| 
|
What is it?
MCSkins is a simple freeware tool for showing multiple-choice
quizzes and reading activities on the World Wide Web.
MCSkins is a Flash-based
companion program to the JBC multiple-choice activity maker
in Hot
Potatoes, a popular suite of activity-making tools for
the web.
You can download MCSkins (version 2.02)
here!
|
|
Features
MCSkins supports most of the features
found in JBC, including:
- Custom feedback messages
- Scoring
- Randomized questions and answer choices (if you like!)
- Unlimited
questions
- Up to 26 answer choices per question
- Ability to include a reading
passage
- Option to have more than one correct answer per question.
- Optional
timer
- New! Basic HTML-formatting support
- New! Simpler JBC file management
- New! Smaller file size
- New! Now supports old and new versions
of Hot Potatoes
MCSkins also features:
- A single, elegant interface for ALL
of your JBC multiple-choice activities.
- Detailed activity reports
- Hidden answers! All the questions and
answers are kept on the server.
System requirements:
How does it work?
Wrapping your JBC multiple-choice
activities in MCSkins is easy! Just follow these directions,
and you will be on your way. 1. Create your JBC activities as usual. When you save your files,
use names with no spaces. (MCSkins can read file names with
spaces, but some versions of Netscape have trouble seeing them!)
2. Place copies of the all the JBC files you want to use with
MCSkins into the "skins" folder inside the MCSkins folder.
3. Now, you need to tell MCSkins which files you want to
use. Open the "options.jbc" file that comes in your "skins" folder.
This is a special JBC activity that MCSkins reads to learn
the names of your activities. It has just one question. In the
question box, enter the title that you would like to have MCSkins show for your activity center.
Next, for each activity you want to include in your MCSkins
activity center, type a title for the activity in an answer box,
and the actual file name in the matching feedback box. The file
name should not include the ".jbc" part.
4. Open your MCSkins web page on your desktop to test it
out before uploading everything to the Internet.
5. Now, ftp the entire MCSkins folder to your web site.
That's it!
How much?
MCSkins is freeware. You are welcome
to copy and distribute it. Note: Although MCSkins is free, the source code is copyrighted.
For information on licensing the source code, or to discuss customized
versions of the program, please contact Brian Nelson.
Support
If you use MCSkins and find bugs, or think of something you wish
it could do that it doesn't, please let
me know.
|
