Enhancements
- Crossword: added support for LaTeX expressions in descriptions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: added support for \perp, \parallel, \nparallel, \dev, \nLeftarrow, \nRightarrow, \nLeftrightarrow in equations question.
- Quiz/Worksheet: match question printing now lists matching pairs.
- Quiz/Worksheet: increased max number of categories for mark sentence question.
- SplitWorksheet/SplitWhiteboard: you can now use a webpage on the text side.
- WebQuest: support start and end time for YouTube videos in WebQuest.
- WordSearch: support added support for LaTeX expressions in descriptions.
Bug fixes
- Hotspot: improved text popup display.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for \dfrac \frac comparison in equation questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for audio in group questions on android 10.
- Quiz/Worksheet: links in rich text open in new tab.
- Quiz/Worksheet: added support for design configuration of equation question input box.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem with question table with multiple answers and word ordering status reporting in question list.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem with calculator in Safe Exam Browser on some iOS / iPadOS versions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for rich text questions not displaying videos for some question types.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed display of correct answers for equation questions if answers were not entered correctly.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed bug in correction of correct sentence questions when all words were editable and some words were marked to not require change.
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- SplitWorksheet: fixed PDF zoom problem when startup password is used.
- WebQuest: fixed problem with image zoom in sections.
- WebQuest: fixed problem with opening hotspot web links from within webquest.
- Worksheet: fixed design configuration for drag words in sentence questions.
- Rich text: support for additional vimeo URL format.
- Resolved problem where english was not selected if another supported language was configured for your system.
Major new features
- Quiz/Worksheet: new Equations question type
- Safe exam browser integration
Enhancements
- HotSpot image: now supports LaTeX in text popups.
- Randomness: now supports LaTeX.
- Memory cards: card backs can now display numbers.
- Quiz/Worksheet: new text direction modes for widgets using both left-to-right and right-to-left languages.
- SpotTheDifference: now supports different image sizes for left/right images
- Jigsaw/Memory/Pair matching/...: reward word audio can be (re-)played using button
- Arithmetic: multiplication sign can be changed.
Bug fixes
- Arithmetic: fixed problem where 0 was not displayed.
- Flashcards: fixed scrolling problem.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed reporting problem after resetting Word Ordering questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed browser auto-fill problem for passwords.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed occasional problem with correct sentence case-sensitive setting.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem with values with negative exponent in Numeric Answer question.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for dragdrop question types when target moves on drop.
- Quiz/Worksheet: solved marksentence problem when categories were defined with spaces.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for loading correct answers in match questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for drag and drop question loading when same element appears multiple times.
- Quiz: fixed status display in question list for some multiple choise questions with multiple answers.
- Jigsaw puzzle: widget resizing is now possible.
- Memory game: enhanced readability for found pairs.
- Whiteboard: fixed right-to-left display.
- Rich text: fixed problem with links.
- Fixed widget size problems in iBooks on iPadOS 14.
- Fixed popup dialog size on small smartphones.
- Fixed possible crash when moving between empty cells during translation table configuration.
- Fixed problem with bold font display on some OSX versions.
Major new features
- Quiz/Worksheet: added new question table with multiple answers question type.
- Added support for upcoming OSX Big Sur release.
Enhancements
- Checklist: added math support
- Quiz/Worksheet: provided clearer correction information display for all multiple choice question types.
- Quiz/Worksheet: multiple choice questions with multiple answers now support a different scoring weight for errors.
- Quiz/Worksheet: whiteboard questions now have 'drawing on top' option
- Quiz/Worksheet: LaTeX support for dragdrop question headers.
- Quiz/Worksheet: added single submit option.
- Split Worksheet / Split Whiteboard: support text selection in PDF.
Bug fixes
- Arithmetic: show '-' button for substracting through 10 with negative outcome.
- Checklist/Hotspot/TipTiles: changed opening of URLs to deal with some webpages not showing.
- Crossword: resize improvements for mobile devices.
- Hotspot: fix for handling many embedded websites.
- Jigsaw puzzle: resize improvements for small screens.
- Memory Game: solved CSV file import problem.
- Quiz: fixed problem where progress circle state wasn't cleared when answers were cleared.
- Quiz: match questions in phone mode now resize based on font size configuration.
- Quiz: audio play interface adapts to small screens.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed alignment problem for first line when rich text is used.
- Quiz/Worksheet: submitting answers is no longer possible while audio recording is processing to prevent submits without audio.
- Quiz/Worksheet: improved random order of words for word ordering questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: numeric values in table question now deault to empty instead of 0.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for numeric keyboard display on android.
- Quiz/Worksheet: support drag-drop boxes being placed outside of background image.
- Quiz/Worksheet: audio recording questions time limit increased to 20 minutes.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for correction sometimes going wrong due to accents generated by some keyboard settings.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for correction problems due to existines of 2 different μ symbols.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for audio in rationale fields.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for multiline clear.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for correction of balanced equation.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for match questions display that was not always updated correctly on edits.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed occasional hint button problem with multiline questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed ugly score display due to rounding errors.
- Split Worksheet: fixed printing widget when password is set.
- WebQuest: fixed problem with extra cell getting created in some tables.
- WebQuest: YouTube videos prevent related videos being shown.
- Whiteboard / Whiteboard questions: fix for drawing of background image during erase.
- Whiteboard / Whiteboard questions: fix for drawing of background image during erase.
- Whiteboard / Whiteboard questions: fixed line width while drawing in zoomed mode.
- Worksheet: fix to clearing answers for 'group' questions.
- Calculator in widgets: fixed problem with nth root calculations.
- LaTeX expressions in all widgets : removed restriction on number of math expressions on a page.
Note: if you're using widgets in iBooks or the BookWidgets iOS app, you should upgrade as it addresses tap problems in iOS/iPadOS 13.4. Upgrade is also advised to be in sync with online editor changes.
Enhancements
- Support for Live Widget view.
- Support for iOS/iPadOS 13.4 problem where short taps are seen twice.
- SplitXXX widgets now have moveable splitter.
- Added math support to Drag Words In Sentence and Group question types.
Bug fixes
- Arithmetic: fixed wrong default for sum with bridge.
- Checklist: improved layout for sent-in checklist.
- ClearStorage: Added support for clearing data in BookWidgets iPad app
- Hangman: Fixed problem when used embedded in Hotspot.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fix for autocorrection when moving from version shared by tool to version shared by online editor.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fix drag problem on Samsung phones.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Disable autocapitalisation in edit boxes.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fixes for disabling autocompletion on some browsers.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fixes for screen reader operation.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Support for " in correct answer for Single Line, Multi Line and Annotate Picture question types.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fix for Fill-In-Text question edit box resizing
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fix for Correct Words In Sentence question edit box resizing.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fixed problem that sometimes happened with WordOrdering questions with 2 words.
