
download and install program for free through your WebCT utilities
account.
- Integrates reasonably well with WebCT for test
presentation.
- Allows creation of database of test items for easy
reordering and reuse.
- Has six item types: Multiple Choice, True and
False, Paragraph, Matching, Short Answer, Multiple Response
- Present tests, quizzes, and surveys through WebCT
or on paper.
- Within WebCT, has good data reporting features.
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