Archive for March, 2010

Question, quiz and test functionality

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

One of the common limitations of authoring tools is the functionality of questions, quizzes and tests. In our new e-Learning Authoring Tool we tried to provide a broad range of features while making it easy to create quizzes and tests. We let the author create one or pages in a course that contain individual questions, a quiz and a test. The quizzes and tests use one or more question pools and provide randomization over the question order and possible answers for each question. The individual question pages and quiz pages provide immediate feedback. The test pages provide delayed feedback shown after the learner submits the test for a grade. Here is a YouTube video showing our question, quiz and test features. We’d love to get your feedback on the question, quiz and test features. You can download a free trial of the authoring tool to see exactly how it works.

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Multimedia capabilities

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

One of the common questions I get is, “What is the best format for audio and video?” I wish there was a perfect answer for every situation. The best answer usually depends on the target audience and the servers used to deliver the audio and video. If the target audience only uses Windows computers, then selecting Windows media is a good choice. If the target audience will use different platforms and browsers, then it is best to pick either Flash audio and video or MPEG for video and MP3 for audio. When considered the need for different types of audio and video when we created our new e-Learning Authoring Tool. We decided to support all of these video formats and we decided to support audio and video delivered form the web server (progressive media) and from streaming media servers. This video on YouTube shows the audio and video features.

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Creating buttons

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

It seems like everyone wants a different look for navigation buttons used in a course. Usually authors have to turn to a graphic artist to create these buttons. If you do not have immediate access to a graphic artist, you can use one of the sites that creates buttons for you for free – here is a good choice – http://cooltext.com/

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