- Quiz: Fixed problem with audio in rationale sections.
- WebQuest: Layout improvements
- Whiteboard: fixed editor colors.
- Whiteboard: Fixes for text tool positioning.
- Whiteboard: Fixed sticker problem in Firefox.
- WordSearch: Fixed problem when used embedded in Hotspot.
- WebQuest/Hotspot/Planner: Fixed problem multiple levels of embedded widgets references.
Note: if you're using widgets in iBooks, you should upgrade as it addresses storage problems in iOS/iPadOS 13. Upgrade is also advised to be in sync with online editor changes.
Enhancements
- Quiz/Worksheet: caption support for pictures used in questions.
- SplitWorksheet/SplitWhiteboard: PDF option for text side.
- PDF widget: optionally use javascript based PDF reader to have back-buttons for PDF in WebQuest.
- Flashcards: support for portrait mode
- WebQuest: support for audio recording in widgets embedded in WebQuest
- Crossword, WordSearch, SpotTheDifference, Memory, Pairmatching: added support for audio to play when done
- Arithmetic: support parenthesis around negative values
Bug fixes
- Fixes for drag operations (e.g. Drag & Drop question types) on digital whiteboards and windows touch screens.
- Fixed storage issues in iBooks on iOS/iPadOS 13.
- HotspotImage / ImageViewer: fix when used in OSX iBooks in vertical mode.
- HotspotImage / ImageViewer: use zoom buttons instead of pinch zoom on iOS iBooks, pinch zoom always closes the widget on iOS / iPadOS 13.
- Quiz/Worksheet: arithmetic questions, shown correct answer now includes.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed turning off spellcheck for fill-in-table and rich text questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem with trailing whitespace in check for multiline question.
Note: installing this version is advised: it adapts the widgets to deal with a change introduced in iOS / iPad OS 13.1.
Enhancements
- Quiz/Worksheet: Added 'Group items' question type, group words, images and audio fragments.
Bug fixes
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix the problem that wordordering questions don't work in iOS/ iPadOS 13.1.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed bug in maximum question score displayed for Quiz/Worksheet questions for some configurations.
Note: this version is required if you're using audio in questions with the Windows tool.
Enhancements
- Quiz/Worksheet: improved automatic feedback display after check/submit.
Bug fixes
- Reduced widget size for widgets exported from v6.0.0 Windows version.
- Fixed problem with audio play for widgets uploaded with v6.0.0 Windows version.
- Flashcards: removed wrong text output.
- Hotspot: fixed popup display problem when space for showing popup is limited.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed math expression drag/drop problem.
- WebQuest/Flashcards/Crossword: fixed problems caused by wrong configuration.
Major new features
- Quiz/Worksheet: new question types:
- Audio recording
- Audio - text match
- Audio - picture match
- Correction flow improvements: you can now re-run autocorrection of student answers after fixing the correct answer or scoring weight for online widgets.
- Adaptations for iPad OS support
Enhancements
- Hotspot image: configuration improvements: easier positioning of hotspots
- Hotspot image: you can now specify a location preference for the popup.
- Image carousel: configuration improvements: easier positioning of hotspots
- Pairmatching / Memory game: we use a higher-contrast color scheme so found pairs are more easily recognized.
- Pairmatching / Memory game: math expressions are now also resized.
- Planner: items can now contain links to web pages or other widgets.
- Quiz/Worksheet:
- Text multiple choice/multi-select questions configuration improvements
- Text/picture drag drop questions configuration improvements
- Annotate picture configuration improvements
- Fill-In-Text question rationale shows all correct answers instead of only the first.
- Multiple choice / multiselect: added random answer order option.
- Correct sentence question type can now also be used for words that need to be deleted.
- Text only questions are now also included in the student answers.
- Match question scrolling is improved for long match lists.
- Text drag & drop improvements were made for easier placement of long text.
- Multiselect has a new scoring policy (optional).
- Numeric questions now support vector and matrix answers.
- Whiteboard questions now have sticker support: define a list of images that can be easily inserted.
- Spot the difference: configuration improvements for easier selection of the differences.
- TipTiles: tiles can now contain links to web pages or other widgets.
- WordSearch: reward word can now be added
- Whiteboard: added sticker support: define a list of images that can be easily inserted.
Bug fixes
- Before after: fix to startup position for some screen sizes.
- BingoCard: fixed print support.
- Crossword:
- scrolling fixes
- fixes for Korean language.
- Flashcards fix for updated iBooks / iOS.
- Mindmap: fix for trashcan sometimes being unavailable when browser window was zoomed in
- Pairmatching / Memory game: text resizing fix
- Quiz/Worksheet
- Correct words in sencence question type: now takes into account spell check setting
- Correct words in sentence: workaround for recently introduced Chrome layout problem
- Fill in text questions: support for empty value as correct value.
- Randomness: fix for use in mobile Safari.
- Tiptiles: tile resize fix on small screens
- WebQuest: LaTeX expression fix
- Widget templates fix
- Various internal changes for epub checker
Bug fixes
- Quiz/Worksheet/Spreadsheet: fixed table borders.
- Quiz/Worksheet/Spreadsheet: fixed multiline input.
- Chart: fixed widget.
Note: this new version is requried to edit recent widgets created with the online editor.
Major new features
- Added German and French widget translations.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Enhancements
- Hotspot: added web link hotspot type.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fill-in-the-blanks questions now follow general question structure: question and exercise.
- Quiz/Worksheet: numeric answers now support ',' as well as '.'.
- Quiz/Worksheet: question weight configuration now supports ',' as well as '.'.
- Quiz/Worksheet: picture ordering has extra scoring policy.
Bug fixes
- ActivePlot: fix for activeplot expression editor on iOS.
- Chart: fixes for using spreadsheets embedded in another environment on iOS.
- Crossword: fixes for using crosswords embedded in another environment on iOS.
- Hangman: fixed layout on small screens for some browsers.
- Hotspot: fixed font in popup text.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixes for fill-in-table and multiline questions when embedded in another environment on iOS.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for immediate coloring of correct answers for drop word in sentence question.
- Quiz/Worksheet: match questions will scroll while connecting if required.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed rationale for numeric question type.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed occasional problem with correct sentence question on iOS.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed use of LaTeX in annotate picture question.
- Rich text: visual improvements for content created with web editor.
- Split Worksheet: default configuration will now allow submit to match Quiz/Worksheet default.
- Split Worksheet: fixed countdown timer position.
- Spreadsheet: fixes for using spreadsheets embedded in another environment on iOS.
- WebQuest: visual improvements for groups of widgets / images.
- WebQuest: fixed problem where images could disappear for widgets opened online.
- TipTiles: audio will stop playing when moving between tiles.
