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Make a Quiz for Your Website or Blog

Wisdom — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:14:00 GMT

Online quizzes or tests work as good tools for organizations and training. Making and placing quizzes on your website or blog has many benefits. For educators and trainers, online quizzes or tests are essential materials that help you find the weakness of students on specified knowledge. For individuals, you can make some funny quizzes to drive traffic to your website or blog. Then, how to make a quiz or quizzes for your website or blog ? Here I will show you the guidance to make a quiz for your website from the aspect of whether you have web space or not. For users who don't have web space, some 3rd parties' tools can help you with their embed codes. 1. Free online quiz making websites let everyone to make quizzes and then integrate the quizzes to website/blog with their embed code, such as proprofs.com . 2. If you create Flash quizzes with some Flash quiz makers and want to use these Flash quizzes on your blog, you can use Flash hosting website to host the quizzes and then embed the code on your blog, Google site will be a good site that you can upload you local Flash quizzes. Get more information about how to make a quiz for your website or blog >>

Keep Students Far Away from H1N1 Flu with Multimedia H1N1 Flu Quizzes

Wisdom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:23:00 GMT

H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, has greatly threatened students' health and daily life. Facing the serious situation, it becomes more urgent to keep students, the group with great possibility to be infected, away from the terrible flu. For you, the teachers who are good guides to introduce the knowledge of H1N1 flu to students, a multimedia H1N1 flu quiz can help you offer students a vivid lesson to strengthen their consciousness of prevention! View more details about teaching H1N1 flu with quiz .

Grading Online Quizzes Created by Google Docs Automatically

Wisdom — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:53:00 GMT

For teachers, grading quiz results for paper test manually is definitely a hard job. Google Docs provides a good way for teachers to create online quizzes or surveys for teaching and learning, you can view the posts about creating quizzes and sharing quizzes with Google Docs. But teachers, do you know how to grade the quizzes automatically? If you don't know, this tutorial about how to grade the quizzes automatically will give you the details.

Google Docs for Online Classroom: Sharing Quizzes to Invite Students to Take the Quiz

Wisdom — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:01:00 GMT

At the last post about creating online quizzes with Google Docs , I showed you the steps to create online quizzes with Google Docs . In this post, I will guide you to share the quizzes you created and then invite others to take quizzes. You can share the quiz spreadsheet with others or publish it. About sharing quiz spreadsheet online to let other take the quiz, there are 2 ways: embed the quizzes to blogs or websites, and Email others the quizzes. You can get more information about how to share quizzes created by Google Docs , please click the link and do it for you.

Creating Online Quizzzes with Google Docs for Free

Wisdom — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:35:00 GMT

Google Docs is a favorite thing for us teachers. It is a totally free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users, especially for teachers using it in online classroom. In addition to being a stellar way to write, store and manage your documents and slideshows, it is also a fantastically useful way to create online quizzes for online assessment. Here are the step-by-step illustrations about creating an online quiz with Google Docs. Step 1. Log in to Google Docs To get started, log in at Google Docs ( http://docs.google.com/ ) with Gmail account. If you don't have a Gmail account, come out from that rock you live under, boot up the computer, and get yourself a Gmail account. Step 2. Start creating quiz Once you're logged in, click "New", and then "Form". To view more details, please go and view how to create online quizzes with Google Docs for free .

12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teachers to Create Online Quizzes

Wisdom — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:18:00 GMT

Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz creation tools for teachers to create quizzes for free. These 12 free quiz creators will help teachers make quizzes for teaching online for free, such as ProProfs , Classmaker , QuizCenter and other 9 tools. You can get more free tools at: 12 Free Online Quiz Makers to Create Online Quizzes Do you know of any other free online quiz makers that can be helpful? Please add your favorites in the comments.

