Comments on: Good Software

By: lynnehorn

lynnehorn — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:18:32 +0000

Well I failed, but not surprising since in my day you’d to choose languages or sciences. Obviously my one period a week in science last year wasn’t enough…

I like the look of it, wonder if it would work with a short reading passage followed by questions? Find that with languages and comprehension there’s often more than one way of correctly expressing it and that can be a problem with some software.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:15:37 +0000

I feel I may have exhausted my biolo-knowlogy.

Int 2 will surely be beyond me.

I will simply try to steal pebble from your open palm, oh wise and venerated master.

Been in touch with articulate people, might try to see about putting in an order through new ICT funds.

By: Graham Davidson

Graham Davidson — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:57:53 +0000

I actually had to purchase it from the US. They don’t have any UK sales. What a performance getting it, but I feel it was worth it.

17 is still a pass – Grade 2. Well done!
Time to move on to the Int 2, Glasshopper??

http://www.oronsay.org/Quizzes/Int2practice/quizmaker.html

……………… and yes – there is also a Higher level one.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:43:02 +0000

Tried the credit quiz – only 17/30, boo hoo.

Seems there might be a bit of ICT cash on the go round my way – might put in a bit.

Do you know where it was supplied from? I’ve looked at the link in your post, but it seems to be US based – no info on UK sales.

By: Graham Davidson

Graham Davidson — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:37:29 +0000

It does look good and very professional, in my opinion. I haven’t tried it on the school server, but I’m assuming you could put them there quite easily. I can’t see a problem with it.
Yeast was a good one to get, though. Keep trying hard.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:34:08 +0000

Hi Graham

Looks very good and professional – bit like the things you pay £400 for interactive whiteboards – I’m assuming you could host them on the school server as well? It took me 8 attempts to get one right (yeast) well seen who gave up science at the end of S2!!

By: Graham Davidson

Graham Davidson — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:02:41 +0000

The software is standalone, but as for mac friendly, I couldn’t say. I am very impressed that a Physicist achieved 23/30 – maybe I should have put the Credit paper on. The price, as far as I know doesn’t cover multiple licences, but once the quiz is made you can publish it. You would only need multiple licences if you were putting the actual quiz making software on more than one machine, but if you ask the company, I’m sure they would be able to advise.
I hope that is helpful – if not – let me know.
Now let’s see how you do in the Credit paper.
http://www.oronsay.org/Quizzes/Credit/quizmaker.html

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:19:50 +0000

Very nice -is it stand alone or does it have to work through a toolbar in PowerPoint?

Is it Mac friendly?

Liked the quiz a lot (got 23/30 not bad for a Physicist!). It would be great to have that type of thing on our school resource web-site (www.getintohabit.co.uk)

Does the price cover multiple licences?

By: Graham Davidson

Graham Davidson — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:49:45 +0000

The cost of the software was about £200, Andrew.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:52:58 +0000

Was it expensive Graham? It works in almost exactly the same way as Breeze does, with a menu added into PowerPoint. Resources produced in the this way should work with the VLE element of Glow – that way you can track pupil progress on your resources from within Glow. That’s one of the things I’m looking into at the moment with LTS and RM.