Author Archives: Alexander

Some significant updates today for Quiz Edition. I’m going to blog these in more detail this week, but I wanted to let you know immediately about the improvements in case these are something you’re waiting on. 1. Better Best Effort … Continue reading →

Another update for Quiz Edition – it now allows you to set the image quality for JPEG images. If you’re finding that your quizzes containing images have a large file size and take a long time to download, then this … Continue reading →

Valentine’s day is only 3 days away, and as expression of my undying love for Question Writer users, I’m giving away a newly designed Valentine’s day theme. It’s compatible with both Quiz and Publisher editions and here’s what it looks … Continue reading →

Another improvement with the most recent update is that the Question Writer branding screen is no longer added to any quizzes made with a commercial license of Question Writer. This was an issue for many commercial users who didn’t like … Continue reading →

Each theme has a choice of fonts associated with it – for example the Soft Focus theme uses the Tahoma font. This was causing a problem for Japanese language quizzes – as the Japanese characters are often not present in … Continue reading →

Quiz Edition now supports essay style questions. You can download the latest version of the software here. The essay style question is for use with the results-by-email service. Here’s how it works – when you include essay style questions in … Continue reading →

Publisher Edition now supports random selection from sections. So, for any section, you can now choose the number of items or sections displayed each time the test is taken. This allows very flexible randomization, where, for example, in a maths … Continue reading →

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. Or something like that. It’s a way to compress images, especially photo-style images to put them online. You’ve been able to add them with Question Writer for a while. However QW was compressing … Continue reading →

Here’s a new feature I sneaked into Quiz Edition about a month ago. You’ll remember that you could add images to a question – now you can also add Flash animations to a question. So if you’d like to add … Continue reading →