- TipTiles: fixed iOS12 rendering issues.
- TipTiles: fixed video scaling problem when scaling tile on touch devices.
- YouTube/Vimeo: fixed back button behaviour when used in a WebQuest.
- 3D: fixed loading problem with .pdb files when nonexisting chemical elements are used.
- Design customisation: fixed element selection.
- General stability improvements for online widget use.
- Fixed correction marker display for Internet Explorer 11.
Bug fixes
- Fixed Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 support problem.
- Google Maps/Image Carousel: adaptations to match new Google key requirements.
- Quiz/Worksheet: keep line breaks for Mark Sentence question.
- Fix for occasional upload failure.
Note: this new version is requried to edit recent widgets created with the online editor.
Major new features
- Quiz/Worksheet: new mark sentence question type - ask your students to mark pieces of a sentence, e.g. all verbs, ...
- Quiz/Worksheet: new drag words in sentence question type.
- Zoomable images: click or tap and hold images to view images full-screen or zoom them in Quiz/Worksheet/Flashcards/PairMatching/Memory.
Enhancements
- Accessibility enhancements: visual improvements and improvements for use of widgets in screenreader environments.
- Added .mp3 audio file support for widgets not used in iBooks.
- Quiz/Worksheet: added configuration option to go back to edit mode after submit.
- Updated automatic question correction to support better student answer reporting.
- WebQuest: speedup when inserting many YouTube videos.
Bug fixes
- Adaptations for iOS update compatibility.
- Scrollbar: use light scrollbar color on dark background.
- Student name is no longer saved if saving of answers is disabled for a widget.
- Arithmetic: fix fo substraction with bridge over 10 question generation.
- Checklist/Planner: scrolling fixes.
- MindMap: fixes to prevent problems when pasting images.
- Quiz: fix for allowing images between question and answer block.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed audio play in correction mode for audio inserted in rich text sections.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix for multiline-question keyword highlighting.
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fix for fill-in-text question with left-to-right languages.
- Randomness: better text resizing.
- Whiteboard: eraser fix when using image background.
- Whiteboard: image rotation fixes on touch devices.
- Whiteboard: fixes for firefox.
- Worksheet/SplitWorksheet: fixed answer keys dialog.
Bug fixes
- Whiteboard / Whiteboard questions: fixed problem inserting images.
- Pair Matching / Memory: fixed problem with images in pairs.
- Pair Matching / Memory: fixed problem with turning cards on some devices.
Enhancements
- Crossword/Hangman/WordSearch: fixes for languages where characters are composed out of multiple unicode characters.
- Flashcards: added browser text-to-speech option.
- Hangman: added support for right-to-left languages.
- Hotspot: widget play links in text popups now pass student credentials (e.g. for Google Classroom) and support back navigation.
- ImageCarousel: visual improvements, clearer arrows.
- Memory/PairMatching: message gets displayed when done.
- Mindmap: improved mindmap submit.
- Quiz/Worksheet: answer keys dialog now keeps password hidden.
- Quiz/Worksheet: match questions now support optional image
- Quiz/Worksheet: total score now shown when showing points for each question.
- Quiz: automatically playing audio when moving to a question is now possible.
- Whiteboard: backup image is now resizable.
- WordSearch: you can decide to group characters.
- Correction info can now be shown in downloaded PDF's.
Bug fixes
- Crossword: fix when same word is used multiple times.
- FrameSequence: fix for multiline descriptions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem in annotate picture questions where line connecting to marker could be drawn wrong.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem with multiline correction if some keywords specify points and others don't.
- Quiz: fix for loading answer keys in fill-in-table.
- Timeline: fixed submitted work image viewing for some email readers.
- Tool: fix for insert of videos when using Dutch version.
- WebQuest: fix navigating back from embedded widget which sometimes caused problems
- Whiteboard / Whiteboard questions: on iPad images can now be selected from a library instead of only taken using the camera.
- Wordsearch: fixed bug in submit when descriptions are present.
- Images in rich text sections (e.g. in text pane of Split Worksheet / Split Whiteboard) now automatically downscale to available width.
- Calculator: fix when enabling calculator in Dutch version.
- Fixed problem in Dutch version preventing including video files in rich text.
- Multiple smaller text / visualisation fixes.
Bug fixes
- Wikipedia: adapted to change from wikipedia site.
Major new features
- Your students can submit or download their answers for WordSearch, Checklist, Memory, PairMatching, Bingo
- Support for Google classroom integration of widgets.
- Support for LTI integrations - contact info@bookwidgets.com for more info.
Enhancements
- All widget types have the horizontal/vertical layout option for iBooks Author.
- Memory: Added textauto-scaling option
- PairMatching: Added text auto-scaling option
- Enhancements for Smartschool integration of widgets.
Bug fixes
- Arithmetic: solved problem with '-' button.
- 3D: fixed problem where certain files could not be loaded.
- SplitWorksheet: fixed problem where text would sometimes not be shown.
- Widgets: storage fix when logged in with a student account
- WebQuest: fix for link insertion which sometimes went wrong
- Crossword: fix for configuration in Dutch version
- Arithmetic: fix for division symbol in Dutch version
- Quiz/Worksheet: visual improvement for table questions
- Randomness: size fix when only 1 wheel is used
- Hotspot: fixed problem with some image popups
- Quiz/Worksheet: single quote matches apostrophe for comparisons
- Fixed PDF download dialog with light color template
- Drag&Drop questions: corrected bug when special characters are used in box names.
- Fixed a problem which prevented some users from seeing online widgets.
- WebEmbed: changed to work around iOS 11 bug.
Major new features
- Organize your uploaded widgets:
- Use folders for stucture.
- Use groups for shared widgets.
Bug fixes
- Quiz/Worksheet match questions: keep order of first column fixed.
- Quiz/Worksheet word/picture match questions: fix for word distractors.
- Fixed csv import for Dutch version.
Enhancements
- Whiteboard: option to put image on top of user drawing, which limits drawing to transparent area, e.g. when coloring in a drawing.
Bug fixes
- Whiteboard, SplitWhiteboard: fixed problem where drawing toolbar was positioned wrong.
- MindMap: fixed problem where toolbar for bubbles was missing.
- Flashcards: fixed image size on phones.
- SplitWhiteboard, SplitWorksheet: support transparent background for text pane in phone mode.
- Widget storage fixes for use with Kotobee.
Major new features
- Support for Android phone and iPhone
- All widget types were adjusted for use on small screens.
- Widgets can be used in the Chrome browser on Android.
- The BookWidgets iOS app now supports iPhone.
Enhancements
- Hangman: you can now choose between hangman or snowman image.
- Quiz/Worksheet: added Correct Sentence question type: you provide a sentence and indicate which words can be edited/corrected.