8 Ways to Create Online Quiz, Test, Exam

Wisdom — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:02:00 GMT

Online test brings a lot of benefits to assessment: time-saving, flexibility and economical. For test-takers, they can take the online test at their own preferred time - great flexibility. For trainers/teachers, it spares the time to mark the test because the test is graded automatically - big time-saving. For organizations, it saves a lot of cost to employ instructor designers and print millions of test papers - more economical. Thanks to companies develop tons of useful products for us to make online test, they plays an important role in improving productivity to a great online test. This article lists 8 ways to create online test. Create online test with Flash quiz maker Create online test with Google Docs Create online test with Adobe Flash Create online test with Microsoft PowerPoint Create online test with PHP Script or JavaScript Create online test with online test creation software Create online test with screen recorder Read more details about 8 ways to create online quiz/test/exam

PowerPoint for Educators: How to Make Multiple-choice Quizzes with PowerPoint via VBA

Wisdom — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:49:00 GMT

Originated from: How to Make Multiple-choice Quizzes with PowerPoint PowerPoint is a multimedia courseware to create multimedia courses to enhance the classroom experience. Also, it is a great assessment tool to create quizzes. The VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) feature in PowerPoint gives educators an accessible way to easily create interactive multimedia quizzes. Here I will teach you how to create multiple-choice quizzes with VBA in PowerPoint for your courses with step-by-step illustrations. Supposing you want to create a quiz with 10 multiple-choice questions and only one correct answer for each question. Take PowerPoint 2007 for example, here are the details. Step 1 - New a blank presentation Step 2 - Customize feedback to each question with macro You may be confused with the first step because the first step in all of the related quiz tutorials online is creating questions and answers. In order to simplify the steps to create multiple-choice quizzes, in this tutorial, I bring forward the feedback customization. 1. Set security options Before you can run VBA code, you need to set PowerPoint's security options to permit macros to run. Click the Office button -> PowerPoint options. On the left of the PowerPoint Options dialog box, Click Trust Center, then click Trust Center Settings on right. Click Macro Settings on the left of the dialog then choose Disable all macros with notification. 2. Start the VBA Editor. Please press Alt+F11 to start the VBA Editor. 3. Customize feedback to wrong answer and right answers In the VBA editor, Choose Insert -> Module, and then insert a code module for feedback to wrong&right answers. Customize feedback to wrong answers: In the big blank space on the right, type the following 3 lines: Sub Wrong() MsgBox ("Sorry, that's not right. Please try again.") End Sub Customize feedback to right answers: Sub Right() MsgBox ("That's right! You are so smart!") SlideShowWindows(1).View.Next End Sub This code for right answer is similar to the wrong answer, except for its "SlideShowWindows" line, which advances the quiz-taker to the next slide. 4. Return to PowerPoint from the VBA Editor Please press Alt+F11 to return to PowerPoint. Leave the Visual Basic Editor open in the background. In PowerPoint, save the presentation, this will save the new macros as well. Step 3 - Create questions and answers 1. Create question slides Within PowerPoint, start a new slide using the Title Only slide layout. Type the first question in the title-text placeholder. 2. Add multiple-choice answers From the Insert menu, click Autoshapes -> Action Buttons. Then choose the blank action button. Resize and position the button on the slide. Right click on the button, choose Add Text from the subsequent menu, and type the first answer. Now select the button, copy and paste the button for the remaining answers you'll need on the slide. 3. Add macro to answers Right click on the button, select Hyperlink. The Action Settings dialog box will appear. Choose the Mouse Click tab, and from the "Action on click" area, check the "Run macro" radio button and select "Wrong" macro from the drop-down list. Click OK. Repeat the same setting to other remaining answers. 4. Duplicate the slide to as many as 10 slides. Duplicate the slide and substituent the questions and answers to other questions. Repeat this step 3 to the right answers for each question, and select "Right" macro from the drop-down list. Step 4 - Save the quiz presentation Press F5 to preview the quiz presentation and save it to PPSX format. Now everything is ok, you create a quiz PowerPoint slideshow successfully. Besides creating quiz with VBZ via PowerPoint, you also can make more interactive Flash quiz for your PowerPoint presentation with 3rd party Flah quiz maker that can generate stand-alone Flash quiz. Wondershare Quiz Creator is such a Flash quiz maker to help educators create multimedia Flash quizzes for teaching.

