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#988413 - Fri Jun 14 2013 01:48 PM Re: Quiz Deletion
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Originally Posted By: skunkee
]As has been pointed out a couple of times, you can have as many quizzes started as you like if you work on them in Word. I compose all of my quizzes in Word because I am a very poor typist. Word catches a lot of my errors.


I used to use MS Word, and sometimes will do now and again, but lately I've been very happy with a fantastic FREE general purpose text editor for MacOS called TextWrangler. It has some very powerful capabilities, like 'grep' searching and also spell-checking, without being cycle-chomping bloatware. cool After all, we can only do unstyled text anyways in our quizzes, so a lot of the advantages of word processors (designed for generating documents of styled text suitable for printing) are not applicable.

I've been writing a lot of grid logic puzzles lately, so the grep sort/extraction capabilities are really handy for the way I write them (which in some respects isn't very logical at all). grin

I'm sure there's an equivalent for Windows. confused
The newest Word may do grep now, but there is all this overhead in word processor that's not in a text editor, you see. And did I mention it's free?

It's just something I offer as an alternative for quiz writing. It's good to have options.


Edited by gracious1 (Fri Jun 14 2013 02:02 PM)
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#988416 - Fri Jun 14 2013 02:05 PM Re: Quiz Deletion
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It's just something I offer as an alternative for quiz writing. It's good to have options.


That is true, and something with a spell-checker is always a handy alternative.
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#988443 - Fri Jun 14 2013 02:50 PM Re: Quiz Deletion
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I rarely use the ability to delete quizzes. More often than not, if I'm unhappy with a template, I'll simply change it into a completely different quiz.

I usually write my quizzes straight into the template; unless its a 15+ question quiz, then I prepare it in MS Word before pasting it into the template and submitting it.

I've usually got more than ten templates on the go at any one time; I'm currently working on eleven but nine of those are almost ready for submission. I like to have a number 'in progress'... It gives me more of an incentive to work on them. Additionally, I continually have ideas for quizzes and prefer to start the template rather than just having a title on a new, and mostly blank, Word document.

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#989585 - Wed Jun 19 2013 06:45 PM Re: Quiz Deletion
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Originally Posted By: sisterseagull
I rarely use the ability to delete quizzes. More often than not, if I'm unhappy with a template, I'll simply change it into a completely different quiz.



Just with one caveat: Please don't do this if the quiz has already been edited unless you've spoken with the editor and they agree the quiz is unworkable. smile
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