Bug fixes
- WebQuest: solved problem when embedding Crossword/WordSearch on Windows.
- Quiz: scroll to top of question when changing question.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed bug in coloring of wrong answers for balance chemical equation question.
- Image Editor: fixed problems on iOS in full-screen mode.
- TipTiles: fixed problem with tile & popup image background color.
Major new features
- BookWidges tool and Widgets now support Dutch language.
Enhancements
- Arithmetic: you can now mix multiple exercise types.
- Quiz/Worksheet: you can now show maximum score for each question.
- PDF widgets: better support in most browsers.
- Saving of widget data is now optional for all widget types which save data.
Bug fixes
- WebQuest: editing now triggers save warning.
- Quiz/Worksheet: match question bullet positions corrected when math is used.
- Scrollbar fixes / visual improvements.
Enhancements
- 3D: support vertical layout in iBooks.
- Checklist: support vertical layout in iBooks.
- Hotspot: support vertical layout in iBooks.
- Image Viewer: support vertical layout in iBooks.
- Jigsaw: support vertical layout in iBooks.
- MindMap: now support submitting of student answers.
- Planner: support vertical layout in iBooks.
- WebQuest: now shows icons to indicate widget links can be clicked (optional).
- Quiz/Worksheet: Drag & drop questions will now auto-resize drop boxes when positions are automatically determined.
Bug fixes
- WebQuest: fixes for smartschool integration.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fix to Fill-In-Text questions to prevent students easily finding right answer.
- FlashCards: fix where timer could be wrongly shown in study mode.
Major new features
- New Widget: checklist - useful to provide step-by-step guides or explain processes.
- Improvements for viewing widgets on small screens.
Enhancements
- Crossword: visual improvments for text input.
- Hangman: added message when all words are done.
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- Quiz/worksheet: you can configure feedback which is given at end of the quiz based upon the score.
- Quiz/worksheet: text selection is optional.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fill in table questions and annotate picture questions now support multiple correct answers.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fill in text questions: input boxes now resize.
- Quiz/Worksheet: match questions now support distractors.
- Randomness: added hierarchical (grouped) wheel configuration, one wheels.
- Timeline: added a mode for creating fixed timelines.
- WebQuest: supports math formulae.
- Whiteboard (& whiteboard questions: added line tool.
- Rich text in widgets now supports Vimeo & Giphy in addition to MP4 and YouTube.
- You can now use Google login.
Bug fixes
- AnnotatedPicture: fix for firefox.
- Arithmetic: localisation for division operator.
- ClearStorage: added missing translation.
- ClearStorage: fixed occasional problem in clear.
- Crossword: fix for use on iOS in iframe.
- Crossword: word indexes sorted.
- Flashcards / ImageCarousel / FrameSequence: you can use keyboard left/right to navigate.
- Memory / PairMatching: image & layout fixes.
- Piano: support for flat notes.
- Quiz: question overview scrolls when there are many questions.
- Quiz/worksheet: Table questions allow blank as correct value.
- Quiz/worksheet: solved problem with match questions when hint is shown.
- Quiz/worksheet: Correction info hidden from browser debugger.
- Quiz/worksheet: Multiline question: correction fix.
- Spreadsheet: fixed possibe problems loading data.
- Timeline: fix for use on iOS in iframe.
- WebQuest: solved problem with custom cover images.
- Whiteboard: solved bugs if whiteboard is used in an iframe in iBooks.
- WordSearch: added missing translation.
- WordSearch: improved selection for words ending on border.
- Mac preview: solved problem where widget sometimes hangs when using touchpad.
- Fixed storage bug for widgets used in BookWidgets iOS App with groupname containing comma.
- Fixed crash when previewing old widgets.
- Fixed problem with widget duplication.
Changes
- Desktop version of BookWidgets always requires account.
Major new features
- New widget: Spot The Differences - an enhanced spot the difference game
- Go beyond images with tiny visual differences: mark different areas on different pictures.
- Use labels to clarify the differences.
- New widget: Planner - plan and track using student defined or predefined checklists.
- ActivePlot: various enhancements
- Student defined formulas.
- A scratchpad for calculations.
- Mark coordinates with dots.
- Give instructions.
- Axis labels.
Enhancements
- Flashcards: added audio support
- Quiz/Worksheet editing improvements
- Insert question after another.
- Improved drag & drop.
- TipTiles: added auto-show for description, audio and video.
- Whiteboard & whiteboard questions: zoom support added.
Bugfixes
- ClearStorage widget: fix for iBooks IOS.
- Quiz widget: improved scrolling for questions.
- Hangman: spaces are never part of the alphabet, always displayed as space.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: Annotate Picture questions now downsize image if required.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: solved problem where photo questions were sometimes not sent.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: support for non breaking spaces.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: random question order now resets order when you press clear button.
- Timeline: corrected email and share messages.
- WebQuest widget: fix for wrongly exported images.
- WebQuest widget: fixed problem with image resize information getting lost when re-editing the image.
- Whiteboard/Split Worksheet: corrected email and share messages.
- Worksheet widget: fix for CSV import.
- Youtube widget: handle videos with start time.
- Better error reporting for locked folders.
Enhancements
- Timeline widget: you can now add pictures to the timeline.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: now support multiple correct answers for single line questions.
- Survey widget: ticking a checkbox can be configured as being mandatory to be able to submit.
Bugfixes
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: fixes for audio in uploaded widgets when audio was used in rich text.
- Quiz/Worksheet/Survey/WebQuest: removed dark block from print to PDF when less than 1 page is used.
- Quiz/Worksheet chemical expression question types: added localisation.
- Randomness: text will wrap when too long
- WebQuest: various editor improvements and bugfixes.
- iBooks Author book update and iBooks compression: support updating widgets with non-latin names.
Important new functionality
- WebQuest widget: an attractive container for text, pictures, internet links, widgets and embedded webpages. Use it for webquests, lessons and more. Useful in all situations where you want to combine material from several sources, including other widgets.
- Quiz/Worksheet: you can print your Quiz or Worksheet questions to PDF from the preview menu.
- PDF download: all widgets which can send student answers now support PDF download from within the widget.
- ClearStorage widget: clear all data in your book, e.g. before moving the iPad to another student.
Enhancements
- BeforeAfter: support portrait layout.
- ExitSlip: you can now enter multiple techer addresses.
- Quiz: now support vertical layout for iBooks.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: extra design configuration options.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: order words has extra scoring option.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: when showing answer keys the correct answer is now filled in where possible, making it easy to generate a PDF containing all correct answers.
- WebEmbed: now support vertical layout for iBooks.
- WordSearch: you can now prevent reverse or diagonal placement of words.
- WordSearch: text alignment of word list is now configurable.
- Clear confirmation for Chart, Exit Slip, Spreadsheet, Crossword, WordSearch, PairMatching, Memory, Bingo cards.
