What's new in QuizMaker Pro 2019.1
Oct 23, 2018
- Added: copying/pasting of a question(s) from test to test
- Added: Printing with View Filters on will only print the selected questions
- Added: Help files are now on the Class One Software web site and accessed via the app
- Added: GUI design improvements
- Added: Web site version and the Mac App Store version are now identical
- Added: Removed LAN networking and lowered the price
- Added: Option to lock upper number of the "Give" range.
- Added: Improved the Downloading of Sample Quizzes.
- Fixed: Improved wording of missing dictionary warning (Windows only)
- Fixed: Answers now assume the default style instead of the last used style
- Fixed: Several minor bugs
New in QuizMaker Pro 2018.2 (Feb 28, 2018)
- NEW: Added Countdown Challenge as alternate Practice method
- NEW: Add way to DL sample quizzes from the Class One Software web site
- NEW: Selecting Open from the File Menu in Create/Edit now uses the same dropdown menu
- NEW: Added "find and replace' to Print/Export layout screen
- NEW: Added options for the heading to each question in print/export layout
- NEW: Added notice on Print/Export showing range of questions
- FIXED: 1 reported bug
- FIXED: advancing from a Match Set now works correctly when in Practice Mode
- FIXED: Added HiDPi images to several graphics
- FIXED: Essay Questions now excluded from a 'Misses Take'
New in QuizMaker Pro 2018.1 (Dec 5, 2017)
- NEW: A 'Select All Fields' item in the Edit Menu allows styling of all fields at once
- NEW: From the Quiz Parameters Screen, the user can now apply the default styling to the entire test.
- NEW: User can now more forward and backwards when reviewing missed questions.
- NEW: User can end a review at any point. No need to go to last question.
- NEW: all images now HiDPI compliant
- NEW: update notice screen will expand to show more info
- NEW: Several GUI enhancements & improvements
- FIXED: Clicking below links in Help Index no longer causes crash
- FIXED: Several reported bugs
- FIXED: Error in the documentation
- FIXED: Error when adding an explanation to a match Q, a previous explanation is no longer shown
New in QuizMaker Pro 2017.3 (Aug 12, 2017)
- NEW: User can create a small test from questions selected from a large test bank
- NEW: Test creator can now add a 'difficulty' designation to each question and filter by that designation
- NEW: QMPro will now offer to self-update when a new version is available
- NEW: When testing in random order, the original question number is now displayed
- NEW: Imported questions and answers now assume the default style set in Prefs.
- NEW: Added new "Explanation" button to open and close Explanations Screen
- NEW: "date created" is now part of the display when opening tests
- NEW: When an admin password is set it is now required for practice mode
- NEW: Categories hidden from test taker are now shown during review as standard procedure
- FIXED: Scores by test screen is now correct when points > total questions
- FIXED: Parameters Scrn - custom question bank now only visible if that option is selected
- FIXED: importing names w/o a TAB between names no longer results in a DB error #1
- FIXED: Create Scrn - The color text box is now initially visible when creating a new test
- FIXED: The enter essay box now goes away in create mode when moving backwards
- FIXED: After removing filters, the forward arrow will now always be available
- FIXED: Quitting from some secondary screens no longer crashes the app
- FIXED: Parameters Screen: Test total points now updates when switching 'Give' methods
- FIXED: Results Screen "Category" display is now correct when give total is less than actual total
New in QuizMaker Pro 2017r2 (May 23, 2017)
- New: Allow test creator to view questions by category and other filters
- New: Add printing options including print explanation
- New: Option to review ALL selected questions after grading
- New: Option to remove the category from appearing when testing.
- New: Some labels in the Test Scrn now expand for easier reading
- Fix: Play and Stop Sound buttons now have correct labels
- Fix: New version check now works correctly
- Fix: Redesign the 'Select Test' buttons
- Fix: The About Scrn no longer hides the menu bar
- Fix: If a category set is missing, the set is removed from any quiz using it.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2017r1 (Jan 28, 2017)
- Added: Save the misses from a test take and create a new test from them.
- Added: Rank_Order question type. Grading is all or nothing
- Added: 'Disable this app' function
- Fixed: DB error #0 when adding a name
- Fixed: user no longer allowed to save a Match quiz without all of the answers being provided.
- Fixed: Apply TRIM to SA answers before saving them
- Fixed: Main Screen on the Print/Export Screen now appears correctly
- Remove ReadMe file, put license in app
- Fixed: No longer requires deletion of a quiestion if there is no text.
