In spite of all our efforts, we are aware of the old motto that the last bug in
a progam is always the next one. Please let us know if you encounter any problems whilst using one of our programs, or if you have any constructive suggestions for improvements and changes.
August 9th 2010: A pretty frequent request has been for the option to gather participant information which can then be submitted together with the quiz results. There are now seven
customisable questions you can ask either before the quiz starts or immediately following a click on the 'submit results' command button. In addtion to the quiz taker's name,
address and age you can now record and report such data as the personal ID number, the class or university course which is being attended etc. etc.
July 5th 2010: With more and more of our customers running the Quiz Maker programs on Netbooks, it was time to make one or two adjustments to the screen resolutions and positioning routines.
The current versions of the Quiz Maker programs are now as follows:
Multiple Choice Quiz Maker version 10.9.0
Teaching Templates Quiz Maker version 9.8.0
Multiple Choice Quiz Maker Express version 1.2.0
May 2010:
The latest releases are major updates and you are strongly recommended to download and install them as quickly as possible. All past licenses are, of course, still valid for the corresponding new versions.
We have recently noticed that more and more of our website visitors are now
using Internet browsers other than Internet Explorer and Firefox. Amongst the many changes and improvements in the latest updates is the re-design of the basic templates to make sure that Opera, Chrome and Safari are able to
successfully render the quizzes you create. Thanks to the feedback from one of our valued customers in India we have also been able to fix a couple of problems in the *.rtf text import function.
March 2010: Release of the new Multiple Choice Quiz Maker Express version 1.0.0. This new program is the result of TAC-Soft's decade of experience in the development and distribution of educational software.
It attempts to do justice to all the comments, feedback and suggestions we have received from you over the years. The program is a simplified, back-to-basics version of the Teaching Templates and Multiple Choice Quiz Maker software.
Our aim is to offer an easy-to-use interface and to include only those features which most of our customers really seems to need ... at a bargain price which is hard to beat.
The program is a supplement to and not a replacement for the Teaching Templates Quiz Maker (now version 9.4.0) and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker (latest version 10.5.0). For those of you creating tests and quizzes on a
'professional' basis, one of the latter two programs will almost certainly offer a more useful platform. As always, free try-before-you-buy versions of all
our software are available for download. You will quickly be able to decide which of the programs is best suited to your particular requirements.
January 31st 2010: The first updates this year with a couple of features which your feedback has strongly suggested many of you require. It is now possible to save the quiz results to a local file which can then be attached to an email and
submitted to the quiz supervisor. There is also a new option to prevent a browser refresh i.e. a restart if perhaps too many questions have been answered incorrectly!
We understand and apologise to those Internet purists who, not without justification, object to this sort of attempt to influence a browser's functional scope! Please think carefully before
deciding to implement the option in your tests and quizzes.
The latest versions are now Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 9.3.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker as version 10.4.0
December 28th 2009: In response to the increasing popularity of 64 bit Windows systems we have brought forward the release of two major updates - Teaching Templates is now available as version 9.2.0 and the Multiple choice Quiz Maker as version 10.2.0
October 29th 2009: We didn't really want to do it but we have ... Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 8.0.0 now contains a module which relies on the Microsoft Silverlight plugin. We sincerely hope that the Redmond team have finally got their ship in order and that the plugin will not cause too many unexpected problems. Please treat our Support gracefully with regard to possible queries! The Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 9.5.0 is a minor update with small bug fixes and improvements.
October 9th 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 7.4.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 9.4.0
Minor updates with nevertheless considerable improvements to several of the program routines and to the Quiz Maker's general memory-management operations. You probably will not notice the difference but your computer, especially with Windows 7, certainly will! We have also followed the trend and introduced an automatic update reminder. Although it is not expected, please let us know if for some reason your firewall or virus protection program generates too many warnings when calling the update routine. We will do our best to help.
September 15th 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 7.3.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 9.3.0
Thanks Rick! We think the new updates will solve the problem you encountered with quiz rendering in the latest Firefox browsers.
September 3rd 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 7.2.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 9.2.0
Many of you seem to have multiple choice tests where there are several possible correct answers to a particular question. Both of the new updates offer the opportunity to create quizzes with this type of question. There are also a couple of improvements to the error handling and the correction of one or two minor bugs which your feedback has brought to our attention. Thanks as always to all those of you who have contacted us in the last few weeks. We much appreciate your help and advice.
