Articulate quizmaker even better ?

Hi,

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I’ve been using Articulate Quizmaker for some time now, and I’d like to suggest some updates in order to make the software more user friendly, if you don't mind.

Sorry if that's has already been suggested. Feell free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Here we go :

1/ the numeric questions are not really numeric. I’d like to be able to set random numbers and (simple) equations  in the question. For example :”Price is : x (x being a random number, for example between 100 and 200, the limits being at user's choice), Quantity is : y, (y being a random number for example between 10 and 20)”, the answer being Price * Quantity (an equation). That would be great.

2/ there is no way to change the type of a question afterwards. For example, if you choose “numeric”, and type your question, and then want to change for a “filling the blank” question, you have to use copy and paste to avoid retyping your question. You have to delete the numeric question, and create a “filling the blank” question. Annoying.

3/ if you have say 50 questions in a quiz, and you decide to launch 10 randomly chosen questions each time a user uses the quiz, there is no way to avoid the user to draw the same questions. It would be nice to have a sort of mark to avoid that.

Like this :

1^st set of questions (from 1 to 10), marked “1”

2^nd set of questions (from 11 to 20), marked “2”

Etc.

Each time the user launches the quiz, the program should draw  a set of questions, but should store the set number, so that the next time, this set could not be drawn, until the whole quiz has been done.

I know the program stores the place where the quiz has been interrupted by the user, thanks to a cookie on the user's computer. So, I suppose what I'm suggesting could be done.

4/ I’d like to have  “multiple matching” questions. At the moment, you can only match one item with another one. It would be very useful if we could have more than one item to match with another one.

5/ A word bank question is not really different from a multiple choice question (you just have to drag and drop the right item instead of checking the right answer).

It would be much more useful to have more than one placeholder to insert at the right place (like in Ispring quizmaker)

6/ When you're working on a quiz with a lot of questions, each time you modify or just check a question, then save it, the program automatically displays the window with that question placed at the bottom of the screen. Why ?

Let's say you want to review the quiz question by question. You're checking a question which is placed in the list, at the middle of the screen. You double click on the question, and a new window opens, allowing you to modify the question. When you close that window, the program scrolls the main window, so that the question is at the bottom of the screen. If you want to check the following question, you're forced to use the mouse to scroll down each time. Not very handy.

7/ It would be nice to review all questions in slide view mode, one by one. As far as I know, that's not possible. You have to review a question in form view mode first, then switch to slide view. Or did I miss something ?

 

Sorry for the long post. I’m pleased with Articulate Quizmaker, which is, IMO, the best product available. But it could be even better!

Thank you.

André