Powerful Question Bank Features in WatuPRO 6.3.8

This feature requires the Intelligence module.

From version 6.3.8 the feature that allows you to reuse questions in the quiz plugin WatuPRO just got dramatically better. (Learn the difference between copying, reusing and import/export of questions here)

Before this version you could only choose which tests to reuse questions from and it used all questions from them. This continues to be the default behavior but now you have much more flexibility. Let’s shortly dive in:

How To Use It

Go to the Manage Questions page of your quiz and select the checkbox to reuse questions. It will open a form that allows you to select the quizzes you want to reuse questions from.

By default it includes all the questions from these quizzes into the current quiz. This works perfectly as a simple question bank. You can still select to pull X random questions from the whole bunch of questions, pull X random questions per question category, or even choose different number of questions from each question category. This happens on Edit quiz -> Advanced Settings tab.

This allows you to control the questions in one or more tests used as question banks. Any changes you do to these questions will be used on the fly on all quizzes that reuse them. This different to copying questions which creates separate copies in each quiz.

Selecting Specific Questions

Till now you could not choose only some of the questions from the source quizzes (except the option to pull a random number). If you wanted specific questions you had to use the Copy feature.

From version 6.3.8 of the plugin you can use the checkbox “Use only selected questions” (shown on the image above) to select exactly which questions you want to reuse.

Note that from the moment you select the checkbox and save your quiz will have no questions at all. After saving all the questions from all source tests will appear on the page in a table very similar to the table that is shown on the Manage Questions page of a regular quiz.

You have to select which questions you want to use (using the checkboxes at the leftmost column) and save using the button at the bottom of the table. From this point further your quiz will be using the selected questions.

There is no Delete link here: if you want to remove a question from the quiz simply unselect the checkbox and save. You can edit or delete the questions only in the quizzes where they are created (the question banks).

Limitations

  • At the moment it’s not possible to reorder the questions in the target quiz. If you don’t use randomization the questions will be shown by the order given in the question banks.
  • To deactivate a question simply un-select it and save so it won’t be used.
  • You can not set a priority of the question for the target quiz. The priority and all other question attributes are give in the question bank.

Passing Values Through URL Parameters in Arigato PRO

From version 3.1.3.5 the WordPress drip marketing suite Arigato PRO allows you to pre-populate fields in a subscribe form by passing values in the URL.

To avoid unwanted prepopulation we made this setting configurable. You need first to enable it in Arigato PRO Settings page:

Only after this is enabled you can pass values to pre-fill an Arigato signup form.

Passing the values is very simple: you just have to create an URL parameter with the same name as the form field but prefixed by “arigato_”. For example:

  • To pass subscriber name use URL parameter arigato_name
  • To pass subscriber email use URL parameter arigato_email
  • To pass value for a custom field with name field_3 pass parameter arigato_field_3

If you are not sure what are the field names in your subscribe form use “View source” in the browser or the “Inspect element” function in Firefox.

Here is an example how we have prepopulated a signup form:

 

This feature is typically used if you are integrating Arigato with another program or you want to pre-select a field in a marketing campaign, and so on.

Using The Super Powers of Tags and Segments in Arigato PRO Intelligence Module

Organizing your subscribers in different mailing lists is great but sometimes you need a bit further categorization – for example based on ad campaign you ran, on interest shown in a given product(s) etc.

Tagging users in Arigato PRO

Fortunately the WordPress auto-responder plugin Arigato PRO comes with an easy way to tag users manually in the administration. Go to your Mailing Lists page, click on Subscribers and when you add or edit a subscriber you have the option to specify tags:

Then in the Manage Subscribers page you can use the filters to search subscribers by the standard fields, custom fields, or one or multiple tags (including any or all tags):

You can then see information on the filtered users, export them for importing in a different mailing list and so on.

That’s good, but the real power comes if you have the Intelligence module installed.

Segmenting by Tags

The real power comes when you start segmenting your lists so you can create newsletters and auto-responder messages targeted only to parts of your list. This way you can laser – focus your marketing messages. For example you can send a message only to people of chosen gender, age, or location.

Using tags goes a step further and allows you to segment subscribers by marketing campaign, interests, or anything else that you tag them with:

It’s all good but up to this point you have to add tags manually. Let’s make this even better:

Using Trigger Events to Add or Remove Tags

The event triggers let you add or remove tags (and also move people between lists) when they do any of the following:

  • Subscribe to a mailing list
  • Unsubscribe from a mailing list
  • Click on a trackable link
  • Do not click on a trackable link for a number of days after signup
  • Read an email
  • Just stay subscribed for given number of days

This is super powerful – it lets you for example tag users as interested in a product when they click on a link, tag them as inactive and so on.

And then use these tags for segmentation to send them the right sequence of email messages.

By using these features you can hugely improve your conversion rates and increase profits AND the user satisfaction because they will receive only content they are interested in.