Learning More About Respondus

Additional Respondus Features, Resources, User Guides

Features:

• Allows you to create quizzes and surveys off-line and upload them to your course management system.
• Supports up to 15 question types. Import quiz/survey questions from existing word-processing documents (may require a 'save as' first).
• Spell Checking for an entire quiz/survey.
• Includes multiple language dictionaries.
• Word Processor-like interface for editing questions.
• Insert mathematical and scientific symbols using the Respondus Equation Editor or MathType. Include graphics and other media with your quiz/survey.
• Upload graphics with the quiz/survey.
• Create random question sets in quizzes/surveys. Access to over 1,000 publisher test banks in Respondus format -- FREE to instructors who adopt a participating textbook.

For more features, see http://www.respondus.com/products/respondus.shtml [1]

Additional Respondus Resources

• Respondus has a FAQssection that provides answers to common questions (http://www.respondus.com/support/faq.shtml [2]) .
• The Respondus User Guides (http://www.respondus.com/products/userguide.shtml [3]) provide important information on all aspects of the software.
• Demonstration and training movies can be viewed from the Respondus Demo Library (http://www.respondus.com/products/demos.shtml [4]).
• The on-line help available from within the Respondus program is also an excellent resource (press the F1 key anywhere in the Respondus program for context-sensitive help; or select Help from the menu bar to choose a topic).
• Software patches (http://www.respondus.com/support/patches.shtml [5]) may also be available for downloading. After installing, patches can/should be retrieved from the respondus site.

Faculty with questions concerning the use of Respondus to create quizzes, exams, or surveys and using them with Blackboard should email elms@umd.edu.