EduGame! Version Log

Latest 7.3 Build

Released 6/3/2010

New Features

  • New keyboard and mouse mode in the Tug of War Game.
  • Enhanced statistics views
  • Enhanced Wand Guides for Mini Wands and H-ITT Remotes
  • Support for H-ITT Remotes. See our Beta Page for more information.

Build 7.2

Released 12/22/2009

New Features

  • Users can now download new subject libraries directly from the EduGame!
  • There is a demo version of the EduGame! available from the website, so new users can try out the software without needing a CD.
  • New Tug of War game mode.
  • The EduGame! now supports Rennaissance 2Know Responders.

Build 5.3.41

Released 05/18/07

New Features

  • While managing user accounts there is now a status window while deleting accounts.
  • Changed the student answer responder color from green to white to avoid confusion.
  • Enhanced the "Grid View" of test items in the Select Question Suite.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue in the EduRace Challenge with late students not being able to sign in.

Build 5.3.02

Released 04/25/07

New Features & Enhancements:

  • You can now limit the number of answer choices given, making certain questions easier for students.
  • Selection Suite
    • You can now paste an image (from your clipboard) into your question’s description field.
    • Preview your questions before saving them.
  • Hard Copy Testing
    • When loading a hard copy test from a Wizard file or from the Wizard vault, it will remember the scrambled question and answer order. This only applies to exams made in Wizard 9.2 or later.
    • Create and print a hard copy exam, with up to 4 versions. (Only works if you are also an activated user of the Wizard Test Maker on the same machine)

Build 5.2.22

Released 03/03/07

New Features & Enhancements:

  • New and Improved Hard Copy Testing feature
  • In the editing suite you can now save your questions as a "portable" save, allowing you to transfer you content between computers.
  • Student averages can now be displayed at the end of a poll.

Bug Fixes

  • In polling, pressing the right arrow on the teacher remote should no longer start a new question.
  • In EduRace Challenge, fixed "Run-time error 340 - Control Array Element 0 Does Not Exist" before the first question for users running 800x600 resolution.

Build 5.1.0.520

Released 02/07/07

New Features & Enhancements:

  • EduRace Challenge
    • Added late student sign in option for the racing game.
    • Race will now show the speeds for the current round.

Bug Fixes

  • General
    • Fixed numerous issues that were appearing in the Gradebook.
    • Portable saves with spaces in the name will now save correctly.
  • Question Wall Activity
    • Question wall game will no longer crash on 5 answer choice questions.
    • If you set "buzz in" time to unlimited, it will no longer give the student unlimited guess time.
    • In team jeopardy, it will now highlight the correct answer for picture answer questions.
  • Polling Activity
    • If you open a poll from the vault, then open a second poll, it will now correctly start from the first question.
    • In polling, when "show answers one by one" is selected, pressing right arrow will now show the next answer.

Build 5.10.0.5

Released 01/13/07

New Features & Enhancements:

  • New - The EduRace Challenge game type. Supporting their chosen driver, every student helps move their car along a racing course to the finish line. Winning cars are determined by the accuracy and speed of answering questions.
  • New - Feature for users of touch sensitive white boards that turn off our mouse click feature when reviewing questions.
  • Question Wall Activity
    • New - Entertaining flash animations to all our token sets.
    • New - “Back to School” token set.
  • Polling Activity
    • Enhanced - Polling activities to allow easy transition between Eduware questions and all other computer programs. i.e. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Images, Video, Audio, Websites, etc.
  • Select Questions Suite
    • New - Random question selection.
    • New - “Portable Saves”. Allows user-made questions to be transported as an activity to other computers.
  • Editing Suite
    • New - Support for adding questions with flash animations and questions that can launch web pages.
  • Gradebook
    • New - Data input and analysis using Apperson Scanners with DataLink™ 3.0. Visit www.appersonedu.com for more information about Apperson Scanners.
    • New - Redesigned many features of the Gradebook.
    • Added - User definable letter and color grade ranges.
    • Added - Median and Mode to category reporting.
    • Added - Printing and excel exporting features.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed - Serial receivers sometimes were showing the wrong remote numbers.
  • Fixed - Various issues with loading saved activities.
  • Fixed - Virtual wand appearing when it’s not supposed to.
  • Fixed - Various issues with “Text to Speech”.
  • In Polling, fixed an issue where there was too much time for questions in timed mode.
  • In the printing suite, Changed the printing suite to allow only teacher copies to be printed.
  • In the quick score, Fixed a problem where navigation buttons did not show up.
  • In EduRace Challenge, fixed a memory leak that would only allow one game to be played per session.
  • Question Wall Activity
    • Fixed - Quick Start feature sometimes causing lock ups.
    • Fixed - Various issues with timed mode.
    • Fixed - Tokens not correctly matching their colors and certain animations not playing correctly.
    • Fixed - Graded Question Wall games were sometimes not saving.
    • Fixed - Question Wall sometimes showing "No Buzz-in" early and not allowing teams to answer.
  • Select Questions Suite
    • Fixed - Random question selection sometimes selecting the same question twice.
    • Fixed - Random question selection crash if selecting over 100 questions.
    • Fixed - Portable saves not saving images.
    • Fixed - Not being able to add a question ID number manually.
    • Fixed - Text-to-Speech not reading question or would incorrectly read a question.
  • Editing Suite
    • Fixed- Bold, italic, and underline formatting not saving.
    • Fixed - Question classifications not saving correctly.

