Wizard Test Maker Version Log
Latest 11.0 Build Released 11/18/2008	New Features • Improved Category printing of test items for a more professional look for tracking of questions that align to goals and standards. • Re-ordering of questions in the exam can now be performed in the Select Question Suite. • Enhanced the “Grid View” of test items in the Select Question Suite. • The Wizard is now able to work together with the Gradebook and the Edugame! to load exams from one to the other via ‘Administer’ option in the Filed Exams Suite. • Improvements to Description Image Suite. • New Hints system in the Select Question Suite. Bug Fixes • If an image is not found in a database, it will no longer display an error preventing an exam to print, but it will print with a placeholder ‘Image not found’ image. • Various improvements in efficiency and bug fixes throughout.
10.2 Build Released 02/15/08	New Features & Enhancements · New Images for a lot of Wizard Screens · New design and structure for Editing Suite · New design for Selection Suite · New design for Vault Screen · New design for Study Screen · New design and structure for Exam Information Screen · Database Infrastructure Changes o Selection Suite 1. Selection Suite now contains a Question List 2. Question List now groups questions by colors 3. New Menu Bar containing some basic Exam Tools 4. New Exam List when using the Load button in the Menu 5. New ‘Add By Question ID’ Frame with option to Preview the Question 6. Question List Tooltips! 7. Question List can now be dragged to resize the window 8. Moved Search/Filter Options to the Top Menu Bar 9. New Zoom Button on the Top Menu Bar o Exam Information Screen 1. Categories are grouped in a tree which shows the question number next to it. o Editing Suite 1. Question layout is more organized. 2. Question Now has a question properties dialog for Classifying a question and setting properties for it 3. Word-Style Editing Toolbar above each Question/Description/Answer Text Edit Box. 4. Misc. Layout Changes 5. Division Symbol now added in the ‘Special Characters Menu’ o Bookshelf Screen 1. New Progress Bar to show you when the Course Selected has been loaded o The Vault 1. New Toolbar with Exam Manipulation tools 2. New Merge Suite (offers ability to combine exams) 3. New Administer Exam (offers ability to bring exams up to be used with the Gradebook) o Printing Suite 1. New Printing Options Bug Fixes 1. Deleting Questions from the Exam Should now Reorder the Exam properly 2. Question Numbers should now save and print properly 3. Student Answer Sheet should now print properly 4. Clicking on Student Answer Sheet in the print Menu will automatically select ‘Put work answers on answer sheet’ for convenience reasons. 5. Question Numbers now show up how they actually will print in the Selection Suite Question List. 6. Searching in Earth Science now works. 7. Deleting Questions will now properly Reorder the numbers. 8. Clear Formatting now Clears Fonts as well.
Build 9.1.13 released 03/03/07	New Features & Enhancements: Printing Suite Multiple Choice questions now have a separate option for deciding between lines/blanks for student work areas. You now have the option of adding border lines for your headers and footers.
Build 9.1.0.5 released 02/03/07	New Features & Enhancements: Printing Suite Multiple Choice Answer Lines can now be set as desired in the Printing Suite (just like the existing Free Response Answer Lines feature) Bug Fixes: Printing Suite User-made True/False questions now print answer choices correctly.
Build 9.1.0.4 released 01/18/07	Enhanced support reduces “network” slow down when multiple users are working in the same database.
Build 9.10.0.2 released 01/15/07	New Features & Enhancements: Printing Suite New - “Column balancing” with 2 column formatting. Enhanced - Formatting for Question Numbers and Answer Choices. Enhanced - Question and Answer spacing options. Select Questions Suite New - Preview and print all user-made questions. Editing Suite Enhanced - Support for additional description and answer image file types. Bug Fixes: General Fixed - An error when saving over an existing exam in the vault. Printing Suite Fixed - Best fit not functioning correctly. Fixed - The correct answer being printed when a short answer question was set to multiple choice. Fixed - Incorrect sizing of pictures when switching between printers. Fixed - Brackets { } not printing. Fixed - Answer spacing and answer lines not functioning correctly. Editing Suite Fixed - Spellchecker caused the program to lockup on certain questions. Fixed - An issue that stopped pasting text into questions. Fixed - Minor glitches with cropping an image. Fixed - Some issues with our Eduware font (Font Mapper).
