After our users have created a package with Package Wrapper, many of our users to choose to distribute there packages via CD-Rom.  A question we’ve been asked in the past is how to burn the CD-Rom so that the packaged EXE file will start automatically.

Depending on what burning software you use (Roxio, Nero, etc.) it is possible to set a specific file to ran automatically.  However, for the purpose of this tutorial I’ll be going over a different method that can apply to any burning software, including the burning fuctionality that is included in Microsoft Windows.

Autorun.inf is a file that is stored in the root directory of your CD-Rom.  It tells the computer the location and name of which file to run when the CD-Rom is inserted into the drive.  What we’re going to do is create our own autorun.inf using a text editor such as notepad that we will be burning to CD along with our package EXE file.

The first step is run Notepad from either inside of the Start menu or via the Run Dialog (notepad.exe) in Microsoft Windows.

We only need to place two lines of code inside of the text file in order to create our autorun.inf file.  Place the following into notepad (or the text editor you are using):

[autorun]

open=filename.exe

Where filename.exe is the name of the executable file that you created in Package Wrapper and plan to burn to CD-Rom.

In the example above, the name of the package I created in Package Wrapper would be mytest.exe.

Once you’ve entered the lines into notepad, simply save the file to the same folder where your package EXE file is stored with the filename autorun.inf.  When you are ready to burn your software to CD, all you need to do is burn both your packaged executable file and the autorun.inf file.  When your user inserts your CD-Rom into there computer, your package should start automatically.

NOTE:  Microsoft Windows allows the user to disable the autorun feature.  That means that even if you create the CD-Rom so that your package will start automatically, it will only do so on systems where the feature has not been disabled.

For more information on creating and using the autorun.inf file, you can view Microsoft’s How-To for a wealth of information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818804.

Package Wrapper is a powerful tool for easing the distribution and install process of Elearning software for you and your users.  While some of you might have used Package Wrapper in the past, you might not realize the amount flexibility that exists in customizing what your end user sees. In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you the different ways you can customize your package in Package Wrapper.

Once you’ve gone through the first four steps of creating the package (for more information on creating a package, you can view this tutorial or the video tutorial located on the Package Wrapper support page) you’ll get to Step 5: Visual Styles, which is the area I’ll be working in for this tutorial.

The first thing I can modify in the Visual Styles is what the user will see when they first run my package.  By enabling Show a Yes/No message box at the beginning , the user will be prompted on whether or not they want to continue the installation of the package.  You can change the wording of the display by entering your own text in the Question field.

The next option is Enable password protection.  Enabling password protection allows you to require the user to enter a password before they continue installation of the package. You can define the password in the Password field.  If you do not use any form of piracy protection on your Elearning packages, this might be one way to give your packages a small amount of protection.

Next you have the option to Show a license agreement before extracting. Most software has some sort of extended copyright information or terms of use that they like to display. By enabling this option and clicking on the Edit Text of the License Agreement button, you can enter your own license (up to a maximum of 2,040 characters long).

If you’re package is of considerable size, you might want to enable the Show progress while extraction option to display a progress bar to the user that alerts them that the software is still actively installing.  Even if your package isn’t all that sizeable, this may be an option you would choose if some of your users might be installing on older, slower systems.

The last option we have on this screen is Show a messagebox after finishing. After your files are done extracting and prior to executing the file that you may have set up to run after extractiong, this message will be displayed to your users.  You can edit the text of the popup message in the Message field.

Clicking on the Adapt more visual elements and preview dialogs button on the Visual Styles will bring up the Language Editor. From here you can change the text for the rest of the elements of your package, as well as get a preview of what they will look like when compiled.

From the General tab, the first thing you can do is set the caption that is displayed in the titlebar of all your popup dialog windows. Underneath that you can edit the text displayed on the various buttons within the package.  By entering the & character before a certain letter indicates that letter being the keyboard shortcut for that button. For example, by default the Yes button is set as &Yes, and in my package it would display as Yes, with Y being the shortcut key.  If I were to set the Yes button to Ye&s instead, my packages would display Yes, with S being the shortcut key.

The Welcome Message Box tab of the Language Editor edits the same text that is set when you enable the Show a Yes/No message box at the beginning option from the Visual Styles screen.  By clicking on the Test Dialog button, you can see exactly what the dialog will look like when it is in action.

The Password Protection screen allows you to edit what is displayed to the user if you have required them to enter a password prior to extracting files.  The Bold Heading is what is displayed at the very top of the dialog, in a white heading bar.  The Heading Subline is displayed in a smaller font, directly underneath the Heading in the same white heading bar.  Finally, the Text above password field is the main message of the Password Protection dialog, displayed directly above the box where the user enters a password.  Clicking on the Test Dialog button will show you a preview of what this dialog looks like in action.

Under the License Agreement tab you can edit what is displayed to the user when viewing your license agreement (if you’ve enabled the option to display it on the Visual Styles screen).   The Bold Heading is the text that is displayed at the very top of the dialog, in a white heading bar.  The Heading Subline is displayed in a smaller font, directly underneath the Heading in the same white heading bar.  The Text below license agreement is what is displayed underneath your license agreement (which you can set on the Visual Styles screen).  Again, clicking on the Test Dialog button will give you a preview of what this dialog will look like in your completed package.

The Select Extraction Path tab allows you to configure the text displayed if you allow your users to choose a path where your package will be extracted.  The Bold Heading is the text that is displayed at the very top of the dialog, in a white heading bar.  The Heading Subline is displayed in a smaller font, directly underneath the Heading in the same white heading bar.  The Text above path name is the text that instructs the user what to do next, displayed directly under the white heading bar and above the folder selection bar.  The Text on folder select dialog is the text that is shown at the top of the folder navigation dialog that is displayed when the user clicks the Browse button to select an install folder.  Clicking the Test Dialog button will display a preview of what this dialog will look like (including when the user clicks the Browse button) in your package.

The Progress Dialog tab allows you to configure what is displayed to the user if you selected to display a progress bar during extracting.   The Bold Heading is the text that is displayed at the very top of the dialog, in a white heading bar.  The Heading Subline is displayed in a smaller font, directly underneath the Heading in the same white heading bar.  The Text above progess bar is the text displayed directly below the white heading bar and above the progress bar.  The Warning Messagebox when pressing the Cancel button configures what Yes/No popup that is displayed to the user if they click the Cancel button while the package is still installing.  As always, click on the Test Dialog button will show you a preview of what your completed Progress Dialog will look like.

The last tab we come across is the Finish Messagebox tab, while is displayed to the user when the package is finished extracting (if you enabled the option in the Visual Styles tab).  The text that you can edit here in the Finished message field is the same text that you can edit in the Show a messagebox after finishing section of the Visual Styles screen.

Once you’ve completed configuring the text for all your dialogs, simply click the Close button and you can proceed to finishing up with wrapping your package.  With Package Wrapper it is possible to customize what is displayed to the user during installation, whether it be consistent with your Elearning packages or in the language of you or your end user.

When creating an ELearning Package with Test Pro Developer, the end result is a bunch of files that some users might have difficulty installing.  To make installation easier for your end user, as well as add an additional sense of professionalism to your final product, you can wrap your files with Atrixware’s Package Wrapper.  In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to wrap a package using Package Wrapper that is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, & Vista.

The first screen I see after launching Package Wrapper is the Welcome screen, where I can see what Package Wrapper I am using and modify the global settings.  By click on the Program Settings button, I can set the default path where my project files, output files (this is the final package .exe file), language files, and icon files are stored.  For the purposes of this tutorial, I’m going to leave all of these as the default settings.

Click the Next button will bring me to Step 2: Create or open a project file.  When creating a package I have the option of saving my settings as a project file so that if the need arises to create the package again, I can create it with the same settings I used before.  In this example I’m going to allow Package Wrapper to create a new project file.  I can also choose or edit the Project Language by either selecting one of the pre-defined languages from the dropdown or by selecting and clicking the Edit button for any of the languages.  For this example I’m just going to leave the Project Language as English.

Clicking on the Next button will take me to Step 3: Source Files.  This is where I want to add the files for the package I created in Test Pro Developer.  Clicking the Browse button will bring up the Browse For Folder window where I can select the folder that my Elearning package has been saved to.

To find the folder  where my files have been saved, I can run Test Pro Developer, go to the Build and Deploy (or Packaged Tests if you’re using Test Pro Developer 8) section, and find the option to View Files.  This will bring up a Windows Explorer window with a view of the all the files we’ll be adding into Package Wrapper.

By default, the path for a Windows XP installation should look like this (NOTE: This will vary slightly depending on the version of Test Pro Developer being used):

C:\Documents and Settings\{computer name}\Application Data\Atrixware\Developer 9\projects\{project name}\Package\{package name}\

In Windows Vista, the default path should look like this (NOTE: This will vary slightly depending on the version of Test Pro Developer being used):

C:\Users\{computer name}\AppData\Roaming\Atrixware\Developer 9\projects\{project name}\Package\{package name}\

Once I’ve found the folder where my files are stored, I’m going to click the OK button.  All the files from my project should now have been added into the Source Files List.

Click the Next Button will take me to Step 4: Extraction Mode.  The first thing I want to do is select Normal mode (extract files) for the mode of the package.  By default most people use %programfiles%\MyApp as their Default Installation Directory.  However, to ensure that the package installs properly in Vista I want to change this to %temp%\MyApp.  I also want to make certain that Automatically Extract Files is selected, rather than have the user select the folder where the package files will be stored to make the process as easy as possible.

The other option I want to make sure I have selected is Execute a file after extraction.  This tells the package that as soon as it’s decompressed it’s files, to run the the Elearning software install.  If I did not select this option, the program would end after the files were extracted and my users would have to browse through their computers until they found the Elearning software install file.  Using the dropdown, I want to select the file %appfolder$\setwiz_i.exe as the File to be executed after extraction.

Clicking the Next button will take me to Step 5: Visual Styles.  In this section I can choose what you want to be displayed to the user during extraction of my package.  Not only can I choose what dialogs I would like to display to the user, but I can customize the text for them either directly within this window or by click on the Adapt more visual elements and preview dialogs button.  For the purposes of this tutorial, I’m going to leave everything as the default setting.  If you would like more information on customizing your packages, you can find more information via the online manual or by reading the Package Wrapper blog article on customization.

Click the Next button will take you the final step, Step 6: Create the EXE file.  By default, the path where my package is saved might be difficult for me to find later.  By clicking the Browse button, I can select to save the final EXE file anywhere on my hard-drive.  Once I’ve found the folder where I would like to save my package all I need to do is enter a filename and click the Save button. This will place the path I have chosen and filename into the Self-Extracting exe file location box.

Clicking the Next button one last time will create my package and save it to the folder and filename I specified above.  Now all I need to do is distribute the package to my user, whether by burning the exe to CD, emailing it to my users, or placing it on my website for my users to download.

Basic Survey is easy online solution for creating and delivering online surveys.  In previous tutorials, we’ve discussed how to to create your first survey, and customize the “look and feel” of your survey.  In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to customize the page that is displayed to the user when they have completed your survey.

I’ll begin by logging into my Basic Survey account and clicking on the Create tab.

This will take me the Create Surveys screen, where I want to click on Configure ‘Look & Feel’.

From the Look & Feel page, I want to scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the Edit Customized Page button.

This will open a new window with a Rich Text Editor that I can use to edit my response page.  I can also use the %TITLE% placeholder to display the title of my survey and the %ID% placeholder to display the user’s identification (assuming I ask for it when I create my survey)

The toolbar across the top offers me several options for customizing the response page.  The top-most toolbar displays three dropdowns, the first of which is the Style dropdown.  From here you can select the format of the text (the options will look familiar to anyone who has ever used HTML).  The second dropdown, Font, allows me to choose a specific font-face to use from a list of web-safe fonts.  Lastly, the third dropdown, Size, allows me to set the size of the type.