Build 4.1.0.333

Released 05/11/06

New Features:

  • You can now add text answer choices to an activity bar question that was created by using the image capture utility.

Bug Fixes

  • Importing images has been improved to allow for more of a variety of picture sizes and types.
  • Text-to-Speech no longer turns on during activities at unspecified times.
  • “Large Fonts” is supported in the Grade Book but not during any other portion of The EduGame!

Build 4.1.0.321

Released 04/13/06

New Features

  • You can now view Grade Distributions at any time during an Activity Bar Session.

Bug Fixes

  • Grade distribution no longer counts questions that were unanswered by the entire class, in its calculations.
  • Program no longer crashes when no one responded with a correct answer during an Activity Bar activity.
  • Questions with answer images are now correctly calculated in the Grade Book.

Build 4.1.0

Released 03/18/06

New Features

  • You now have the ability to add questions with answer pictures as well as create new questions with answer pictures.
  • You can now import/paste questions from Word that have answer choices on a single line.

Bug Fixes

  • Program responds correctly when you manually select tokens for 6 or more teams.
  • "Trash Can" added to Select Questions Suite to easily delete questions.
  • Fixed issue when trying to run an Activity that contained Free Response Questions in a category, but user selected not to use Free Response Questions.

Build 4.0.290

Released 02/04/06

New Features

  • Question Wall Activities can now be printed, including the category header and each question’s point value. This will give you a complete Hard Copy of your activity.

Bug Fixes

  • Minor enhancements to the performance of the program.

Build 4.0.282

Released 01/27/06

Bug Fixes

  • Intermediate Science exams load properly from the Wizard’s Vault.

Build 4.0.281

Released 01/18/06

New Features

  • The Select Questions Suite has been revamped.

Bug Fixes

  • Wizard Test Maker exams load properly.

Build 4.0.246

Released 01/11/06

Bug Fixes

  • Windows 2000 users will no longer get the following error message: Runtime Error 429 - Active X component can not create object
  • Error message: “Can not locate image '\Bitmaps\Menu_Icons\m_folder'” has been addressed.

Build 4.0.245

Released 12/23/05

Bug fixes

  • Question Wall Activities now run properly while using the “Quick Start” feature.
  • General fixes to help the performance of the program.

Build 4.0.238

Released 12/10/05

New Features

  • Team Token Biographies added for even more exciting game wall activities.

Bug Fixes

  • Question Wall Activities now display Free Response Questions correctly.
  • Buzz-In abnormalities during Question Wall Activities have been addressed.

Build 4.0.221

Released 11/26/05

New Features

  • Team Question Wall Game - You can now set the time limit teams have to answer a question.
  • Polling Activity - Students who sign in late are given the option of answering the questions they missed, if the teacher chooses to let them.
  • Item Analysis – Grade Book printout showing what percentage of the class chose for each answer.

Bug Fixes

  • Question Wall Activity would go into timed-mode if a student didn’t answer fast enough after buzzing in, even if the activity was in user-controlled mode.
  • Question Wall Activity would sometimes add unusable questions to an activity.
  • The first team to have control over the category would remain in control throughout game play.