Build 8.1.24 released 09/22/06	Bug Fix: An error involving printing with letters (ABCDE), where numbers (12345) would appear, has been resolved.
Build 8.1.19 released 04/25/06	Bug Fix: Single-line, multi-line wrapped and multi-line hard-return boxes display properly.
Build 8.1.17 released 04/15/06	Bug Fix: Users experiencing “Fatal Error - Cannot Register Classes” and loss of activation under Windows 98,95,ME has been corrected with a new form of Activation.
Build 8.1.03 released 03/31/06	Bug Fix: Fixed crash when switching between multiple state standards. Fixed answers printing out for select questions on exams.
Build 8.1.0 released 03/18/06	New Features: We have added a brand new “SPELL CHECK” feature in the editing suite.
Build 8.0.63 released 03/04/06	Printing Suite Fix: Fixed issue where Speaking Passages would appear on student copy of the exam.
Build 8.0.62 released 03/01/06	The program now defaults to using Question Numbers instead of Question ID Numbers, despite any previous settings.
Build 8.0.61 released 02/18/06	Minor fixes to the performance of the program. Additional support for Activation also implemented.
Build 8.0.54 released 01/27/06	New Features: You can now toggle between English & Spanish translations of questions from our Spanish Science Libraries*. *You must have the very latest Spanish Science Library installed for this to work.
Build 8.0.51 released 01/18/06	Bug Fix: Fix for activation loss when computer ID number randomly changed upon starting the program over or rebooting.
Build 8.0.49 released 12/29/05	New Features: Multiple State Standards Support
Build 8.0.44 released 12/10/05	Select Questions Suite Fix: “The Summary Wall” will now display properly.
Build 8.0 released 11/12/05	New Features: Full Text Search – Now you can search for keywords or phrases in both the question and/or answer text. Select Questions Suite Fixes: Family Tree Classification resizes properly in all screen resolutions.
What’s New in 7.3 (released 05/31/05)	Activation Fix: Fixed product activation for users with version 7.2.
What’s New in 7.2 (released 04/27/05)	Printing Suite Fix: Fixed issue involving mismatched answer keys when using the "Scrambled Answers" feature.
What’s New in 7.1 (released 02/25/05)	New Features: Improved Auto-Backup system to enhance the reliability of user-created content. General enhancements and fixes to help performance of the program. Printing Suite Fix: Resolved issues regarding Default Printing Schemes and schemes shared between users.
What’s New in 7.0 (released on CD 11/05/04)	New Features: Multiple Subject Areas (Science, Math, etc...) can now be installed into the same directory (folder). Multiple State Standards are now supported within each subject. Random Question Selection improved, including the ability to use your state standards classification. General enhancements and fixes to help performance of the program.
What’s New in 6.32 (released 6/09/04)	Select Questions Suite Fix: Fixed issue when advancing through questions.
What’s New in 6.31 (released 5/25/04)	New Feature: Back up and Restore functions added in File menu. Printing Suite Fix: “Leave right column blank” now prints correctly when used at the same time as “place multiple choice questions first” Saving Fix: The Wizard no longer duplicates an exam when you choose to overwrite an existing exam.
What’s New in 6.3 (released 4/27/04)	Printing Suite Enhancements: You can now save more of your customized printing options using our “printing schemes” feature. Important Information: Backrest replaced Addsup Certain discs installed Physics and AP Physics into the 2004dbf folder instead of the DBF folder. User should move folders into the DBF folder.
What’s New in 6.2 (released 2/19/04)	New Features: “Create Question” button added to menu-bar. If you are a registered user of The EduGame! but not the Wizard Test Maker, you are now able to use the Wizard to save exams for use in The EduGame!
What’s New in 6.1 (released 1/13/04)	Important Fix: This latest version of The Wizard now functions correctly with the latest version of The EduGame!