The second toolbar has several buttons that may look familar to you if you’ve ever used word processing software or a web editor.  From left to right, I can bold, italic, or underline the text. I can set the alignment to either left, center, right, or justified.  The next button is the horizontal rule, which places a horizontal line across the width of the page.   I can insert either a Numeric List or a Bulleted List by clicking on either of the next two buttons.  The following two buttons will either Outdent or Indent the text.  Next, I have the Font Color and the Background Color.  Finally, the last three buttons will allow me to insert a hyperlink to a web page, an image, or a table all to help jazz up the appearance of my page.

At the bottom of the editor, underneath the editing window itself, is the option to View/Edit Source Code.  For those of you who know HTML and CSS, you can edit your response page source to even more customizing options, even blend your reponse page into your website.

Once I’ve finished making my changes, all I need to do is click the Submit button and my changes will be saved.  From here on out, when a user takes one of my surveys they will be thanked by the page that I’ve set up here.

If you’ve downloaded the free trials of any of our Quiz Publishing Software, you’re probably used to the idea of creating a quiz, creating five or so questions, publishing that quiz, and actually being able to use or distribute it.  A common question that comes up regarding our PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 free trial is if you can insert the question slides you have created into Microsoft PowerPoint.

For example, if you download the trial our Easy Quiz Maker software you have the ability to create quizzes, add up to five questions to those quizzes, publish the quizzes, and even customize and link the results into the free trial of our Quiz Management Service.  The same goes for Online Quiz Maker, Flash Quiz Maker, and Test Pro Developer.

A common question regarding the PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 free trial is how to actually insert the question slides you’ve created into your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.  The PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 free trial works a bit differently from what you might be used to.  The PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 free trial will allow you to get a feel of how to create a question slide, an incorrect answer slide, and a correct answer slide.  It will also allow you to configure the visual settings, including font style, font size, font color, and the use of the special effects used in Microsoft PowerPoint.

However, unlike some of our software, the PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 free trial does not allow you to add any questions to the Question Bank, nor does it allow you to publish any of your question slides into Microsoft PowerPoint.

To see what a PowerPoint presentation would like using question slides created in PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009, you can browse to the product page at  http://www.atrixware.com/site/subsites/product/pages/powerpoint_quiz_maker.php to see a demo of what slides created with PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 look like in action.

PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009 is a light-weight, easy to use application for inserting quiz slides directly into your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.  In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to get started using PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009, specifically how to create your first question slides and insert them into your presentation.

When you first run PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009, I’m presented with a Start Page that allows me to jump right into creating slides.  However, before I create my slides I need to make sure I have Microsoft PowerPoint running, the presentation I would like insert quiz questions to opened, and the slide where I would like to insert my questions selected.

Every time you create a question slide using PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009, you are actually creating three slides at once - the question slide, the slide displayed if the student answers incorrectly, and the slide displayed if the student answers correctly.  So if I have my PowerPoint presentation opened up and have the tenth slide selected, when I insert the quiz question I’m going to create into my presentation, the question will be inserted into the eleventh, twelth, and thirteenth slides, moving the rest of my slides down three spaces.

From the Start Page, I can begin creating my question by clicking either the Create a NEW Question link in the Welcome area, or by selecting the Question Slide tab from the sidebar.

The Question Slide screen is where you create the quiz the question you want to insert into your presentation. The first thing I need to enter when creating my question is the Header.  This will be displayed across the top of my question slide - it could be the quiz name, the category the question falls into, the title of my presentation, etc.  If I wanted to insert an image into my question slide, I can check the Allocate Space for an Image box.  This will leave spacing in the layout of my slide for me to insert an image once I get back into PowerPoint - I cannot insert the image through PowerPoint Quiz Maker 2009, only reserve the space for it.

In the Question field I want to enter the question itself, and in the Choices fields I want to enter the multiple choice answers I would like to present my student with.  Depending on whether or not I check the Prefix Choices with a Letter box, my answers can appear as Answer or A. Answer. 

