This little utility is available to session tutors and anyone else not participating in the ACE programme who feels they would like to make a contribution to the EZquiz cause and write up a little something related to our learning objectives.
The builder lets you compile a series of multiple choice questions that can be published to a data string that EZquiz can read and will also let you edit an existing quiz. You can email Mark the data string so that he can put your quiz online once the questions have been validated.
Limitations
There is no limit to the number of questions that you can add but there are limits to the number of characters that the question, answer and title fields can display in EZquiz. Max characters are as follows:
Question field: 60 characters
Answer fields: 40 characters each
Quiz title field: 20 characters
Please do not use ny ampersands (&) or semi-colons (;) as these are interpreted as text delimiters by the builder and it gets terribly upset by them.
Instructions
To create a new quiz:
Give the quiz a short name that will appear in EZquiz
Specify the required pass percentage in a normal decimal format e.g. 50 means 50% in EZquiz
Specify if the quiz will include a 'check your answer' option by ticking the Mock Version box (if this option is selected the candidate will not be given an option to register their score for PACE points)
Add your questions as follows:
a) Specify a section / category for your question
b) Complete all other fields and press Add Question to Quiz
To edit an existing question:
Select the question from the list and make your ammendment - remember to press the Commit Changes to Question button
When you're done building your quiz:
Press the Write Quiz Data String button - you will see the newly compiled data string appear in the data string textbox below - the textbox will turn yellow and you will not be able to edit the contents of the textbox
Select ALL the text from the textbox and copy it to your clipboard (right-click > copy or Ctrl+c)
Paste the text string into a notepad / Wordpad text file or Word doc (do not modify the text in ANY way) to save your hard work that you may also wish to edit at a later stage
Copy ALL of the text string in your saved text file to the clipboard
Paste the text string into the builder's textbox (ensure that there is no other data in the textbox - press the Clear All button to erase all data from any previous quiz)
Press the Read Quiz Data String button to load the data into the builder where you will be able to edit / add data and write the new data as explained above
Guidelines for preparing the content
Make sure that your desired topic is relevant - if you're not sure check with Mark
Try and keep your questions clear and free of ambiguity
Randomize the list order of the correct anwers
Don't make the answers too cryptic but at the same time try not to make the answers too easy to guess
