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Loading time and timer This factor is important for timed tests during download and restarts the
page.
7. Application Software
Application software is utilized to develop web-based design. In this study, web page authoring software facilitates users to create web pages which
attach pictures, graphics, audios, animations, and particular display-interactive effects. Below, there are applications software applied in this study.
a. Adobe
®
Flash
®
According to Gyncild 2007: 1, Adobe
®
Flash
®
provides a comprehensive authoring environment for creating interactive websites and
digital animation. Adobe
®
Flash
®
is widely used to create engaging applications that are rich with video, graphics, and animation. The output from
Adobe
®
Flash
®
has file extension in .swf and can be opened by using Flash Player. People can create content in Flash or import it from other Adobe
applications and use Adobe ActionScript
™
3.0 to develop sophisticated interactive projects.
b. Wondershare Quiz Creator 3.2
Wondershare Quiz Creator 3.2 integrates with interactivity and multimedia to engage the learners through the learning progress. As assessed in
http:www.indowebster.web.id, Wondershare Quiz Creator 3.2 is a robust quiz tool that accedes to quiz designers to create Flash-based quizzes and
42 assessments. The software enables trainers and educators to make quizzes for
online testing. Besides creating Flash-based interactive quizzes and assessments, the software also can track the quiz results and analyzes the
statistic report with Quiz Management System QMS. Wondershare Quiz Creator 3.2 has nine different types of quiz questions. They are true-false,
multiple-choice, multiple-response, fill-in the blank, matching, sequence, word bank, click map, and short essay. It can integrate each question with images,
audio and narration, and Flash video. There are some benefits from the Wondershare Quiz Creator 3.2 presented in the next page.
1 Create a flash quiz within minutes
It is easily built with no complicated programming skill and drudgery needed any more. The program provides nine types of quiz questions.
2 Customize with comprehensive properties
People can make a unique quiz with different question types and set feedback based on test takers’ response to meet exact valuation needs. The
program can integrate each question with images, audio and narration, and Flash video. Besides, designers can insert math symbols, add voice
narration with text to speech features, build a lesson page for participants to learn before taking the quiz, and set up cheating-prevented exam with time
limit, question randomization and answer shuffle.
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Publish with flexible quiz export options The quiz can be directly published to Flash and to website. Uploading a
quiz is easy with the FTP File Transfer Protocol upload feature. Then, the quiz can be protected by hosting limit, password or build-in accounts
4 Track and report test result online
The test takers can get complete result report with a free Quiz Management System QMS Wondershare provides.
B. Theoretical Framework