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Facebook Quizzes

Settings for Facebook in Question Writer Tracker

You’ll see a new panel for each quiz in Question Writer Tracker – Facebook settings. Every quiz that is uploaded to Question Writer Tracker can now be accessed through Facebook. This adds social features to the quiz. When a user … Continue reading

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Secure Quiz Access

We’re offering a new service on Question Writer Tracker – Secure Quiz Access. This service ensures that your quizzes are delivered over SSL (Secure Socket Layer) using a secure, encrypted ‘https://’ web address. The users’ responses and scores are also … Continue reading

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How To Make a Video Quiz

Video Link parameters

There are a few ways to include video in your quiz. The easiest way is to include a YouTube video.  The video will be displayed inside your quiz, but it will be loaded from YouTube. Here’s a sample quiz with … Continue reading

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Putting Swiffy To The Test

Swiffy is the Google Labs SWF(Flash) to HTML5 converter. Despite winding down Google Labs, Swiffy development continues apace. On launch it supported most of Flash version 5, but the recent August 16th release (release notes) shows it now supports Actionscript introduced in Flash version 6. … Continue reading

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SCORM – How to Debug Your LMS

There are a lot of tools that create SCORM content(like QW) and a lot of LMS(Learning Management Systems, like Moodle and Blackboard) that run SCORM content. Now if there are 100 tools and 100 LMS’s – that’s 100×100, or 10,000 … Continue reading

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Multiple Score Tracking

Score nodes displayed in quiz

It’s possible to keep track of multiple different scores in Question Writer quizzes. To do this, just right click the question and add a Score. It’ll look like this Any Score that is attached to two or more questions will … Continue reading

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Korean Language Option

Language selection

You can now use Question Writer in Korean. To switch to a different language, just choose the language menu when you first open Question Writer and select the language you’d like to use. Here’s what it looks like – Question … Continue reading

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Conditional Redirect at End of Quiz

Redirect user to Webpage

One of the new features that you might have missed is the capability to send users to different webpages after the quiz dependent on the score achieved. Often you’ll want to send the user to one place if he passes … Continue reading

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Disable Button Sounds

Disable Button Sounds

Question Writer 4.2 also adds a new option to disable button sounds. This is especially useful if you have a lot of students taking a test at the same time in the same place.  

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Domain Protection

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The new Domain Protection feature allows you to lock your quizzes to your domain name. This helps if you’re worried about someone stealing your quiz and passing it off as their own content on a different website. Like all copyright … Continue reading

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