Archive for October 2014
10 Usefull Web tools for creating online Quiz and Polls
1- Socrative | Student Response System
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact through their smartphones/laptops. Run it as an app or on any web browser
2-Google Forms + Flubaroo
Google Forms - the quizzes can even be self-grading by adding in the proper "if statements" in the underlying spreadsheet. Google Forms allows you to create many different types of questions, automatically collects usernames, sends data to a spreadsheet, self-grading options such as "if statements" but if you use a tool called Flubaroo http://www.flubaroo.com/ it is even easier to grade them. Google makes it easy to graph results as well. Google Forms also has many public templates with some quizzes that have already been made, you can use and modify them. I like the way Google Forms works with other Google Apps, you can either send the quiz to students via their mail, or embed the quiz in your Google Site.
3-ThatQuiz
It's a free online non-commercial resources for teachers and students, there are built in quizzes for math, science, language arts, and social studies, which are adjustable in both difficulty and length. The interface has not been limited by the pre-built and allows educators to make their own tests covering any subject and set of questions. It allows for multiple languages.
4-ExamTime Quizzes
Have you tried quizzes to spark your study and get better results? ExamTime have study tools to help you study. Build your quiz today and get learning.
5-PollEverywhere
For class sizes of 30 or less it is free and unlimited. Its great for polling your class for opinion and understanding. The results can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation or web page and update in real time. responses can be submitted via text message, Twiitter or web. It's the favorite tool of many teachers for creating pools.
6-Testmoz
Generate automatically graded online tests with 4 questions types. Great for professionals and K-12! No need to register to create tests.
7-Gnowledge
It is a new free site designed for creating and taking tests/exercises. The features include sharing tests and results with social network, tracking progress, rating a test, searching a test by subject or grade level..
8-Online Quiz Creator: Play or Make a Quiz for Free!
With our online quiz creator it's easy to make a quiz, exam or assessment in less than five minutes.
9-ProProfs (Quiz Maker)
Its free version offers unlimited quizzes, questions & quiz takers. The paid version offers student tracking, privacy settings, and others.
10-Quibblo
Quibblo online quizzes: Take fun quizzes, create quizzes, fun surveys, polls & personality quizzes. Make your own quiz for your blog, Facebook, or MySpace!
11-Zoho Challenge
Its free version offers 100 Test Papers / Month,Open Tests (always public),1 Question Bank.
12-GoToQuiz.com
It's a very simple site for creating a quiz that generates a unique URL for others to take.
13-ClassMarker
The ClassMarker online testing website, is a easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you.
14- QuizStar
QuizStar is a free, online quiz maker that allows you to manage your classes, assign quizzes, and generate reports of quiz scores and student performance.
15-Quizinator
Teacher Resources to Create, Store, and Print worksheets, studysheets, exams and quizzes online. Its capacity for creating multiple versions of the same quiz is really helpful.
16-Twtpoll
From Simple Twitter Polls to Powerful Web Surveys. Social Media Feedback Tool.
17-Survey Anyplace - Mobile Quizzes and Surveys
Survey Anyplace enables anyone to create appealing mobile quizzes and surveys to engage with audiences on the go. Use the feedback to increase satisfaction, participation and revenue. Get started for free.
18- Mentimeter
Interact with your audience - Free of charge and without registration!
19-Survey Anyplace - Mobile Quizzes and Surveys
Survey Anyplace enables anyone to create appealing mobile quizzes and surveys to engage with audiences on the go. Use the feedback to increase satisfaction, participation and revenue. Get started for free.
20-Edmodo | Where Learning Happens
Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact through their smartphones/laptops. Run it as an app or on any web browser
2-Google Forms + Flubaroo
Google Forms - the quizzes can even be self-grading by adding in the proper "if statements" in the underlying spreadsheet. Google Forms allows you to create many different types of questions, automatically collects usernames, sends data to a spreadsheet, self-grading options such as "if statements" but if you use a tool called Flubaroo http://www.flubaroo.com/ it is even easier to grade them. Google makes it easy to graph results as well. Google Forms also has many public templates with some quizzes that have already been made, you can use and modify them. I like the way Google Forms works with other Google Apps, you can either send the quiz to students via their mail, or embed the quiz in your Google Site.
3-ThatQuiz
It's a free online non-commercial resources for teachers and students, there are built in quizzes for math, science, language arts, and social studies, which are adjustable in both difficulty and length. The interface has not been limited by the pre-built and allows educators to make their own tests covering any subject and set of questions. It allows for multiple languages.
4-ExamTime Quizzes
Have you tried quizzes to spark your study and get better results? ExamTime have study tools to help you study. Build your quiz today and get learning.
5-PollEverywhere
For class sizes of 30 or less it is free and unlimited. Its great for polling your class for opinion and understanding. The results can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation or web page and update in real time. responses can be submitted via text message, Twiitter or web. It's the favorite tool of many teachers for creating pools.
6-Testmoz
Generate automatically graded online tests with 4 questions types. Great for professionals and K-12! No need to register to create tests.
7-Gnowledge
It is a new free site designed for creating and taking tests/exercises. The features include sharing tests and results with social network, tracking progress, rating a test, searching a test by subject or grade level..
8-Online Quiz Creator: Play or Make a Quiz for Free!
With our online quiz creator it's easy to make a quiz, exam or assessment in less than five minutes.
9-ProProfs (Quiz Maker)
Its free version offers unlimited quizzes, questions & quiz takers. The paid version offers student tracking, privacy settings, and others.