If I would like to show navigation buttons on my slide (Next or Back), I can check either the Show Back Button box or Show Next Button box, or both.  When using the next and back buttons, it is important to denote whether or not this question is preceded by another question.  If there is a question before this one and I do not check the Another Question comes before this one box, I will be taken to the slide directly behind this one, which would be the correct answer slide.  By checking this option, the back button will skip back the correct amount of slides to display the question that precedes this one.

After I’ve finished setting up the Question slide tab, I’m going to move on to the Wrong Slide tab.   This is the slide that is displayed to the student if they answer the question incorrectly.  Again I’m asked to enter a Header, which in this case could be a message telling them they got the answer incorrect.  I can also use the Message field to display an explanation to the student or inform them what material to reference for more information about my question.

Enabling the Show Back Button in this case would present the student with a button to try and answer the question again, while enabling the Show Next Button displays a continue button that will take them to either the next question or next slide.

The Correct Slide tab works almost identically to the Wrong Slide tab.  From here I can enter a Header, congratulating the student for answering correctly.  I can also display a Message that might explain the question in more detail.

Enabling the Show Back Button box will display a back button to my student that will take them back to the question and enabling the Show Next Button box will show a continue button that takes the student to either the next question or slide, depending on whether or not I decide to insert more questions after this one.

Once I’ve finished setting up the Question Slide, Wrong Slide, and Correct Slide, all I need to is click the Insert Quiz Question button at the bottom of the software to have it automatically insert all three slides I have set up directly into my PowerPoint presentation.

Atrixware Quiz Management Service is designed to be an easy online solution for emailing, exporting, viewing, and storing online quiz results published from our Quiz Publishing Software. The

Quiz Management Service is currently compatible with  the following Atrixware Quiz Authoring Tools:

• Atrixware Easy Quiz Maker
• Atrixware Online Quiz Maker
• Atrixware Flash Quiz Maker
• Atrixware Test Pro Developer

The Quiz Management Service gives you the ability to enable back end storing and reporting on both your published quizzes and the students who have completed them.  Looking at the Home screen at-a-glace, you can see the total number of quizzes you have published (that have been completed by a student - quizzes will not appear in the Quiz Management Service until a student has completed the quiz and submitted their results), the total number of students who have completed a quiz, the quiz with the highest pass/fail ratio, and the quiz with the lowest pass/fail ratio. You can also go directly to the quiz details for your most recently submitted quiz and in the near future you will be able to create certificates and email them to passing students.

From the View Reports screen, you’ll see a complete listing of all of your published quizzes that have been completed.  Right away you can view the number of students who have completed each of your quizzes and the percentage of those students who passed the quiz.  Using the Search feature you can easily find a quiz by the title you gave it.  Using the Print View or Export to Excel options, you can easily transfer your reports to printer-friendly view or Microsoft Excel.

By click on either the title of your quiz or the Details button, you can view even more information about your quiz.  At the top of the Quiz Details page you’ll see some basic quiz information, such as the quiz title, total times completed, the passing score,  and the percentage of students who passed your quiz.  Below that you’ll see a complete listing of all the students who have completed that quiz, with the date they completed it and what they scored (For quick viewing, students who passed have a blue bar graph while students who failed have a red one).  Using the View All, View Passed, and View Failed buttons, you can narrow down your results to just look at the students you want to focus on.

As with all our reports, you can Search, Print, or Export to Excel your student data using the top buttons in the Quiz Management Service toolbar.

Looking at the View Students screen, you’ll see a listing of all of the students who have completed one of your quizzes.  From the View Students listing, you can easily see the students name and email, the total number of quizzes they’ve completed, there average for all the quizzes they have completed, and the first time they completed one of your published quizzes.  You can easily email a student by click the Email button, which will bring up your default email editor with the student’s address ready for you.

As with all our reports, you can Search, Print, or Export to Excel your student data using the top buttons in the Quiz Management Service toolbar.