- Update: help files
New in QuizMaker Pro 2016r3 (Nov 30, 2016)
- Fixed:
- Error reported by some users when creating initial class.
- Duplicating a question no longer links the questions together
- Using an apostrophe in Class or Student names no longer produces an error
- Made the warning that the total 'give' count is less than the total questions more visible
- Added:
- Additional option to create a custom order for the questions
New in QuizMaker Pro 2015r2 (May 25, 2015)
- Added: Means to provide a 15-day trial period which includes network access
- Fixed: Error which occurred when advancing through and returning to a match set
- Fixed: An exception which might rarely occur.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2015r1 (Apr 18, 2015)
- Added:
- User can now add a clickable URL to any question and set parameters as to when it is shown
- The ‘nag’ screen appears only in unregistered copies when the button to prohibited areas is clicked
- Ability to lock via password individual tests so when they are shared test takers cannot view correct answers
- Option to review only skipped questions at the end of a test
- New GUI color scheme
- Fixed:
- Error when skipping backward through a match set while testing
- Changed trial period to 15 days
- Error which allowed access to prohibited areas after demo expired
- Rare error occurring when a question does not have a category set when categories are used
New in QuizMaker Pro 2014r3 (Nov 19, 2014)
- Fixed: Deleting an answer from a Match Group now works correctly in all situations
- Fixed: User can no longer change the letter designation of answers in a Match Group
- Fixed: Small error in setting the last backup time
New in QuizMaker Pro 2014r2 (Oct 21, 2014)
- Added: When selecting the "Create/Edit Tests" option, a pop up window provides clear options for the user.
- Added: Imported text now must be in plain text format (.txt). The .rtf option has been removed.
- Added: Improved handling of non-English languages
- Fixed: Copying and pasting a single line of text no longer crashes the app.
- Fixed: QMP now does a better job of determining line breaks when importing a text document
- Fixed: All unicode characters are now correctly handled in the Print/Export Screen
- Fixed: When upgrading, the duplicate dictionary from the new download is automatically deleted.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2014r1 (Aug 14, 2014)
- Fixed: When displaying explanations during quiz review app no longer adds to the first explanation.
- Fixed: Quiz saved with only one question now behaves correctly
- Fixed: Students will not be allowed to start taking an empty quiz.
- Fixed: Student password now required when starting an auto-selected test.
- Fixed: Issue which caused confusion with the app as to number of questions in test.
- Fixed: Error when showing match questions with a random give (related to above)
- Fixed: In frequent error when getting Match questions
- Fixed: Possible error when reading list of Categories
- Fixed: Occasional error when setting the correct answers for printing
- Fixed: Error when changing the name of an attached media item
- Fixed: Occasional error when speaking selected text
- Fixed: Possible error when setting the "match case" requirement
- Fixed: Error when exporting a file
- Fixed: Pressing TAB now correctly reviews answers from the pre-grading screen.
- Fixed: Error when printing with an essay type question.
- Fixed: Setting Random give to less than full total when Match Questions are included now gives correct total
- Fixed: If students are not allowed to see scores, category breakdown no longer shows
- Added: Auto-Backup option
- Added: Quiz can now be named from the Parameters Screen
- Added: When dropping a picture to attach to a question there is now a visual cue for the drop.
- Added: Improvements in the way scores are exported to a TSV file
- Added: Option to move between full quiz and answer sheet in print/export window.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2013r4.1 (Mar 31, 2014)
- Fixed: Crash which occurred in the Print Setup Screen
- Fixed: Errors caused by incorrect reading of Pref files from previous versions
New in QuizMaker Pro 2013r4 (Oct 25, 2013)
- Added: Ability to assign up to 12 macro buttons with unicode characters
- Fixed: Crash which rarely occurred when viewing grades for a class with deleted scores.
- Fixed: The number of questions to give for individual categories is now selectable and editable.
- Fixed: A bug which occurred when displaying the list in the Categories To Give screen.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2013r3 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Added: Additional error checking code
- Fixed: Several minor bugs
- Compiled Macintosh version for Cocoa
New in QuizMaker Pro 2013r2 (Feb 14, 2013)
- New: Expanded Special Characters Palette using unicode 8 codepoints
- New: Improved Importing of questions and answers from a text or rtf file
- New: Now uses the existing field to show long questions in the Match module.
