This way allows your to upload your video to your website, but embed a player in the quiz. Here’s an example video quiz so that you can see what it looks like.

The advantage to this method is that you can keep your own video format, and don’t need to upload it to a site like YouTube, and your quiz loads quickly because it doesn’t have the bulk of embedded video.

To use this method you need to include the videoplayer.swf as content within your question and then give it a parameter ‘video’ with your url. You can also give it a parameter ‘autoplay’ as false if you don’t want it to autoplay.

Here’s the source for the sample quiz above if you want to see how it all works in Question Writer. Drag and drop the question into your own quiz to use it.

Some technical notes.

1. You can use the latest and greatest codecs that the Flash Player can handle including h264 and the FLV file format. While QW creates Flash 8 quizzes, if the user has a more recent Flash player, it will load the new codecs without a problem. I recommend you use h264 for all your videos for best results.

2. Usually you won’t want to use browser resizing when using video files, the resizing can make the video look blurry.

3. You can use video of any dimensions, but make sure to enter the dimensions in the Flash content element in Question Writer.

1. Your Quiz as a Facebook App

2. Unlimited Usage on Question Writer Tracker

3. New Tutorials

4. Secure Quiz Access

5. Include YouTube Videos In Your Quiz

6. Multiple Score Tracking

1. Your Quiz as a Facebook App

Any quiz you upload to Question Writer Tracker can now be shared on Facebook. Log into Question Writer Tracker and grab the link from the Quiz Details page. Users can take the quiz in Facebook and share the quiz with friends. You can go one step further and turn the quiz into its own Facebook app. You can use your own logos, users can compare scores, you get Facebook statistics and appear in Facebook’s app search. Try out the State Capitals Quiz to see how it works.

2. Unlimited Usage on Question Writer Tracker

We scrapped the usage limitations on Question Writer Tracker! You can now have unlimited quizzes on Question Writer Tracker, unlimited quiz takers and unlimited reports. You also get unlimited use of the Question Writer software and unlimited e-mail and forum support.

3. New Tutorials

We’ve got a raft of new tutorials on the Question Writer Blog. Learn how to use some of the more advanced features of Question Writer like how to add audio, award partial credit for questions, make a sequencing question, publish your quiz on the internet, repeat a question until it is answered, ask for a user’s identify before beginning.

4. Secure Quiz Access

There’s a new service available on Question Writer Tracker – Secure Quiz Access. This makes your quizzes available over a secure internet connection (HTTPS rather than HTTP). This ensures that the quiz and the user’s responses can’t be intercepted while being transmitted. This service is available for only $10 a month and can be ordered here.

5. Include YouTube Videos In Your Quiz

One of the easiest ways to make your quiz engaging is to include videos. And one of the easiest ways to include videos is to link to a YouTube video. It will be displayed inside your quiz. Here’s the guide on how to do this.

6. Multiple Score Tracking

A powerful, but often overlooked feature of Question Writer is the ability to track multiple scores. This allows you to track multiple facets of a quiz takers performance, and multiple scores are often used in psychometric style quizzes like the Myers-Briggs test. Here’s a guide on how to get started.

Click “Quiz Details” then choose “No Question Feedback.”

Click “Question Options” then untick the box for “Display Point Values For Questions.”

Click “Report Settings” then untick the boxes for the “Display Report Screen” so that results and scores are not shown at the end of the survey.

Go to “Other Labels” and type your custom message indicating the end of your survey.

User identification is also useful not only in restricting access to material but also to distribute your quiz results for example to specific groups of people based on certain identifiers.

Here is how to set up this feature to a quiz.

Double-click the quiz icon. On the left panel of the quiz properties window, select “Introduction.” Scroll down and tick the boxes of identifiers you want to collect.

To edit the labels of identifiers, go to “Other Labels” and scroll down to edit the boxes highlighted in red.

For example, instant feedback after every question forces a test-taker to learn concepts or facts one by one. On the other hand, feedback at the end of an exam is more for the purpose of having an assessment tool and less emphasis on detailed learning.

Regardless of the chosen method of giving feedback, teachers find that going over recent exams to discuss answers help students learn and do better in future exams.

Here’s how to give all the answers at the end of a quiz.

Double-click the quiz icon. On the left panel of the quiz properties window, select “Quiz Details.” The feedback method has a drop-down menu where you can select “End of Quiz.”

