Topics:
- Customization
- Certificates
- Manage Questions and Answers
- Manage Quizzes
- Grading / Results
- Troubleshooting
- Shortcodes
- Reporting
- Paid Quizzes
[WatuPRO Intelligence Module] Restart Quiz Attempts When Payment Is Made
From version 6.4.8 of WatuPRO (with the Intelligence module installed) there is a new feature for paid quizzes: It gives you a new level of flexibility allowing you to sell a fixed number of attempts on a quiz for a fee. Here are a few examples how it works: If you allow only one attempt…
[WatuPRO] How To Change The Wording On True / False Questions
WatuPRO has a handy “true/false” question type. Essentially this is just a “single choice” question with pre-defined options – true and false. If you want to change the words “True” and “False” to something else or to another language you need to use Loco Translate just like you would do when translating the plugin interface.…
[WatuPRO] How to Open The Export Files (Tab Delimited CSV Files)
In WatuPRO all export files are TAB (tabulator) delimited CSV files. The reason we use this format is because comma delimited files are more error prone when the data contains rich text, HTML, commas, quotes etc. Tabulator is a lot more reliable as delimiter when importing and exporting data. If you use Microsoft Excel here…
Answers Paginator in WatuPRO
It’s sometimes a good idea to paginate the answers on the final screen of a long test. WatuPRO provides a variable for this: %%ANSWERS-PAGINATED%% which can be used instead of the %%ANSWERS%% variable. It will display the questions along with their answers, feedback, correct/incorrect checkmarks, etc but one per page. Although this paginator looks visually…
Basic Math Based On User Answers in WatuPRO
A new shortcode in WatuPRO (from version 5.6.2.1) lets you perform basic math on two of the user’s answers. This shortcode should be used only in the “Final screen” of a test. Here is the shortcode with all its possible parameters: Attributes: math (required) shows the math you want to perform.…
Compact Format Questions in WatuPRO
From version 6.4.4 the “Display as compact format” option in WatuPRO has two versions: The difference between the old version 1 (default) and the new version 2 is best seen on this image: Version 2 works very similar to the multi-column design of the questions but has no fixed number of columns and the choices…
Copy, Reuse or Import Questions in WatuPRO: What’s The Difference?
WatuPRO has several options that make managing and creation of lots of questions easy. Each of them has different purpose, so let’s dive into it: Copy Questions You can copy questions (and also grades and quiz settings) from one quiz to a new quiz that will be created on the fly or to an existing…
Cross Tabulation Analysis in WatuPRO Reporting Module
The quiz and survey plugin WatuPRO is starting to get into data science. Here’s one of the most useful features you will not see in many others, if any, survey and quiz plugins: cross tabulation analysis. If you would like to learn more, I recommend you to visit this page. This feature is available from…
Design Themes From WatuPRO 4.6.5
Design themes are available in our WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO, starting from version 4.6.5. The design themes let you control how the quizzes look for your users. WatuPRO currently have 5 ready design themes. You can choose design theme in WatuPRO Settings page: Choose the theme and save. Now your quizzes will use the theme.…
Filters for the watupro-takings Shortcode
Note: by default this page contains administration functions and is not visible to public. You can allow public read-only acces to this page by passing public=1 as shortcode attribute. The attribute wrap=1 ensures that the shortcode is placed in a scrollable div and the table will always fit the page horizontally. Remove it in case…
How To Copy WatuPRO Data from One Site To Another?
