Respondus Quiz Editor

Respondus is an eLearning quiz and survey creation tool for PC. It can be used in Parallels on a Mac. It allows you to create surveys, quizzes and question pools with feeedback offline for uploading into the University LMS (BB Learn) directly. Some of the other useful features of Respondus:

  • Can be used off-line. You do not need to be connected to the internet to work on your quizzes.
  • Quickly uploads quizzes and questions directly into your University LMS (BB Learn) site.
  • Media Wizard helps add images, audio or links to your questions.
  • Will take a file of questions (formatted and then saved in plain text) and convert them into a quiz.
  • Imports and exports all question types including Ordering, Jumbled Sentence, and Fill in Multiple Blank question types.
  • Creates a printer friendly format of each quiz, so you can read and check your question on paper, before publishing them as a quiz. Printing also has features that control randomizing of questions and answer choices.

Question types

There are 8 main question types that can be used in the survey or a quiz. Each question has the option of including feedback for the student or for the quiz in general.

  1. Multiple choice: single or multiple answers
  2. True/False Questions
  3. Paragraph Questions
  4. Matching Pairs
  5. Short Answer Questions
  6. Fill in the Blank Questions
  7. Jumbled Sentences (often useful for languages)
  8. Calculated Questions using MathML