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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010Quiz editing now far more powerful
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010I’ve made some significant improvements to the quiz editing page.
Before you could create a quiz by manual input or a URL from the home page, and then delete any unwanted sections.
That still works, but now you can add new sections right from the editor. So you could create a quiz by questions from two web pages and some typed-in questions. You can even re-order the sections.
The quiz editor now works standalone, so you can visit and bookmark quizify.com/edit directly.
Along with the improvements, the editor has also been fixed so that using the browser back button won’t cause any errors in editing. Going back will have no effect, as you can’t undo edits, but at least you won’t accidentally be deleting sections.
As usual, let us know how the changes work for you.
New: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Saturday, March 27th, 2010A new question type today. Now any acronyms and abbreviations (as well as definition lists) are extracted from web pages and can be made into a quiz. This will work so long as the web page properly uses the acronym or abbr elements.
The UI for the quiz is pretty basic, and similar to the style used for definitions. As always, feedback welcome.
Links within questions, and other notes
Friday, March 26th, 2010Quizify is fairly unique in that it can generate questions from web pages. This is really neat (in my opinion 
) because questions aren’t just plain text but can include formatting, pictures, links, etc.
Unfortunately, as Tara noted, many of the links failed to work as they were relative links that didn’t get translated to work within Quizify. That’s all been fixed now, and links should all work just as well as they did on the web page that the quiz is based on. Let me know if you still experience any failing links.
In a related note, all links within questions are now set to open in a new window. It’s often annoying when links force themselves to open in new windows, but I think it’s the right choice for Quizify, as visiting a new page in the same window and then clicking the browser back but will ’cause the your quiz to get a bit missed up. An alternative would be for these links to open up in a frame within Quizify, which we might do instead.
Beyond this, I’ve made a variety of tweaks and bug fixes that should make everything a bit smoother. Terms and definitions now display in their original HTML when revealing the answer. Other fixes aren’t as obvious unless you were running a quiz that presented a particular bug.
Couple of Tweaks
Monday, March 8th, 2010I’ve made a number of changes, not all of which will be obvious. The quiz-taking UI is just a little bit cleaner and easier to use. I’ve moved information about wrong answers and alternate answers to the top instead of the bottom, among other things.
I’ve also made some changes to the algorithm that picks which question to ask you next. The same principles are used as before, but it should work a bit better, and you shouldn’t be quite as pestered with questions that you got wrong once being asked over and over again.
How to Share a Quiz
Saturday, February 27th, 2010One thing that isn’t obvious (yet) on Quizify is how to share a quiz. I corrected a broken link posted by Amir Dekel on Twitter, and I’m reposting here for everyone’s benefit.
Linking to a quiz is very simple, http://quizify.com/edit?url= followed by the URL of the input file. There is no way yet to link to a quiz created via manual input, but that will come eventually.