My memory has always been like a sieve and it seems to be getting worse so I was more than intrigued to try out Teach2000.

Teach2000 is like a personal tutor that helps you memorize a foreign language, topography or even important historical facts and dates. It's aimed at students mainly who want to get ahead in their exams or classwork. The program has a quick start wizard that takes you through everything from scratch. It sets you a number of texts based on what you want to remember such as symbols, text or statistics. The program tests your memory by asking you to repeat whatever you've read several times until the number or words are drilled into your head. One good thing is that the program is not limited by language - it can handle phrases and texts in twelve different languages. It's also a very good way to improve your grammar (at least in English anyway) as it tests your ability to remember grammatical rules with a multiple choice test. The program is completely free and very fast at administration tests and changing from one to another. In case you want to use the tests outside of your PC, you can also print out tests and flashcards which could be useful in a classroom environment too.

A fast and innovative way to try and improve your memory although I bet I still forget my keys at least once this week even after using this.

Download Teach2000 8.25 in Softonic

Wouldn't it be useful to have a visual map of your thoughts, stating clearly what can support your view or what could instead be raised against it. Argumentative will let you built clear charts with thesis and counter thesis so that you can prepare your speech or develop ideas in a more effective way.

The application makes use of colours to clarify the diagram. Reasons are written in a green panel, objections in red one while the elements in support of both are displayed in a blue box. At any time you can add reasons, helpers or objections to make your graph as comprehensive as possible. Finally, you can export it into Word, Power Point or transform it into other formats using an XSLT style sheet of your choice.

Argumentative's concept is interesting and useful, but the way to design your thought diagram is not that usable. I wouldn't say it is difficult, but surely nowadays we have reached some standard for icons in order to move, add or remove things. I don't find it particularly quick, as one has to go into the edit menu, and then select the adding option just to insert a new panel. It's not really difficult but it would have made things much easier if there were an icon for these functions on the main bar.

Despite a raw design which slows the creation process, this free program can help you organize your ideas, thoughts and presentations thanks to its clear way of displaying arguments and objections.

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TCExam is an assessment software system that enables educators and trainers to author, schedule, deliver, and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. TCExam is open source and completely free to use.

TCExam screenshotAn e-exam (or CBT - Computer Based Testing)is an electronic exam that can be executed by using a personal computer or an equivalent electronic device (e.g. handheld computer).

The use of e-exam systems, instead of traditional paper-based tests, allows you to simplify the entire exam cycle, including generation, execution, evaluation, presentation and archiving. This simplification allows you to save time and money while improving exams reliability.

Download TCExam 5.3.005 in Softonic

iTest is the kind of program teachers love and students hate: a complete tool to create exams and tests of all kinds.

The program is divided into two main applications: a server, which is the one the teacher uses to create the test, and the client, launched by the students who are taking it. Questions can be multiple-choice and have attached images, but unfortunately they must be in SVG format (and not other more popular formats such as JPG or BMP). You can also assign different difficulty degrees to questions and even set the time limit to answer each of them.

Once the server is up and running, the clients (students) can connect to it and begin the test. The teacher will then be able to track their progress and correct their answers on the fly, so that they can receive their grades upon finishing the test.

Generally speaking the whole system works fine but it's not that easy to use. We strongly recommend to read documentation thoroughly if you want to take full advantage of the program's functions. Also, I missed having some kind of sample database or questions to get you started, instead of having to create everything from scratch right from the beginning.

A full-featured yet complicated tool to create all sorts of exams.

Download iTest 1.3.0 in Softonic

RecallPlus is a program written specifically to get students learning faster by automatically getting them to use optimal learning methods in their actual day to day study time.

The specific problem it fixes is that if you are someone who wants to apply the latest in learning theories to your day to day learning there was literally no way you could do it efficiently or easily before the advent of RecallPlus.

The key to all study is being organized. The RecallPlus helps you summarize your notes into easy-to to-remember formats. Accessing your notes becomes easy using the Knowledge Tree and our great search engine. This way you don't need to re-read text books and have a massive paper trail to wade through at exam time.

Download RecallPlus 4.101 in Softonic

CourseForum is web-based e-learning software that makes it easy for you and your students to interact, whether to create, post, share or discuss course content. Students can help each other to learn more effectively, enhance course materials, and save you time answering routine questions.

Today's educational tools are harder to setup, more admin-heavy, and more complex to use than ever. CourseForum gives you a painless, straightforward and flexible web-based solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration.