5 Effective Ways to Create Online Quiz

Wisdom — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:18:00 GMT

Originated from: E-Learning Zone: 5 Effective Ways to Create Online Quiz Online quiz becomes more and more prevalent in the web 2.0 era. For bloggers or webmasters, quiz is an outstanding way for engaging readers and growing blog or Web site traffic. For trainers, online quiz is a good e-assessment authoring tool. For business men, an online quiz can also be used as a sales tool. Here are 5 ways to create quiz for online use. 1. Create quiz with desktop Flash quiz maker Some Flash quiz makers supply an easy way to create professional Flash quiz in minutes. With them, you could create Flash-based quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and Flash animations with up to 10 question types. You also could set feedback to each questions and randomize questions and answers. Some quiz maker also supply free quiz result tracking system, like QuizCreator . Users could track all the quiz results with email or free Quiz Management System . You could view the quiz below which is created by QuizCreator. 2. Create Flash quiz with Adobe Flash If you are sophisticated with Adobe Flash editing, you could use Adobe Flash to make quiz for you. Adobe Flash MX and above versions have quiz templates included, and it is designed to automatically track results and send them to a learning management system configured for your quiz. Here is a tutorial about how to create Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template with Adobe Flash. http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator/flash-quiz-adobe-flash.html?page=110 3. Create quiz with php Script or JavaScript If you are familiar with php script or JavaScript and HTML code, you could choose HTML code and script to create online quiz. Here are some tutorials to help you createquiz for your Web site. Create quiz with php script, please have a peek at: http://www.trap17.com/index.php/php-quiz-script_t8729.html . Create quiz with JavaScript, please have a peek at: http://www.spacefem.com/tutorials/typequiz.shtml . 4. Create quiz via free online quiz creation tool There are numerous online quiz-building tools that can make quiz and grade less of a chore. Do a Google search for "make online quiz free", you will get many free online quiz tools. ProProfs is a free program that is supported by ads, lots of ads. So it is a totally free online quiz program. It features 3 question types. It has many options that control the behavior of your quiz. You could add multimedia objects such as video and image to the quiz, this is rare to a free online quiz tool. Quibblo and Classmarker also have such features. However, ProProfs sounds the most powerful for a free quiz creation tool. 5. Create quiz with screen recorder Some screen recorder has the feature of quiz creation. As far as I know, Adobe Captivate and Tech Smith allow user create Flash quiz with it. Take Captivate for example, it contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments. In summary, all these 5 ways could help you make quiz for online use. Which way works for you is depending on your use. For blogger, choose free online quiz creation tool is the best way, such way will generate the quiz code automatically, and the quiz code could be embedded to blogs. For webmasters, using HTML JavaScript or desktop quiz maker way will be perfect. You could make professional flash quiz to engage the visitors. For trainers, please choose the desktop quiz maker to create Flash quiz. On the one hand, you could engage the learners by adding multimedia objects to the quiz with desktop quiz maker. On the other hand, you could use quiz result tracking system to track learners' quiz results without hassles.

Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiz

Wisdom — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:11:00 GMT

Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. As a trainer, your goal is to make the training memorable. As you design the course, you must design not only the "what" (or content), but also the "how" (the delivery mechanisms). Integrating funny quiz (like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") into eLearning course is an easy way to capture the attention of learners and make your course memorable. Learners will interact with key concepts for your course quickly. A funny quiz can energize almost any content and produce powerful new understanding for your learners. Funny quiz promote learning – more than revive tension, it creates opportunities for the learners to "interact" with the quiz so as to demonstrate learners' understanding of the course. Many benefits would funny quiz holds to course: Funny quiz entertains learners with a purpose Funny quiz gives learners valuable feedback Funny quiz gives trainers feedback Funny quiz motivates learners Funny quiz accelerates learning process So then, there comes into the question: how to integrate the right funny quiz into your course? Let's take a look at the following steps. Step 1 - Identify your course objective. What objective you want your course to achieve after training, please take careful consideration. Specifically, what skills and knowledge do you want your learners take from your course. Then think about it how the funny quiz will help the learners meet the course objective. Step 2 - make course plan After determining the objective, what you should do is making the lesson plan according to the course objective. Analyze and list the task you wish to cover in your course plan. Supposing you are going to explain the details about H1N1 flu in one course, you list would look something like this: course objective for swine flu knowledge: learners will be able to master the details about H1N1 flu. List what is H1N1 flu. List the Signs and symptoms about H1N1 flu. Describe how to prevent H1N1 flu. From this list you will develop a set of task that to achieve your course objective. The next step is crux to import funny quiz to your lesson and enhance your course. Step 3 - choose the funny quiz for your lesson plan The right funny quiz make a difference in motivate learners. Here are some criteria to select a right funny quiz: Corresponding with the major lesson objective Create an opportunity to practice skills Challenge the learners intellectually So, follow the criteria to select the right funny quiz. This will do as a Catalyst to help learners master the major point of your course. Step 4 - Create funny quiz for your course After choosing the right funny quiz, the following step is creating the funny quiz with the questions you have prepared. Which quiz tool you should choose? Quiz in Flash format instead of plain text quiz would really attract learners' attention, especially for eLearning course. Luckily, some quiz tool could help you create great-looking flash quizzes in minutes without programming skills, such as QuizCreator . Step 5 - place the funny quiz in your course Where the funny quiz should be in your course is also important. Generally, placing a funny quiz at the beginning of your course is a good way to take learners into your course. This starter quiz can establish a comfortable environment for learner. Learners will quickly access to the role of the course. On the other hand, you could integrate some outstanding questions into the funny quiz, these questions will cause learners to seek the solution in the course consciously. The end of the course is a prime time to place the funny quiz. You can add some questions corresponding to the starter funny quiz. This will help you test whether the learners acquire the knowledge or not. If they acquire it, you could advance to the next lesson, and learners will have the feeling of success and be interesting about the next lesson. If don't, you could direct the learners to review the course. Design eLearning course and apply funny quizzes to your eLearning courses. They'll make your courses better and help you be more productive. Originated from: E-Learning Zone: Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiz

