Category Archives: Technical Tips

Black Box Error When Previewing Audio or Video

Posted on October 20, 2012 by admin
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Okay. Settle down. This is a little bit complicated. Bug: When previewing content that includes audio or video – instead of audio or video, only a black box is displayed. Cause: Your system is using Internet Explorer 8 to preview … Continue reading →

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Putting Swiffy To The Test

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Alexander

Swiffy is the Google Labs SWF(Flash) to HTML5 converter. Despite winding down Google Labs, Swiffy development continues apace. On launch it supported most of Flash version 5, but the recent August 16th release (release notes) shows it now supports Actionscript introduced in Flash version 6. … Continue reading →

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SCORM – How to Debug Your LMS

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Alexander

There are a lot of tools that create SCORM content(like QW) and a lot of LMS(Learning Management Systems, like Moodle and Blackboard) that run SCORM content. Now if there are 100 tools and 100 LMS’s – that’s 100×100, or 10,000 … Continue reading →

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Pop-up Quiz Window

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Alexander
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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

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Alexander
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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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Improving Image Quality – Tips

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Alexander

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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Scrollbar causing content to disappear

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Alexander

A recent release of the Adobe Flash Player (noted in version 10,0,12,36, the most recent version) is causing a problem with older Question Writer tests that require the use of the scrollbar to display content on some pages. When the … Continue reading →

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Question Writer API

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Alexander

This is only going to make sense if you’re technically minded, but there’s now a code library to help creating Question Writer quizzes. If you’d like to export to the Question Writer format from your .NET application or website, you … Continue reading →

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Hotmail Users / Results Reporting by Email

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Alexander

It seems recently that some e-mail systems have recently tightened up their anti-spam systems are not delivering e-mail result reports. This is a problem with the e-mail systems, but it is affecting Question Writer users. If you’re using Hotmail, if … Continue reading →

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