December 5th, 2011· Fixed: Appending quizzes now works correctly
· Fixed: Removed false warnings of Pref File corruption
· Fixed: Made improvements to the Macintosh installers
September 21st, 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.
May 26th, 2011· New: Added an "Open Recent" menu item to the create quiz screen.
December 3rd, 2010· Fixed: Occasional crash after exporting a test to a text file.
October 19th, 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
July 27th, 2010· Added ability to give questions by category when testing
March 2nd, 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
September 21st, 2009· Fixed the Help Screen to work correctly on Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6
· Fixed an issue with networking where remote locations would occasionally not be found
· Added 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.
July 8th, 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.
May 19th, 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.
May 5th, 2009· Added 'Spell Checking' to the Windows version of QuizMaker Pro 2009.
· Macintosh 'Spell Checking' now checks the entire question and all answers at once.
· 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 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
April 14th, 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.
· 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 version 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.
· Mac users can spell check during test creation.
· Exported scores now include the date taken.
· Program can be set to use a computer voice to read questions and answers.
· Test analysis shown with graphical representation.
· Individual score data shown from within the scores screen
· Attached pictures enlarge for viewing within the test window.
· Quiz explanations show within the test window.
· Data files no longer stored in application directory.
· An alternate location may be designated for the Quizzes and Pictures… folders
· A styling toolbar makes adding text styles easy.
· Test creator may assign a point value to every question, thus weighting certain questions.
· Features drag-and-drop adding of pictures, movies, and sounds to the correct folder.
· Classes and student names now entered within the same screen.
· Student information may include a unique identifier such as a student or employee ID.
· Students may add their own names to any pre-created class.
· Includes improved, printable help within the program.
· Uses single, consistent graphical theme.
October 20th, 2008· Version 6.2.2 (October, 2008) improves notification and instructions for setting permissions when QuizMaker Pro is run on a network.
January 21st, 2008· Fixed bug which prevented the unregistered version from closing properly
· Fixed bug which prevented the app from opening when upgrading from a 6.1 single user license.
January 17th, 2008· 'Networking' menu items removed, run from server (** see below)
· Added Universal Binary support for the Macintosh version.
· Added ability to print answer keys and student test sheets for a test.
· Changed Help Menu keyboard shortcuts to comply with platform standards
· Each question of a test now displays as Number ? of Total ?
· Added option to make a removed 'Hard Link' a stand-alone test.
· Improved and added features to computer reading of tests.
· Includes new skins (backgrounds)
· No longer upgrades from version prior to 6.0
· Users may purchase a single code for use on both Windows and Mac platforms
· Fixed a bug in the Help Window when searching
· Fixed bug which may have prevented removing links to tests
· Fixed bug which caused a picture to display while a test is loading
· Fixed bug which allowed a test taker to enter an answer which doesn't exist
· Several User Interface improvements.
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