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Awesome Infographic: Best Practices For Creating An Online Course

To create an online course that engages and informs, you must remember that there are 3 important parts to a course.  First comes the Introduction – where you introduce yourself and set the tone for the course. The second is the Instruction – here you present course overview and lay down detailed objectives and tasks to learners. Last but      Read More

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5 Reasons To Avoid Creating A Flash Quiz

Though a Flash-based quiz creator allows you to upload attractive images, videos and media to your quizzes making them more interactive, however, the disadvantages of creating flash quizzes far outweigh its advantages. This is the very reason why we avoid Flash with our quiz creator and through our superior video encoding technology convert Flash-based videos to HTML5, ensuring that      Read More

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Benefits of using online assessments

Learning at all stages requires some form of assessment. Even in adult learning progress must be measured in some way. Teachers must find out how well a student has learned regardless of the level and subject of study. Many teachers find frequent, low-stakes assessments an effective way to measure knowledge. Other educators use only mid-term      Read More

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Five effective tips to encourage student engagement in online tests

Students often complain that quizzes are too easy, dull, and/or pointless. Many students believe that teachers create quizzes in order to kill time. Sometimes these statements may be true, but sometimes teachers simply aren’t sure how to effectively create assessments that keep a student’s interest. So how is this done? In order for students to      Read More

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Top achievements and upcoming highlights: 2012 – 2013

2012 was an incredible year for all of us at ProProfs. One of the biggest milestones achieved in the past year was the launch of Training Maker, an online training software for certification courses. We are also very excited with the launch of our online Survey Maker in the last quarter of the year and      Read More

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ProProfs Award Ceremony: Through hard work to the stars

At ProProfs our development team spends hours of hard work in making the site free of bugs and developing better web interfaces so that you can create more sophisticated quizzes and courses.    Recognizing the awesome job that they do, there was a recent award ceremony held at our Manesar office, which celebrated not only      Read More

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‘Project Management Training’ at ProProfs office

September was an eventful month for the ProProfs development team at our Manesar Development Center in Gurgaon, India. Our CEO Sameer Bhatia was visiting the center from our Los Angeles, USA office and among awards and office parties; we also had a day long training program on project management, which was attended by our development team. What is      Read More

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ProProfs Day Out: How we have fun

It’s usually a Friday evening, when you find yourself relaxed and looking forward to the weekend. Well, ours wasn’t a Friday. It was a Thursday. Yes, fun times had come rolling a day before, when the entire team in our Manesar, Gurgaon office was taken for an awesome day out by our CEO Sameer Bhatia, who was visiting      Read More

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Designing Questions for Online Assessments

ProProfs Quiz Maker is a popular online assessment software. One reason for its popularity is the ability to choose from various types of questions when creating an assessment. The following types of questions are available using ProProfs Quiz Maker. Learn the best method for creating each one using simple techniques and administration preferences. 1.   Multiple-Choice      Read More

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Simplified Yet Effective Assessment Strategies

Using a variety of assessment strategies can help measure student learning more accurately. Test students in a variety of skill sets to gain the best insight on true student learning. Simplify the quiz process using online quiz tools. Creating quizzes that support learning takes practice. In order to produce strong and effective questions you must      Read More

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