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From R. Byrne: "Creating and delivering quizzes and tests online offers a number of advantages over paper-based quizzes and tests. Many online quiz services allow you to create quizzes that give your students instant feedback. Some of the services provide the option to include picture and video prompts in your quizzes. And all of these services save you the hassle of printing your quizzes. "

You can insert your own quizzes into YouTube videos. This might be a fun way to test students. "Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. To create a quiz on Blubbr start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices." T/H R. Byrnes

"Grammar-Quizzes contrasts points of grammar and provides examples, explanations, practices and interactive quizzes for adjectives, verbs, prepositions, clauses, phrases, expressions and much more!" Organized by parts of speech. A sentence-level question starts the page.

Make quizzes free with the tool at 4Teachers (home of RubiStar and other tools). Students can take the quizzes online, and you can access them from work or home. Free

"The following are some of the best free tools available online that can help teachers create quizzes." This blog links to some 16 online quiz makers with very short descriptions of each. For college/adults and K-12 also. Some sites have pre-made tests in such subject areas as history, geography, and grammar. Most allow different types of quizzes and some have games as well.

A complete Standards-based curriculum of tests, quizzes, and drills, if you are into that sort of thing. This site is totally cringe-worthy, and makes big promises without much but anecdotal evidence. You might find some tools and lessons and quizzes useful, but use with care. K-8

"An Apple app which lets you quickly scan and mark paper-based quizzes using the special mark sheet and your mobile device. The children simply make a mark on their answer sheet to show their answer." (M. Burrett) "Quick Key eliminates hand-grading of quizzes, tests, and formative assessments, even for teachers working in paper-based classrooms, without a computer." Clever app - reads and grades.

A video how-to. Image-based quizzes are good for more advanced students as well as beginners.

Create activities, matching games, crosswords, and quizzes. Save these resources online with your free teacher account and analyze results of quizzes and games.

"We all know Google Presentations is a great tool for making multimedia slideshows. But did you know it can also be used to make interactive quizzes and "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories? With Google Presentations ability to link to specific slides you can build a non-linear slideshow that allows the user to make choices and go to different slides depending on their choice. Learn tips and tricks to make this work best, and see how this can be used for you or your students to make interactive quizzes and stories." This looks like fun. Users warn that some of the links to help files don't work, but give it a try.

"Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons on prefixes and suffixes. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs. "After each lesson on Reading Bear students can take quizzes to test their skills. The quizzes present a picture and a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Through the narrator, students receive instant feedback on each question in the quiz." I am not convinced that these topics are a good idea for K-3, but if this is in your curriculum, this site might be a good option.

Teachers are welcome to create new quizzes. [They then can be posted on Detwiler's site, or embedded in their own Web page.] You can base your quizzes on videos from YouTube, Blip.tv, TeacherTube, or other video hosting website. You can view, edit, or delete your quiz at any time from your Account page. Click here to see how to create a quiz.

Free! ESL Video uses video from around the Web (e.g. The Daily English Show), and attaches short quizes on the content, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. You can choose videos by level (beginning to high-intermediate), and track results of student quizzes. You can also make your own quizzes with video you select from the Web!

Yet another quiz maker, this one gamified. One good option is to get students to make quizzes for themselves or each other as practice. Looks to be for middle school students.

14 Free Tools -- includes Hot Potatoes, Quandry, JeopardyLabs, Edgames, etc. Games to revise/review as well as make your own quizzes.

These are simple instructions for creating an easy T-F or even MCQ quiz using Powerpoint. This is a nice backup if you can't get online to SurveyMonkey. It might be a good challenge for students to create their own quizzes or a kind of flashcard set.

These sites include RAS Animate with thought-provoking videos about education and other subjects; Problem Attic with a bank of 80,000 quetions from the NY Regents exams, review tests, quizzes, and flash card; Learners TV with thoughsands of video lectures, tests, and animations in various disciplines to support classroom instruction; Sketch Toy which lets you draw and share pictures; Daily Infographic, where you can search topics and subscribe; and Google Tutor, which gives you news, tips, and tutorials about Google. Thanks to M. Sheehan at Learning Never Stops for the info.

R. Byrne: "Flubaroo is a script that you can use in Google Spreadsheets to have your multiple choice and short answer quizzes graded for you with just a couple of clicks on your part. The latest version of Flubaroo can even be used to email grades to your students. "

These are some good tools, some of which may be new to you. Includes Dipity, Document Suite (an authoring tool to transform documents into online help modules), Izzui to track and deliver courses, LessonWriter, Scratch from the MIT MEdia Lab for content creation, timeliners, course builders of various sorts, and a list of free podcasting, polling, and quizzing tools. Not much for mobile technology. There is a lot here to explore.

"GoClass is a learning platform.... Using common mobile devices and an Internet connection, the platform helps you improve student engagement, classroom management ... With lesson plan review, student notes and media annotation, their classroom experience goes home with them." This app seems to have multiple functions, such as sending students follow-up notes and quick polls/quizzes, sharing whiteboards, etc. This will require some exploration. Available for both Apple and Google platforms.