If you click on either a student’s name, email address, or the Details button you’ll be taken to the Student Details screen.  Here you can edit the student’s name or email address, see when they first completed on your quizzes, see the total number of quizzes they’ve completed, and see their average for those quizzes.  Your also presented with a listing of all the quizzes they completed along with the date they completed it and their score for that quiz (as with the Quiz Details screen, passing scores are represented with a blue bar graph, failing scores with a red one). Just like in the Quiz Details screen, you can narrow your view of the quizzes by using the View All, View Passed, and View Failed buttons. You can also sort the quiz listing by the quiz title, completion date, or student’s score by clicking on the respective column heading.

As with all our reports, you can Search, Print, or Export to Excel your student data using the top buttons in the Quiz Management Service toolbar.

By clicking of the Details button in either the Student Details screen or the Quiz Details screen, you’ll be presented with a detailed report for a individual student’s results for a quiz.  In the top portion of the View Detailed Quiz Report screen you are presented with the students name, email address,  the IP address of the computer they completed your quiz from, the completion date, the quizzes passing score, and the students score (Again, blue is passing, red is failing).

In the second portion of the View Detailed Quiz Report screen you are shown the complete results for that quiz, the results themselves being determined by how you configured your email reports from the quiz authoring tool you used to create your quiz.

For more information of how to create quizzes and set up reports that are compatible with the Quiz Management Service, you can view the series of articles also found on this blog regarding how to use each of our compatible quiz authoring tools with the Quiz Management Service.

Once you created an online quiz using either Easy Quiz Maker, Online Quiz Maker, or Flash Quiz Maker, you’ll need to upload the files created to your webserver in order for your students to access your published quiz.

The first step to uploading your files to a web server is to find the files associated with your published quiz in Windows Explorer. To do this:

Using Easy Quiz Maker

Select the Published Quizzes tab and then click on the Web Quizzes tab at the top of the screen.  With the quiz you would like to upload to your web server highlighted, click on Copy to Disk in the Task Panel.

This will bring up the Copy Published Quiz to Disk window, allowing you to select where you would like to copy the files on your hard drive.  I’m going to use an easy to remember location; C:\Quizzes so I can find the files easily using Windows Explorer.

Browse to the folder where you copied the published Quiz files using Windows Explorer.

Using Online Quiz Maker

Select the Published Quizzes tab and then click on the HTML Quizzes tab at the top of the screen.  With the quiz you would like to upload to your web server highlighted, click on Copy to Disk in the Task Panel.

This will bring up the Copy Published Quiz to Disk window, allowing you to select where you would like to copy the files on your hard drive.  I’m going to use an easy to remember location; C:\Quizzes so I can find the files easily using Windows Explorer.

Browse to the folder where you copied the published Quiz files using Windows Explorer.

Using Flash Quiz Maker

Select the Published Quizzes tab and then, with the Quiz you would like to upload to the web highlighted, click the View Files to Distribute link in the Task Panel.  This will open a Windows Explorer window with the files you need to upload to your web server.

Once you have a Windows Explorer window open showing the files from your published quiz, you can upload the files to your web server using FTP.  To do this, open another Windows Explorer window and in the address bar type in ftp://yoursite.com (yoursite.com being the URL to your FTP server).

After you hit the enter key, you should be prompted to enter your username and password (these would be provided to you by your web host). Once you’ve entered your username and password and have logged into the FTP server, you should see a listing of files or folders.

Right click in the explorer window and select New > Folder from the menu and enter a new name for the subfolder you would like to upload your files into (you could upload your files into the root directory, but it is not recommended).

Double click on the folder you just created to open it up and simply drag the published quiz files from the Windows Explorer window of your hard drive over to the the new folder you’ve created on your FTP server.

You and your students should be able to access the quiz by going to http://yoursite.com/folder - with yoursite.com being the URL to your web server and folder as the name of the folder that you created and uploaded your files to in the last step.

Atrixware Quiz Management Service is an easy online solution for emailing, exporting, viewing, and storing online quiz results published from our Quiz Publishing Software.  This article is going to show you how to publish a quiz using Atrixware Test Pro Developer that utilizes the Quiz Management Service.

