Exam Builder www.exambuilder.com
Description
Exam Builder is a Web-based application used to create and administer exams over the internet. One way to assess student's academic performance is through exams. Teachers need to plan the questions, print exam papers, monitor the exams, and correct piles of test papers. Online test making software can help make this job easier.
Application
Students will take a test on the book Flat Stanley.
Benefits
Exam Builder offers two types of templates, one for certification and one for continuing education. Each exam is customizable in its instructions, passing score, time limit, access codes, and show or hide exam score tabs. After an exam is submitted for grading, an exam review will show students questions they answered incorrectly. A Gap Analysis Report grades the student in each learning category of the exam and provides a learning plan for improvement.Questions can be catagorized into Question Pools in which questions are based on a similar topic. Web-based forms make entering questions easy. Images, graphs and charts can be easily uploaded. Exam Builder has several automated features that will save you time.These include auto retakes, email invitations to take an exam, self registering, instructor notifications for staff to recieve notification when a student completes an exam, and auto reschedule which can configure everyone in your account for certain exams. Multiple scheduling options are available as well as tables showing who is scheduled and who isn't. It is easy to group students and schedule students for groups of exams. A report can be exported to a PDF or Excel. Different types of reports you can make are snapshot reports such as all students who either passed or failed an exam, class analysis reports which would show if one group or class of students was doing better than another, date range reports which show results within a time period, and in-progress reports which shows all students who haven't completed an exam. Summary reports show the most recent results. Student Reports show a student's exam history.
The easy to use links contained on the side bar after you log in include:
Main
Student Manager: summary, groups, students
Exam Scheduler
Image Maker
Report Manager: summary, quick reports, student reports, exam reports
My Account: purchasing
Support.
Exam Builder is priced by the number of students who will be taking class per year, not by the number of exams taken. The price is shown in blocks of 50 students. You can purchase more student accounts as needed throughout the year. In the workplace, assessment becomes a tool to use to make sure employes have a current knowledge of their product or business. Exam Builder is an easy way to make tests and organize results. Companies from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America use Exam Builder. Some of these companies are Wal-Mart, Toshiba, Microsoft, 3M, Johnson and Johnson, Hilton, Kimberley-Clark, IBM, ST, Jude Medical and PhilipMorrisUSA.
Challenges
The security of taking online exams is a challenge that Exam Builder as well as other online test making programs must deal with. Exam Builder offers the ability to set time limits on tests and randomizing of test questions. You can discourage printing and sharing questions, using the textbook, working with friends, and having someone else take the test for you.
Learning Objectives
Students will take a quiz in Exam Builder which will assess their understanding of the story Flat Stanley.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Knowledge - Students will be able to identify who Flat Stanley is and accurately describe what happens to him by taking a test on Exam Builder,
Exam Builder is a Web-based application used to create and administer exams over the internet. One way to assess student's academic performance is through exams. Teachers need to plan the questions, print exam papers, monitor the exams, and correct piles of test papers. Online test making software can help make this job easier.
Application
Students will take a test on the book Flat Stanley.
Benefits
Exam Builder offers two types of templates, one for certification and one for continuing education. Each exam is customizable in its instructions, passing score, time limit, access codes, and show or hide exam score tabs. After an exam is submitted for grading, an exam review will show students questions they answered incorrectly. A Gap Analysis Report grades the student in each learning category of the exam and provides a learning plan for improvement.Questions can be catagorized into Question Pools in which questions are based on a similar topic. Web-based forms make entering questions easy. Images, graphs and charts can be easily uploaded. Exam Builder has several automated features that will save you time.These include auto retakes, email invitations to take an exam, self registering, instructor notifications for staff to recieve notification when a student completes an exam, and auto reschedule which can configure everyone in your account for certain exams. Multiple scheduling options are available as well as tables showing who is scheduled and who isn't. It is easy to group students and schedule students for groups of exams. A report can be exported to a PDF or Excel. Different types of reports you can make are snapshot reports such as all students who either passed or failed an exam, class analysis reports which would show if one group or class of students was doing better than another, date range reports which show results within a time period, and in-progress reports which shows all students who haven't completed an exam. Summary reports show the most recent results. Student Reports show a student's exam history.
The easy to use links contained on the side bar after you log in include:
Main
Student Manager: summary, groups, students
Exam Scheduler
Image Maker
Report Manager: summary, quick reports, student reports, exam reports
My Account: purchasing
Support.
Exam Builder is priced by the number of students who will be taking class per year, not by the number of exams taken. The price is shown in blocks of 50 students. You can purchase more student accounts as needed throughout the year. In the workplace, assessment becomes a tool to use to make sure employes have a current knowledge of their product or business. Exam Builder is an easy way to make tests and organize results. Companies from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America use Exam Builder. Some of these companies are Wal-Mart, Toshiba, Microsoft, 3M, Johnson and Johnson, Hilton, Kimberley-Clark, IBM, ST, Jude Medical and PhilipMorrisUSA.
Challenges
The security of taking online exams is a challenge that Exam Builder as well as other online test making programs must deal with. Exam Builder offers the ability to set time limits on tests and randomizing of test questions. You can discourage printing and sharing questions, using the textbook, working with friends, and having someone else take the test for you.
Learning Objectives
Students will take a quiz in Exam Builder which will assess their understanding of the story Flat Stanley.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Knowledge - Students will be able to identify who Flat Stanley is and accurately describe what happens to him by taking a test on Exam Builder,
