Archive for February, 2010

New feature: bad spelling is okay

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Well, not exactly. But now, if you get an answer “correct” but spell it wrong, you do advance to the next question. At the same time, Quizify will tell you about the mistake and what the correct spelling is, and you will still be penalized a tiny bit, so similar to getting a question wrong, you will be asked that question more often to make sure you get the hang of spelling it correctly.

Overall this should make the experience smoother and less frustrating, while still encouraging the complete correct answer.

For those interested in the technical details, this feature is currently using the Yahoo Spelling Suggestion API.

This feature went live a couple of days ago (post Quizify launch), but there was no blog yet to post it on. If you have any feedback on how the spelling feature has worked for you, let us know in the comments.

How to Share a Quiz

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

One 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.

The Quizify Blog

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

First post on the Quizify blog! (Okay, second, since I write a single post when I attempted to get Quizify started a couple of years ago).

Anyhow, this blog will keep you posted of news and updated for Quizify. And later on, I’ll update the design to match Quizify proper.

Happy Quizifying :-)