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12 Best SurveyMonkey Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

12 Best SurveyMonkey Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

Online quizzes provide a flexible, convenient, and cost-effective way to assess competency and engage audiences. SurveyMonkey is a popular option for creating professional-looking quizzes. It offers many top features, such as diverse question types, automated scoring, custom themes, and more.  With that said, you may be better off with a SurveyMonkey alternative. Why, you ask?...
How to Create an Engaging Matching Quiz

How to Create an Engaging Matching Quiz

Matching questions were my favorite type of questions in school. Frankly, they seemed more like an interesting game than a test.    Even today, whenever I come across an online matching quiz, I feel compelled to check it out. I also realize now that such quizzes and questions played an important role in my early education....
8 Best Riddle Alternatives & Competitors for Quiz Creation in 2026

8 Best Riddle Alternatives & Competitors for Quiz Creation in 2026

Riddle Quiz Maker is a fun and engaging platform for building quizzes, especially when your primary goal is audience interaction and lead capture. However, in my experience, many teams eventually start exploring Riddle alternatives. They hit their ceiling when they need deeper analytics, stronger logic, tighter integrations, or more serious assessment workflows. From what I’ve...
How to Conduct an Effective Skills Gap Analysis

How to Conduct an Effective Skills Gap Analysis

With a seismic shift in how we work, businesses worldwide have to confront a growing new problem — skills gaps. This breeds the need for skills gap analysis. Have you heard of the recent case where Boeing suffered significant financial losses due to production delays and quality issues with its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft?  And...
10 Best Typeform Alternatives in 2026 for Effective Quizzes & Assessments

10 Best Typeform Alternatives in 2026 for Effective Quizzes & Assessments

If you’re building quizzes for training, classrooms, or customer engagement, chances are you’ve tried Typeform. It’s sleek and conversational—but when it comes to deeper quiz needs, many teams start looking for alternatives.  Why? Because they want richer question formats, real-time tracking, stronger security, and more powerful analytics. The best Typeform alternatives don’t just copy its...
Remote Proctored Exams: How They Work, Types & Why You Need Them

Remote Proctored Exams: How They Work, Types & Why You Need Them

Using unfair practices in exams is an age-old problem. But with the advancement of technology, cheating has taken a new form. Instances of students using their cell phones or other devices to cheat in schools have been documented. According to the computer security company, McAfee, 1 in 3 kids in the U.S. use cellphones or...
6 Best Quiz Maker Software for Teachers, Trainers & Recruiters in 2025

6 Best Quiz Maker Software for Teachers, Trainers & Recruiters in 2025

As a former teacher who now builds systems for training and assessment, I’ve seen how much time and energy gets wasted on the wrong quiz maker software—tools that are slow to set up, hard to scale, or just too rigid to work in the real world. At ProProfs, we’ve tested dozens of quiz platforms across...
10 Best iSpring Alternatives in 2026 for Creating Engaging Quizzes

10 Best iSpring Alternatives in 2026 for Creating Engaging Quizzes

I’ve worked with iSpring QuizMaker enough to see both its strengths and its limits. It handles structured assessments well, but the high cost, restricted free plan, lack of Mac support, and static quiz formats often leave users looking elsewhere. That’s why so many are now exploring iSpring alternatives. The best iSpring QuizMaker alternatives don’t just...
Employee Training Assessment Guide: Train Smarter to Boost ROI

Employee Training Assessment Guide: Train Smarter to Boost ROI

Training expenditure in the US has crossed the $100 billion mark.  Considering how expensive training can be, even a few wasted training sessions can be heartbreaking. Businesses must consistently create the right training programs and conduct them impactfully.  But how can you ensure this without further adding to the training costs?  The solution is simpler than...
12 Best Exam Software & Tools in 2026

12 Best Exam Software & Tools in 2026

Do you want to create and deliver online exams that are secure, reliable, and convenient? If you’re like most online educators, you certainly do! But finding the best exam software platform can be a challenge. So many options are out there, and they all claim to be the best. How do you know which one...