- Internet proxy support: the OSX and Windows tools now automatically work in an environment where a proxy stands between your internal network and the internet.
Bugfixes
- Active Plot: fixed translation problem.
- Active Plot: fixed drawing problem which ocurred with some formula with negative values.
- Crossword: fixed layout problems with description boxes.
- Crossword/Word Search: fixed wroblem where sometimes words were not shown.
- Google Maps: support extracting configuration from Google Maps satellite view URL's.
- Google Maps: fixed problem with viewing of map during configuration.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problems with auto-correction of several question typess
- Quiz/Worksheet: whiteboard question background was not visible if startup password was used.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: added alternative keyword support for multiline answer questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: it's now possible to hide the submit dialog clear button in exam mode.
- Quiz/Worksheet wigets: fixed problem with correction of mixed number answers.
- Quiz/Worksheet wigets: fixed problem with question table problem when whitespace was present after correct answers.
- Quiz/Worksheet wigets: match questions can no longer be edited in check mode.
- Quiz: fixed issue where toolbar was not visible in certain cases.
- Spreadsheet, Quiz/Worksheet fill in table questions: merge border settings of adjacent cells for easier configuration.
- Crossword: now supports same word occurring multiple times.
- WordSearch: word list now presented in the order it was specified.
- WordSearch: fixed problem where generate sometimes failed.
- Calculator: fixed precision problems.
- Calculator: Fixed problems on Firefox.
- Fixed issues preventing widget to show correctly in case unsupported characters were used, e.g. invisible characters accidentally pasted.
- Teacher email is no longer saved/restored between widgets of different group.
- Vertical layout: fixes for iBooks OSX.
Enhancements
- Active Plot: you can now optionally specify a LaTeX version of the formula for display.
- Chart: Allow setting of maximum Y value and hiding of legend.
- Quiz/Worksheet: for online widgets thumbnails are now shown in the quiz report for questions referring to images, e.g. Picture Multiple Choice.
- Survey: info sections now support rich text (design customization option only).
Bugfixes
- Chart: Fixed problems with input table scrolling when it shouldn't.
- Quiz: solved problem where clicking submit button on last page would auto-accept submit dialog on iPad.
- Quiz: pictures of picture ordering questions with more than one line of pictures no longer overlap the target boxes.
- Quiz/Worksheet table questions, Spreadsheet: border settings are now saved correctly.
- Quiz/Worksheet table questions, Spreadsheet: fixed problem where using large font size could cause text to be cut off at the top.
- TipTiles: Fixed problems with tiles.
- Wordsearch: case of description - if given - is never changed.
- Copy/paste from external sources with hidden symbols frequently caused unexpected widget problems. Copy paste is now restricted to plain text.
- Fixed problems with images in rich text sections
- Image file selection dialogs now allow .jpeg (in addition to .jpg) for jpeg files.
- After CSV import widget design is now set to default design template.
Important new functionality
- New 3D widget: view 3D models from all angles.
Enhancements
- Various Flashcards enhancements:
- Added option to show a 'front first / back first' switch.
- Added option to show a progress indicator text on cards.
- Improved handling of large font sizes.
- Publisher Pro users can enable a ReadSpeaker integration for text-to-speech.
- Publisher Pro users can enable a smartboard-friendly layout.
- Quiz/Worksheet: new picture multi select question type.
- Quiz/Worksheet: autocorrect for multiline questions can now color individual keywords in correction mode.
- SplitWorksheet/SplitWhiteboard: now supports copy from text area.
- Timeline: now supports timeline email sharing.
Bugfixes
- Active plot: enabled title configuration.
- Crossword/Whiteboard: comments in share dialog can now be edited on all browsers.
- Crossword: layout improvements, word lists are moved to corners to better support tablet popup keyboards.
- Flashcards: timer problem fixed
- Flashcards: solved problem when Latex expressions were used on first card.
- Flashcards: preload images to improve browser experience.
- Hotspot image: solved layout problem where arrow was sometimes drawn over text.
- Memory: increased margin fort text cards.
- Pair Matching: increased margin fort text cards.
- Quiz/Worksheet: changed match question picture resizing to better adapt to available size.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed multi-column layout for multiple choice questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problems with audio in rich text questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet: inserting photo in whiteboard showed too small toolbar.
- Quiz/Worksheet: solved problem where embedded video / audio would not play in check mode.
- Quiz/Worksheet: solved problem with drag & drop box header.
- Quiz/Worksheet: solved problem with Photo questions which could lead to images sometimes being incorrectly uploaded
- Quiz: solved problem where quiz question number list scrolled together with questions.
- Spreadsheet and fill-in-table questions: set default font to solve font configuration problems on some machines.
- Survey: removed extra 'The answer: undefined' text from single line questions.
- Whiteboard/Split Whiteboard: solved storage problem when no title was set.
- Worksheet/Split Worksheet: solved correction color problem for math expressions in multiple choice and multiselect questions.
- Flashcards, CSV import: Fixed problems with files with international characters.
- Flashcards, CSV import: solved problem when clicking 'Save' button after importing csv file could corrupt temp dir instead of prompting for filename.
- Design configuration: changing template color / font selections doesn't reset unrelated detailed settings.
- Design configuration: settings made using web are no longer lost when opening widget in tool.
- iBooks Author: fixed problem where widgets with an & in the file name wouldn't import.
- Image editor: better support for small screen sizes.
- Widget upload: failed/incomplete upload will no longer overwrite the previous uploaded version.
Important new functionality
- Design changed: we improved the look of all widgets
- Design configuration enhanced: Dark/light background, main color & font selection available for all
- Improved Android tablet, Chromebook, browser support: widget layout has been improved to make better use of the window dimensions.
Enhancements
- ActivePlot: you can add multiple formula to a widget, which can be toggled on/off.
- Crossword: crossword widgets can now submitted or shared by mail
- Quiz/Worksheet: you can easily duplicate questions, or copy them from one Quiz/Worksheet to another.
- Quiz/Worksheet/Whiteboard: added optional 'share' button which allows to email your work to anyone.
- Spreadsheet: spreadsheets can now be submitted or shared by mail
- Worksheet widgets can now be configured for vertical books.
Bugfixes
- Flashcards: allow card contents to scroll if required.
- GoogleMaps: fixed problem when many hotspots are provided by address.
- GoogleMaps: support for extra Google Maps URL format.
- HotspotImage: better positioning and display of popups.
- HotspotImage: fixed issue where hotspots were not working if placed close together.
- MindMap: added localization of 'Tap to edit'.
- Quiz/Worksheet: bullets for match questions were sometimes not in right location.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem where numeric question answers were not always layed out correctly.
- Quiz/Worksheet: fixed problem with Fill In Text questions when correct answer contains ':'.
