Quiz Editor
Using the "Quiz Editor" is you can create a quiz, edit quiz questions
or set the difficulty ratings of questions.
Here's a look at the main screen (Fig.1).

Fig.1
The Quiz Editor's main screen is the Quiz View, where you select
quizzes to play or edit. Note the tooltips box in the lower left corner
will display what each blue button does when you rollover those buttons
while in the Quiz Editor.
Basics:
You can't get too lost in the "Quiz Editor" because there are only
two possible places to be. If you are looking at a list of all your
quizzes, you are in the "Quiz View" (shown above). If you are looking at
a specific question (or blanks for a question), that's the "Question
View" screen (shown below). Here's how these two views work (Fig.2).

Fig.2
The "Quiz Editor" normally opens with a list view of all your
quizzes. The list on the left shows the available quizzes by name; the
list on the right shows the questions in the selected quiz. To select a
quiz, just click on its name. As soon as you do, the questions for that
quiz fill in the facing window. Jump directly to any specific question
in the list simply by clicking on that question in the list. It will
open in the "Question View" so you can edit it.
When you are in the Question View, you can create or edit questions.
This window seems similar to (but not exactly the same as) what will be
shown during the game show. Use the blue VCR-style buttons to cycle
through the questions in a quiz. For a new question, use the NEW?.
DELETE will erase the question that is currently on screen in
Question View. SAVE saves your data and QUIZ LIST will
close the quiz you are editing and return you to the "Quiz View".
When you click the blue NEW? button in question view, a blank
question screen appears. Type in your Q&As. Then be sure to click either
A, B, C or D to indicate which answer is correct. When you do, that line
of text will change color to indicate it is the correct answer.
You can write TRUE/FALSE questions as well as multiple choice. Simply
leave blank any answer field you do not want to appear for that
question.
Important: Since all your quizzes are stored in a central
database within Game Show Presenter, it's important that you back that
file up regularly.
Rating Questions:
In Question View, you have the option of rating each question as
either Easy, Medium or Hard. If you don't rate a question, it will
default to Medium. Also notice in the box below there's a size summary.
It shows how many questions are in your quiz and how they are rated.
These ratings are important if you want a game show that presents
questions that get tougher in higher rounds of play. The ratings are
applied when you have USE DIFFICULTY RATINGS turned on.
QUIZ MENU:
The Quiz Editor has several menus at the top (Fig.3). (The
PREFERENCES menu is covered above and the REGISTER and
HELP menus are self-evident.)

Fig.3
Below is a summary of the commands to be found under QUIZ and
EDIT:
- New will create a new quiz. (Same as a click the blue
NEW button.)
- Close Quiz command leaves the Quiz Editor and opens the
Quiz Player in a stand-by mode in other words, the game show does
not begin to play automatically. Whichever quiz was selected at the
time you left the Quiz Editor will be the quiz that is loaded for
playback.
- Save saves any changes to quizzes and settings in the
central database file. (Be sure to backup the central data file
often with the backup feature!)
- Save A Copy and Load A Copy commands create or
load external quiz show files. When you Save A Copy, you are
making a file that contains your current quiz show settings. This
file can be played by user who have the Playback Only edition
of Game Show Presenter. It can be used to transfer a game show
set-up to another copy of the Presentation Edition, such as
when you want to move a quiz show from your desktop to laptop
computer. (Note: In prior versions, this feature was known as
TRANSFER SHOW but is now called Save A Copy and Load A
Copy).
- Backup and Restore is discussed in detail in its own
section.
- Play closes the Quiz Editor, opens the Quiz Player, and
immediately begins the game show playing with all the current
settings in use. This menu item is the same as clicking the blue
PLAY button.
- Import Quiz reads in a tab delimited text file. Your text
file should conform to the expected fields as shown below with a
return at the end of each complete set of question data. Otherwise,
your data will not flow into the correct positions when you import,
or the import process may be aborted. Here is the format:
Question<TAB>Answer A<TAB>Answer B<TAB>Answer C<TAB>Answer
D<TAB>A*<TAB>1**<RETURN>
* is a single letter indicating which answer is correct. It should
be either A, B, C or D
** is a number between 1 and 3 to signify the difficulty rating for
that question, with 3 being the hardest. You can leave this field
blank and the program will add the default setting of 2 whenever it
is blank. But you still need to have the expected tab.
- Export Quiz creates a tab delimited text file of the
current quiz. (But if you want to move complete show set-ups to
another computer, see Save A Copy)
- Print provides a printout of the currently selected quiz
with all its questions and answers.
TIP: You can use the printouts with a class so that everyone
can play along with the game show. The printout will list the
questions in the order they appear in the quiz editor. (So you may
want to turn OFF the shuffle questions and difficulty ratings.) The
printout also has a space labeled "Your Answer" where people can
write in their own responses. (The correct answer is not shown on
the printout.)
- Quit exits the program.
EDIT MENU:(Fig.4)

Fig.4
- Cut, Copy and Paste commands are activated
when you are in the Question Editor. There are limitations if you
try to cut and paste blocks of text from other programs into the
editor. If you run into these limits, try pasting one line at a
time. Note that a better way to import a lot of text for a quiz is
to use the programs IMPORT feature to read a tab-delimited
text file you created in another program. A good way for you to know
the exact format is simply to EXPORT one of the sample
quizzes and open that in another program where you can see the
format needed for the tabbed fields.
- Rename Quiz is the same as the blue button Rename.
Use it to change the name of a quiz.
- Delete on the EDIT menu will delete the currently
selected quiz. (The blue DELETE button does the same)
- Password is only available to registered users of the
program. You may set a password and require that the password be
entered in order for Game Show Presenter to start running (Fig.5).
This feature is useful in settings where you might have students
with access to a trainer's computer. Registered users may set up a
password in order to restrict access to Game Show Presenter. (Don't
forget that password! You don't want to be locked out of your own
program.)

Fig.5
Smooth Moves in the Quiz Editor:
The cluster of buttons in the corner of the Quiz View has a ToolTip
window so you can quickly find out what they do. Usually, the menus at
the top do the same things as the buttons. But there is one notable
exception:
- PLAY versus CLOSE QUIZ. There's a button and menu
command for PLAY. Clicking either of these will close the
editor, open the show player, and launch into a game show. That show
will use whatever quiz you had selected and whatever preferences you
had set at the moment you chose PLAY. The CLOSE QUIZ
command under the QUIZ menu is slightly different. It closes the
"Quiz Editor" and sets up your game show screen, but it does not
start the show. You have access to the menus in the "Quiz Player" so
you can see the various sets, change stage size and other
preferences, then click the PLAY menu command when you want to start
the show.
- Change the quiz description box that appears in the "Quiz
View" above the list of quizzes. First, make sure you have the quiz
selected. It's description will appear above. Right click on the
text in the box, and now you can edit the text. Right-click a second
time to lock it in. Note: This only works on the quiz description
and not on the size summary. (Mac users, use Control-Click for the
same effect)
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