Sam Greenhalgh

Video clips make an otherwise boring quiz into a dynamic one. Kid and adult learners alike find that lessons with videos can make learning more fun and interesting. The same is true for quizzes and exams. Adding video will make them much more engaging. Video can also be used to “portray situations that test the learner’s ability to make critical judgements.“

You can embed YouTube videos to your quiz using the correct parameters. Follow the steps below to add video.

Right-click on the question, then add “Content.”

Add “Position.”

Add “Flash.”

Double-click “Flash” and click the “Select File” button.

Make sure to select and use the updated YouTube player. (Download)

Back to the Flash properties window, scroll down and set the alignment of the video clip to the left, right or center of the page.

Set the parameters. Type “_link” under the name column. Type the correct link under the value column. Note that your video clip has a unique characters that must be typed after the the /v/.

The full link looks like http://www.youtube.com/v/XxJa6vcHEyg

Download the source for a full working sample YouTube video quiz here.

Jamison Judd

E-learning is the “in” thing and your online quizzes are a big part of that. More and more schools are using online learning technology nowadays. The likelihood of a paperless classroom seems all the more real.

Yet, paper is not totally phased-out and you still feel the need to have hard copies of teaching material, including those questions and answers of exams. So you print a quiz and it’s easy enough to do just that.

Select “Publish” and a drop-down menu is shown. You can then select from different publish options. For example, you can choose publish for printing, publish questions in text format, or publish inside PDF, to create files in different formats                  in your computer before you print the quiz.

Photo: Samantha Marx

Sometimes you have to make sure that the test taker knows the correct answer to a question. So you force him or her to take and re-take a question until he or she nails the right answer. You have to find a way to ask a question until it is answered (some type of redirect function).

You can do this through the branching feature of Question Writer, where the software puts a requirement for the test taker to satisfy before the quiz can proceed to the next question. Here’s how to do it.

Right-click on the quiz icon and choose your question type.

After filling in the quiz properties, right-click on the question and add  “Metadata.”

Fill in the “Title” box as shown.

Right-click the question again. This time add “Score.”

Fill in the “Score Identifier” box.

Right-click the quiz icon and add “Feedback.”

Fill in the “Feedback Identifier” box.

Right-click feedback and add “Evaluate.”

Right-click evaluate and add “Condition.”

Right-click condition and add “Check Score” (if you choose to use a scoring threshold as a condition).

Label the “Score Identifier” box with the same name you used in Step 5. Select the condition from the drop-down menu. In this example, the test-taker must score 10 points otherwise he or she is asked the same question again.

Right-click evaluate and add “Branch.”

Fill in the “Branch Target” box. This should be the same name as the title in “Metadata” (Step 2).

Hit the “Preview” icon on the main panel to see how the test-taker is forced to answer the same question when the wrong answer is chosen.

Photo: yoppy

Your summary text and labels can be completely customized. Follow the simple instruction below on how to put your very own labels and messages to the summary of every quiz.

It’s best to provide a summary of the overall score, percentage and other feedback at the very end of the quiz to prevent disruption.

Click the quiz icon to bring up the properties window.

Select “Report Labels” to show the different boxes where you can customize these labels starting with the “Report Title Text” with the default title “Summary Report.” You can change it to, say, “Final Report” or “Conclusion” or whatever you                think is appropriate.                Do this to other labels as you scroll down.

Photo: Steve Keys

You have finally finished the quiz that you meticulously put together. You put all the finishing touches and now it looks perfect! Now is the time to finally publish a quiz on the Internet (you don’t want to keep it to yourself, do you?).

Question Writer Tracker does the online publishing for you seamlessly. As the name implies, you would be able to track all your quizzes and check the responses of your test takers. (We offer unlimited storage and bandwidth! )

The following steps show you how to quickly publish a quiz on the Internet.

Select “Publish” then “Publish to Question Writer Tracker.”

Enter your e-mail address and password that you used when you registered for Question Writer Tracker.

Hit the OK button to automatically publish the quiz on the web page. A pop up box shows the upload progress.

Another box appears after the upload is successful. A link is then created which you can e-mail or copy to your web site. If you click the “Yes” button, a new web page opens showing your uploaded quiz.

If you edit your existing quiz, you need to upload the new version to Question Writer Tracker. This will overwrite the old version.

To see the quizzes you have made, log on to Question Writer Tracker.

You can see a list of all uploaded quizzes. Each quiz has a corresponding link which you can copy, or click on to take the quiz itself. If you want to delete a quiz, just click the red X mark beside it.