Creating a Quiz: QuizXpress Studio

The QuizXpress suite consists of two pieces of software. The first is QuizXpress Studio, which is used to create your quiz. The second part is QuizXpress Live!, which enables you to play the quiz.

A unique aspect of QuizXpress Studio is that you can compose great-looking quizzes as easy as ABC, without being a computer genius or design guru. QuizXpress is very user friendly and intuitive but offers lots of possibilities, including:

• Unlimited number of questions per quiz
• Built-in categories (e.g. sports, film, music) allowing you to indicate which category each question belongs to. This means that the design of the questions/quiz (fonts, background, colors) will be adapted to the design of the category. Of course you can also create your very own categories.
• Lots of question types such as multiple choice (2-3-4 answers), open questions, everyone answers, wager and more.
• Demographic questions to split the audience in different competing groups
• Change question layout by dragging and dropping questions and answers
• Use of sound, pictures and videos within questions
• Entering questions quickly in a grid layout
• Number of points to be gained/lost in case of a correctly or incorrectly answered question
• Variety of question properties, such as setting the time-span of the question
• Use of banners: static slide to display information
• Use of rounds: optionally drop teams
• Thumbnail view of all the questions in a thumbnail strip
• Various question layouts/question types
• Preview and/or start QuizXpress Live! from within QuizXpress Studio
• Use of sound effects within questions: with this functionality you can create a music quiz, for example
• The properties of the teams competing can be fully configured (name/avatars). You can even set the buzzer sounds of the teams, which can also be your own sounds! The sounds played when a given answer is correct/incorrect can also be configured
• Information gathering takes place during a quiz session (for example: answers from teams per question, timing information). This information is saved to an Excel file to enable the use of QuizXpress for educational and training purposes
• Import questions from Excel
• Export quizzes to PDF booklets to support the quizmaster during the show

Running your quiz: QuizXpress Live!

With QuizXpress Live! you can ‘play’ the quiz that you’ve created in QuizXpress Studio. QuizXpress Live! takes care of presenting the questions to the teams, keeps track of the scores, listens to the quizmaster and plays all kinds of sounds. During the show, the presenter has access to various options for example to show a chart of the last response, to show a list of intermediate scores etc.

Analyzing results: QuizXpress Analyzer

Version 3.3 of the QuizXpress Pro Edition ships with a graphical analyzer that allows you to inspect the results of an event. All answers given by the participants are collected in QuizXpress Live! and stored to disk. With Analyzer you can inspect and compare the results of different runs. When using QuizXpress to evaluate the effectiveness of your communication, for example in a company training, QuizXpress Analyzer gives you the insights to adjust your material and methods. The data can be exported to Microsoft Excel as a spreadsheet, or saved as a PDF document.