An overview of QuizXpress features
General features:
| Feature | Description |
| Multilanguage user interface | QuizXpress can be configured for the following languages: English, French, Italian, German, and Dutch |
| Analyzer | QuizXpress includes a graphical analyzer tool that can be used to visualize data collected during the quiz. |
| Free quiz questions | With QuizXpress you can download 8 free quiz packs containing a total of 800 free quiz questions. |
QuizXpress Studio features:
| Feature | Description |
| WYSIWYG design environment | QuizXpress Studio is a graphical design environment optimized for visually developping your quizzes as efficient as possible. |
| Multiple visual styles | Different visual styles are available for your quiz questions (such as Professional, Glassy, Sport, Movie and Formula1). |
| Excel import | Import your questions directly from an Excel spreadsheet including pictures, multiple choice questions etc. |
| PDF export | Export your quiz as a PDF booklet as a reference for the quiz master. Click here for an example. For each question you can add notes that will be included in the PDF document. |
| HTML export | Export your quiz as a HTML/JavaScript based website that allows people to play your quizzes online. |
| Multimedia support | Use pictures (including animated GIF files), sound and video (AVI) in your quiz. For sound and pictures you can define real-time effects to create 'Get the Picture/Sound' questions. |
| Copy/Paste quiz slides | Copy and Paste entire quiz slides in your quiz or between different quizzes (to build libraries of quiz questions) |
| Tabular data entry | As an alternative to the graphical mode you can quickly enter your questions in a table. The graphical slides will be created for you from this table. |
| Categories | Predefined or custom categories allow you to quickly format a quiz slide. This helps you create different styles for example to indicate the subject of a question (Science, Literature, Movie etc.) |
| Widescreen support | The ratio for quiz slides can be set such that it matches the dimensions of a widescreen monitor/TV. |
| 20 predefined layouts | 20 predefined layouts for your quiz slides. With 2-5 multiple choice answers, 1-4 pictures, video or other combinations. You can change the layout manually afterwards. |
| Shapes | Add arbitrary shapes/pictures to your quiz slides. The visibility of the shapes can be configured such that they hide, or show, after the question has been answered. |
QuizXpress Live! features:
| Feature | Description |
| Skinning support | Skinning lets you change practically every visible aspect of the quiz player so you can make it look fully according to your own taste or your companies house style. |
| Wireless buzzers/keypads | QuizXpress works with a variety of buzzer devices. Currently supported are: Sony Buzz buzzers, Fleetwood Reply Mini keypads (up to 250 players), and the PC's game port. |
| Quizmaster remote control | QuizXpress can be controlled using the keyboard or a standard wireless PowerPoint presenter. |
| Customizable sound effects | You can fully configure the sounds effects such as when a player hits the buzzer, when a correct answers is given, when an incorrect answer is given etc. QuizXpress comes with a library of sounds but you can add your own as well. |
| Simulate audience | To test your quiz you can run it against a simulated audience which will respond randomly to the presented questions. |
| Intermediate score screens | In between questions, there are several options to display the scores (overall scores, last question scores, with or without timing information etc). Individual scores can be changed and players can be excluded/included in these screens. |
| Response chart | The result of a voting (everyone answers) question can be visualized in a chart. |
| Low battery indication | When any of the Fleetwood Reply keypads experiences a low battery condition, an indication appears when signing-in the keypads so you know when to replace batteries. |
Supported game formats/modes:
| Feature | Description |
| Fastest finger | The player that hits the buzzer first gets to answer a question. If the answer is wrong, the player is excluded from that question and other players get a chance to answer. |
| Everyone answers (voting) | Every player can answer the question. When all players have answered, the given answers are judged by the system and points are given. |
| Open questions | The first player to hit the buzzers gets to answer the question. The quizmaster decides if the answer is correct. |
| Last man standing | All players with a wrong answer are immediately dismissed. |
| Decreasing points | The points one can win with a correct answer decreases as the countdown proceeds. |
| Wager questions | Players can bet a percentage of their total score on the result of the following question. |
| Elimination rounds | After each round of questions, a percentage of the players with the lowest scores will be dismissed. |
| Demographic groups | You can split your audience in multiple competing groups (e.g. Men against Women for a 'Battle of the Sexes'). The scores for all the members of a group will be summed to make a total score for the group. |
| First comes, first served | You can configure a question such that only the first N answers are accepted. This make a more exciting game as people need to answer before the maximum has been reached. |