The EduGame! Version Log

 

Latest 5.3 Build

Build 5.3.41

released 05/18/07

New Features & Enhancements:

  • 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.

Bug Fixes

  • EduRace Challenge
    1. Fixed an issue 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.
  • Editing Suite
    1. You can now paste an image (from your clipboard) into your question’s description field.
    2. Preview your questions before saving them.
  • Hard Copy Testing
    1. 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.
    2. 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
  • Saving Content
    1. In the editing suite you can now save your questions as a “portable” save, allowing you to transfer you content between computers.
  • Polling
    1. Student averages can now be displayed at the end of a poll.

Bug Fixes

  • Polling
    1. Pressing the right arrow on the teacher remote should no longer start a new question.
  • EduRace Challenge
    1. Fixed an error "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
    1. Added late student sign in option for the racing game.
    2. Race will now show the speeds for the current round.

 

Bug Fixes

  • General
    1. Fixed numerous issues that were appearing in the Gradebook.
    2. Portable saves with spaces in the name will now save correctly.
  • Question Wall Activity
    1. Question wall game will no longer crash on 5 answer choice questions.
    2. If you set "buzz in" time to unlimited, it will no longer give the student unlimited guess time.
    3. In team jeopardy, it will now highlight the correct answer for picture answer questions.
  • Polling Activity
    1. If you open a poll from the vault, then open a second poll, it will now correctly start from the first question.
    2. 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:

  • General
    1. 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.
    2. New - Feature for users of touch sensitive white boards that turn off our mouse click feature when reviewing questions.
  • Question Wall Activity
    1. New - Entertaining flash animations to all our token sets.
    2. New - “Back to School” token set.
  • Polling Activity
    1. 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
    1. New - Random question selection.
    2. New - “Portable Saves”. Allows user-made questions to be transported as an activity to other computers.
  • Editing Suite
    1. New - Support for adding questions with flash animations and questions that can launch web pages.
  • Gradebook
    1. New - Data input and analysis using Apperson Scanners with DataLink™ 3.0 visit www.appersonedu.com.
    2. New - Redesigned many features of the Gradebook.
    3. Added - User definable letter and color grade ranges.
    4. Added - Median and Mode to category reporting.
    5. Added - Printing and excel exporting features.

 

Bug Fixes

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

 

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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • Minor enhancements to the performance of the program.

 

Build 4.0.282

released 01/27/06

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • Wizard Test Maker exams load properly.

 

Build 4.0.246

released 01/11/06

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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.

The following problems were fixed:

  • 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
  • Activity Bar Mode – allows for an open-ended question and answer mode and features:

o        Power Point™ Integration

o        Whiteboard Drawing Mode (works great with SMARTboard™!

·         Import Color Pictures

·         Print Activities

What’s New in 3.2

(released 05/31/05)

Activation Fix:

  • Fixed product activation for users with version 3.11.

What’s New in 3.11

(released 04/20/05)

 

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

Enhancements:

  • Resuming a Poll starts with the last unfinished question of your previous session.

What’s New in 3.0

(released on CD 11/05)

New Features:

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

What’s New in 2.6

(released 6/08/04)

Enhancements:

  • General enhancements to the performance of the program

What’s New in 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.

What’s New in 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

 

What’s New in 1.84

Bug Fixes and Changes:

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

What’s New in 1.83

Enhancements:

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

What’s New in 1.82

Compatibility:

  • Program runs correctly in Windows NT

What’s New in 1.81

Bug Fixes and Changes:

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

What’s New in 1.8

Enhancements:

  • 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

What’s New in 1.7

(released 4/05/03)

Enhancements:

  • 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

What’s New in 1.6

(released 3/26/03)

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)

Fixes:

  • Polling for 48 students works correctly

What’s New in 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

Fixes:

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