Charles Kelly's Quiz Generator / Quiz Maker / Quiz Creator / Quiz Builder / Quiz Writer / Quiz Producer

What does this page do?

From this page you can generate a quiz that can be printed to paper or put online in various formats.

How do I generate a quiz?

For best results, read all of the steps below before trying to generate a quiz.

Step 1: Type the quiz data in your word processor or text editor.

Read the the "about" page to find out how to format the data.

Step 2: Put your data in the box below.

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NOTE There should be NO RETURNS before the first line of data.

NOTE There should be one and only one RETURN after the last line. If you get an error, this is the probably where you made your mistake.

Step 3: Choose the kind of quiz you want to generate.

Use the quiz in your classroom.
- Generate a page for printing to paper. / Include the answer key for the teacher.
Create a quiz that can be put on your own web server.
- Charles Kelly's Self-study Quiz Format
  Similar to a4esl.org/q/h/
- GIFT format (For those using Moodle)
  For multiple choice questions, up to 5 choices, feedback included if tabbed.
- Marmo Soemarmo's JavaScript Quiz
  Similar to ~linguist/jscript/Mchoice.htm
  NOTE: Only up to the first 3 choices will be used. (Excess choices will be gracefully ignored.)
- John McKendrick's Java Quiz Applet
  Similar to http://www.manythings.org/jq/
  NOTE: Only up to the first 3 choices will be used. (Excess choices will be gracefully ignored.)
  Download the applet from: http://www.teilhard.com/software/java.html
- Data formatted for David Griffiths' QuizShow
  Similar to http://www.manythings.org/qs/verbs.html
  This is only the data, it's an external file accessed by a Java applet. This format also requires that all questions have the same number of choices.
Generate a quiz that can be contributed to a4esl.org.
These must be hosted on our web server.
- Charles Kelly's JavaScript Quiz Format
  Similar to a4esl.org/q/j/)
- Charles Kelly's Flash Quiz for a4esl.org.
  Similar to a4esl.org/q/f/)
If the data is formatted as a bilingual word list, try these.
- Self-study Word List Quiz
  Note: This will change the above multiple-choice data into a "fill-in-the-blank" self-study quiz as well.
- Flashcard-like Word List Quiz
- Vocabulary List
Still Very Experimental.
- Hot Potatoes XML Format

Step 4: Click the button to generate the quiz.

Step 5: Save or print the resulting web page.

If you generated the "For printing to paper" quiz, you have 2 options.
- Copy it and paste it into your word processor. You can further edit the document or you can print it "as is" (minus the answers) for your students.
- Print it from the web page. With a pair of scissors, cut off the answers before duplicating the quiz for your students.
If you generated a quiz for the web, then save the resulting page "as source."

Step 6: Contribute the quiz to a4esl.org. (Optional)

Paste the same data that you put in the above box into the web form, then click the "submit" button.

Reminder

Save your original data file. You may want to use it again in the future. You can easily add or delete questions from the same file and re-generate the quiz.

Charles Kelly's Online Quiz GeneratorQuiz Maker / Quiz Creator / Quiz Builder / Quiz Writer / Quiz Producer