Multiple Choice Quiz Maker
By Tac-Software
The Multiple Choice Quiz Maker is an easy and time-saving authoring kit to produce tests and quizzes for the inter- or intranet. Whether you are a teacher or a parent who wants to catch up with your screen-happy children, or a coach in the corporate training market, this program offers a motivating and entertaining e-learning platform. To create your test, simply fill in the appropriate question and answer fields. To see how it looks in HTML, simply click on the View Quiz button and your well-rendered Web page will be displayed within seconds. There is immediate feedback on the correctness of an answer for the test-takers and, if required, a message with the quiz results can be forwarded directly to your e-mail address. The easy-to-use interface means that you do not need to know any HTML or JavaScript to create your exercises. If you are familiar with the coding, however, you are free to edit the source files or adjust the templates. The software automatically creates HTML pages with many multimedia options which help you to personalize the learning experience and to make lessons more vivid and engaging. Your test creations can easily be incorporated into a Web page on the Internet or executed as standalone programs at home or in the classroom. The unique features of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker include the automatic FTP upload of your quizzes to a web server, one-click compilation of your HTML quizzes into an easy-to-distribute EBook or MHT file, and numerous classroom security features such as the option to encode and password protect the HTML files or present the quizzes to the user in fullscreen or kiosk mode The 30-day trial version of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker is fully functional and includes helpful documentation and quiz samples. The program offers comprehensive unicode support to facilitate the creation of multilingual tests and quizzes.
Teaching Templates
By Tac-Software
The award-winning Teaching Templates suite is a varied and timesaving set of nine authoring tools to help you create interactive, web-based exercises, tests and quizzes - including Multiple Choice, Question Time, Gap Text (based on the Cloze test procedure), Energy Saver (fill in the missing letters), In Other Words, What''s Your Opinion?, Flashcards, Mastermind and Playtime. When the large blue ''T'' menu displays, click on the template you want; you''ll go to its build screen. After selecting the font and background color, create the test by filling in the fields and then save your test. To see how it looks in HTML, simply click on the View Quiz button, and your well-rendered test will be displayed within seconds. Your test creations can be incorporated into a Web page on the Internet or executed as standalone programs at home or in the classroom. The 30 day trial version includes helpful samples of each test type and is fully functional.The Teaching Templates suite has been used successfully in English language courses at all levels of ability. The templates are also suitable for online education and computer-aided teaching and learning in many other subject areas - or ''Just for Fun''. Teaching Templates is published by Tac-Software, a company that designs specialised utilities for teaching and academic purposes. The English quizzes, tests and exercises are based on the research work of Prof. Dr. John F. Turner and his team at Reutlingen University in Germany. Teaching Templates is the latest in a series of software publications that started in 1991 with the publication by Cornelsen and Oxford University Press of a simple DOS program for teaching Business English grammar and vocabulary. We''re proud of the Teaching Templates suite and of the numerous awards that the program has received. The Unicode support that the program now offers provides exciting new opportunities for the creation of multilingual tests and quizzes.
Teaching Templates Global Edition
By Tac-Software
The Teaching Templates Global Edition is a new varied and timesaving set of nine authoring tools to help you create interactive, web-based exercises, tests and quizzes - including Multiple Choice, Question Time, Gap Text (based on the Cloze test procedure), Energy Saver (fill in the missing letters), In Other Words, What''s Your Opinion?, Flashcards, Mastermind and Playtime. When the large blue ''T'' menu displays, click on the template you want; you''ll go to its build screen. After selecting the font and background color, create the test by filling in the fields and then save your test. To see how it looks in HTML, simply click on the View Quiz button, and your well-rendered test will be displayed within seconds. Your test creations can be incorporated into a Web page on the Internet or executed as standalone programs at home or in the classroom. The trial version includes helpful samples of each test type and is fully functional. The Teaching Templates Global Edition is published by Tac-Software, a company that designs specialised utilities for teaching and academic purposes. The Unicode support that the program offers provides exciting new opportunities for the creation of multilingual tests and contributes significantly to the global distribution and compatitibility of your quizzes. The Teaching Templates Global Edition is the result of the research work of Prof. Dr. John F. Turner and his team at Reutlingen University in Germany. The Teaching Templates Global Edition is the latest in a series of software publications that started in 1991 with the publication by Cornelsen and Oxford University Press of a simple DOS program for teaching Business English grammar and vocabulary. We''re proud of the Teaching Templates Global Edition suite and of the numerous awards that the program has received. Why don''t you check out this useful and entertaining educational software?
Unzip Wizard
By PC Shareware, Inc.
The Unzip Wizard - A utility that makes unzipping ZIP archive files simple. Step by step instructions greatly helps novices who are unfamiliar with unzipping. The Wizard knows his stuff, and he will be happy to step you through the unzipping process. The friendly Unzip Wizard interface will make you feel confident and secure that your ZIP files are being unarchived properly. It''s as easy as 1-2-3! Simply... 1) Choose the ZIP file you wish to unzip, 2) Select the files you wish to extract, 3) Choose a destination... That''s it! Presto! Your files are unzipped!
WindowFX
By Stardock Systems
WindowFX allows Windows 2003/XP users to add a host of special effects and enhancements to their windows. WindowFX features include: true shadows under windows, transition effects for minimizing, maximizing, closing, and opening windows. Transparency effects, the ability to have large icons on the desktop while having normal sized icons elsewhere, desktop icon special effects and label effects, maximize to a set resolution, and much more. Version 3.0 adds additional animations and transitions, popup task switching, taskbar previews, graphical task switcher, easy set-up wizard, updated easy-to-use interface, and updated 64-bit support. You can download it right now for free and see for yourself. The full version of WindowFX is $19.95 or can be purchased with Stardock''s Object Desktop which is $49.95 and includes WindowBlinds, IconPackager, WindowFX, DesktopX, RightClick, SkinStudio, IconDeveloper and much more.
Speaking Email Deluxe
By UK Software
Speaking Email Deluxe uses Microsoft Agent characters to read your email messages. Primarily an email notification utility, it also reads header and message content and allows you to send speaking (or non-speaking) email messages and attachments to your friends and family. (Recipients of speaking messages must have MS Agent installed.) You can use it to monitor up to 99 email accounts, load it automatically with Windows, and determine the interval at which it checks for new messages. You can also use it to read other text entries and Clipboard content and launch your favourite full-featured email client. You can have your PC clock set via the Internet too. Speaking Email Deluxe is easy to use and an especially valuable tool for the visually impaired.