Category Archives: Quiz Software Updates

New Theme For Question Writer Basic

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Question Writer Basic is free for personal use. It only has the Multiple Choice question type and generally has fewer features than the Standard and Professional editions. Previously it had used the ‘Fresh’ theme for all quizzes, but as of … Continue reading

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Chrome Bug Fix

Over the past year, Chrome has become a serious player in the browser market. From about 7% in March of last year to 17% in March of this year, its growth seems set to continue so it’s worth checking your … Continue reading

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New Feedback Features

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There are two new features in Question Writer 4.1 related to Feedback. The first allows you to set a new Redirect URL at the end of the quiz based on a user’s score. For example, if the user passes, you … Continue reading

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Limit Number of Matches in Matching Questions

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We try to keep the settings for the questions as simple as possible. This helps make Question Writer easy to get started with. The powerful features are accessed through the quiz properties where new users won’t be intimidated by them. … Continue reading

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Question Writer 4.1

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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Updated Beta

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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Branching and Skipping

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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

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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

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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

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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