Quizify Blog

Quizify 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.

I’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.