This is a frequently asked question about the quiz plugin WatuPRO. If you want to copy only a single quiz it might be easier to export and import questions from the “Manage Questions” page. More info about export/import formats is available here. On the other hand, if you want to copy all your quizzes, takings…
How To Upgrade Watu PRO
Since July 2017 the plugin auto-updates through the dashboard using license key. The information below is useful if you want to do a manual update or your last installation is from before this date. Note: If you have purchased WatuPRO less than one year ago, you are eligible to get any upgrades for free. Otherwise…
Importing Results / Entries in Watu PRO
From version 6.7.2.5, the quiz plugin Watu PRO supports importing the results of an existing quiz. The import file format is the same that you get when exporting your entries from Quizzes -> View Results -> Export this page. You can open this file, edit it in Excel, and then import: Here is what you…
List Quizzes in WatuPRO
The shortcode watuprolist lets you output a dynamic list of quizzes in a given category or all categories. Here’s how to use it to show the quizzes in one category: Replace X with the actual quiz category ID. For example . To show the quizzes from all categories use the shortcode this…
Memory Section in Watu PRO Questions
A new shortcode in version 6.6.9.5 of Watu PRO allows you to create a memorization section in selected questions. This works by showing the section for a selected period of seconds. After the period is passed, the memory section is shown and the question is revealed. This can be used to show an image or…
Myers-Briggs Tests in WatuPRO
This tutorial will show you how to create Myers-Briggs personality quizzes in WatuPRO. It covers the technical side of things and not the psychological side – we won’t be showing what specific questions you have to ask to create such tests. This example will be about creating a “Keirsey temperaments” tests but it can be…
Overwrite Test Attributes from Shortcode in WatuPRO
Some of the attributes of the quizzes in WatuPRO can be overwritten directly by passing shortcode parameters to the main watupro shortcode. When this is done, they have priority over the settings you have chosen in “Edit Quiz” page. This allows you to publish multple versions of the same quiz in different pages of your site,…
Performance on Multiple Quizzes and Conditional Content in WatuPRO
Here is a new super power of the WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO, available from version 6.4.8.5: a shortcode to calculate the performance of a logged in user on multiple quizzes. It can display: The total points collected The average percent correct answers on all quizzes. The average percent achieved points from maximum points in every…
Slider / Rating Widget Questions in WatuPRO + Intelligence 4.7.8
From version 4.7.8 the WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO supports a new question type – slider / rating. Here is how it looks on the front-end: The slider can have any range. In this example we have selected from 1 to 100. Slider questions often don’t need correct or wrong answers, but if you want to…
Test Grade Based on Question Category Performance [WatuPRO]
From version 5.5.8 the quiz/survey plugin WatuPRO supports yet another interesting option for grading the user’s performance: a grade based on the performance in each question category / theme. What Does It Mean? This is different than showing grade/performance per category. It’s a method to grade the whole test (and typically determine whether it’s passed…
UI Customization Snippets for WatuPRO
This post will contain some free JavaScript code snippets that you can use to customize the default behavior of the quiz plugin WatuPRO. The snippets can be placed in your theme functions, in the footer of your theme, or (easiest) using a plugin like Insert Headers and Footers. Each snippet is coded to work on…
User Groups in WatuPRO
User groups in WatuPRO can help you organize your users, give access to quiz categories, filter the results, have multiple companies test their own users inside the same installation and even with the same tests, and so on. Manage Groups There is no limit to the number of groups you can create. Let’s have a…
User Registration / Login and WatuPRO
This post has the goal to answer one of the often asked questions – can you have WatuPRO tie quiz attempts to user accounts? The short answer is yes, of course. Here are more details: How Does It Work It’s very easy. In Edit Quiz -> User and Email Related Settings tab you need to…
Using Dynamic Variables in WatuPRO Email Field
WatuPRO comes with an option to send email with respondent’s answers when a test is submitted. This is found in Edit Quiz page -> User and Email Related Settings tab and is pretty straightforward. You can select to send the email to the user and yourself -the site administrator, to the email address defined in…
WatuPRO Front-End Troubleshooting Guide
This guide is going to help you to resolve any of the following issues that you may encounter using WatuPRO (and not only these): Submit button, next button, start button, or any other button does not work Quiz does not load at all Some question type (usually match/matrix, sortable or slider) does not work These…
WatuPRO: Quick Getting Started Guide
Here is how to start really quick with WatuPRO: Go to Create new quiz page: You can skip filling almost everything – just entering quiz name is enough. However you may want to check at least the “Final page / Quiz output” tab. It gives you full control over what the user sees when they submit the…
Zapier Webhooks in WatuPRO
The test and survey plugin WatuPRO just got a lot more connected by implementing Zapier Webhooks. (Well, technically, you can send data to any webhook URL – not just Zapier!). Available from version 6.5.7.5. Here is how this works: Hooks get notified when a user submits a selected test. You can use them to connect…