To begin, I’m going to start Test Pro Developer and from the Develop tab I am going to select to create a New Test/Module.

This will bring up the Create New Test / Module window, where I can select the template that I would like to use for my test.  To use the Quiz Management Service, I want to select the QMS Test template from the Test tab and click the Next button.

I will now be prompted to enter a title for my quiz and optionally a summary.  Once I have entered my quiz title, I’ll click on the Finish button to create my QMS Test.  Clicking on the Finish button will bring up a dialog window asking me to enter my email address.  If I already have a Quiz Management Service account, I want to enter the email address I use to login to my account.  If I haven’t yet used the Quiz Management Service, I can simply enter my email address and my account will be created for me the first time a student completes my quiz.

When a student completes my QMS Test, they will be prompted to enter their name and email address before they can recieve credit for the test.  By default, the screen a student would see prompting them to enter this information looks like this:

If I wanted to, I can edit the appearance of the page.  I can do this by going to the Develop tab, highlighting the test I created, and clicking on the Files & Resources tab from the top bar.  One of the files under the Files & Resource tab should have the filename qms_submit.txt.  By opening and editing this file, I can change not only the appearance of the page, but what information is collected from the student and submitted to the Quiz Management Service.

The qms_submit.txt file contains the HTML, CSS, and Javascript to render the form that the student sees and submit it to the Quiz Management Service.  Below I’m going to go over the different parts of the file to give you a better understanding of how I could customize it.

Javascript Validation 

The Javascript Validation function above checks the values entered for the Student Name and Student Email. If you wanted to add more input fields to the form you could add validation for more form fields.

CSS (For what the student sees)

Here you can easily change the appearance of the form the student sees without actually changing the form itself.  For example, if you wanted to change the size of the font of the word IMPORTANT: , you could change font-size: 10pt;  to font-size: 14pt; under .style2.  Or if you wanted to change the color of the text from black to green you could add color: #00FF00; inside of .style1.

CSS (For the report that is emailed to you & stored in the Quiz Management Service)

Here you can easily change the appearance of the report that is included in the email sent to you when a student completes the test, as well as is stored in the Quiz Management Service.  By editing the CSS here, you can change the font type, color, size, and weight for the report headings, question text, answer text, result text, correct answer text, and the explanation text (in that order top-bottom). 

HTML (For the report that is emailed to you & stored in the Quiz Management Service)

In this section of the file you can customize the report that is being sent to you via email and being stored by the Quiz Management Service.  Not only can you change the layout of the report, but you can also add additional information to your report gathered from PowerScript.  You could easily add values for things such as <% Score.GetPassingScore %> or <% Score.GetRoundedValue %> to add the passing score for the test and students rounded score. 

Using values you set via PowerScript, you could pass information about class, subject, category, test version, or almost anything else you could imagine.

Another powerful option for customization that Test Pro Developer gives me is the ability to configure whether or not the student sees the report I set up in the section above or if they see a custom message upon completion of the test.  To edit this option or customize the message displayed to the student, I’ll need to go in a edit the PowerScript for my test.

With the QMS Test I created still highlight, I want to select the PowerScript tab from the top menu and then click on the Open Full Editor link in the Task Panel.

In the PowerScript Code Editor I want to use the scrollbar on the right hand side to scroll down until I see the section of code entitled QMS Values.

There are three values I can change by editing this section of code.  The first is qms_account, which is the email address I entered when creating my QMS Test where I wanted the results to be sent.  The second value I can edit is show_results.  If show_results is set to true, then upon completing the test, my students will see the full report I set up after they have submitted their test score.  If show_results is set to false, the student will instead see the message stored in the last value I can edit, the response value.

The response value is the message displayed to the student upon completing their quiz instead of the full report.  By default it is a generic message, but using HTML I can customize the message to match the rest of my test.

For example, if I set response equal to “<font size=’3′ face=’Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif’>Your Results have been submitted. Click <b><font color=’#FF0000′>CLOSE</font></b> to finish.</font”, then the message the student sees would look like this:

Your Results have been submitted. Click CLOSE to finish.