August 5th 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 7.1.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 9.1.0
Major updates seem inevitably to bring new problems with one or the other functions. The new versions contain a fix to the database access difficulties which some of you have encountered ... sorry but although we really do our best there is always something that slips through the net. Please keep your feedback coming. It helps us immensely and contributes a lot to future developments and hopefully improvements of the software.
July 15th 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 7.0.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 9.0.0
Two major updates to ensure compatibility with the forthcoming Windows 7. Some of you have reported problems with carriage returns (line breaks) in the questions and answers. These have hopefully now been solved. Sincere thanks to Phoenix H. for the feedback.
June 24th 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 6.4.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 8.4.0
Important updates if you are already using or planning to use Internet Explorer 8. The updates contain changes which hopefully solve the opacity and positioning problems with the text input boxes.
May 15th 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 6.3.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 8.3.0
Minor updates which improve the compilation and presentation of the web archive (.mht) quiz files.
April 18th 2009: The current versions are now Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 6.2.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 8.2.0
The new versions contain updated quiz templates which bring the HTML and Javascript code into line with the latest standards. For the multiple choice quizzes there is now a new option to re-arrange the order of the questions you have entered ... by popular request! In Teaching Templates the number of possible questions in the 'What's your opinion?' and 'In other words' templates has been increased to 50.
January 31st 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker updated to 6.0.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker to 8.0.0
Important changes to ensure compatibility with the new Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Please update your current versions to be able to benefit from the features of these updates.
January 1st 2009: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker updated to 5.6.0
For several years the image sizes in the Teaching Templates Multiple Choice and Energy Saver templates have been restricted to a maximum size of 100 KB. This was intended to save resources and to ensure that the quiz files run successfully on the Internet. With ever-increasing computer speeds, rapid internet connections and a significant number of customers running the programs and quizzes on local area networks, we have now decided to remove this restriction. The update contains a new Image Browser module to import your .jpg, .bmp and .gif files into the quizzes.
We have also added a 'Back to the Future' option in the File Archive section of our website. If for some reason the update does not come up to expectations, you can return quickly and without problems to your previous version of the program.
Please remember that including very large image files means that your HTML quiz file, your EBook or whatever will be of a corresponding size!
December 18th 2008: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker updated to 5.3.0 and the MC Quiz Maker to 7.3.0
If you have been using the 'language options" or the 'fullscreen modus' together with password protection for presentiong your quizzes, you will be pleased that a couple of possible bugs have been squashed!
December 4th 2008: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker updated to 5.3.0 and the MC Quiz Maker to 7.3.0
If you have been using the 'language options" or the 'fullscreen modus' together with password protection for presentiong your quizzes, you will be pleased that a couple of possible bugs have been squashed!
November 12th 2008: By popular request ... Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 5.1.0 with SCORM support for 6 of the Templates. In the MC Quiz Maker we have introduced a 'hide score' feature to the SCORM quizzes. Both are minor updates in response to your feedback ... thanks and please keep it coming.
October 9th 2008: Two major updates - Teaching Templates Quiz Maker to version 5.0.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker to version 7.0.0. SCORM support is now available in both programs.
July 26th 2008: As promised when we launched the new Beta Silverlight version a couple of weeks ago, the development of the standard MC Quiz Maker and the Teaching Templates Quiz Maker continues. The latest versions are now 6.2.0 and 4.2.0 respectively. Both new versions are minor updates with just a couple of small tweaks and amendments.
July 12th 2008: For the first time, we have released a beta preview version of a forthcoming TAC-Soft program. It uses the new Microsoft Silverlight 2 plugin and is available for immediate download.
Why don't you give it a try and let us know what you think? As always it would be unfair if we didn't acknowledge one or two of the people who have influenced its development. Our special gratitude goes to Nick Wong for his March post of a Silverlight example on Windows Live. Our thanks too, of course, to Jesse and the others who are involved in the official Silverlight online tutorials for developers. They have all helped us a lot.
May 23rd 2008: As always, it seems almost inevitable that a major update is followed by a service pack to tweak the code and improve the performance. Hopefully the new versions of the Teaching Templates Quiz Maker (v.4.1.0) and the MC Quiz Maker (v.6.1.0) accomplish both these tasks ... please let us know if this is not the case!
April 2008: It is now eight years since we first launched Teaching Templates, and the time for its retirement has come. The last standard TT version (3.1.0) has now been deprecated. It is is still available for downloading in the Archive section of our website (www.tac-soft.com/archive,html) but will not be further developed.