- Split Whiteboard: fixed foto tool.
- Survey: you can no longer submit a survey more than once.
- TipTiles: edit thumb button added to select which part of image is used as thumb.
- TipTiles: tile without image no longer causes other tiles to remain hidden.
- Whiteboard/SplitWhiteboard: fixed redraw issue when loading previous work if there is a background image.
- Quiz/Whiteboard: added missing localization strings.
- Fixed preview problem with images for widgets created on the web.
- Fixed problem when using .jpg cover image with widgets created on the web.
- Fixed upload problems on windows when user name contains non-latin characters.
- Fixed problem when editing online TipTiles widget.
- Fix for upload with accents in temporary directory name.
- Fix for random questions in case of multiple question sections.
- Improved warnings when iBooks can no longer store date.
Bugfixes
- Quiz/Worksheet: Fill-In-Text answers were not reported correctly.
- Quiz/Worksheet: showing answer keys now works when correct answers are never shown to students.
- Active Plot: now supports translating to languages using non-latin characters.
- Mind Map: added support for localization.
- Timeline: added missing localization strings.
Bugfixes
- Widget didn't show if translation contained newline.
- Preview failed to show image files where filename starts with //.
- Quiz/Worksheet, Spreadsheet: font formatting problems fixed.
- Quiz/Worksheet: correct answers for Fill-In-Text and Annotate-Picture questions are now shown in correction mode.
- Quiz/Worksheet: improved colors on iPad in correction mode.
- Quiz/Worksheet: preview did not work on Windows when youtube videos were used.
- License key is remembered when upgrading from v3.3.
- Layout improvements for windows which became too large for small screens.
- Online widgets could not always be opened for editing.
Important new functionality
- Create widgets in your browser! No need to install the BookWidgets tool. Using your BookWidgets account you can now create / modify your widgets directly from your browser.
- Use your widgets in a browser! Your widgets are no longer restricted to iBooks or the BookWidgets iPad app, but can be
accessed from anywhere using a recent version of all major browsers
- New widget: ExitSlip - easily configured quick poll for your students at the end of your lesson
- New widget: classic Jigsaw puzzle.
- New widget: our Piano widget brings a piano inside of your book.
Enhancements
- Chart: you can now configure column / row headers to be configurable by the student.
- Chart: bar colors can now be configured.(requires design customisation feature)
- Flashcards: more configuration options for settings tag.
- Quiz/Worksheet wiggets: you can now randomize questions. This will only affect presentation to student, not email / online view of student work.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: new question type for numeric answers. Support fractions, mixed numers and expression comparison for single numbers.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: you can now select numerical keyboard for fill-in-the-blanks questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: you can show the answer keys from within the widget by configuring an answer keys password and pressing the clear button 3 seconds.
- SplitWorksheet: you can now choose whether text is located left or right.
- Spreadsheet now supports AVERAGE, PRODUCT, MIN, MAX, IF.
- Spreadsheet now supports <, >, <=, >=, =, <>.
- Student work submit dialog can now show comboboxes for e.g. teacher email or classname selection.
- Survey: confirmation dialog was added to clear button to ensure survey can't be cleared by accident.
Bugfixes
- ActivePlot: you can now localize hint text.
- Chart: when you change value while redraw animation is still in progress a second redraw will occur.
- Frame Sequence: math formula now work in titles / descriptions.
- Google Maps: layout fix for attribution in case of on-page use.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: videos inserted in the 'Question' section of Quiz/Worksheet questions now work. (requires design customisation feature)
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: data entered in cells which are not marked as 'Input' or 'Checked input' is now also sent when student submits his work.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: math formula now work in rationale.
- RandomImageViewer: problem with using Picasa library is fixed.
- Randomness: slot font could not be configured.
- Spreadsheet: multiple sheets are now visible in OSX iBooks.
- Student work emails / online viewing: math formula are now represented correctly.
- YouTube: fixed issue which prevented iBooks publishing.
- Book compression: fixed problem when using widgets with spaces in filename.
- Book compression: fixed issue with mimetype preventing publishing compressed books.
- Design configuration: You can select elements in the widget preview. (requires design customisation feature)
- Live preview: live preview of your widgets on iPad now supports non-latin characters in image names.
- Rich Text: You can now edit video properties of video's inserted in rich text sections.
- Fixed errors from epubcheck.
Known restrictions
- Accessing the widgets from a webbrowser on iPad doesn't work, you need the free BookWidgets app.
- Design configuration is not enabled in the web editor.
- Table editing is supported in the web editor (e.g. Chart, Spreadsheet widgets, Quiz/Worksheet fill-in-table questions.
Enhancements
- Enhanced to comply with iBooks Author 2.2. in-page widget support.
- Added workarounds for OSX iBooks 1.1 resize bugs.
- Flashcards: make settings configurable.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: added question type with formatted text answer (bold, italic, bullets, ...).
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: added optional hint configuration.
- Hangman: matching with letters is now case insensitive.
- WordSearch: allow text in list to be different from word in search box, e.g. translation.
- Arithmetic: added '-' button to allow exercises with negative results.
BugFixes
- Hangman: fixed problem with non-latin letters on Windows.
- Image Carousel: fixed sweep problem in preview.
- Timeline: fixed problem on iBooks OSX.
- Arithmetic: fixed problem in trial version.
- Quiz/Worksheet/Survey: fixed layout problem multi-column multiple choice when math used.
Bugfixes
- Fixed problem where Mavericks 10.9.5 did not open BookWidgets.app because it could not confirm the developer identity.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: fixed problem with displaying score after submit.
- GoogleMaps: support new GoogleMaps URL's.
- GoogleMaps: fixed URL view
Important new functionality
- New widget: Timeline, create/complete and submit a timeline.
- New widget: TipTiles, view pictures annotated with text, audio, video.
- New widget: HangMan game based upon the words you provide.
- New widget: Randomness, select random words, numbers, images.
- New widget: Arithmetic, practice basic arithmetic operations.
- Math expression enhancements: broader LaTex expression support, e.g tables
Enhancements
- Support OSX Mavericks 10.9.5. patch release and OSX Yosemite.
- Preview window now always shows iPad sized view.
- ActivePlot: plots can now be annotated and sent.
- Flashcards: hints can now be disabled.
- Hotspot image: audio hotspots added.
- Hotspot Image: can have draggable & resizable background.
- Hotspot image: can use marker image or marker label in addition to hidden hotspot
- Image Carousel hotspots can now be placed graphically.
- Image Carousel: border width setting for image popups is now supported.
- Image Carousel: picture popups now show caption.
- MindMap: improved editing & toolbar layout.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: exam mode was added which includes a countdown timer.
- Quiz/Worksheet: drag&drop questions now have option which allows to drop next to boxes.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: Show answers password now also works with mail.
