Advanced Properties

To manage the advanced properties of HTML quiz, select the item Properties from the item of Quiz Menu, and then clicking on sheet named "Advanced".
The following dialog window will appear:

Advanced properties


Quiz security (level of protection)

For obvious reasons, the contents of the HTML pages have been arranged in such a way that nobody can deduce the exact answers to the questions from the reading the source code file before answering to the quiz.
For this purpose, the quiz uses a simple code and decoding algorithm of the reserved information. The phase of coding (information masking) happens during the creation of  the HTML pages while the phase of decoding is made by the JavaScript code embedded within the HTML pages when the student answers the question(s).

Naturally, there is a key (in this case a keyword) used for the coding and decoding algorithm. The key is a word (composed from letters and numbers) that you can select freely. The operations of coding and decoding happen in  a transparent way to the user.
The only parameter to set up, after the keyword, is the level of protection. This is made clear in the following:

·     Minimal protection :
The keyword is embedded from QuizFaber in the JavaScript code of the HTML pages and later will be used for the decoding information.
The protection is minimal because the keyword can potentially be discovered by  anyone by simply reading the HTML source code.

·     High protection :
The keyword is asked for explicitly before beginning the quiz through a dialog window in the browser. If the word is not the same, you will not be able to start the quiz.
The protection is high because the key does not appear within HTML source code, only the person who has created the quiz can enable the start of the quiz.

Optimization for recent browsers        

Using recent browsers (that came after first editions of Windows XP), this optimization can be always enabled. Uncheck only if you are using a very old browser, before Windows XP (Windows 95, 98, 2000 and ME).

The quiz produced differs from the non-optimized code for HTML 4 (Dynamic HTML) in the following respects:

·     The HTML page is split up into two windows (or frames) instead of three windows (frames).
·     The bottom window (frame) is thinner, with fixed height and much more similar to a status bar.
·     Absence of the top window (frame) leaves more space for the central window.
·     Error messages appear in the central window near the text question.