All our efforts are now concentrated on the MC Quiz Maker and the Teaching Templates Quiz Maker programs. Both have been updated and both now offer many new features which have often been requested by our customers ... file import, question and answer properties etc. We have still tried our best to keep the interface for the programs simple and to ensure that the new options do not clutter your screen with unnecessary details. If you have time in a hectic world, we invite you sincerely to try out the new versions and to let us have your comments. The latest versions are as follows: Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 6.0.0; Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 4.0.0
The baby in the cradle ... our WebWrap program ... remains unchanged.
January 30th 2008: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 3.0.0 and Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 5.0.0 - Major updates in the New Year with lots of new and improved features e.g. a new HTML quiz editor and an image browser to include your own background images in the tests and quizzes. We have also made major changes to ensure that the program runs successfully with different screen resolutions and with user-determined DPI settings.
October 2nd 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.6.1 and Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.5.1 (Vista edition) - Sorry ... a bug in the connection procedure of the new FTP module has been corrected ... mea culpa!
September 28th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.6.0 and Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.5.0 (Vista edition) - Major updates. Improvements to FTP Module.
August 17th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.5.0 and Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.4.0 (Vista edition) - Minor updates. - Improvements to the Image Viewer to enable the inclusion of larger graphics in the quizzes.
July 28th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.4.0 and Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.3.0 (Vista edition) - Major updates. - An amazing new Math Editor to facilitate the insertion of formulae and equations in the quizzes ... it's not perfect but it works!
A brand new Symbol Editor so that all your font-supported characters can be included in the quizzes.
Numerous minor bug fixes and improvements to the general functioning of the programs.
Please keep your feedback coming so that we know that our work has not been completely in vain.
June 15th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.3.0 and Teaching Templates 3.1.0 - Minor updates. A support mail from Australia brought to our attention one or two possible improvements to the change question order routine. Thanks to Ralf in Sydney and special greetings to all our customers "down under".
May 18th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.2.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.2.0 (Vista edition) - by popular request both programs now contain additional options for the ftp quiz upload and for the quiz database. It's always a difficult choice between 'keep it simple' and 'make it useful'. We hope the changes serve both purposes. We have also updated the standard MC Quiz Maker to version 3.2.0 ... a minor update with a possibly vain attempt to circumnavigate the annoying IE7 script warnings!
May 4th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.1.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.1.0 - the fastest update in the history of TAC-Soft! Thanks to Cindy B. we have been able to correct a malfunction with the database. Apologies to any of you who have suffered in the last couple of days ... we do our best to avoid such problems but at times we stumble. Please keep the feedback coming. It helps us immensely.
May 1st 2007: Teaching Templates 3.0.0, the Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 2.0.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 4.0.0 are now officially released as Vista supported programs. All the programs are now also digitally signed to guarantee the authenticity and safety of the installations. Please note that the new MC Quiz Maker 4.0 now requires the Microsoft .NET framework. This is an integral part of Vista and is usually available on most XP systems. All previous versions of the program run without the framework. The latest version can still be downloaded from our website.
March 21st 2007: Spring updates to all our programs:
- Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 3.1.0
Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.6.0
Teaching Templates 2.5.0
important updates with the following features:
Improved playback of media files in browsers other than Internet Explorer.
Better management of the fullscreen/ kiosk view option..
Correction of the rather strange behaviour with the final question when randomising ... thanks for the tip Brian.
Modifications to the Results Viewer
February 4th 2007: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.5.0 A major update with the following features:
Improved playback of media files in browsers other than Internet Explorer.
Better navigation possibilities when creating or editing a quiz. It is now possible to go directly to a specific question without the rather tedious repeated click on the 'next question' or 'previous question' buttons.
One or two minor bugfixes and modifications to improve the 'Vista compatibility' of the program.
November 28th 2006:Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.4.0 A couple of minor bugfixes and the inclusion of all the new features which were presented in the 18th November update of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker. Please keep your feedback coming ... it helps us immensely, and we always do our best to solve your problems and to include any new features which enhance the performance of the program !.
November 18th 2006: Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 3.0.0 If you navigate to the 'Quiz Options ... Quiz Feedback Options' menu you will find that we have made considerable changes with regard to the choice and implementation of ways of presenting your quizzes to the user. It is, for example, now possible to allow the quiz taker to change and/or correct their answer. This was a feature which several of our customers have requested.
October 29th 2006: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.3.0 A number of changes to the basic Templates which should make it much easier for registered users to edit the HTML code.