Designed for today's online and face-to-face courses, CourseForum is easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum software. You and your students can use it to create, share and talk about lecture notes, Q&A, discussion topics, research, student portfolios, group projects and more.

Download CourseForum 5.5.1 in Softonic

High-end application for creating and modifying interactive learning content for playback on the Qedoc Quiz Player. Features include convenient and fast generation of training and testing material, flexible reusability of defined tasks, highly configurable and varied test types, exceptionally smart and interactive interfaces, easy publication and a true interactive WYSIWYG preview display.

Around 40 different questions types are available, including multiple choice, multiple response, matching, gapfills, sliders, mystery words, text response, text correction and more. Many of these question types include original Qedoc variations and developments of established educational testing methods. Each question type has additional configuration options, including layout control, HTML formating support, scoring, feedback, hints, and more.

Download Qedoc Quiz Maker 1.51 in Softonic

Wondershare QuizCreator is a robust solution designed for teachers, testers, researchers and evaluators to create flash-baesd quizzes, online surveys and web assessments. This is one of the easy yet effective ways to access knowledge and get valuable opinions.

Make a unique quiz of different question types to meet exact evaluation needs. Adding pictures and question notes to appending clarity and fun to a quiz. Custom flash player gives a theme-baesd look to a quiz. And more properties to offer uers full control to design a quiz.

Quizzes can be directly published to web or even for LMS (SCORM/AICC). For data reuse and analysis, publish to database is supported. CD and email deliveries are another two options for the convenient purpose. Upload a quiz is easy with the FTP upload feature.

QuizCreator is able to collect data of the quiz results and send it to a web databese. Based on the quiz settings, quiz data can be sent either manually or authomatically. The quiz reports include quiz-related statistics to allow quiz designers gather information and track quiz results.

Download Wondershare QuizCreator 1.5.0 in Softonic

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this very website, the home of MediaWiki.

A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. With this package, you can create a Wiki for just about any topic you like.

You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary reference language for the whole site is English.

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Gradekeeper is a gradebook program. Gradekeeper is as easy to use as your paper gradebook. You can record grades and attendance for the entire school year. You can add students, assignments, and scores to your gradebook by just clicking and typing.

But Gradekeeper does so much more. Once you try Gradekeeper, you'll throw away your paper gradebook. Gradekeeper works together with StarQuiz (to make it easier to give tests and quizzes and have the results automatically added to your gradebook), Edline and School Center (to make it easy to give parents and students secure access to grades and other information online).

Download Gradekeeper 6.1 in Softonic

QuizFaber, previously known as QuizMaker) is a freeware software for Windows that enables you to create multimedia quizzes as HTML documents. This program simplifies quiz-making in HTML without any prior knowledge of HTML or JavaScript.

The quiz is ready to be published on Internet, in a local network (with Intranet protocol) or on a local PC. It can be fully customize for the choice of background images, colors, sounds and font types. Finally, the quiz result can be saved on a web server or send through email.

Moreover, it allows to embed into quizzes multimedia objects as images, sounds and videos, since it is compatible with the more widespread Internet formats (JPEG, GIF, MID, MP3, AVI, MPEG), also with Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime, Liveupdate Crescendo, RealAudio, RealMedia browser plug-in.

Download QuizFaber 2.10.1 in Softonic

The Virtual Training Studio (VTS) is a freely available drag-and-drop tool for creating low-bandwidth interactive learning materials, compatible with both web and local viewing. It has been developed as a part of the VTShost.com free e-learning project.

By setting a new, open and freely available standard for creating computerised interactive teaching material, VTS allows the interface to be platform- and storage-media independent. This means that teaching material can be viewed both directly over the Internet as well as from CDs, hard drives or local area networks.

Download Virtual Training Studio 1.12 in Softonic

Statistics from established universities show that at least 30 percent of scholarly and academic papers are complete or partly copied from the Internet (from term papers, presentations, final year projects to dissertations). Plagiarism-Finder is a Windows application that runs on every PC with Internet access. You select the documents for checkup an start the examination with a mouse click. After minutes you receive the results as detailed report on your screen. The program generates a report highlighting concurrent passages and gives you a link to the source.

Download Plagiarism-Finder 1.0.9 in Softonic

SunRav TestOfficePro is the complete solution for knowledge, personality and aptitude testing and assessment. SunRav TestOfficePro can be used for academic and pre-employment testing, personnel testing and certification or as a part of computer-aided teaching solutions.