What’s New in 6.0 (B) (released 11/24/04)
What’s New in 6.0 (A) (Released Oct ’04)	Select Questions Suite: State Classifications Family Tree Added NOTE: THIS VERSION MIGHT LOSE USERS’S REGISTRATION
What’s New in 5.0 Gold (Released May 03)	Editing Suite: Brand new Family Tree Classification system. Box feature allows you to put a box around part of or all of your question. Remove hard returns from questions that are pasted in. Fraction maker allows you to insert fractions to your questions. Line numbering allows you to number the lines of a reading passage. Edit Undo Select Questions Suite: Your entire database is now easily accessible from the right pane of the screen. Easier to use new interface. Random Selection Screen: You can now type the number of questions to randomly add to your exam. Printing Suite: Easier to use new interface. Improved randomizing test feature. Save “schemes” that keep track of printing options and customizations. A “Cancel All” print jobs button. Darker dividing lines. General Enhancements: Auto login feature. All non-registered subjects can be used in demo mode. On the Activate screen you can see what subjects you have installed and for what years you are registered. Performance increase. Big Fixes: Numerous bugs in the printing suite have been resolved. You can now activate your wizard from any screen. Clicking on an invalid database no longer affects you going into your correct one.
What’s New in 4.8 (Release 3/29/02)	General Enhancements: Font Mapper is now available in all versions of the Wizard Test Maker. Support for Windows XP General Enhancements to the performance of the program.
What’s New in 4.7 (Released 3/20/02)	General Enhancements: Added LIVE chat feature in help file. General enhancements to the performance of the program.
What’s New in 4.6 (Released February 02)	General Enhancements: Now supports Windows XP. General enhancements to the performance of the program.
What’s New in 4.5 (Released Jan 02)	Printing Suite: Our “Best Fit” printing option works better. It will preserve the original order of selected questions much better. Select Questions Suite: When selecting questions Randomly we have a new feature to select by difficulty (skill) levels. Difficulty levels have only been assigned to Math A, Math 8, AP Chemistry, Regents Chemistry and Regents Physics. Eduware is attempting to have all subjects skilled-leveled by September 2002. Fixed some bugs like formatting the teacher answer key, printing catalogues, and picture size adjustments when viewing one-at-a-time in Select Question Suite. In the select questions suite the newest questions in our database will be the first to preview.
What’s New in 4.2a	Reorder & Insert Instructions Suite: Navigate from the Select Questions Suite to the Reorder Suite and back. Save exams previously stored in The Vault to disk. Printing Suite: Set space in student answer sheet and/or test itself for essay answers. Student answer sheet can be printed in one or two column page layout. You can now add a manual page break to your exam. Editing Suite: Added the ability to expand the description field and the question field. New Features: Added Easy Access in the Wizard to our Website. Restore your last saved test from the vault. Access this feature from the file menu. Bug Fixes: Resolved the memory issue of questions not appearing in the Select Questions Suite and the Print Preview Screen.
What’s New in 4.0 (released Oct ‘01	Reorder & Insert Instructions Suite: Drag and Drop - manipulate the order of your test questions by simply dragging and dropping each question. Added PUT MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS FIRST feature. Add Instructions - write directions/instructions on your test and save the most commonly used ones as templates for future use. Select Questions Suite: Select All Questions in Group - selects all questions within a group question. Select Questions By Level - Math 8 and Math A tests can now be created by level order. New Features: Automatic Backup - an automatic backup is created each time you exit the program to prevent any loss of data. WIZSHARE - a separate program that will import/export questions from one Wizard Test Maker to another. General enhancements to the overall performance of the program.
What’s New in 3.5 (released OApril ’01)	Printing Suite: Save Printing Options - save your header, footer and most printing options with a user name. Leave Room For Work - option to leave right column blank for workspace. Print Science Reference Tables - Option to print reference tables. (need to have updated database being released in the fall of 2000.) Answer Shuffle - Users may choose between three answer shuffling options: Allow Shuffling, Prompt Before Shuffling, Never Shuffle. Select Questions Suite: Right Mouse Click Options replaced some buttons - includes altering questions to short answer format, viewing questions on a grid, and other options. A "Next Subtopic" Button - advances previewing questions to the next subtopic. New Sorting Options (top menu) - teacher can sort questions for previewing by skill level or reverse the question order (need to have updated database being released in the fall of 2000.) New Catalogue Printing Options - More specific catalogue printing options have been added. General Enhancements: Made Registration Screen easier to find. Added Helpful Hints - turn this feature on or off in the help menu. Indent/Offset Paragraphs - Indents any text passage by right clicking in the Editing Suite. Bug Fix: When making a test using the catalogue, the header information did not print.