October 21st 2006: Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.2.0 We have now included a CGI Submit Results in the program and made one or two improvements to the Media options. You now also have the opportunity to compile the quizzes without Unicode support if Unicode perhaps causes problems uploading the quiz files to your server.
October 8th 2006: Major updates to The Teaching Templates Quiz Maker (v. 1.1.0) and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker (v. 2.9.0). Please read the current Newsletter for full information about the new features the programs contain.
July 20th 2006: You will almost certainly already have noticed that we have at last got round to updating the rather dated TAC-Soft website. In addition we have streamlined our product range. There are now three programs which invite your evaluation and hopefully your support:
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Teaching Templates 2.4.0 - combines all the features of the previous Standard and Global Versions.
Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 2.8.0 - The latest version with a number of minor improvements and extensions.
Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.0.0. - A brand new addition to our product range. . It combines all the features of the Teaching Templates 2.4.0 and MC Quiz Maker 2.8.0 programs and offers in addition a number of valuable add-on features. We strongly recommend that you download the free evaluation version and check out whether or not it is the most suitable program for your purposes. Please note that running this version requires the Microsoft .NET framework (2.0 or better).
Licensing Information for our registered customers - It has always been a cornerstone of our customer-relations policy to offer updates free of charge to registered users of our software. The details for the new product line are as follows:
Teaching Templates 2.4.0 - Purchased license modules for the Teaching Templates Standard and the Teaching Templates Global Editions remain valid for this version.
Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 2.8.0 Registration modules for the MC Quiz Maker Standard and the MC Quiz Maker Global edition will unlock this program.
Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 1.0.0 A new, all-in-one program which requires separate registration. At present only registered users of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker Global edition can use their license module to register this program free of charge.
May 28th 2006: Important update of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker Global Edition to version 1.2.0. The improvements include:
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Improvements to the 'Submit Results' option.
Inclusion of a new, just for fun Playtime multiple choice template.
One or two spelling errors in the language files have been corrected
Now includes larger text boxes for questions and answers to offer a more user-friendly interface.
It is now possible to offer advice to the quiz takers in the event that they select the wrong answer.
April 4th 2006: Launch of the new Multiple Choice Quiz Maker Global Edition 1.1.0 - The first TAC-Soft program to be based on the .NET Framework. Numerous new features and a brand new 'View-One-Question-at-a-Time" template.
September 26th 2005: Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 2.7.0 and Teaching Templates Global Edition 1.3.0 - Thanks to Michael in France for bringing to our attention a slight problem with the written answer option in the Multiple Choice Quizzes. The source of the irregularity has been found and corrected.
July 5th 2005: Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 2.6.0 and Teaching Templates Global Edition 1.2.0 - Correction of potential problems with the save options when the quizzes are authored with Windows 98. It is now possible to view the web archive files without leaving the program. Minor corrections and amendments to the help documentation. Including asterisks, pipes, number signs (#) and one or two other rather unusual symbols in the quizzes should now be possible!
April 15th 2005: Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 2.5.0 - improvements to the new Revision Template. Correctly answered questions are now automatically removed from the quizzes, and some unexpected compatibility problems with the latest FireFox and Netscape browsers have been solved.
April 1st 2005: Teaching Templates Global Edition 1.1.0 and MC Quiz Maker 2.4.0 In the Multiple Choice tests and quizzes it is now possible to include 5 alternative answers ... by popular request. Also includes a couple of minor bug fixes ;-). Our special thanks to Alan and the reviewers at Tucows.
January 7th 2005: Launch of the new Teaching Templates Global Edition 1.0.0. The new program contains all the features of the Teaching Templates Standard Version and in addition comprehensive Unicode support. The TT Standard Version is updated to version 2.3.0 - several improvements and changes to the installation procedure. The total download size has been reduced by ca. 1 MB, and the price of the Teaching Templates Standard Edition has been reduced to make it even more attractive for our customers. The Multiple Choice Quiz Maker is upgraded to version 2.1.0
April 1st 2004: Our 4th anniversary update of Teaching Templates to version 2.2.2 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker to version 2.0.0. Although we have only made minor changes and improvements to the Teaching Templates suite, the MC Quiz Maker is a major update and introduces numerous new features:
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It is now possible to include a timer to make sure that the quiz taker does not take too long to complete a quiz.
After completion of a quiz, the user can now be redirected to a pre-chosen web location.
The question randomisation procedure has been modified, and there is now an option to randomise not only the questions but also the answers ... wow.
Dutch has been included as an alternative quiz language If you are interested in supporting our work on our language project, please click here for more information.
