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Now when you create an account you will be prompted for a username which is used for your profile, such as mine, http://quizify.com/users/mfagan. The profile is pretty simple now, showing your photo and a list of quizzes you’ve made. Your username is also displayed wherever the quiz is listed so that you get proper credit. It’s now easy to jump from doing a quiz, to the user who created it, to other quizzes created by that user, so this should be a useful new way to find quizzes.

Up until now, Quizify has acted more like a demo than a really useful website. That changes today, as you can log in (using Facebook for now), and save your quizzes. When you log in, you’ll see all the quizzes you’ve created, quizzes created by others that you’ve used, and popular quizzes overall. Each quiz has a fairly simple URL that you can share with others.

Note that all quizzes are completely public. Right now quizzes don’t list their creator, but that’s coming soon.

There’s not too much more to say… hopefully everything works as intended; be sure to send in bug reports and feedback.

Enjoy at Quizify.com

Update: I forgot to mention that as long as you’re logged in and running saved quizzes, Quizify keeps some track of your progress. If your quiz is made up of multiple question sets, the quiz starts off as set 1, and advances to showing sets 1+2 when you’ve done well on the first set. This progress is now saved so that you don’t have to start a quiz from zero if you are running the same quiz again.

I’m pretty excited about this new feature, because this feature was the only feature in the original quiz tool I built that inspired me to make Quizify.

The idea of these questions is you input a list of items, then you are shown an image of one of them, and you have to guess which it is. I made it originally for a biology course, but it has a wide variety of uses, and the best part is that you don’t have to find the images yourself to make the quiz, that’s done for you. Unlike other question types on Quizify, Image Identification is multiple choice. Here is a very simple example to illustrate it: identify the large African mammal. It takes just a few seconds to build a very powerful quiz this way.

The images come from an image search engine, currently Bing. Occasionally you may see in image that is broken, is the wrong image, or displays the answer in the question. When that happens, just click the “bad image” button and you won’t see that image again. Note that although the image search engine uses and adult filter, it is still possible to see inappropriate images through this.

Like everything else in Quizify, you can create a quiz with multiple sections, with some being image identification and some being of other types. So try it out, and let us know what you’ve used it for.