From Qedoc

Release date: 23rd July, 2007

Contents 1 Email submission of results 2 Data tables 3 Question bank editing 4 Enhancements to specific task types 5 Media bank editing 6 Deployment 7 Other changes

Email submission of results

• The major feature in this release is the addition of email submission of results. An author can optionally specify their email address for results to be sent back to. They can optionally restrict access to this feature (e.g. to their own students) by specifying a password.

Data tables

• When editing a data table, clicking the cancel button now reverts to the original state rather than wiping the table.
• There are additional data table functions for duplicating and pivoting a table. Pivoting means rotating the table 90 degrees, so that its rows become columns and vice versa.
• There is a new data table variable which allows access to exact cells (specified by row and column) without shuffling the data table.

Question bank editing

• There is a new batch function for changing the layout of multiple choice responses.
• The search-and-replace function has been upgraded so that it can also operate properly on HTML tags and data table variables.

Enhancements to specific task types

• Response font settings now also take effect on: anagram responses, hangman task types, essay-type fields for typing in a lot of text.
• The text areas in essay-type and text editing questions now automatically resize to a larger size when the font is enlarged.
• Pair-matching: when a column layout is used and the text on the right and left sides is disproportionate in size (e.g. because one side has very short phrases while the other side has a whole paragraph), the entire response will now automatically shift to off-centre so that more space is allocated to the side with more text.

Media bank editing

• The layout of the media metadata forms has been redesigned and the image previews now resize, allowing better handling of previews of larger images.

Deployment

• The web launch version of the Qedoc Quiz Player has been substantially optimized and tweaked. The byte size has been cut by a further 500 kB.
• As learning communities do not work with the default guest login, the error report for this situation has been modified accordingly.

Other changes

• Some marking problems with undisplayed task types using text fields was corrected.
• A problem with the new context-sensitive help buttons was preventing some of the new question types (from version 1.5.2) displaying in the task wizard. Now fixed.
• From version 1.5.2, modules with just 1 level skipped over the menu so that the quiz could be started more quickly. This feature had a bug which created problems when retaking the quiz in the same session. Now fixed.