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Sleepwalker
Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 454 Location: Reading the screen
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:21 pm Post subject: Software Advice |
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I'm looking for a software program or language that would allow me to design tests. The basic idea would be to set up tests (mainly multiple choice questions) to run offline with the computer randomising the order of questions and printing out the results. I have been searching on the web but there are so many results, I'd thought I'd ask here. Can anyone help? |
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:37 am Post subject: |
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The IT or eLearning department at your place of work should be able to assist you with this type of request, especially since they'd typically evaluate software for staff and faculty. |
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Gulezar
Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 483
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Software Advice |
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Sleepwalker wrote: |
I'm looking for a software program or language that would allow me to design tests. The basic idea would be to set up tests (mainly multiple choice questions) to run offline with the computer randomising the order of questions and printing out the results. I have been searching on the web but there are so many results, I'd thought I'd ask here. Can anyone help? |
Would Hot Potatoes work for you? You would have to put it on each and every computer. Why offline? You can set up random question and shuffle the answers, too. I use it online and the results are fed through Moodle or Blackboard. I suppose you could set it up on an intranet server. |
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Sleepwalker
Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 454 Location: Reading the screen
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Nomad Soul - none available or I would have asked them,
I thought of Hot Potatoes but was hoping there was maybe something I could save on a memory stick should the net go down - I'll look at it again. Thanks Gulezar |
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HLJHLJ
Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: Ecuador
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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You could do this with Excel, you would need to set it up so each question and the possible answers were all on the same row, and then format it so it would look sensible when printed out. (If you use EntireRow.Copy it will keep the style as well). Then have it randomly select however many rows you want and copy them to a new worksheet and print that out. It gets a bit more complicated if you need to ensure all questions are eventually chosen and none are repeated, but if you literally just want to select x number of rows each time, it would be pretty straightforward. |
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