
Quiz Master				Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, 
------------				November 1999.

Quiz Master for Windows 3, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, or 2000.

Quiz Master is a program that enables you to easily set-up 
quizes - either for fun, or to test or build knowledge of 
particular subject areas, or to help with assessment of 
student / employee achievement.

Quiz Master enables you to specify :
- The Questions to be asked.
- The list of possible answers, along with the correct answer.
- The time allowed to answer each question, so that
  difficulty questions can be allocated more time.
- The score (or weighting) of questions, so that harder 
  questions can be made to be worth more.

Included with the program is a set of 45 Sample Questions,
but many more questions will be made available in the future.
At the moment, I am working on a set of 1,600 questions !!
These will be available to Registered Users only.

Developed using 16-bit Delphi.


Using this Program :
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To use this program, unzip the contents of the ZIP
file to a directory - such as c:\quizmstr - and run
the executable file quizmstr.EXE.

In the registered version of this program, you can 
setup your own Quiz Question and Answers.
(See below for further information).


Question and Answer File Format :
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The following explains the format of the Question and Answer
file.

Comment Lines :

! -  Any lines starting with an exclamation mark (!) are 
     treated as comments and ignored.

Each Question must consist of :

Q::  The Question to be asked.
A::  Answer - with possible answers seperated by '::'
     N.B. The first answer in the list must be the correct one !

Each Question may also have the following optional
settings :

S::  Score or weighting for the question (1 to 100).
     e.g. 1 = Easy, 10 = Hard.
     (If this parameter is not supplied, the default = 1
      but Registered Users can change this on the
      Settings Screen.)
T::  Time limit for the question in seconds.
     0 indicates no time limit.
     (If this parameter is not supplied, the default = 5
      but Registered Users can change this on the
      Settings Screen.)

Example :

Q::What is the capital of France ?
A::Paris::Berlin::London::Prague
S::1
T::0
Q::If 3 Men can move 7 tonnes of gravel in a 8 hours, how long would it take 11 Men to move the same amount of gravel ?
A::3.2 Hours::3.5 Hours::3 Hours::8 Hours
S::5
Q::Which Day Is Named After A Planet ?
A::Saturday::Monday::Wednesday::Friday
T::3
Q::What Is The Larva Of The Fly Called ?
A::Maggot::Grub::Wiggler::Flyet


Quiz Results File Format :
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The Quiz Results File is written with one student result 
record on each line of the file, and with the information 
in each record seperated by commas to enable easy importing 
into Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Quatro Prom or just about any other 
Spreadsheet.

The comma seperated fields of each student result record 
consist of :
- Surname,
- First Name,
- Date that the quiz was attempted,
- Start Time,
- End Time,
- Ellapsed Time taken to complete the quiz (in Seconds).
- Overall Result %.

Example :
O'Malley,Moose,22/11/1999,13:58:58,13:59:32,33.5,90%


Limitations / Restrictions of the Shareware version :
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The Shareware version of this program has the following
limitations / restrictions :

- The program will not save its settings on Windows Shutdown,
  but it will still save its settings when you manually exit / 
  close the program - just not when Windows terminates the program.
- A "Shareware" label is displayed in the Menu area of Text Buttons.
- Every now and then a "You have used this program xxx times, 
  Please Register" message will appear on program startup.
- You cannot change any of the following settings on
  the Settings screen :
  * the Results Log File.
  * the Default Question and Answer File.
  * the Default Answer Time Allowed.
  * the Default Question Score / Weighting.
  * the Number of Questions to Ask.
  * the Question Letter Delay Millisec - How quickly the 
    question is displayed to the screen.

To remove all the limitaions of the shareware version,
please Register.


The Future :
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In the future, many improvements could be made to this program,
such as :
- Ability to specify Success Messages depending of quiz score.
  (At the moment, these are fixed within the program).
- Better / Flashier / More Exciting User Interface.
- Password Entry to the Settings Screen.
- Encryption of the Question and Answer File.
  (So students cannot peek at or alter the Questions or Answers).
- Encryption of the Results Log File.
  (So students cannot peek at or alter any results).
- Ability to handle massive question lists - consisting
  of 1,000's of questions.
- Ability to have "Quick Fire" rounds where you try and 
  answer as many questions as possible in 60 seconds.
- Anything else ?

If you would like any of these improvements, or would like to
suggest more, please email me and let me know.

How much more work I do on this program depends entirely on
what support I get, how many people use the program, how many
people have registered, etc.


Shareware Reviews / Awards / CDs :
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None so far.


Sharware Information :
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This is NOT free software.  This product is shareware.  

But, it only costs $5 (FIVE) dollars to buy !

This means that you can try out the software for evaluation 
purposes without charge for a period of 21 days to enable you
to decide whether to purchase / register it.

If you use this software after the 21 day evaluation period
a registration fee is required.  See the Registration Form
in the file register.txt.

Unregistered use of this software after the 21-day evaluation 
period is in violation of U.S. and international copyright laws.

If you do not purchase / register the software after the 21 day
trial period, then you must delete it from your system.

In order to encourage me to develop this software and keep 
developing other software, I encourage you to do the right 
thing and register the software.

I could have easily have made the programs nag you to Register, 
or expire after 21 days of use, but I do not like this approach.

From April 97 on, however, some of the new functionality being 
added to my programs will be available for Registered users only.
I tried to avoid doing this, but now I have been forced to do 
this to try and encourage some Registrations.

I live in the hope that if people use the programs, then they 
will register them.

Registered users will receive FREE upgrades of the program for
the life of the program.  i.e. as long as I keep improving the
program, registered users will get this new / additional 
functionality for FREE.

To Register, please complete the Registration Form in
the file register.txt.


Ammendment History :
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Vers    Date        Description
1.0   22-Nov-1998   First Public Release.
                    (Written especially for J. T. Lawson.)
                    (5,280 lines of code / comments.)
                    

If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then
it is possibly an old version.  The latest version of this 
program is available from my WEB page - see below.

Mike "Moose" O'Malley
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 Moose's $5 Shareware & Arcade Emulation Valley - since July, 1996.
 WEB:  http://move.to/moose            Email:  moose@move.to
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