10-Quibblo
Quibblo online quizzes: Take fun quizzes, create quizzes, fun surveys, polls & personality quizzes. Make your own quiz for your blog, Facebook, or MySpace!
11-Zoho Challenge
Its free version offers 100 Test Papers / Month,Open Tests (always public),1 Question Bank.
12-GoToQuiz.com
It's a very simple site for creating a quiz that generates a unique URL for others to take.
13-ClassMarker
The ClassMarker online testing website, is a easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you.
14- QuizStar
QuizStar is a free, online quiz maker that allows you to manage your classes, assign quizzes, and generate reports of quiz scores and student performance.
15-Quizinator
Teacher Resources to Create, Store, and Print worksheets, studysheets, exams and quizzes online. Its capacity for creating multiple versions of the same quiz is really helpful.
16-Twtpoll
From Simple Twitter Polls to Powerful Web Surveys. Social Media Feedback Tool.
17-Survey Anyplace - Mobile Quizzes and Surveys
Survey Anyplace enables anyone to create appealing mobile quizzes and surveys to engage with audiences on the go. Use the feedback to increase satisfaction, participation and revenue. Get started for free.
18- Mentimeter
Interact with your audience - Free of charge and without registration!
19-Survey Anyplace - Mobile Quizzes and Surveys
Survey Anyplace enables anyone to create appealing mobile quizzes and surveys to engage with audiences on the go. Use the feedback to increase satisfaction, participation and revenue. Get started for free.
20-Edmodo | Where Learning Happens
Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner
Friday, October 31, 2014
Get a digital ID
A digital ID enables you to send digitally signed messages using Microsoft Outlook. A digital ID, that is also known as a digital certificate, helps prove your identity and helps prevent message tampering to protect the authenticity of an email message. You can also encrypt messages for greater privacy.
NOTE A digital signature isn’t the same as a message signature, which is a customizable salutation. A digital signature adds unique code to a message which only comes from the digital ID held by the true sender.
Get a digital ID for sending messages
Get a digital ID from a certifying authority
A digital ID is issued by an independent certification authority.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Options.
- Click Trust Center.
- Under Microsoft Outlook Trust Center, click Trust Center Settings.
- On the E-mail Security tab, under Digital IDs (Certificates), click Get a Digital ID.
Your organization may have policies that require a different procedure. See the network administrator for more information.
Your web browser opens and displays a webpage on the Microsoft Office Online Web site that lists several certification authorities. Click the one that you want to use and follow the instructions on the webpage to register for a digital ID. The certification authority will then send you a digital ID and instructions via email. You can alsolook here to find other sources of digital certificates.
Specify the digital ID to use
You might choose to have more than one digital ID — one for your digital signature, which in many areas can have legal significance, and another for encryption.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Options.
- Click Trust Center.
- Under Microsoft Outlook Trust Center, click Trust Center Settings.
- On the E-mail Security tab, under Encrypted e-mail, click Settings.
NOTE If you have a digital ID, the settings to use the digital ID are automatically configured for you. If you want to use a different digital ID, follow the remaining steps in this procedure.
- Under Security Setting Preferences, click New.
- In the Security Settings Name box, enter a name.
- In the Cryptography Format list, click S/MIME. Depending on your certificate type, you can choose Exchange Security instead.
- Next to the Signing Certificate box, click Choose, and then select a certificate that is valid for digital signing.
NOTE To learn if the certificate is intended for digital signing and encryption, on the Select Certificate dialog box, click View Certificate. An appropriate certificate for cryptographic messaging (such as digital signing) might say, for example, "Protects email messages."
- Select the Send these certificates with signed messages check box unless you'll be sending and receiving signed messages only within your organization.
NOTE The settings that you choose become the default when you send cryptographic messages. If you don’t want these settings to be used by default for all cryptographic messages, clear the Default Security Setting for this cryptographic message format check box.
Add a recipient's digital ID to your Contacts
To send and receive encrypted email messages, both sender and receiver must share their digital ID certificates with the other.
- Open a message that is digitally signed. A signed message is indicated in the message list by a Signature icon.
- Right-click the name in the From box, and then click Add to Outlook Contacts.
- If you already have an entry for this person, in the Duplicate Contact Detected dialog box, select Update information of selected Contact. A backup copy is saved in Deleted Items Folder.
The certificate is now stored with your contact entry for this recipient. You can now send encrypted messages to this person.
To view the certificate for a contact, double-click the person's name, and then click the Certificates tab.
Get a digital ID for sending messages using Microsoft Exchange
NOTE This feature requires a Microsoft Exchange Server account.
To get an Exchange Server digital ID — for example, through Key Management Service — the administrator of your Exchange account must have security running on the server and give you a special password, which is known as a token. For more information, see your Exchange administrator.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Options.
- Click Trust Center.
- Under Microsoft Outlook Trust Center, click Trust Center Settings.
- On the E-mail Security tab, under Digital IDs (Certificates), click Get a Digital ID.
- Click Set up Security for me on the Exchange.
- Click OK.
- In the Digital ID Name box, type your name.
- In the Token box, type the special password that your Exchange administrator assigned to you.
- In the Microsoft Office Outlook Security Password dialog box, type a different password for the digital ID, and then type the password again in the Confirm box.
You'll receive a message in your Inbox from the Exchange administrator which requires you to enter the password created in this step.
- In the dialog box that appears, enter your password, click the Remember password for check box, and then enter the number of minutes for which you want Outlook to remember your password.
- In the Root Certificate Store message that appears, click Yes.
Thursday, October 9, 2014