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Start and Finish Times

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Question Writer Tracker now supports start and finish times for quizzes. Set a start time and no-one will be able to start the quiz before this time. Set a finish time and no-one will be able to start the quiz … Continue reading

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Question Writer 3.4

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Question Writer 3.4 is now available for download. It supports a new QTI 1.2 export feature that allows you to export questions and tests for use in other systems. Three new languages are also supported – Italian, Swedish and Norwegian. … Continue reading

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Flatten Sections

There’s a new option that you can apply to sections – section flattening. Use it when you want to group questions for organizational reasons, but don’t want to create different logical sections in your quiz. If that sentence doesn’t make … Continue reading

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Publish as Flash 8

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One way to improve the quality of images in your quizzes is to publish as Flash version 8. Flash renders images in a clearer, crisper way when version 8 files are used in place of version 6 files. Users of … Continue reading

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Disable Essay Feedback

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Question Writer doesn’t automatically score essay questions so the feedback for these questions is limited to a single piece of text, written in advance. With QW 3.3, you can now also switch off this feedback page altogether with the new … Continue reading

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Change the Text Size

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Each theme in Question Writer has its own text sizes – one size for the title text and one size for the body text. These sizes can seem too large if you have a lot of text for each question, … Continue reading

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Publish For Printing

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There were three main reasons Question Writer users asked for a printing feature – Delivering Paper Based Quizzes – for when it wasn’t practical to deliver the quiz on computer. As a Backup – if the computer based test didn’t … Continue reading

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Question Writer 3.3

Question Writer 3.3 is available for download today. Here’s a quick list of the new features and fixes. I’ll blog them in more detail over the course of next week. 1. Publish for Printing. This is the biggest new feature … Continue reading

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Server Maintenance – April 30th

The Question Writer Tracker will be down for about 30 minutes on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 for essential maintenance. This downtime will occur sometime between the hours of 6:00AM to 9:00AM GMT. During the 30 minutes where the QWT server … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Quiz Tracking

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Here’s another small upgrade for Question Writer Tracker. You can now enter your Google Analytics id in your user details and all of your quizzes will be tracked as if they are part of your website. If you’re not using … Continue reading

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