Online Assignments, Quizzes, and Assessment
WWWAssign
In the Web 101 Seminar, you are asked to create an online quiz. The
course provides tutorial information for you to do so using the WWWAssign
software program. There are other options, also. A quick look at Online
Quiz Programs will give you an idea of what's available. Another
logical choice for some of you would be to use the quiz portion of WebCT
to create an online quiz. The WebCT seminar will cover that, so I won't
cover it, here. I will concentrate on the WWWAssign program.
WWWAssign (nickname "W-Assign") is a program I've used to create
powerful online quizzes. I used the program to create the quizzes for this
seminar. While putting this seminar together, in the fall of 1998, a new
program was rolled out at the EDUCOM conference called WebAssign. I
recommend you choose which of these works best for you. Here's a synopsis
of the two programs:
Using WWWAssign to Create Online
Quizzes and Tests
This paper describes my use of WWWAssign in creating on-line quizzes for Music Concepts classes, taught on-line at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, Illinois, since the Spring Semester of 1997.
How I Created the WWWAssign Quiz
This paper explains each step I took in creating the
WWWAssign Quiz.
Hot Potatoes
Dateline April 1, 1999: As of this writing, Paul and I have decided to
teach you how to use Hot Potatoes for an online quiz program.
What's Involved
- Take the Web 101
NADA Quiz
- this is an example of a Hot Potatoes quiz (version 3)
- Take the Web 101
Pre-requisite Quiz
- this is an example of a Hot Potatoes quiz (version 4)
- Read a Rave
Review by ZDNet about Hot Potatoes
- (Windows Users:)Download and install WinZip
(or other) if you don't have it
- Note: you may want to use the Communicator/Navigator menu option to
open another browser window, so you can see the DOWNLOADING FILES tutorial
and this page at the same time. That way, you can download Hot Potatoes,
instead of the screensaver which the tutorial has you download.
- Download and install a Mac or Windows version of Hot
Potatoes if you don't have it
- Have fun and create (a) quiz(zes)
- see the tutorial below for step by step instructions
- If you want to, you can get the code from us to allow students to
"record" their scores.
- Publish (FTP) the files to the web.
- Create links to them from your course web pages.
- If you "record" the scores, you must install the cgi script, create
a data file, personalize the html files, and do the
permissions. Contact me for info on this.
Hot Potatoes Step by Step Tutorial: (for the JBC Potato)
Start Hot Potatoes
Click on the JBC Potato
Type the title of your quiz in the Title area
Type your first question in the Question area (the large, rectangular box
to the right of the Q)
Type your answers in the boxes under Answers and any feedback you'd like
in the boxes under Feedback
Use the File/Save menu option to save and name your quiz as a Hot Potatoes
file (make sure you remember where you saved them)
Use the File/Export to the Web menu option to save your quiz as a collection
of HTML files
FTP the three files to your web directory
Create a link to the quiz:
- The three files will be called filename.htm, filenamec.htm, and filenamew.htm
- You'll link to the filename.htm file (this is the 'master'
file)
- If the quiz is in the same directory as the web page
from which you are linking, that would be: <a href="filename.htm">My
Great Quiz</a>
Note: these three HTML files utilize Frames. For an exellent tutorial on frames,
see the Frames Tutor.
Ading CGI to Hot Potatoes
Installing Ron Pateman's CGI in Hot Potatoes
Lecture Notes
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