Category Archives: Quiz Software Updates

Valentine’s day is only 3 days away, and as expression of my undying love for Question Writer users, I’m giving away a newly designed Valentine’s day theme. It’s compatible with both Quiz and Publisher editions and here’s what it looks … Continue reading →

Another improvement with the most recent update is that the Question Writer branding screen is no longer added to any quizzes made with a commercial license of Question Writer. This was an issue for many commercial users who didn’t like … Continue reading →

Each theme has a choice of fonts associated with it – for example the Soft Focus theme uses the Tahoma font. This was causing a problem for Japanese language quizzes – as the Japanese characters are often not present in … Continue reading →

Quiz Edition now supports essay style questions. You can download the latest version of the software here. The essay style question is for use with the results-by-email service. Here’s how it works – when you include essay style questions in … Continue reading →

Publisher Edition now supports random selection from sections. So, for any section, you can now choose the number of items or sections displayed each time the test is taken. This allows very flexible randomization, where, for example, in a maths … Continue reading →

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. Or something like that. It’s a way to compress images, especially photo-style images to put them online. You’ve been able to add them with Question Writer for a while. However QW was compressing … Continue reading →

Here’s a new feature I sneaked into Quiz Edition about a month ago. You’ll remember that you could add images to a question – now you can also add Flash animations to a question. So if you’d like to add … Continue reading →

Here’s a new feature for Publisher Edition – embedded MP3 sounds. Now you can specify an MP3 file for the audio element, and also choose to compile that audio directly into the final Flash file. It’s good because Flash is … Continue reading →

Today’s new Question Writer versions (except Personal Edition) include a feature that you’ve all been demanding since the very first release – runtime randomization. It’s helpful for mixing up the location of the right answer in a multiple choice question, … Continue reading →

Free Quiz Software is a stripped down version of Quiz Edition. It’s powerful for a free product, as you can see from this quiz on the seven wonders. It includes multiple choice questions, with feedback on each question and option … Continue reading →