- New: Added a print option to the Compare Classes screen.
- New: About Screen
- New: Answer buttons in the Multiple Choice module
- New: Added a preference to mute all sounds
- Fixed: Improved handling of Save from the Create Quiz screen thus reducing the chance of incorrect numbering.
- Fixed: Navigating with arrows no longer shows answers not yet entered
- Fixed: Misaligned label in the See Media screen
- Fixed: See Media screen now correctly closes when test is paused
- Fixed: Cursor now correctly appears when tabbing to a new question in the Match module
- Fixed: Pressing Return or Enter now correctly closes the "Grade My Test" screen
- Fixed: Fixed a situation which could mangle the email info and provided a user excape if sending fails
- Fixed: Explanation field now correctly resizes if the containing window is resized
- Fixed: While creating tests, the Edit Menu:Delete now works correctly.
- Fixed: Help now goes to the correct topics
- Fixed: While testing, navigating with arrows out of a Match Group now works correctly (bug introduced v. 2013r1)
- Fixed: Name Screen can no longer be sized small enough to obscure the Practice Mode button
- Fixed: QMPro now checks for empty questions before starting a test.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2013r1.1 (Oct 22, 2012)
- New: Data now stored in a database replacing 3 files with 1
- New: Styled text in QMP is now RTF formatted allowing cross platform exchange
- New: Multiple Choice questions now have 7 possible answers
- New: Radical new approach to printing and exporting of tests. The user can format and re-style the test in a WYSIWYG editor before printing.
- New: Ability to attach pdf files to a question
- New: Adding media files (pics, movies, sounds) much simplified. Can be added with drag & drop, copy & paste, or browse.
- New: Location of data files moved to comply with Apple and Microsoft directives on proper storage.
- New: [Win Only] Multiple instances of the application are not permitted, unless running on a network
- New: Double clicking a QMP quiz file now opens that file for editing (password required if set)
- New: By option, students can move freely through a test while taking it and/or pause the test and resume it later.
- New: Test creator may specify the number of questions from each category to be given during testing
- New: Tests can be removed within QMP.
- New: Easier access to the Practice Mode button
- New: Students now have access to their full grade report using their own password
- New: A Student picture may be included as part of the student's data.
- New: Essays to grade now indicated with a button
- New: Demo application, which required installation, no longer included with download
- Removed: Splash Screen
- Removed: PPC Support for the Mac platform
- Removed: Sound recording
- Removed: The test was saved pop-up screen
- Removed: Spoken sounds in a timed test
- Fixed: QMP now does a better job of handling non-ASCII and multi-byte characters
- Fixed: When in practice mode, QMP correctly grades your test before showing correct answers.
- Fixed: Bug which did not count some alternate choices as correct
- Fixed: Class scores now sort correctly
- Fixed: Bug which allowed students to add name even though that option was disabled
- Fixed: Media with hidden file extensions now found correctly
- Fixed: Bug which caused QMP to lose count of the total questions and cause an error
- Fixed: Bug which caused Test Details to be short by 1 take
New in QuizMaker Pro 2011r4 (Feb 28, 2012)
- Fixed: Installer now adds a small file which was causing a problem on 10.5 and 10.6 installs
- Fixed: Added a check to prevent scores larger than 100% when repeatedly taking same test.
- Fixed: Corruption in Pref file on Macintosh platform. Introduced in 2011r3
New in QuizMaker Pro 2011r3 (Dec 5, 2011)
- Fixed: Appending quizzes now works correctly
- Fixed: Removed false warnings of Pref File corruption
- Fixed: Made improvements to the Macintosh installers
New in QuizMaker Pro 2011r2 (Sep 21, 2011)
- New: Changed the location of some files to conform to Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and Windows 7 guidelines
- New: Now using the Apple PackageMaker Installer
- New: Changed background for the notification screen
- New: Added a Menu Item in the Scores Screen for exporting scores to a TSV file
- Fixed: A pre-selected test is now correctly saved in Preferences
- Fixed: A bug which would occasionally cause the Preferences file to become corrupted
- Fixed: Minor bug which prevented changing the question type once a category was set
New in QuizMaker Pro 2011r1 (Jun 6, 2011)
- New: Added an "Open Recent" menu item to the create quiz screen.
- New: Re-added the ability to import questions from a text file.
- New: The test creator can now include graphics to be shown only when reviewing the quiz after taking.
