Thursday, September 23, 2010

I found ProProfs to be easy to use overall for quiz making in general. However, for the subject of mathematics it had some downfalls. There was only the ability to create very simple equations, this was more than other quiz making sites offered. Most sites only alowed for text, ProProfs did have a tab for super and subscript allowing for questions with exponents or functions. The superscript option was only avaliable for the question however, and could not be used when writing the answers out. This is why the answers had to use the ^ symbol to indicate exponents. Students use ^ on the OGT calculators so they are use to seeing it but it creates a less professional looking quiz. Writing equations was time consuming and I would probably use this tool when making quizes about concepts, vocabulary, etc. I think it would be very difficult for students to use this to create a quiz with problems in it, especially if they are use to using equation editor. I would like to see students creating quizes with conceptual understanding questions such as the question in my quiz asking what the reason is for 9^0=1. Students would take each others quizes and then have to read through the answers for homework. The next day in class the student who made the quiz would help the students who answered the question incorrectly.


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