Question Writer is a quiz authoring tool for

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. It is used for authoring questions and compiling them into quizzes in HTML5 format. The software is published by Central Question.

User interface

The user interface treats each quiz as a separate document. The document interface makes available the questions in a tree-view on the left hand side and a large preview pane on the right hand side. This pane can display a preview of the question, section or entire quiz. The software uses a

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allowing a number of quizzes to be open simultaneously. Drag and drop is used to re-order questions within a quiz and copy questions between quizzes.

Versions

Question Writer is in its third iteration and comes in three editions, 'Basic', 'Standard' and 'Professional'. The Basic version is made freely available for personal use but is restricted to multiple choice questions. The Standard version has a wider range of question types, features and quiz themes. The Professional version adds more advanced features, notably a partial credit question and question pooling.

Features

Question Writer users create quizzes by adding questions and choosing the settings that apply to the quiz. The main settings allow changes to do with question randomization and selection, time limits, the reporting and feedback level, the marking scheme and the passing score. 8 question types can be used, those are * Multiple Choice * Multiple Response * Matching * Sequencing * Fill in the Blank * Essay * True/False * Partial Credit

Manual

The manual is available online as a WikiBook.

Publishing

Quizzes can be published for the web, in which case a

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is compiled and exported together with a small driver

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and

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file. Quizzes can also be published as

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packages, in which case the files are published inside a

1.2 compliant zip file. Question Writer is notable in that it compiles all the resources of a quiz into a single standalone

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file.

File formats

Question Writer makes use of various file formats. The main ones are:

References

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