- New: Select a student and choose "Full Report" from the admin menu to see all of the scores for that student on all tests taken.
- New: Quizzes may now be enabled on a class-by-class basis.
- New: Feature to view a comparison of the performance of all classes on a given test.
- New: Moved the "duplicate question" menu item to the Edit Menu.
- New: Ability to change the size of the font for the printout only to allow for fewer pages.
- New: Test creator can now include as many categories in a category set as needed.
- New: The score data is now scrambled to prevent reading with a text editor.
- New: Now includes a free "Take Only" registration after the 30-day demo has expired.
- New: Added a Hide/Show button for the password field in the Preferences Screen
- Fixed: Behavior of the close button on Mac platform.
- Fixed: Disabled the menu shortcut for Next Question when no next exists.
- Fixed: Misplacement of a warning text on the Parameters Screen
- Fixed: It is no longer necessary to delete a question when navigating forward and backward if partial data has been entered.
- Fixed: Improved stability by handling several user-reported errors.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2010r4 (Dec 2, 2010)
- Fixed: Occasional crash after exporting a test to a text file.
- Fixed: Crash when deleting the last question of a test.
- Fixed: Situation where a specific file would fail to overwrite itself
New in QuizMaker Pro 2010r3 (Oct 19, 2010)
- Fixed: Setting random number to give/print less than total now respected
- Fixed: Occasional exception when using categories
- Fixed: Program no longer crashes when last question times out and user does not review
- Fixed: Categories are now correctly reported in Results when not all categories are given
- Fixed: Error when setting too few random questions with a match no longer occurs
- Fixed: Appending a quiz to another (broken by 2010r2) now works correctly again.
- Fixed: Upgrading would cause the registration type to be incorrectly set.
- Added: Current count now shows when cycling through survey questions in See Scores
- Fixed: A Survey question now requires at least 2 possible responses
- Fixed: Printing of survey results now working on Windows (never broken on Mac)
- Added: Close button for the Starting Screen (Name Screen)
- Fixed: Occasional error when adding a new Class name
- Fixed: Error when deleting several questions in a row.
- Added a floating window to show full text of long Match Q's or A's
- Fixed: Match groups with long question or answers now print correctly
- Added feature to duplicate the current question when creating tests
New in QuizMaker Pro 2010r2 (Jul 27, 2010)
- Added ability to give questions by category when testing
- Added superscript and subscript to the Special Characters palette when creating a quiz.
- Changed requirement to complete a question before moving backwards to view previous questions.
- Added ability to copy results to the clipboard for pasting into other email, etc.
- Added option to add multiple media to a Match set.
- The left hand column of a Match Set is now numbered by default when creating the set.
- Changed some message boxes to maintain a more consistent appearance.
- Added an error catching screen and the option to report errors to Class One Software.
- Added the ability to choose which data is included when exporting class grade details.
- Dropping a QMPro 2010 created file on the dock now launches the program (Mac only)
- Added ability to include special characters when writing Match questions.
- Added user options screen when network location not found
- Re-Added ability to convert v. 6.x quizzes which was dropped in v. 2010r1
- Fixed a bug which occurred when a sound was the first item in media attachments.
- Fixed: QMPro 2010 now correctly prints all pictures attached to a question.
- Fixed error that might allow a Match set to be shown as worth 0 points.
- Fixed error where "Require Exact Case" did not hold setting for some Short Answer questions
New in QuizMaker Pro 2010r1 (Mar 2, 2010)
- Added feature to show multiple media attachments (picts, movies, sounds) with each question
- Attachments now always show in a separate screen which will use a 2nd monitor if available
- Added ability to record a voice or sound within the program and add that sound as an attachment
- Added entire quiz "Find and Replace" functionality
- Added ability to assign categories to questions. Results will indicate performance by category
- Added "Change Case" option when creating tests
- Added Prefs option to include all takes in the Class Analysis when multiple takes exist
- Improved appearance of data printout
- User warned when editing a test if that test has previous scores which will be compromised
- Added functionality to purge the scores file of out-of-date scores
- Content screens are now resizable
- Question points field now displays correctly after being set
- Selected class now shows as default when user adds own name
- Fixed: User now notified when duplicating a name within a class
- Fixed bug with grading Short Answer type with multiple correct answers
- Fixed crash when installing from a restricted account
- Program now warns if spelling dictionary is not installed and provides guidance
- (Mac Only) Added dictionary lookup to the "Create" and "Grade Essay" screens.