Making Your Own Math Quiz Is So Easy

Wisdom — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:15:00 GMT

MathandFlash.com published an article about making math quiz with QuizCreator recently, which catches most educators' eyeballs. As mathematics is used throughout the world as an essential tool in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, etc, every math and science instructor will teach algebra and geometry with a lot of symbols, Greek letters and formulas. To improve the math knowledge and ability, students must have more practices as in the real world situations. Therefore, a math-based test is an excellent way to examine how much math knowledge learners have grasped. Following the author's ideas, I try to google "math quiz maker" for more quiz makers that mathematic symbols supported besides QuizCreator. But I only get thatquiz.org which is an online tool to make math quiz for educational use, QuizCreator sounds the first yet powerful desktop flash math quiz maker . As the author said, QuizCreator is a robust Flash quiz maker that enables educators to easily create Flash-based quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and offers flexible free results tracking and score reporting . However, there is not much information about how to use mathematic symbols in making math quiz. Now, I will display related more information about using mathematic symbols to educators, hoping this could give some help for the QuizCreator users or people who are seeking a math quiz tool. The built-in equation editor for QuizCreator lets educators and students enter texts , symbols and equations for math flash quiz in minutes without all the usual hurdles. It supports the following 7 major equations: - Simple Equation , such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and equal, etc; - Arithmetic , as same as above; - Powers and Roots , such as square, cube, fraction and radical, etc; - Scientific Notation , as same as above; - Algebra , such as parentheses, brackets and braces, etc; - Greek Letters and Formulae , such as alpha, beta, sigma and pi, etc; - Matrix , such as blank 3*3 templates with fraction. Users can choose and add from a wide range of equation types, including scientific notation and Greek letters. Furthermore, the output in Flash format integrates all special characters and symbols with quizzes seamlessly. By adding the support of math symbols, QuizCreator offers an essential part as rapid e-learning solution for high-level learning content authoring. Here is a quick guide to show you how to using the equation editor to create equations for math quiz. A quick way to access the equation editor, if you want to incorporate equations into a question, is to click on an answer choice field in a question and then select Edit (See Fig). When the equation editor opens, you can begin creating the equation. Generally, the equation editor comprises two components: the equation pad and the menu. Click to view a sample of Math quiz with equation editor >> - Step1: - Step2: Enter Text & Symbol When you click on the blank area in the equation pad, you can enter text at various insertion points as required. If you want to type a math symbol, place your mouse cursor into an equation box (), choose a symbol type on the menu and then select the symbol you require. To accomplish this process by using the keyboard, use the left and right cursor keys to move the cursor and the down and up keys to select the desired equation box and enter your symbol. Enter Template Once you have inserted an equation template, you will need to check the equation box in this template where the cursor is flashing and then proceed to enter the information (Symbol, text and new template, etc) that should be entered into those locations. You may move to different locations by using the Tab and direction cursor keys. - Step3: If you want to learn more information about QuizCreator, go to its official website for details. http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/