What’s New in 3.03 (released Jan ’01)	Printing Suite: New to Print Preview: Users can now print any individual page of their test more easily. New to the Printing Suite: Multiple Choice Answers can now be made to alternate with each question between ABCD and E (if necessary) and FGHI and J(if necessary) Bug Fix: 3.02 only printed header information on first page using the Multiple Version option.
What’s New in 3.0-3.2 (released Oct ‘00	Printing Suite: Print all questions in 1-column format. Always print answers vertically rather than side by side as it may do with short answers. This will help the reading challenged student. We've added greater functionality and formatting for printing the Question Catalogue. We have added the ability to print out multiple copies of a single test. Implemented header and footer adjustments for customization of printer options. Select Questions Suite: You can change any question from 2-column to 1-column in the Select Question Suite. Enlarged the viewing area for previewing questions in the Select Question Suite. This will automatically enlarge with large picture questions but can be manually enlarged by clicking on "Max" button. Added feature to view questions in the Select Question Suite in reverse order and thereby view from oldest to most recent or vice versa. General Enhancements: Users can now print directly from where they input Question ID's. Users can now print directly from the Build Test by Using Catalogue screen. Saving exams now recalls short answer questions you made. Made program Y2K compliant. Added an automatic backup of your database.
What’s New in 2.05 (Released 6/11/99)	General Enhancements: Backup Program runs to backup your database every time you close down. Exile questions from any exams so that they won't be selected on the one you are creating.
What’s New in 2.04 (Released May ‘99)	Printing Suite: Best Fit option - organizes questions to print on the fewest number of pages possible. You can print out your own Classified Question Catalogue with pre-formatted page headers and footers showing the Unit, Chapter, Topic and Subtopic and ID numbers of your questions. Two-line First Page Headers and Footers, adjustable by user to raise or lower them exactly where you want them to appear on the test. Select Questions Suite: Larger preview screen for viewing questions.
What’s New in 2.02-03 (Released Jan ‘99)	Printing Suite: You can now access the Printing Suite and Preview from the Vault and the Question Reorder Screens. Created ability to print a two line first page header. Note: Only top middle header will print on succeeding pages. Option for Teacher to put a small underline in front of a question number for student to provide answers. Teacher can now start questions in a test from any number. Added feature called "Teacher Copy" which will print a replica of the student test immediately following the printing of the student test. Teacher Copy has the correct answer in bold. Test can print on legal size paper (must change your printer settings in control panel) Teachers can now print as many different copies as you want from our printing suite. Simply click on "Multiple Copies" after selecting your other printing options in the printing suite. A multiple version box will come up. The Randomization of questions and answers for the first test is selected in the Editing Suite but all additional tests are done by your selection in this box. All options besides "Teacher Copy" selected in the printing suite or print options will apply to all tests. If in the Multiple Version box “Print Version A, B, .." is selected then the left hand footer will be replaced by "Version _". Editing Suite: Now you can add pictures by their ID number in Picture Edit. Now import pictures having the following extensions:.bmp, .gif, .pcx and some .jpg You can export a picture directly into any Graphics program for editing. Reordering Suite: Drag and Drop your question to where you want it (it will place question above the question you drag it over). Click on question then click up and down buttons. Double click on a question and type the number you would like it to come before. You can now access Preview and Print options from this screen After reordering any one Group Question others of that group can be placed together by clicking the button <Group Question>. General Enhancements: The Wizard can now run over a Network. You can display program in graphical or non-graphical mode (Non-graphical mode will make the program run a little faster but screens will not have all of our screen pictures). To access this feature go to top menu bar under File/Features/graphic or non-graphic. The display will change on all subsequent screens and keep this setting until changed. Automatic Backup of questions id’s on a test, so that if the program crashes you can recover your exam from a backup copy. Added a question counter to the Make Test by Using Catalogue Screen. Also on the above form you can now preview one-at-a-time all the questions on the list. Just click Preview than click Next to go onto the next question. This will display without bold answers and could be used with classroom monitor for going over your test or reviewing purposes. Now you can also retrieve an Exam Saved to Disk/Drive from The Vault screen. Added ability to save any test's question and answer order. Whenever you save an exam it saves in the order it was last printed. You can save multiple versions by naming differently. i.e. Test 1a, Test1b .. Bug Fixes: All users should now be able to enter the Editing Suite Program should not close down after printing a test.