The Flash quizzes can be run on Macs with full internet capabilities - however they may not run on some of the newer partial internet devices (iPhone, iPad).

directory with your own Flash files.

However, if you haven't got your own set of Flash file, here's an alternative set of icons you can use. To use them, just unzip the file into the directory above, making sure that the older files are overwritten with the new ones.

You'll find that it is helpful to download your tokens (with links, ip addresses and start times) if you need to sort them or export them into another system.

You can also issue tokens to students rather than giving them the web link - the student can then enter the quiz number and token to log on to the quiz. This is helpful if you have a large number of students taking a quiz at the same time - you can direct them all to the same login page, and just give a different token to each student to use as a login password.

Here's the quiz login page address.

http://www.questionwritertracker.com/quiz/.

You'll remember Collator is a PHP application that uses MySQL to store results collected from quizzes in your own database, on your own server. It can be run on its own, or in combination with the backup server to ensure that results are collected even if the server suffers failure.

Here's a changelog of what's new in Collator 1.3 -

* 1.3
* Changed Error Logging to remove uninteresting errors
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* 1.2
* Added additional identifiers to the email where they are not blank
* Added change IP recorded when resultset comes from backup server
* Added additional Candidate fields written into userdata db fields
* Added fix to XML parsing to allow for special XML characters in ID, also remove spaces after special XML characters
* Added facility to check if e-mail is not provided directly, but referenced by an id
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* 1.1.1
* Put all the Resultsets into a single SQL query to reduce processing time
* Added ReplyTo header to help with spam rating
* Added MIME header for e-mail to avoid MIME_HEADER_CTYPE_ONLY rating
* Added newline in table for each line - email was being rejected for having lines that were too long
* Externalized e-mail call
* Added duplicate result checking in LogXML function
* Set LogXML to false as a default
* Check PassFail value for PASS/FAIL value - set to pass if value not recognized
* Check for empty name/value pairs generated by old QW quizzes

Just visit the quiz page, and the HTML code is in the box at the bottom of the page. You can copy and paste the HTML code directly into your own webpage.

So if a user turns up too early, or too late, or from the wrong IP address, or with an Expired token, you can forward the user to a custom page on your own website with instructions on what to do next.

Leave the fields blank to use Question Writer Tracker's default error pages. Usually you'll want to leave the last field, the Backup Results Server blank to use the default Backup Results Server.

But there are two situations where you might want to run your own backup server.

1. If you're running the Collator software to gather results on your own server, you can run the backup server so if your main server is unreachable for a time, you'll still get the results forwarded through the backup server.

2. If you have a lot of users at the same site, you can run the backup server at the site so that if the internet connection goes down during an exam, the results will be sent to your local backup server, and transferred to the main Question Writer Tracker server when the connection comes back up again.

There's a setting on the Question Writer Tracker Quiz Details page that allows you to set your own backup server location.

Try this quiz, Stuff You Probably Know But Can't Spell - it's a real test of knowledge - If you know the answers, but can't spell them, you'll still get most of the marks. If you don't know the answers you won't.

This can be a fairer way to assess knowledge than a Multiple Choice question - where the student does not know the answer, but can easily pick it out of a list.

Here's some more details on exactly how the scoring works.

There's lots more too - much improved text format import and export, export for Pearson VUE, and a range of navigation and feedback options that have been heavily requested on the forum.

i) You can host your quizzes on your own webserver - Question Writer Tracker will still process an unlimited number of resultsets from your quiz, so you can log-in and analyse those results, or download them to view in Excel.

ii) You can buy an extended bandwidth package. $119 covers 12 months additional capacity and gives you an additional 1GB storage space and an additional 10GB bandwidth per month.

You can download it here.

It includes all the features from the Alpha, plus

i) You can now ask for up to 5 pieces of information on the Introduction page and decide the width of the entry box.
ii) You can add an image or flash file to the introduction page

I'll be blogging these new features in more details over the coming weeks leading up to the final 3.5 release.

i) Feedback only for incorrect questions
ii) Force attempt at each question before showing 'Next' button
iii) Remove the back button from all question pages
iv) Allow an overall negative mark from a quiz
v) Add a date to the user-printable report