- Fixed additional minor bugs
New in QuizMaker Pro 2009r3 (Sep 21, 2009)
- Made changes to the Help Screen
- Fixed an issue with networking where remote locations would occasionally not be found.
- Added an option to open the Help Topic in the user’s default browser.
- Removed warning about more than 2 instances of the program running
- Fixed 2 instances where the program might throw an exception.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2009r2.2 (Sep 21, 2009)
- Deleting a student name in the Class Screen now works correctly
- Deleting a class now works correctly
- Converting a quiz from a previous version no longer sets the Random parameter to a spurious value.
- When the test creator is warned about the location of a file, the attach button now correctly displays.
- Though a time limit setting is flagged as unrealistic, the creator is now given the opportunity to override and allow that setting.
- Opening a v. 6.2 Match quiz for converting now correctly clears the previous Match data.
- Changing only the text of a Match question or answer now makes the quiz dirty and allows saving.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2009r2.1 (May 19, 2009)
- Playing a movie while testing now works correctly
- Dropping a movie onto the “drop box” now works correctly for most movie formats
- When canceling a ‘take’ and returning to the start screen, quiz name is now correctly removed.
- Sound now stops playing when user moves to the next question.
- If left expanded when leaving a question, the attached picture now correctly repositions itself.
- When setting an alternate location for the “Pictures_Mov...” folder, the change is correctly reflected in the field.
- Corrected a few errors in the Help documentation.
New in QuizMaker Pro 2009r2 (May 5, 2009)
- Added ‘Spell Checking’ to the Windows version of QuizMaker Pro 2009.
- Question and answer fields now correctly display non-ASCII characters.
- Added a palette to display and allow entry of characters above the ASCII range. (i. e. 128-255)
- Each grade printout now includes a ‘Take ID’ which can be used to verify the printout.
- Added option of creating 1 level of subfolders within the default folder.
- Improved the look of the message dialog on both platforms
- Improved the look and functionality of the A-E buttons in Multiple Choice questions.
- Improved saving of all important files.
- Fixed error which caused Classes and Names to not be saved (Vista only)
- Fixed bug where the Random Total in test parameters might be set too high.
- Fixed bug which caused the ‘Points per Question’ arrows to be incorrectly enabled/disabled
- Updated the ‘Help’ files
New in QuizMaker Pro 2009r1 (Apr 14, 2009)
- Up to 10 different types of questions can now be included within a single quiz file.
- Un-graded survey questions can now be included within the quiz.
- Question types now include Multiple Choice with multiple correct answers and Short Answer with multiple responses required.
- Essay questions may be included and graded by the test admin.
- The new Practice Mode allows test takers to immediately see the correct answer(s)
- Test creators can append a test onto another test.
- Test questions can be added to the end of the quiz or inserted between to existing questions.
- Test scores can be exported to TSV format for importing into spreadsheet programs.
- Exported scores now include the data taken.
- A computer voice can be set to read questions and answers.
- Data files are no longer stored in the application directory.
- Test creators may assign a pont value for every question. thus weighting certain questions.
- Quizzes can be uploaded by the test admin. to an internet server via FTP.
- Quizzes can be downloaded by any user from the server and are immediately available for testing.
- Test creators can set the quiz parameters to have test results forwarded by email.
- Administrators can print out multiple versions of a quiz with corresponding answer sheets for each version.
- Printing of tests now includes text styling
- Printing of tests better follows page margins set by the user.
New in QuizMaker Pro 6.2.2 (Oct 20, 2008)
- Users are now notified before taking a test if file permissions are denied to write their score.
- Admins are warned in the help section to provide read/write access to the QMData folder for all users.
- Fixed a bug in the Check Version Screen.
- Fixed a minor bug in the Preferences Screen when a cross platform site license is in effect.
New in QuizMaker Pro 6.1.1 (Mar 23, 2007)
- Fixed bug in default style setting which caused occasional crash when opening tests
- Fixed bug in setting default font which caused Preferences file to become corrupted.
- Reduced the amount of time QuizMaker Pro spends looking for an unavailable server.
- Added a visible notice to the user while QMPro is reading scores from the data file.
- Added a user warning if a picture or sound is selected from a folder other than the default.
- Fixed bug which prevented Match Quizzes from being disabled by the teacher.