Quiz Maker - Easily Create Flash-Based Online Quizzes

Wisdom — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:16:00 GMT

You could conduct training by dimming the lights, running a presentation, and hoping that everyone is awake and, you know, learning. You can hand out printed packets, and email documents to everyone, and hope that your staff takes the time to read and absorb the stuff that you need them to know to do their jobs. Or, you could quiz them, with the explicit understanding that performance reviews will be tied to their demonstrated knowledge of your products and services! Whether you're ominous or shiny-happy about administering it, there's no arguing with the score on a quiz. There's no better way to enforce learning and improve performance! Wondershare Quiz Maker is a robust Flash quiz maker for you. With it, you can produce professional Flash-based quizzes, accompanied by images , sounds , hyperlinks , animations , and narration . Results are available immediately through the FREE online reporting system QMS, or via email, and visual reports help you to identify areas of weakness. As quiz administrator, Wondershare Quiz Maker always gives you perfect control over all aspects of your quizzes - set time limits , minimum passing scores , shuffle questions or answers , and restrictions on the number of quiz attempts ! There's no limit to the variety of questions that you can devise with Wondershare Quiz Maker! Your questions can be true or false , multiple choice , fill-in-the-blank , sequence , word bank , matching , click map , or essay form . There's even full support for mathematical symbols and equations, perfect for quizzing scientific, financial, and engineering groups! You also could track the quiz results with free online Quiz Management System (QMS), it provides smart tracking and reporting kits for quiz data for free. When a participant completes a quiz online, the quiz results will be sent to QMS automatically. You could explore a live, online QMS demo at : http://www.sameshow.com/samples/qms-tour/qms-tour.html#110 3 Steps to make Flash quiz with Quiz Maker Step 1: Build Quizzes Step 2: Publish Quizzes Online Step 3: Track Results with QMS (free) Wondershare Quiz Maker lets you: * Create Flash-based interactive quizzes with images, sounds, animation, and voiceover narration. * Choose from a variety of question styles including true or false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, sequence, word bank, matching, click map, or short essay. * Have quiz results automatically emailed to the address of your choice. * View performance results as colorful charts and detailed reports. * Share the quiz online and track results for FREE * Reinforce training by testing for areas of weakness. Who Needs Wondershare Quiz Maker? You do if you've ever: * Had doubts as to whether your static presentations were effective at educating your audience. * Needed an objective way of measuring the knowledge and skill level of your staff with respect to your products and services. * Wanted to create professional quizzes and assessments that could be easily hosted online. Conclusion Overall, Wondershare Quiz Maker offers some very powerful features to create quizzes. The professional look and feel of the quizzes, the simplicity and ease of use, the flexibility in creating quizzes, the customization of messages, the instructiveness that it offers in quizzes, the flash animations that can be included, the variety of questions, ability to send results via e-mail, the ability to post results to a database, the various options to publish all make Quiz Maker and excellent program to create quizzes. Best of all there is absolutely little to no learning required to use Quiz Maker. This software is a big bang for the buck.

How A Good Quiz Maker Prevent Cheating On Online Testing

Wisdom — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:43:00 GMT

As eLearning will become more necessary and popular for its low-cost and efficiency, online testing is a necessity for implementing eLearning. However cheating and security problem are pressing concerns for organizations adopting online testing. So when choose a quiz maker to create online test the abilities to prevent cheating and assure security effectively are the Paramount consideration. What abilities should a good quiz maker possess? Access ability to quiz The ability of accessibility to quiz is a telling strategy to assure the security of your quiz. You can protect your quizzes from spread spitefully by some badman. It would be better if you have more options to set the access ability with quiz maker. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, it supply four ways for users to access the quiz. Access with password only, access with user ID and password, online access control and domain limit online access. Of course, if you want the quiz spread anywhere by anyone, you also have the option to not set the accessibility. Time quiz Looking up answers to questions in textbook/reading or searching the answers from website are the common issues for cheating. This is obvious when give giving a chapter check quiz. However, timed quiz is one of the most effective ways to eliminate such cheating. When students should answer the questions in a timed quiz in a certain amount of time, they won't have time to look up all the answers if you give enough questions and make the time short enough. Such as the quiz with timer below which created by Wondershare Quiz Maker . Shuffle choices If the quiz maker let you shuffle choices, it means that the order of choices within each question will be randomly shuffled each time an examinee attempts this quiz. So this makes it a little harder for students to copy from each other. It is an effective way to prevent cheating to some extent. Many quiz tools have such feature, such as Articulate QuizMaker below. Randomize questions Randomizing questions reduces the chance of cheating. I will expound the reasons from the following two points. Firstly, randomized questions make the printouts a lot less useful. Especially, when there are amount of questions in the question banks, students can only print a small number of questions at a time, if they want to get the full questions they will need to view the test again and again, and then sort the questions to eliminate duplicates. Secondly, if students are on the same campus, they may get together in a lab and try to take the quiz together. Random question order is an easy strategy to thwart cheating. If my screen doesn't look like yours, then it's harder for students to quickly answer all of the questions. Limit answer attempts Set a reasonable time limit for completion. Limiting the amount of time to answers attempts for which students can access a test makes any form of cheating difficult to implement. Note: Don't be too restrictive, but don't give students forever either. Do not make the test available until the day you want students to begin taking it. Multiple question types supported The more quiz types the quiz maker has, the more efficacious the quiz to overcome online cheating. Particularly, Essays, case studies, and other complex question types can be challenging to answer even if students look up book. Students have to understand the material and apply it creatively to answer the questions. So how many question types a quiz maker supports is an important factor when choosing a quiz maker. As far as I know, Moodle quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types. But it is a little complex to create quiz. Take a view of the popular quiz makers, Articulate QuizMaker supports 9 types, Wondershare Quiz Maker supports 9 quiz types... Of course, easy-to-use feature is also another factor to choose a quiz maker. There are also many free online quiz makers available: easytestmaker , classmaker and proprofs quizschool , you could make some small quiz with them. For make powerful multimedia Flash quiz, I suggest you choose some stand alone quiz maker. Articulate quizmaker is great, but it is a little expensive, you could take it into consideration. As for me, Wondershare Quiz Maker will be more cost-effective from its price and function.

