For example, a complicated expression in an exponent won't be superscripted sufficiently so that it is clearly an exponent. The quality of the typesetting is sometimes poor, so that it can be hard for students to read. TestGen has a horrible interface for typesetting mathematics, and very limited ability to refresh the numbers in questions (to create different versions). I have used both Tamarack TestGen and Wimba Diploma pretty extensively, but both have pros and cons. I would really like to find something that would work well in this regard. In the past I also used Cengage's ExamView for one semester, but it didn't work nearly as well as TestGen. 6):Īnd then later on you can scramble the order of any questions and.or answers with this menu button (tutorial p. Plus my in-class tests use the random values/random ordering function each semester, with some manual edits to more conceptual short-answer/essay items.ĭuring initial test construction you can insert a number of random questions from a premade testbank this way (from the TestGen Tutorial, p. For example: I find the test-creation in TestGen so much more elegant than Blackboard that all of my online quizzes are first drafted in TestGen, then exported to Blackboard. It also has an export feature which allows a test to be exported to HTML, Blackboard, or WebCT. In addition to that, questions can have variable entities, so that another click randomly changes the visible numerical or text values within certain questions (works somewhat better for testbank multiple-choice items, or self-made short-answer items). Once you have a test made, it's a one-click process to scramble the order of any multiple-choice options. It has well-constructed formatting for math equations. The testbanks include premade questions of several different types, and of course you can write your own. If you have an instructor account with Pearson, then the software download is free, and so are testbanks for almost all of their textbooks. Pearson's TestGen is a crucial tool for my teaching for this reason and others.

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