QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #1 – October 11, 2004
Creating quizzes (and more) online
(Please send comments, questions and
suggestions to Senior English Language Fellow
There are countless web sites devoted to teachers who want to create quizzes, games, and other activities. They vary from those that just provide the online tools to create and then print a worksheet, to those designed for teachers to create activities online for use by students online.
Below are three examples. By conducting a search on your favorite search engine (“free online teacher authoring,” “create language lessons online,” – experiment with the phrasing until you get the results you want) you will discover many others. Happy surfing!
This site allows teachers to make cloze exercises and offers samples, including a series of simple dialogues for use in speaking practice. Start with the helpful tutorial.
“The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.”
QUIA allows you to make your own quizzes, games, cloze exercises and more. There is a free thirty-day trial period, long enough to gain experience and create a wealth of activities for your students. If you decide you can’t live without QUIA, a subscription is $49 US per year.