Can Moodle Do A Good Job In Importing PowerPoint

Wisdom — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Discussions from Moodle Jean-Marc Leblond said : I need some help, I am trying to import a Power Point into my lesson and I keep on getting the following error code:"PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10): Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature". Can any one give me any direction? James Chan said : I have installed Moodle 1.7 on my test server. I placed the SQL outside the public directory. Today, when I tried to import a PowerPoint into a lesson, it just gave me an error message "could not get data". The two questions are only the tip of the iceberg about importing PowerPoint to Moodle. You can hear such and such discussions every day on Moolde.org. Can Moodle do a good job in importing PowerPoint courses? Maybe not. There are many limitations about importing PowerPoint to Moodle Complicated presentations with animations, transitions and graphic effects can not be imported This feature does not work with PowerPoint 2003 and onward Multimedia presentation with audios, videos and Flash movies cannot be imported normally That is to say, you should keep your PowePoint course as simple as possible, and text only is the best. No image, no bullet, no audio, no animation and no...?However, such courses are none other than fatal points for effective course to catch the learners to performance. Here is the way: Convert PowerPoint to SCORM compliant Flash courses Why Flash? Seamless conversion . You multimedia PowerPoint course could be converted to Flash seamlessly, then the Flash course could be shown in Moodle as it is supposed to be. Smaller file size . Flash files are highly compressed and therefore, the preferred streaming media for the internet, or for quick files distribution. Presentations, when converted to Flash will become very portable and can be easily shared on Moodle, and also do not take up much space. Streaming technology . This enables you to play a movie file without waiting for the whole file to download. As the preferred streaming media, Flash can enhance your reach when you need to do big or lengthy presentations. Playback control . Flash offers more flexible playback controls like stop, pause, replay and etc. Why SCORM compliant? Once your PowerPoint is converted to SCORM 2004 or compliant Flash SCORM 1.2 compliant Flash, your course becomes " track-able ", meaning, you can track the presentation in your Moodle . Progress tracking features like, accessed time, number of viewed slides, presentation time and whether or not the presentation was completed by the user - are all available to you. It is ideal for instructional designers to focus on creating better e-learning content, in effect creating a force multiplier for e-learning effectiveness. In summary, PowerPoint to Flash converter that allows you to "boost" your PowerPoint course presentations into and interactive and engaging, multimedia experience for your learners. The SCORM compliant feature will let your presentation be track-able. Which tool to create Flash compliant course from PowerPoint? There are several tools that can export Powerpoints or other presentations as SCORM compliant Flash movies, you could go to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content to get more. Take Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional for example, this tool can help you convert PowerPoint course to SCORM compliant Flash for high-impact Web presentations and eLearning Courses with rich media, quizzes and simulations. You could view the details about how to convert PowerPoint course to Flash and upload to Moodle at: http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash/howto3.html