Author Archives: Alexander

Question Writer 3 has moved into Beta. This means that the major bugs have been ironed out and all the new features have been added. There will still be updates as we discover and correct more minor issues. If you’re … Continue reading →

As Bart Simpson famously said, “Lady, what you don’t know about metadata is enough to fill a warehouse.” Metadata is a very big subject. It’s data about data and if you’re organizing a lot of questions, at some point you’re … Continue reading →

My philosophy on software design is that the software should ‘just work’ and the software should automatically try to fix problems it knows about rather than sending you off looking for support. Here’s a new fix that illustrates the idea. … Continue reading →

Another new feature in QW3 – this is more technical, but if you’re using your own script to process results, you can now define your own server in your quiz in the Web Settings – You can also define the … Continue reading →

Here’s another feature that I’ve just added to the Alpha – it effectively sets a minimum score of 0 for Partial Credit questions by default. Say you have a question that includes negative scoring, but you don’t want to allow … Continue reading →

We’ve just added Polish to our list of supported languages in Question Writer 3. Did you know that in Poland, men and women will often use different forms of the same surname in the same family, men using the variant … Continue reading →

Previously, the only way to change the background image was to create a whole new theme. Now you’re able to override the background and loader images much more easily. You can use any .gif, .jpg or .swf(version 6 and under) … Continue reading →

You know the old joke, you wait for hours for one import format, and then two come along at the same time! Question Writer now supports importing questions from text format (.txt and .rtf) and also from Moodle XML format. … Continue reading →