- Spreadsheet: now supports multiple sheets.
- Spreadsheet: formatting enhancements - format now for all cell types, percentage, thousand separator.
- Spreadsheet: VLOOKUP function added.
- Whiteboard/Split Whiteboard: answers can now be viewed & annotated on website.
Bugfixes
- Full screen mode on OSX could coredump.
- Fixed problem with youtube videos using youtu.be based URL's.
- Fixed problem with start/top time for YouTube videos embedded in Quiz & rich text.
- Fixed problem when editing uploaded widgets containing resources with unicode filenames.
- Fixed problem when using image files with " in the filename.
- Crossword: now removes trailing whitespace from words.
- Crossword: you can now disable correction at end.
- Flashcards: support for importing back title & back section through csv.
- Flashcards: 'Show timer' can now be translated.
- Flashcards: fixed counting problem when clicking before card is shown.
- Image Viewer: when moving from 2 finger (resize) to 1 finger (drag) image jumped.
- MindMap: layout improvements for multi-line titles.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: rated multiple choice questions have wrong maximum for values > 10.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: fixed loading of quizzes with very large number of questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: option to not include grading was not working.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: added missing WordPictureMatch icon.
- Survey: fixes to localization.
- Survey: some question appeared twice
- Wikipedia: fixed problem where images are not shown on IOS8.
- WordSearch: now removes trailing whitespace from words.
- Worksheet/Split Worksheet: layout improvements for multi-line titles.
Backward compatibility
- Math expression change: the non-standard \nthroot representation for nth roots is no longer supported and is replaced by the standard \sqrt[n]{expression} syntax
Important new functionality
- The BookWidgets website has been updated with important new Quiz/Worksheet reporting features:
- Results can be organised per classroom.
- You can review and correct the automatic scoring.
- You can provide feedback to your students.
- You can download or Quiz results as PDF.
- You can archive results.
- You can now load your online widgets for editing.
- Image editing: you can rotate, mirror & crop images. Images get resized automatically according to display dimensions for smaller package sizes
Enhancements
- You can now create your BookWidgets account inside of the tool.
- Design configuration: support for 'small-caps' has been added to the font configuration.
- Flashcards: hint line can be added.
- Flashcards: text color can be specified when importing from csv.
- Flashcards: timer is shown during practice mode.
- Worksheet/Quiz: word ordering question now has support for showing image.
- WebEmbed: you can now copy in iframe embed codes, in addition to plain URLs.
- ActivePlot: you can now have a different scale for Y vs X.
- Youtube widget & embedded youtube videos now support start & end time.
- ImageViewer: you can select the area which is displayed at the start<./li>
- Before/After: handle can be configured for packages which have the design customization feature.
- Before/After: you can now specify a start position.
Bugfixes
- Solved problem where BookWidgets could crash when upload failed.
- Don't show removed widgets in recent widgets tab.
- Solved problem where if you use audio in Worksheet widgets some GUI elements may disappear / reappear when scrolling.
- Solved problem with math expressions in table questions.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: fixed problem where 'only once' passwords were not functioning.
- Fixed bug which caused table questions to be rendered incorrectly in case of right-to-left languages.
- Fixed bug where previewing embedded youtube videos could cause a crash on some OSX machines.
Backward compatibility
- OSX SnowLeopard is no longer supported.
- Flashcards: If you load in flashcards widgets created with an older version of the tool the title and section will no longer appear in small-caps font. Press the 'revert to default' button under the design tab or press the small caps checkbox for the 'title' and 'section' font if small caps are required.
Important new functionality
- New Random Images widget: show random images from a provided image list, e.g. use for language exercises where users describe what they see.
- Flashcards enhancements: study mode vs. practice mode, select subset of cards, randomize cards or not, select front to back or back to front, added translation table for fixed strings.
Enhancements
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: rationale sections now support images.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: Drag&Drop questions now has scoring option to allocate points for each correctly placed item.
- Live iPad Preview: when you do a Preview in the BookWidgets tool and have BookWidgets for iPad open on the 'My Widgets' tab, you will immediately see a preview on iPad as well, without needing to upload your widget or add it to an iBooks Author book (requires version 1.1. of the BookWidgets iPad app).
- Active Plot: you can now use a parameter multiple times, value changes will affect all places the parameter is used.
- Active Plot: added support for more functions, list of functions accessible from the configuration dialog.
- Active Plot: added parameter precision setting.
- BingoCard widgets: images are now supported.
- BingoCard widgets: Internet Explorer support added.
- Word Search: fill characters can now be configured, allowing support for languages using non-roman alphabet.
- Word Search: showing word list is now optional.
- Whiteboard & whiteboard questions: confirmation dialog was added when deleting whiteboard.
- Installation size reduction
Bugfixes
- Windows platform: fixes for non-latin character sets.
- Book Compression: Fixed problem with compressing .ibooks file if cover images are used of size smaller than 1024x768.
- Book Compression: Fixed problem with some widgets containing images if spaces were used in widget name.
- When iBooks storage became unavailable a 'memory full' message was given to the user. Now a message is given prompting the user to restart iBooks, which solves this problem.
- Fixed problem where for certain configuration fields and certain languages (e.g. Thai) characters represented by multiple unicode symbols got represented wrongly.
- Worksheet widgets: fixed problem with redraw of questiontable when moving to correction mode.
- Quiz widget: fixed problem where first question doesn't scroll before moving to another question & back.
- Chart: Fixed problem with exporting newly created chart with empty cells.
- Spreadsheet: fixed problem where on some iBooks versions closing & opening the widget resulted in a very narrow table.
- Active Plot: fixed a bug with Y values going out of range, e.g. for exponential functions
Bugfixes
- Fixed bug which caused BookWidgets iPad app to crash when closing a widget using a jpeg custom cover image.
Important new functionality
Use widgets outside of books: quickly share widgets in your classroom using the BookWidgets iPad app.
Microsoft Windows support for generating widgets.
New pair matching widget: match images to images, images to words or words to words.
New compress book feature: compress the .ibooks file by removing duplicates of files used by widgets, big reduction in size if you're using many widgets.
Enhancements
Added check to prevent accidental closing of widget or tool without saving.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: question/rationale sections now support rich text for Publisher / iPad deployed customers.
Whiteboard widget: now supports portrait mode.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: more configuration options for position of images in questions.
Image carousel widget: added option to position label below image instead of on image.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: added option to number info sections.
GoogleMaps widget: added support for different map types.
GoogleMaps widget: added support for KML files.
Crossword widget: added support for showing what's correct/wrong when crossword is complete.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: added option to select numerical or alphabetic keyboard for single line and annotate picture questions.
In-book storage improvements: more storage available, increased compression for pictures, reduced storage requirements for whiteboards, optional cloud storage of images (required if more than 100 pictures will be stored in a book)
Quiz widget: index area now scrolls.