SunRav TestOfficePro is a comprehensive solution for giving tests in educational institutions and in enterprises. It consists of the following programs: tMaker for creating tests (2 types of tests, 5 types of questions, an unlimited number of questions and answer variants, several topics in one test); tTester for giving tests; tAdmin for managing users, processing test results and creating customized reports.

Download SunRav TestOfficePro 4.7.2 in Softonic

Free time saving utility for teachers who word process student reports. Produces professional sounding, individualized report cards in the shortest possible time. The program uses a set of statements written by the teacher or downloaded from the net which can then be tailored to suit individual students. Designed to work in conjunction with your usual word processor.

Most important features:

• Ultra quick combining of statements.
• Ready made statements available on the web (by subject and level).
• Select and combine comments with a single click.
• Ability to edit reports individually for students.
• Full control over final report content.
• Online faq and support forum.

Download Teachers Report Assistant 5.3 in Softonic

Pauker is a generic flashcard program. It uses a combination of ultra short-term, short-term, and long-term memory. You can use it to commit numerous facts to memory and never forget them ... things such as foreign language vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.

Download Pauker 1.7.4 in Softonic

CyberMatrix Class Scheduler is an easy to use single or multi-user application for scheduling student's classes. The software is ideal for schools and other institutions that must create class schedules.

Class Scheduler can be used by a single teacher or by a group of students to schedule classes. The idea behind Class Scheduler is to increase the productivity of classroom administrators by automating the class scheduling process. Class Scheduler features automatic or manual scheduling, searching, and support for including other languages.

Download CyberMatrix Class Scheduler 5.01 in Softonic

starPlanIt is the future of lesson planning available today! With starPlanIt's simple interface, lesson planning on the computer is easy and convenient. The powerful standards feature lets you keep track of which standards your lessons fulfill and instantly print out a report.

Easy to Use

Lesson plan software shouldn't be complex or difficult to use. That's why starPlanIt emulates the appearance and functionality of a paper planbook, while making it easy to take advantage of advanced features.

Track Standards Automatically

Many schools require teachers to track the standards they teach on a daily basis and compile a summary. For most teachers, this is a painstaking process that can take hours. With starPlanIt, it's easy to automatically track standards; just click to enter them for the days you are teaching them.

Print Standards Summaries

Hand in hand with the standards tracking feature is the Standards Summary window, which lets you view all the standards you are teaching at a glance. It even includes the time spent on each standard and a list of the standards you haven't yet fulfilled. Print out the report on paper for record-keeping.

Advanced Scheduling Options

We understand scheduling isn't always straightforward. starPlanIt allows you to specify the schedule for individual classes, individual weekdays, and even a different schedule for every day. No matter how different your schedule is, starPlanIt can handle it.

Powerful Printing

It's easy to print customized reports featuring several unique options. Drag to reorder rows in any arrangement. You can even make items in your printed report bold, italic, or change the font and alignment. With options like these, it's a snap to create professional reports.

Download starPlanIt 1.7 in Softonic

The Advanced eLearning Builder authoring tool is designed for creating e-learning materials such as e-tests, tutorials, quizzes, etc. The system enables the creation of e-tests, just with several mouse clicks, which contain several types of exercises.

By planning exercises in visual mode, exercises can be designed, corrected, examined, complemented, and updated in a simple and survivable way. Various elements such as gap-fill tasks, multiple choices, and alternative questions are used to set tests questions. Additionally, many other elements such as various types of texts, graphics, multimedia, Object Linking and Embedding - OLE, and buttons ensure that your test has an attractive look and professional feel. And, all these elements can be easily moved and resized using a mouse. Elements offer various customization possibilities including changing colors, fonts, and contents; thus, creating and modifying all kinds of e-tests is quick and easy.

Visual design mode allows the building of e-learning materials in a simple and comprehensive way. Therefore, you can always see exactly how the final test to be deployed to students will look. Additionally, built-in dynamic resolution assures you that a test will automatically adjust to all possible screen resolutions that end-users may have so the look won't be deformed in any way.

Download Advanced eLearning Builder 3.6.1 in Softonic

Quiz Builder enables you to create educational quizzes in Flash format that can be used on a website, as standalone EXE file or Word document. Quiz Builder provides an easy-to-use interface to design the quiz and does not require any Flash or programming knowledge. You can customize several aspects of the quiz appearance, add images to decorate the questions and preview the quiz at any time. Quiz Builder supports score reporting (AICC, SCORM 1.2 and 2004) as well as posting to server scripts, user logins and more.

Download Tanida Quiz Builder 1.1 in Softonic