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WatuPRO 4.6

Thanks for the useful customers feedback our WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO keeps improving. Version 4.6 is out, and here are the most important changes, additions, and improvements:

  • Questions can accept user’s comments / feedback.
  • Single-choice questions can be displayed as drop-down selector instead of radio buttons group.
  • You can now specify custom subject for the submitted quiz notification email.
  • You can filter questions by ID in the Manage Questions page. The question IDs can also be displayed to the user using the variable {{{ID}}}
  • Bridge to MailChimp is now available: https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-bridge-to-mailchimp/
  • The shortcodes that list all quizzes and quizzes in category now have additional optional argument “show_status”. It will allow logged in users to see if every quiz is completed, not started, or in progress.
  • “Show numbered pagination” is now available for all types of quizzes
  • Option to reward the collected positive points only when the whole question is answered correctly. This is useful for multiple-choice questions and is similar to “treat this question as a whole” option from the Intelligence module.
  • Quizzes can now be published also in custom fileds as long as you enter the URL in the new box (more info at https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-quizzes-published-in-custom-fields/)
  • [Intelligence module] You can now sell paid quizzes in bundles. More info at https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-intelligence-module-paid-quiz-bundles/
  • [Intelligence module] Sorting questions can now be used in personality quizzes to allow the user assign different weight to different answers. More information at https://blog.calendarscripts.info/using-sorting-questions-in-personality-quizzes-watupro/
  • [Intelligence module] Added option to mark payment as used after each quiz attempt on paid quizzes. This lets you charge users for every quiz attempt.
  • Stats per category are now available in the Reporting module (num and % answered, unanswered, and correct answers)
  • Added “barebone” plugin for API developers: https://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/watupro-custom.zip
  • Advanced setting option lets you switch off the auto-scrolling on multiple-paged quizzes
  • Automatically store user progress as they go from page to page is now available for all pagination types
  • Added ungrouped quiz leaderboards sorting based on individual attempts (Play plugin)
  • Added %%CATDESC%% variable in the “common category grade output” so you can include the category description when showing category grades.
  • Added user groups information in the list of results on a quiz
  • Added option to hide question numbers so you don’t have to deal with CSS
  • Fixed issues with ordering the categories in %%CATGRADES%%
  • Free bridge for myCRED has been added. Please look here for more information.
  • Fixed memory leak issue

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Receiving Grade “None” Or Unexpected Grade [WatuPRO]

This issue is most often caused by:

  • You have not defined grades at all. “Grades” is not the same as score, % correct answer or points. Grades are textual result that you assign to the respondent depending on their performance on the test. For example Passed or Failed; A, B, C, D, F; and so on. If you want to use grades you have to create them first.
  • You have selected “Calculate grades by % correct answers instead of points collected” to calculate grades but your grades are created with points in mind (or vice-versus).
    I.e. if the following is checked, your grades must cover the whole range from 0% correct answers to 100% correct answers:
    grades-by-percent This checkbox is on the General Settings tab in the Add / Edit quiz page. This is a very common mistake so please triple-check it before contacting support.
  • Your grades do not cover the whole range of points or percentages user can collect. If you are using points for grade calculation, make sure that all possible points are covered from the defined grades. If your best grade has 20 points for “to” and the user collects 21 points they will not be assigned any grade (and will receive None). If you are using % correct answers for grade calculation make sure your grades cover the whole range between 0 and 100. Please check the “Watch out the decimals” item below too.
  • Watch out the decimals. If you have one grade A: from 0 to 9 points and another grade B: from 10 to 20 points, and your quiz allows decimal points what happens with user who collected 9.5 points? They’ll get no grade. So the grades in this example should be A: from 1 to 10 points and B: from 10 to 20 points. If they get exactly 10 points they’ll be assigned the higher grade. Note that percentages are rounded to the whole number so if your quiz calculates grades by % and not by points you will not need to worry about this.
  • Using category grades without knowing how they work. Please check this guide.
  • The from – to values of grades should always be entered from the lower to the higher number. This means the lower number goes in the left box “from”, the higher number goes in the right box – “to”. Be careful if you define grades with negative points: -100 is lower than -1 for example. So -100 goes in the “from” box at left, -1 goes in “to” box at right.

Grade calculations are fully tested and work fine. If you are receiving “None” as grade this can be only because of misconfiguration. Use the variables %%POINTS%% and %%PERCENTAGE%% in the “Final Page / Quiz Result” tab to get better idea why none of the defined grades matches the points you collected (or the percentage correct answers).

Quizzes Published in Custom Fields

By default the quiz plugin WatuPRO expects that you’ll publish the quiz shortcode in the post / page main contents area. When this is done it automatically detects the URL of the published quizzes and hyperlinks the quiz in your administration “Quizzes” page. It also uses this detection to determine when exams are published and to show only published tests in “My quizzes” page, and the Tests, Skills and History pages of the Reporting module.

Some customers however need to publish their quizzes in custom fields or other non-standard way (for example via do_shortcode() call in their theme). From version 4.5.8 WatuPRO has a solution for this:

field to mark quiz as published in non-standard way

This checkbox and field is visible on the Name & Description tab in your Add / Edit quiz page. Once you select the checkbox and set the URL you can have all these quizzes treated as published and automatically hyperlinked from all the corresponding pages.