What's new in The Quiz Press 2.5.12
Aug 23, 2012
- The splitter between the question list and the detailed question view now works again (broken in version 2.5.11)
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.11 (Aug 23, 2012)
- The executable package is now "OS X Mountain Lion" (10.8) compatible.
- Fixed the "Help" Link.
- Improved the tab ordering in Quiz Settings window.
- Various other improvements.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.10 (Aug 23, 2012)
- Exported GIFT files can now have more than 1 answer explanation specified. This version also includes other GIFT file format enhancements.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.9 (May 20, 2011)
- Now allows for questions not to be graded. These questions behave very similarly to "Hand Graded" questions in that their results are reported but not graded. The chief difference is that the results page will no longer indicate that the test grade is not the complete grade, if this grading type is used in lieu of "Hand Graded". If both types are mixed the incomplete message is still given.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.8 (Jul 15, 2010)
- No longer causes spurious grading of tests when such tests are created on systems where the decimal separator is a comma
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.7 (Apr 10, 2010)
- Width and height multimedia constraints now apply to movies.
- In some cases, image dimensions were being over-constrained. This is no longer the case.
- The multimedia viewer now has an "honor constraints" setting which previews images as they will appear online.
- The default constrained multimedia width and height is now 300 (was 128).
- Large non-constrained images now have appropriate spacing on their right hand side.
- Minor textual changes to the Quiz Press Live email dialog box.
- Other minor changes.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.6 (Feb 9, 2010)
- Worked-around bugs in the Adobe Flash 10 plugin, to improve printed output for Quiz Press Live tests.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.5 (Jan 5, 2010)
- Additional fixes for certain characters in cloze questions.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.4 (Jan 5, 2010)
- Additional fixes for and & in cloze questions.
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.3 (Dec 31, 2009)
- Fixed issues related to opening quizzes with and & in close questions. This is important for creating quizzes on the topic of html and xml (or math).
New in The Quiz Press 2.5.2 (Oct 27, 2009)
- The Page Margins Dialog now works properly for systems where the decimal separator is "," and not "." (This makes a big difference for most European countries).
New in The Quiz Press 2.5 (May 29, 2009)
- Added a "New Quiz Based On..." menu item that lets you derive a quiz from an existing one. It will randomize an existing quiz or create a randomized subset thereof.
- You can now delete questions using the backspace or delete key or by choosing Clear from the Edit menu, in cases where the Question list has the focus.
- The 'Clear' menu also works to delete items from the multiple choice list, when that list is selected.
- various other improvements.
New in The Quiz Press 2.4 (Mar 2, 2009)
- Added a "Don't Report" reporting option. This hides the "Print" and / or "Email" buttons. Access this option in the "Reporting" tab of the "Quiz Settings"
- Added a "Timing" tab to the Quiz Settings. This provides facilities to time tests and report on elapsed time.
- Report Time Elapsed - Adds time elapsed to the quiz completion report.
- Display Time Elapsed/Remaing - This displays a timer visible to the test taker with the current time elapsed or remaning.
- Enforce Time Limit - This enforces a time limit on the tester. The test will automatically end after this limit.
- Give warning when x minutes are remaining - Allows teacher to give students a warning that their time is running out.
- Improved foreign language support - While this feature is by no means finished, advanced users can now edit a file called localization.xml to change the text of the web quiz's user interface (menus, buttons etc.). This file is generated whenever you use "Make Quiz".
- Now warns students if they leave the name field blank.
- Other minor changes.
New in The Quiz Press 2.1.7 (Aug 16, 2008)
- Now displays the elapsed time to take an online quiz in the results.
- Fixed an internal error that could occasionally occur while spell checking very large quizzes.
New in The Quiz Press 1.6.1 (Jan 5, 2007)
- Now supports cutting, copying, and pasting questions from the Question List.
- Now ignores spaces when considering short answer and fill-in-the-blank correctness. This prevents the user from getting a question wrong because of an accidental additional space.
- Now supports png, and gif image formats for adding to questions. Animated Gifs display their first frame only.
- Reduced memory footprint for quizzes that re-use a multi-media element again and again. Now only one copy of the element is used. This can dramatically reduce online disk usage in some cases.
- Reduced memory footprint for quizzes with images whose size is bigger than the minimum size set in the preferences. This can dramatically reduce load times and online disk usage in some cases.
- No longer exports multimedia that is no longer linked to an active question in the quiz (can still be in the undo list). This can dramatically reduce online disk usage in some cases.
- Focus now set to the "Question Text Field" when moving between questions. This should improve the quiz making work-flow.
- Other minor improvements.