Revision Aid - Online quizzes

When creating online quizzes ensure that the age from/to is entered for the quiz, currently if left blank causes an error asking to contact support, someone has done just this which I appreciate as I can now rectify this issue.

Age from/to is mandatory fields and as so is required, it's important for anyone downloading the quiz to see what age range the quiz is suitable for, I will make this more clear and clarify this in the message in the next web site update. 

Revision Aid - Another app function added

Another user requested function has been added and submitted to the App Store for approval.

Control the text font size in the Quiz Me using a + and - located either side of the title bar, set this to what you are comfortable reading.  

Lots more changes and updates coming over the coming weeks, watch this space.

Revision Aid - Image update now live

The latest Revision Aid update is now live on the App Store, I'd love to hear any feedback on this and now past any iPhone v3.0 OS issues I can freely start looking at more updates, schemes, fonts and quiz tracking are high on the list. I hope more users will follow the twitter updates as this offers a real time way of keeping updated with developments, the latest twitter updates are shown on the left of this blog.

JSSDevelopments now on Twitter

Having recently recognized the advantages Twitter offers to keep users informed of updates I have setup a new Twitter account.

All general news and announcements will be shown in these updates including app and web developments complimenting the Blog entries.  I hope users will also give feedback on new and existing functionality and see it as a great way to keep the lines of communication open.

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The latest Twitter updates are also shown to the left on this blog.

Revision Aid: Testing for iPhone OS 3.0

Additional Bug Fixes for upcoming 3.0, I have invested quite a lot of compatibility testing for the soon to arrive 3.0 version of the iPhone OS and this update includes some changes to ensure the continued use of the application on OS upgrade. Other Bug fixes include: 1. Download import bar resets on new download. 2. Category choice after starting a new quiz crash fix. 3. Correct counter resets properly after choosing a post quit me selection.

Thank you for all your emailed suggestions and comments for this app. Please be rest assured that the ideas will be incorporated over coming versions but would ask for some patience while these are integrated, the current priority is getting the new update which is proving challenging with the new OS 3.0 changes to consider, these are currently in the Apple testing approval stage.

Revision Aid - Question Limits Raised

The previous question limits for a quiz was set to 50 with as many quizzes as you like, I have recently raised this to 65 questions for now, although this will expand in the future. I have made changes to both the online and the iPhone/iTouch app.

The web site has just been updated to allow up to 65 questions for any quiz and can be downloaded and played on the Revision Aid app, the update for the app to allow editing of more then 50 questions will be in the next V1.20 update.   I am currently ensuring this update works on V3.0 of the iPhone OS as Apples advice so this version will be a little longer to release then usual.

It seems the private setting on quizzes is proving popular with online users, I can understand this but I do hope that that these can be made public at some point, if not now then consider making them public in the future so others may enjoy and benefit from your work.

The next online changes will allow linking of images to questions to go with the upcoming app update, this allows image to be included in questions, my initial plan is to have html image web links to be included so you can simply link in any image online, for example include a link to your image in your online photo site store.  When downloading your quiz the linked images will also be downloaded.  Watch this space for more information and examples.

Revision Aid - More new screen shots and App Submitted

I have been playing with various layouts, the following show what these new layouts will look like, lots of options will come in future versions though.

Including images in quizzes - Example 1 *Single image usage*:

    

The above shows an example of using a single image in a quiz question, on the left shows the layout when the question is first accessed and on the right shows the layout when the image is zoomed, to zoom in on an image the user just has to tap it and then tap it again to return.

Including images in quizzes - Example 1 *Multiple image usage*

    

The above show four images used, and can be viewed in a similar manor to example 1.

The changes have been submitted to Apple today and will be available as a free update the in a week or two.

It has been quite a job to design and add this to the system but believe it is well worth the effort, I look forward to everyones comments so please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.