Or if I set response equal to “<font color=’#0099CC’ size=’3′ face=’Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif’>Your</font><font color=’#004080′ size=’3′ face=’Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif’> Results <font color=’#0099CC’>have</font> been <font color=’#0099CC’>submitted</font>. Click <b><font color=’#66FFCC’><em>CLOSE</em></font></b> to <font color=’#006699′>finish</font>.</font”, the result would look like this:

Your Results have been submitted. Click CLOSE to finish.

As you can see, Test Pro Developer offers a nearly unlimited amount of customizations when it comes to the results that it uses along with the Quiz Management Service.  After I have distributed my test and a student has completed it, I can click on the Quiz Management tab and login to the Quiz Management Service using the email address I chose to have my results sent to.  By default, the username and password for the Quiz Management Service is the email address I entered when publishing my quiz.

Atrixware Quiz Management Service is an easy online solution for emailing, exporting, viewing, and storing online quiz results published from our Quiz Publishing Software.  This article is going to show you how to publish a quiz using Atrixware Flash Quiz Maker that utilizes the Quiz Management Service.
To begin, I’m going to start Flash Quiz Maker and from the Quiz Development tab select the quiz I would like to publish to the Web.  With my quiz selected, I’m going to click the Publish to Flash button in the Task Panel.

This will open the Publish to Flash window.  The first tab I am brought to is the General tab, where you can enter a title for the quiz, configure what is displayed to the student, set the passing score, or set a time limit.  For this tutorial, the only thing I am going to change in the Passing Score, by selecting the drop-down box and setting the score to 65.

The next tab I want to work with is the Emails tab, where I can configure the layout and content of the results that are going to be emailed to me and stored in the Quiz Management Service.  When I click on the Emails tab, I am presented with two additional tabs, the PASS Email tab and the FAIL Email tab.  The PASS Email tab are the results that sent if the student passes the quiz, while the FAIL Email tab are the results sent if the student fails the quiz.

I can edit my results to display the information that I find relevant to me.  By default, the result email for the PASS Email tab displays a category report (a score per category breakdown) and the questions missed.  Using placeholders, it is possible to show the quiz date, title, a report of all questions, and more.  To see what placeholders are available and what they do, click the Learn About Placeholders button.

Working in the PASS Email tab, I can edit the format of the results by using the text-editor buttons located on the bottom.

I am given the option to (from left to right):

• Set the Font Style
• Set the Font Size
• Bold, Italic, or Underline
• Set the Font Color
• Align the Text
• Set the Text as a Bulleted List Item

I can set some text as a hyperlink by selecting the text and entering a hyperlink in the field below the Font Style selection.  There are also two buttons on the right hand side, which allow you to edit the HTML source and Check Spelling.

Once I’ve finished setting up my reports, I’m going to move over to the Publish Format tab.  The two options that will allow my quiz to access the Quiz Management Service is the Any Web Server option under the Web Server tab and the CD-Rom / Executable option under the CD or Local tab.

To publish my quiz so that students can take it online via a URL link, I would choose the Any Web Server option.  To publish my quiz so that I can distribute it via CD-Rom, download, or email attachment, I would select the CD-Rom / Executable option.

After I’ve chosen how I would like to publish my quiz, I’m going to check the Email Results to box at the bottom and enter my email address.  I’m also going to check both boxes for Ask for user’s name and Ask for user’s email address so that they will both be entered into the Quiz Management Service.

NOTE: If you choose to not ask a student for their email address, their email will appear in the Quiz Management Service as the student’s name at their ip address. (i.e. student@127.0.0.1).  You can then edit the students email from within the Quiz Management Service.

I’ll click the Publish button and be taken to the Published Quizzes tab with the quiz I just created.  Once a student has completed my quiz, I can click on the Quiz Management tab and login to the Quiz Management Service using the email address I chose to have my results sent to.  By default, the username and password for the Quiz Management Service is the email address I entered when publishing my quiz.