Creation and execution of the quiz
Once the quiz questions have been written with the program, it is possible to pass on
to the creation of HTML pages that will visualize the quiz. In order to do so, choose
the item 'Make HTML quiz' from the Quiz menu
.
A dialog window will appear and you will have to choose the quiz name and the
folder name where places the HTML file and sub-folders to save, as shown in the
figure below:
The actual HTML quiz in fact is a collection of HTML files.
It is possible choose only the name of the main file (and it must be recalled when
you want execute the quiz) while the correlated files (such as sound or image files)
will have the same name of the main file with the suffix of a progressive integer
number. As an example, if you choose a file name like 'my_quiz.htm', the other files
will be called 'my_quiz1.htm', 'my_quiz2.htm', etc...
Initially, the name proposed for the generation of the HTML quiz version will coincide
with the name of the quiz file, where the extension .xqz is replaced by the extension
*. htm.
The language to use into HTML pages can be choosen from the drop-down list near
the label "Language".
Clicking on the check-box labelled 'Make quiz without frame', will result in the
display of the created HTML the absence of page division into two or three different
areas (called "frames").
At this time, you can modify the quiz properties, before creating it by pressing the
push-button labelled 'Properties'.
There are two push-buttons for filtering the questions (where the filter rule decides if
include or not include a question into the HTML quiz), one is the filter the questions and another is the filter by categories.
Another push-button is labelled 'Batch build' that allows the creation of more than
one quiz, a group of quizzes with the same questions but with a different order of
questions (and/or order of answer) that is chosen randomly.
Clicking on the check-box labelled 'Run quiz', it will be possible to execute the quiz
after its making. QuizFaber runs your current browser with HTML version of the quiz.
Clicking on the check-box labelled 'Open quiz folder', it will be possible to open
the
folder where all HTML quiz files and sub-folders are been created, after its making
At the end of making the quiz, a new dialog window appears with the list of all HTML
files created, as shown in the figure below:
HTML pages will be placed side by in a special sub-folder named "media" with the
necessary image and sound files to ensure a correct the display of the entire quiz in
the browser.
Alternatively, if the quiz has been created previously, it will be possible to launch the
predefined browser with the HTML quiz pages, without taking into consideration the
last modifications to the quiz made in the quiz editor of QuizFaber.
In order to do so, choose 'Execute quiz' from the Quiz menu, as shown in the figure
below: