ProProfs Introduces New Quiz School as a YouTube for Quizzes

ProProfs is a provider of web-based learning tools, including flashcards, blogs, forums and social bookmarking. Today ProProfs is introducing a completely revamped tool for quizzes creation – Quiz School – with a totally new interface and a great number of new features.

The company claims that it is bringing quizzes to a new level where they become social, fun and easy both to create and take. The newly introduced interface is rather similar to that of YouTube (and thus familiar to users) and really helps users feel relaxed when taking quizzes.

But the similarity with YouTube is not only about interface. Much like YouTube provides tools to easily distribute videos via blogs or social networks using embedding functionality, Quiz School does absolutely the same for quizzes by allowing users to tag and share their quizzes easily in the way they choose – on blogs, profiles on social networks and various e-learning programs and courses.

What’s more, not only the quizzes themselves can be embedded to share with friends or readers. If you are particularly happy about the results of one of a quiz you have taken, you can demonstrate the certificate of completion or scores to the entire community by embedding the widget where you want.

The company has also added two integrations – with Flickr and Google Maps that are intended to improve user experience with the quizzes. Integration with Flickr provides access to photos and images to be used in the quizzes while Google Maps is intended to see where people taking a particular quiz are located on a map.

What I have found particularly appealing about Quiz School is how easy it is to customize the quizzes using various color themes (with a broad range of default ones as well as the ability to create your own), content and styles. Also creators of quizzes get an enhanced tracking system where they will be able to see all the details about how people take the quiz – down to a snapshot of each attempt.

Quite an important advantage is that this powerful quiz creation tool is free, no matter if you use it for entertainment of your blog readers or friends on a social network or if your quizzes are used commercially on e-learning systems or to test knowledge of your company employees. The site owners monetize various tools here with Google AdSense from what I have seen on the site. But I believe that if they continue to add further features, some paid features could very well be added because the current functionality is definitely extensive enough for a free product.

Here you can see an example of how an embedded quiz will look in a blog post: