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Question Writer 4.1

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Alexander

Question Writer 4.1 is available for download. The new version includes some great new features that augment the capability of QW4. I’ll be going into more detail on these over the next few days, but in brief, here are the … Continue reading →

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QWT – Sort By Candidate

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Alexander

There’s a new way to view your result sets now on Question Writer Tracker – Sort by Candidate. This is helpful if you have a number of students doing a number of tests and you view the results of a … Continue reading →

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Collator 1.4

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Alexander

I’ve updated the Collator software to handle some of the new features of Question Writer 4. That include the multiple questions per page and the Plugin Questions. If you’re using any Question Writer 4 quizzes – you should update to … Continue reading →

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Updated Beta

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Alexander

There’s a new Question Writer 4 Beta. This corrects lots of bugs in the earlier beta including – Only Show Feedback For Incorrect Answers (Fixed) Fill in the Blank box size (Larger now when answer contains many characters) Tests imported … Continue reading →

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A Learning Activity – Make a Quiz

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Alexander

John Moloney has posted a short review of Question Writer. He’s advocating creating quizzes as an activity that promotes learning. “Having the students make their own Q & A quizzes and tests gives them a self-attended activity that alone generally … Continue reading →

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Branching and Skipping

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Alexander
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The feedback mechanism allows you jump to another part of the quiz based on an evaluation. The jump can be to another question, to another page or to another piece of feedback. The evaluation will usually be whether a single … Continue reading →

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Custom Feedback

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Alexander
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Custom Feedback is a powerful new feature in Question Writer 4 but there’s only one thing you need to remember to use it effectively. With Custom Feedback, an evaluation is made, and if the evaluation is true, the feedback is … Continue reading →

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Plugin Questions

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Alexander
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Plugin Questions might be the most significant new feature in Question Writer 4. Plugin Questions allow you to ask any type of question, with any type of layout or display, and any type of scoring logic. A Plugin Question only … Continue reading →

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Multiple Scores

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Alexander

Question Writer 3 only allowed you to keep track of one score for each quiz. Question Writer 4 now lets you define multiple scores. You can use different scores for different topics in a quiz, or keep track of different … Continue reading →

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You’ve Got Options

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Alexander
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The next big feature in Question Writer 4 is Question Options. You can add Options to the Partial Credit, Matching, Sequencing and Plugin question types. Options allow you to offer alternative types of content as answer options. For example, you … Continue reading →

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