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Pages

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Pages are a new feature of Question Writer 4 (Professional) that allows you to put multiple questions on the same page. You can add pages directly to the quiz and inside sections too. To add a page, right click on … Continue reading

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Question Writer 4 Pricing and Discounts

Question Writer 4 Pricing is now available on the main website. As the product is still in its beta testing stage, we’re offering two things to users who purchase during this time. One is a price discount, the other is … Continue reading

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Question Writer 4 Beta

Question Writer 4 is now available in beta form. ‘Beta’ means that it now has all of its features but it is not well tested yet and some of the translations aren’t ready yet. Don’t use it for anything critical … Continue reading

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No Plans for a Mac Version

One of the questions we get occasionally is ‘Will you be releasing a version of Question Writer for Mac?’. Unfortunately the answer is that there are no current plans to do this. Question Writer runs on the .NET platform which … Continue reading

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Crosses and Ticks

Question Writer uses the same set of crosses and ticks in feedback for all the themes. If you’d like to use a different set, it’s a little bit difficult, but you can do this by overwriting the .swf files in … Continue reading

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Use Tokens as Passwords

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You’ll notice today that a small Excel icon has appeared beside the tokens for each quiz. You’ll find that it is helpful to download your tokens (with links, ip addresses and start times) if you need to sort them or … Continue reading

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Windows 7 Compatible

Just in case you were wondering – Question Writer is fully Windows 7 compatible. Indeed Question Writer runs faster under Windows 7 – try previewing or publishing under the new operating system, the compiler runs a much faster pace.

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Collator 1.3

Here’s an update for the Collator software. Collator 1.3. You’ll remember Collator is a PHP application that uses MySQL to store results collected from quizzes in your own database, on your own server. It can be run on its own, … Continue reading

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Pop-up Quiz Window

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Question Writer Tracker now generates HTML code to create a pop-up window for your quiz. It’s usually a good idea to use a pop-up window when linking to a quiz, as it will create maximum space, and removes the URL … Continue reading

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Custom Error URLs

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You can now set your own Custom Error URLs at Question Writer Tracker. So if a user turns up too early, or too late, or from the wrong IP address, or with an Expired token, you can forward the user … Continue reading

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