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More On IP Address Blocking for Quizzes

I gotten a few questions about the new features, and I wanted to clear up some misconceptions. Quiz Takers Don’t Need a Question Writer Tracker Account When you upload a quiz to QWT, you’ll get a link that is available … Continue reading

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Restrict Access Based on IP Address

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This is a new feature for Question Writer Tracker – it allows you to restrict access to your uploaded quizzes to people by IP address. I think this will be most useful to restrict access to a quiz to a … Continue reading

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Provide Candidate ID to Question Writer Tracker

Here’s another useful tip if you’re sending quiz takers to Question Writer Tracker, but have their id and don’t want them to enter it a second time. You can provide their ID in the URL to automatically have the ID … Continue reading

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Order Quiz Results by Time Spent

Here’s another useful little feature – you can now order the result sets by the amount of time the user spent taking the quiz on Question Writer Tracker. You can usually identify a user who got bored during a quiz … Continue reading

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One Time Use Token

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Here’s a useful new feature for Question Writer Tracker. You can create tokens for quizzes so that they can be taken one time only. The token is available as a URL – give the URL to a user and he … Continue reading

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Improving Image Quality – Tips

If import images in your Quiz are blurry or of a low quality, there’s a few things that can help a lot with image quality. Most importantly, change the Advanced Setting, Jpeg Image Quality to a high value – 100 … Continue reading

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Track UserID from CMS

Here’s a helpful little technical tip for tracking users from your existing login system through to the Question Writer Tracker. Question Writer quizzes can take a parameter ‘sourceid’ and the value of this parameter will automatically be added to the … Continue reading

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Adjustable Fill In the Blank

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The second new feature I want to give you more details about is the adjustable Fill-in-the-Blank question. Up to now, the size and position of the entry box was fixed, like so, Now, both the size and position of the … Continue reading

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Publish Quizzes Direct To The Internet

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The really big new feature for Question Writer 3.2 is the facility to publish your quiz directly to the internet. You’ll find the option third in the Publish menu. It’s a one-step process – click to publish and it will … Continue reading

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Question Writer 3.2

You’ll find a new version of Question Writer available for download from the website today. Question Writer 3.2 has three great new features – i) Upload your Quiz directly to the Question Writer Tracker website directly from the desktop. Choose … Continue reading

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