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  • Tutorial 12: How to improve the quality of your quiz

    Where a particular quiz appears in the search rankings depends on a combination of relevance to the search and quality. If you improve the quality, your quiz will rise up the search rankings. 1. Here is where to see the quality ranking. Note that although we show popularity, it does not affect ranking. 2. Click…

  • Tutorial 9: How to preview quiz questions before you assign

    If you have been confirmed by your colleagues as a bona-fide member of teaching staff in your school, you can now see a list of all the questions in a quiz, together with the global response statistics for each question, before you assign it. Why only for confirmed members of staff? It’s just

  • Beginners’ guide to Locate questions

    “Locate X in this image” is conceptually straightforward, and Locate questions are not especially subtle. Obvious uses are maps and diagrams. You can also do clever things by turning

  • Misleading question statistics

    I threw this question into the 2014 Christmas quiz with no real expectation that anyone would get it. The (possibility of a) Technological Singularity is something every kid needs to grow up being aware of, so this was my contribution to building awareness. But look! 40% got it! That is double the guess rate, so…

  • Cloze question tutorial

    This morning we updated Question Creatr for cloze (gap-fill) questions. In addition to a general tidy-up, you will find the required response is now restricted to 10 characters. That may sound a little mean, but