The Question Data Bank now accepts up to 150 entries per quiz without complaining.
A brand new feature is the option to submit quiz results to a mail address of your choice via out TAC-Soft server. This should get round the problems some of our customers have experienced with Internet Explorer and the HTML mailTo function.
We have ignored the advice of our CFO yet again and are still offering all registered users of Teaching Templates completely free and licensed versions of the MC Quiz Maker and WebWrap as an additional bonus for their support of our software.
September 1st 2003: Update of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker to version 1.4.0: This is a major update and introduces numerous new features which include:
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An option to compile the MC quizzes as PHP files and to save the quiz results to a text record file or to a MySQL databank.
A "Results Viewer" module is now available to facilitate the viewing and administration of the results which have been submitted.
The opportunity to create quizzes with a quiz user interface other than English. At the moment German is available as an alternative language, and we hope to be able to include other languages in the near future. If you are interested in supporting our work on this exciting project, please click here for more information.
Numerous minor bug fixes and most of the improvements which were contained in the Teaching Templates 2.2.1 update.
June 12th 2003: Update to Teaching Templates 2.2.1: The changes and improvements include:
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The supervisor's email address is now saved (and retrieved!) with and from the quiz file.
A problem with the password protection box appearing twice when a quiz is running in fullscreen modus has been solved.
Some of our users encountered difficulties through inadvertently using "illegal" characters in the quiz titles and headlines. The authoring program now checks the user's input before a quiz is compiled
The rather fascinating bug which sometimes resulted in a switch of the first and last questions when creating a multiple choice ebook has been squashed.
The Task Manager and the Quiz Question Bank functions have been improved.
We have doubled the number of available background images.
February 18th 2003: Major Updates to Teaching Templates 2.2.0 and the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 1.3.0 : The new features include:
- Quiz files can now be saved and exported as MHTM Web Archives ... only one file which contains all the necessary sounds and images.
The number of questions it is possible to include in the Multiple Choice and Energy Saver quizzes has been increased to 150.
The "Submit Results" option now offers the opportunity to print the results as well as sending them via email. We have also tried to solve the annoying habit of Internet Explorer of sending two email messages with the quiz details.
It is now possible to include images and written answers in the Multiple Choice quizzes.
All the quiz templates have been updated and validated to comply with the latest HTML4 standards.
Multiple select of questions in the data bank files for inclusion in new quizzes is now possible.
Numerous improvements and enrichment of the background colour change options in most templates and of the screen layout in Question Time.
6th January 2003: Release of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 1.2.0. Correction of the sound functions in the WebArchive files ... sorry!.
6th December 2002: Release of the Multiple Choice Quiz Maker 1.1.0, and a new look for the TAC-Soft website.
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With the MC Quiz Maker you can now save and export all your quiz files in one *.mht Web Archive ... and do lots of other exciting things!
29th September 2002: Release of Teaching Templates 2.1.0: The improvements include:
Major changes to the quiz encryption procedure. It is now possible not only to code the quizzes you create to hide the HTML code, but also to compress them ... uses the LZSS algorithm if anybody is interested. We have also extracted the compression procedure from the Teaching Templates quiz suite and made it available to everybody who is interested in the creation of efficient Internet web documents.The small program is called WEBWRAP. There is no time limit on the use of the evaluation version of WebWrap
Inclusion of a data bank facility (Quiz Question Bank) to enable the user to save and recover questions from the quizzes that they have created.
It is now possible for registered users to edit the original HTML and JavaScript templates from within the Teaching Template's program. A 'Restore Original Template' option cancels any changes and/ or mistakes that may have been made ... no risk, only fun!
9th April 2002: Teaching Templates 2.0 (Second Edition) ... the definitive version!
1st March 2002: Release of Teaching Templates 2.0.0 ... a major update to celebrate the second birthday of Teaching Templates. The numerous new features include:
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Automatic FTP upload of your quizzes to a web server.
One-click compilation of your HTML quizzes into a small, independently executable file (*.EXE)
One-click compilation of a Teaching Template's EBook containing upto 10 of your quizzes.
Fullscreen (kiosk view) window option to improve the appearance of your quizzes in an Internet browser.
New security options for the many users who are planning to use Teaching Templates in the classroom or computer laboratory.
A few bug fixes ... especially one or two relating to case problems when the Teaching Templates quizzes are uploaded to a Unix server. Thanks to Basil for the feedback.
29th December 2001: Teaching Templates 1.3.7
- Removed two "irregularities" which our customers reported in the Multiple Choice and Flash Card templates.
