QUIZFABER

What is QuizFaber?

QuizFaber is a tool which allows you to create easily and rapidly multimedia quizzes in HTML with a JavaScript, embedded in the HTML page.


Who is the creator of QuizFaber?

Luca Galli is the creator and he is an electronic engineer.


What types of questions does QuizFaber create?

• Questions with multiple choices, only one answer can be the right one.
• Questions with multiple answers, one or more of which can be right.
• True or false questions.
• Question with an open answer, that is to say a text box in which the student can write freely his answer.
• Gap filling exercises: a phrase with missing words: a text in which some words have been replaced by empty spaces.
• Matching words: there are two distinguished groups of words placed into two columns. The student will have to associate each word of the first group with one of the second.

What are the advantages of QuizFaber?
• Make a quiz not only a simple self valuation tools but a versatile program in order to store result of a quiz exam.
• Build statistics of quiz results, for year, for student, for quiz.

What are the features of QuizFaber?

• Make hypertext quiz (or HTML pages).
• Insert of multimedia objects (images, sounds, Java applet) into answers and questions.
• At the end of the quiz, there is immediatly the valuation (with a mark)
• Set the highest time for complete the quiz.
• Make WAP quiz (for WAP-enabled mobile phone)


How to store quiz results into your PC ?

QuizFaber can be configured to produce web quizzes that runs in a client-server manner, in other words, the web quiz is the "client" side that send information (the quiz results) and your PC the "server" side that gain the information sent by the web quiz-client.
The main advantage is store in a permanent way all the quizzes results and browse them at every time with a simple and intuitive web page that shows easy search criterion (by student name, by quiz name, by date). Morover, some basic statistical parameters (like mean value, standar deviation) are supported.


Features
• Type of questions: multiple answers (one or more than one answer could be the rigth one) and/or multiple choice (only one answer was the rigth one)
• Automatic quiz correction, with a final score.
• (in a next version) Score will be saved using Java Servlet (to be installed on a web server)






HOT POTATOES

• It is a small Windows or Mac program that creates a variety of exercies and can be freely downloaded for educational purposes.

What types of questions does Hot Potatoes create?

• Multiple choice
• Short answer
• Jumbled sentence
• Crossword
• Matching/ordering
• Gap-filling

What are the features of hot potatoes?

It allows:
- including audio files in MP3 format
- storing exercises on a central server

• Versions: 6.0.2.17 beta, 6.2.5.2, 6.2

Comparison

Quizfaber
• Free
• Mobile
• Client-server


Hot potatoes
• Not free
• Extra question types:
• Short answer
• Jumbled sentence
• Crossword
• ordering