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Instant Web Quiz Generator / How To Put Your Quiz Online How To Test Your Quiz: |
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On this page I'll discuss a few important points to bear in mind regarding any quiz you create. Especially regarding testing it and making sure it's working okay for your visitors. Firstly, here is an example quiz with three single answer questions: |
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If any visitor to that quiz didn't answer any questions and simply clicked on Grade Me: |
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It would understandably bring up the following error message: |
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After then entering an answer for question 1, and then pressing Grade Me again, the following error comes up: |
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And after entering an answer for question 2, neglecting to enter an answer for question 3, and then once again pressing Grade Me: |
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So what your quiz will do is check that all the questions are answered, before grading whoever has taken the quiz. Now in this example since we've answered all the questions, let's once again click on Grade Me: |
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You then get taken to the Results page which looks like this: |
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As you can see the quiz will tell you:
You'll also see there's two buttons on the Results page:
If we initially click on Take The Quiz Again: |
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I'm immediately taken back to the quiz page with all my previous answers removed. So that I can have another go at answering the quiz if I'd like to: |
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Now let's say I answer all the questions, like this: |
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But then change my mind for any reason and want to start over. I can just click on the Reset button to clear all my answers: |
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In this example I'm going to enter an incorrect answer for every single question: |
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Then after clicking on Grade Me I'm given the results. This time I've got zero out of a total of three questions right. The quiz lists that I got answers 1, 2 and 3 wrong. And that my grade as a percentage is 0%: |
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Anyone who takes the quiz who wants to know what the answers are, or wants to double check any of the questions, can click on the View Solution button: |
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What that does is take you straight back to the quiz page, leaving your answers intact. It also pops up a Solution page so that you can see what the right answers are. If you got that particular question wrong, the popup displays the answer for that question in red text. If you got that particular question correct however, the popup displays that answer in the default color of black. You can see how this looks below - all the answers are in red text, since I got them all wrong: |
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An important point to mention here - with popup blockers becoming ever more popular, the Solution popup may not appear for you, or for some people that take your quiz. If you're created any quizzes, you may well want to mention this on your site, since some people may forget they have a popup blocker installed, and may therefore be confused about why the View Solution button isn't working for them. Now in the next example, I'm going to enter the correct answer for every question: |
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Then after clicking on the Grade Me button, the results it gives me are to expected:
As you can see here: |
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Now, if I was to check the answers by clicking on View Solution: |
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I'll see the same answers as before in a popup. But this time there's no red text since I got all the questions right. This time the text simply appears in black: |
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Now an important point regarding any quizzes this software creates: These quizzes are created in JavaScript. This is a programming language that your web browser understands and allows you to do powerful things on your site (including quizzes). However, JavaScript must be enabled in the browser of anyone visiting IF they want to take your quiz. AND - I'll go into this in more detail later in the documentation, but these quizzes are created specifically and intentionally for Internet Explorer. I would say at least 90% of people browse with Internet Explorer, and trying to get this quiz code to work with EVERY web browser available would have been very time consuming, and largely pointless. So you'll want to mention to your visitors (anyone interested in taking your quiz), that they should really be viewing it in Internet Explorer. And regarding these quizzes and JavaScript: It is possible to disable JavaScript in your web browser, and some people do this. If you were to do this in Internet Explorer, you'd go to the Tools menu: |
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And in the Internet Options dialog box, choose the Security settings: |
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For the Internet Zone, I would assume most people browse in Medium safety. That's absolutely fine for these quizzes. However, if anyone who visits your quiz has a high security setting for the Internet Zone: |
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Of if they clicked on the Custom Level settings: |
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And chose to disable Scripting: |
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In this example, after turning off Scripting either through the Custom Level settings or by putting my Internet Zone security settings to High... If I then click on Refresh on the quiz page: |
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I see the following error prompt: |
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This is what your visitors will see if they visit your quiz with JavaScript disabled in their web browser. So as mentioned - I'll cover this again later on in the documentation, but it's really worth you mentioning to your visitors that if they really want to enjoy and successfully take your quizzes, they should be browsing in Internet Explorer, and JavaScript should be enabled within their Security settings. |
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Product/Site Help: Instant Web Quiz Generator