12th December 2001: Teaching Templates 1.3.6
- It is now possible to encrypt the quizzes to hinder easy access to the questions and answers contained in the HTML code.
We have followed Rainer's suggestions and made considerable changes to the HELP documentation. This is now in .chm format and amongst other things allows direct access to all the Demo quizzes.
Now Teaching Templates is again Netscape 6 compatible. If they keep changing the specifications we may give up!
Introduction of a "Submit Results Option" in all templates. It is now possible for the user to send the results of the quizzes to his or her supervisor. Many of our customers have asked for this feedback feature ... hope it proves useful.
30th September 2001: Teaching Templates 1.3.5 (Major Update)
6th May 2001: Teaching Templates 1.3.2 - By popular request the number of possible questions in the Multiple Choice Template has been increased to 50.
21st April 2001: Teaching Templates 1.3.1 - fixed a minor problem with the first run on systems with 256 colors.
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March 2001: Teaching Templates 1.3.0 (Major Update).
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The main "big blue double T" opening screen is now
standard on all Windows platforms.
The interactivity of the Gap Text template has been improved with a pull-down menu to display
all of the words which have been "clozed" in the exercise, and an option to show the correct answer if an incorrect choice has been made.
A Task Manager template (ttmanager.html) has been introduced - a facility to link a series of exercises and, if required, to send e-mail feedback to the supervisor. Navigation command buttons can now be inserted in each quiz.
In the In Other Words and What's Your Opinion templates a confirm box has replaced the "ok" option thus allowing the user to cancel the revision procedure.
Teaching Templates should now run on non-Western/-Latin codepage systems ... feedback please if our users in Russia, Greece and lots of Asian countries still have problems!
The printing options in all templates have been extended to allow a choice or printer and the opportunity to format output in a real text box.
It is now impossible to delete all questions upto and including -1 in the quizzes! You can still delete them all, but it stops at number 1.
It is now possible to use "Crtl-A" in all textfields to select the entire text.
Teaching Templates is now Netscape 6 compatible.
When in Teaching Templates a quiz was opened, modified and then a second quiz was opened, the "save" option for the first quiz was not always active. This bug has been fixed.
Three new variants have been included in the "Template Options" menu:
1. Override Netscape Search: solves a problem some customers experienced with registry entries for Netscape even though the browser was not installed on their system.
2. Override Netscape 6 search: Same as above but for the new Netscape product.
3. Search again for Browsers: This option was included also for problem-solving reasons. If a browser has been uninstalled or a new one installed it may be necessary to re-set the Teaching Templates browser configuration.
Improvements to the "Check for new Version" function: TT can now download and update itself in a much more efficient and time-saving manner.
The Help section has been revised and converted to the HTML online format.
18th December 2000: Teaching Templates 1.2.7. Removed problems with export function and NTFS partitions. Made some modifications to the check-for-update procedure. Placed Teaching Templates icon in the NT taskbar and added numerous shortcuts to the Template interfaces. Updated the help file. Our gratitude to Rainer Friedrich for his valuable feedback.
18th November 2000: Teaching Templates 1.2.6. numerous small changes and improvements thanks largely to the very helpful comments of Jeff Wise at Microsoft. Thanks Jeff.
30th September 2000:Teaching Templates 1.2.5 released:
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Export function fixed (problem with FAT 16 drives at maximum capacity.)
Program code optimized - the program is now smaller and loads faster.
Teaching Templates is now Windows Millennium Edition compatible.
Minor bugfixes
Change to a more user-friendly file management system for the HTML files.
Automatic update check for all users with an Internet connection.
Inclusion of the "I"-Menu in the second screen for faster access.
Implementation of a browser check function which recognizes when a browser has been uninstalled..
First appearance of the new MASTERMIND template.
19th August 2000:
Teaching Templates 1.2.1 - Click here to download a small update patch. This fixes a problem some users have encountered with manually inserting gap
20 in the GAP TEXT template. Please note that the update can only be used with the current 1.2.0 version. It will not update the previous versions of Teaching Templates. Please also make
sure that, when prompted, the updater is pointing at the directory where Teaching Templates has been installed on your system.
8th June 2000: Teaching Templates 1.2.0 - will run also on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 systems.
30th April 2000: Version 1.1.2. All reported problems removed and some corrections added to the project demo files.
16th April 2000: Cleaned up some functions and squashed a few minor bugs - version 1.1.1
1st April 2000: Beta testing completed and Teaching Templates released as version 1.1.0
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