You can have full control over the feedback mechanism of your quiz. Choose whether or not to show the correct answer at the end of every question or after the whole quiz is done.

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Quizzes are a universal tool in education. We can create tests that cater to a variety of nationalities and races. Selecting the right language for a quiz is crucial to make learning more effective for a particular audience and demographic.

The applications of language customization are myriad: Koreans learning about calligraphy, an English language class for Asians, or Spaniards learning about their history and culture — these are some examples. A quiz written in a different language other than English is useful for learners in non-English-speaking countries.

Before you create any quiz, select the “Language” option in the main menu.

Pick your desired language from the from the drop-down menu.

Restart the application for the new changes to work.

Currently, Question Writer supports the following languages:

English, Danish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Japanese.

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Partial credit questions is a variant of multiple choice questions that allow you to assign the same or different points to every answer. This penalizes guesswork because you may award negative points for incorrect answers while giving partial points to one or more correct answers.

Certain tests make use of partial credit questions to determine multiple correct answers. For example, a disease has many symptoms and the test taker identifies all the correct ones but may answer a wrong one from the selection.

Step 1. Click the “Partial Credit” icon on the main panel.

Alternatively, you can click “Add Question” on the main menu and select “Partial Credit” from the drop down menu.

You can also right-click the Quiz icon on the left panel, select “Add” then “Partial Credit.”

Type your question in the “Question Body” box.

If you want, you can include an image by ticking the box, hitting the select file button, then add the file from your computer.

Type the options in the boxes. Assign points on the left column to every possible answer. Award positive points to the correct answers. (You can assign more points to an answer that is more correct than the rest of the right choices e.g. 1 point, 2                    points, 3 points, etc.) For the incorrect answers, assign negative points e.g. -1 or -2                points.

Place the maximum number of options that may be selected.

Type the feedback for the correct and incorrect answers. Then hit preview to look at how your partial credit quiz looks like.

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Audio can make any quiz clearer and more engaging. Imagine if instead of reading a quote of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, the test taker can actually hear that famous recording of “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Now that’s much better, right?

You can add audio files in MP3 or .swf format to any Question Writer quiz. Remember, you can add audio to a question and also to answer options.

Right-click on the question type. Select “Add” then “Content.”

Double-click the content folder icon, choose “Add” then “Audio” from the menu.

Double-click the audio icon on the left panel. Select your audio file. You can choose the alignment to the center, left, or right from the drop-down menu.