Build 4.0.203

Released 11/12/05

New Features

  • Team Question Wall Game – Now you can have the entire class participate in a Game Activity
  • Import Color Pictures
  • Print Activities
  • Activity Bar Mode – allows for an open-ended question and answer mode and features:
    • Power Point™ Integration
    • Whiteboard Drawing Mode (works great with SMARTboard™!

Build 3.2

Released 05/31/05

Bug Fix

  • Fixed product activation for users with version 3.11

Build 3.11

Released 4/20/05

New Features

  • Option to "Display answer choices one at a time" during a Question Wall Activity.
  • Improved Impromptu Polling.
  • Load Exams created by Wizard Test Maker saved in Filed Exams.
  • Resuming a Poll starts with the last unfinished question of your previous session.

Build 3.0

released Nov. 2005

New Features

  • Brand New Built-in Editing Suite -Now you can add or edit questions and pictures without ever leaving The EduGame!

Build 2.6

Released 6/08/04

Enhancements

  • General enhancements to the performance of the program.

Build 2.5

Released 3/22/04

New Feature

  • Token Sets – Included in this release is the “Animal Token Set”. This includes 10 new tokens and new sound effects for each of them.

Build 2.0 - 2.4

New Features

  • Supports Free Response questions.
  • Wand support throughout the program.
  • Automatic COM port detection.
  • New Audio options.
  • Sequential and random "Buzz-in Modes".
  • New game options dialog: wrong answer penalty adjuster
  • At any point press "?" to bring up the help.
  • Added Wand Guides throughout the game.
  • Optimized speed of question display.
  • Improved Mouse & Keyboard mode of Question Wall Game.
  • Choice of answer displays (1,2.. or A, B..)

Miscellaneous Changes

  • Anonymous students are no longer named "Remote N" they are now named "Student N" where N corresponds with their remote number.
  • All game speed sliders are now aligned left to right as slowest to fastest.

Bug Fixes

  • Wands no longer cease to function when leaving several forms
  • You can now import the same EDU file twice in a row
  • You can now correct an “Invalid Activity”
  • Launching the help web site now works
  • Removed graphical artifacts from printing dialogs
  • Fixed printing
  • Streamlined loading and playing of the Edugame
  • No longer crashes for single players when selecting an answer before buzzing in
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

Build 1.84

Bug Fixes

  • General enhancements to the performance of the program.
  • Various bug fixes.

Build 1.83

Enhancements

  • The polling and testing screens have an updated look.
  • General enhancements to the performance of the program.

Build 1.82

Compatibility

  • Program runs correctly in Windows NT.

Build 1.81

Bug Fixes

  • General enhancements to the performance of the program>
  • Various bug fixes

Build 1.8

New Features

  • Student answer sheet printing feature.
  • Load saved games from any previous version of the software.
  • New timing options adds in even more control over game play.

Build 1.7

New Features

  • New “Load” system implemented, lets users resume or review linear activities from a list by their “name”.
  • New printing features in the reporting suite.
  • Brand new Virtual Wand.

Build 1.6

New Features and Enhancements

  • Added early “buzz-in” to un-timed mode.
  • Impromptu polling added.
  • Question Chain Auto-saving.
  • New wand configuration form.
  • New jump-to options.
  • Clicking on Virtual Wand ‘Help’ button launches a flash tutorial.
  • New registration system.
  • Support for new jump to options in polling (Question summary and grade distribution graph)

Bug Fixes

  • Polling for 48 students works correctly.

Build 1.5

Enhancements

  • Auto-login system: Allows user to skip login at startup.
  • Support for up to 10 teams
  • Grade Book enhancements
  • You can now Export Reports
  • New Virtual Wand allows you to experience activities as though you have the wands
  • New registration system
  • Support for new jump to options in polling (Question summary and grade distribution graph)
  • Reporting Suite now calculates scores
  • Music has been removed from polling
  • Improved user manipulation
  • Registration security improvement
  • Username and passwords can be changed
  • The teacher can remote can be set to any remote number in the settings screen
  • Pressing the “?” on the remote allows you to jump to a question
  • During polling you can now see how many students have not yet put in an answer

Bug Fixes

  • Repaired class management and report wizard forms.
  • Reporting functions improved.
  • The chart at the end of the poll is now complete and works.