Author Archives: Alexander

Explanation Question

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Alexander
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There’s not a lot to say about the ‘Explanation Question’ – although, notably, it’s not a question. It allows you to add text and/or an image to a page in the quiz, without having to have an interactive element or … Continue reading →

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Language Selector

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Alexander
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Question Writer 3 now has a language selector. It’s in the ‘Language’ menu that is visible before you’ve opened or created any quizzes in the interface. After you’ve changed the language, you need to restart the application for the change … Continue reading →

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Sequencing Question

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Alexander
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The Sequencing question type can also be thought of as a ‘ranking’ or an ‘ordering’ question. I’ll cover the basics first and then I’ll tell you why ours is much better than any ranking questions you’ve seen before (or try … Continue reading →

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Sections

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Alexander
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Today, I’d like to introduce you to ‘Sections’. Grouping questions into sections sounds like quite a tame feature at first. But it opens up so many possibilities that I’ve put it top of the list of new features. Each section … Continue reading →

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Question Writer 3 Alpha Version

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Alexander

Question Writer 3 is finally available as a public alpha – download link. What does that mean? Well it’s like a beta – an early version of software which hasn’t been robustly tested, but a beta contains all the features … Continue reading →

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Do Not Open Until Christmas Day

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Alexander
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If you’re sensible like me, you don’t start thinking about Christmas until the 24th of December. However, I understand there’s a whole brigade of people who’ll start preparing for the holidays as early as mid-December. Here’s a new Christmas theme … Continue reading →

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80 percent bug

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Alexander

If you’ve downloaded your copy of Quiz Edition or Personal Edition software recently, you may have noticed a bug which causes the pass mark for every quiz to be set at 80% – even if it has been set as … Continue reading →

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Halloween Theme

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Alexander
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Halloween falls on the 31st October this year. Actually, it always falls on the 31st of October. So with three weeks advanced warning, you’ve really no excuse not to have some Halloween themed quizzes available for your pupils and co-workers … Continue reading →

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Back To School Theme

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Alexander
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This theme is for chemistry and science quizzes – have a look at a themed quiz here. Update: Michael Koops has put a great DNA quiz online using the theme. You can download the theme from the website (right click, … Continue reading →

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Hotmail Users / Results Reporting by Email

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Alexander

It seems recently that some e-mail systems have recently tightened up their anti-spam systems are not delivering e-mail result reports. This is a problem with the e-mail systems, but it is affecting Question Writer users. If you’re using Hotmail, if … Continue reading →

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