Quiz/worksheet widget: select image question now supports additional image.
Quiz/worksheet widget: optional password protection of show answers.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: various improvements in email report related to open-ended questions.
Hotspot widget: support background sizes different than 1024x768.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: word ordering questions now also support ordering lines.
Quiz/Worksheet widget: multiline questions now support correction through keywords.
PDF Viewer widget: now supports portrait mode.
Spreadsheet widget: now supports font and background color setting for input cells.
Bugfixes
- BookWidgets GUI improvements for Mavericks.
- Corrected problems with size setting for YouTube videos in rich text sections.
- More YouTube URL types supported for embedding YouTube videos in rich text sections.
- Restored YouTube hi-resolution support.
- Flash Cards widget: fixed image support for back of card.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: fixed problem with annotate picture border and background setting.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: fixed problem where reopening saved widget which has been sent before allows you to send again.
- Quiz/Worksheet widget: fixed bug where in some cases some questions where not cleared.
- Spreadsheet widget: formula in title were not working.
- Quiz widget: invalid answers for fill-in-the-blanks question were not marked red.
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: margin next to whiteboards has been increased to allow easier scrolling.
- Spreadsheet: improved scrolling with large tables.
- Spreadsheet: improved automatic table layout with multiline cells.
- Spreadsheet: could not click reset button for large spreadsheet on Mavericks iBooks.
- Spreadsheet: CSV file import could fail.
- Fixed problem where opening .iba file would hang for certain .iba files.
Important new functionality
- New support site containing videos on how to configure all of the widgets. The site can be easily accessed from the toolbar inside of BookWidgets.
- New widget: Image Viewer. Zoom and pan an image exceeding iPad resolution.
- New widget: Before/After. Compare 2 images using a horizontal divider, a vertical divider or a transparency slider.
- New widget: Google Maps. Insert a google map with markers, choose from 47 map display styles.
- New widget: Memory Game. The well-known match the cards memory game requires quite some concentration once you need to match based upon expression outcome or translations. This widget supports identical or different pairs of images, text or mathematical expressions.
- The Whiteboard widgets / Quiz/Worksheet whiteboard questions now support inserting pictures. Your students can now easily annotate the pictures they take of projects.
Enhancements
- Flash cards now support using a swipe gesture to move between cards.
- You can now show the flashcard title and section on the back of the card.
- Added a confirmation button for clearing Quiz/Worksheet answers to prevent accidental deletion of the answers.
- The Quiz/Worksheet/Whiteboard/Survey result mails no longer contain BookWidgets branding for widgets created using a whitelabel subscription.
- You can now specify the edit box width for fill-in-the-blanks questions.
- You can now quickly open saved widgets from the BookWidgets toolbar.
- GIF images are now supported.
- Added support for case-insensitive comparisons for annotated picture questions in Quiz/Worksheet.
- Added optional image for photo questions.
- Rich text questions now support YouTube in addition to embedded video's.
- Added 'save a copy' button when editing a widget inside of a book, allowing you to extract widgets from the book.
- Support mathematical expressions for word ordering and word drag and drop word questions.
- BookWidgets now generates better error messages for wrong configuration of Spreadsheet cells and XLS import problems.
- Added WordSearch size configuration so you can change the automatically selected size when a solution isn't found quickly.
- If you're creating Worksheets or Split Worksheets with lots of questions/audio/pictures, you may exceed the iPad's capacity. If this happens you can now limit the number of questions kept active in memory to solve the problem.
- When reopening Quizzes / Worksheets which have already been submitted the readonly correction view will now be shown. This view shows the correct answers and the rationale.
- You can now select numbering text descriptions inserted in Quiz/Whiteboard.
- Frame sequence now supports math formula.
- Support math expressions in 'Answer all questions' questions of Quiz/Worksheet widgets.
Bugfixes
- Solved problem with Spreadsheet widgets where in some cases expressions using results from other expressions would not evaluate.
- Solved problem with word ordering questions blocking when trying to move 2 words at once.
- Removed edit box focus issues with IOS7 and latest version of iBooks.
- Solved problem where use of newlines inside of a table question broke the widget
- If you don't specify location info for the ImageCarousel the google maps button is no longer shown.
- Solved problem where pictures taken for picture question were sometimes not saved.
- Solved problem for annotated picture questions used together with Worksheet/Quiz passwords.
- Solved problem with CSV import of Quiz questions containing '&'.
- Solved problem where cover image could not be set for Hotspot widgets.
- Solved layout problem for mathematical expressions in Quiz/Worksheet when the calculator was used
- Solved problem where mathematical expressions were not rendered correctly in Quiz/Worksheet widgets when fill-in-table questions were used.
- Removed question number configuration from Survey - for the Survey widget numbers need to be configured as part of the questions.
- Solved problem with Spreadsheet where calculated cells starting with whitespace would not evaluate.
- Solved problem configuring the box location for Hotspot widgets, annotated picture questions and drag & drop questions for widgets opened from within a book.
- Solved problem where images were not imported when importing Quiz questions inside of a Worksheet or the other way around.
Bugfixes
- Solved book save problem with iBooks Author filenames (.iba file) containing non-latin characters.
- Solved formula layout problem when calculator is enabled.
- Solved formula display problem when Fill In Table questions are used.
Important new functionality
BookWidgets can now update BookWidgets widgets within an iBooks Author .iba file.
Enhancements
GIF images are now supported.
Bugfixes
Cover image can now be configured for HotspotImage widgets.
Localization support for 'Student email' was fixed for Whiteboard and SplitWhiteboard widgets.
Important new functionality
- New widget: our Form/Survey widget allows you to put generic forms in your book. Filled in forms are sent by mail, but can also be stored and viewed on our website, or can be downloaded to Excel (CSV format).
- New widget: Hotspot Image. An image background with iBooks author style popups attached to invisible hotspots which can contain video in addition to pictures or rich text.
- New Quiz/Worksheet freehand drawing/writing question type: our whiteboard functionality packaged as question type.
- New Quiz/Worksheet picture labeling question type: fill-in-text boxes positioned on top of a picture or drawing.
- New Quiz/Worksheet question table type: select between multiple given answers for multiple quesitons. Can be used for Likert scale questions with the Survey widget.
- New Quiz/Worksheet picture question type: allow your students to take a picture with the iPad's camera, or choose an existing image from the Photo Library. Useful to document results of lab experiments for instance.
Enhancements
- Pictures and videos can now be inserted in the text half of the split worksheet and split whiteboard questions.
- Crossword puzzle now supports right-to-left languages.
- Multi-column support added for multiple choice questions in Quiz/worksheet.
- Image resize policy for frame sequence widget is now configurable.
- Active Plot can now show a tangent line at any point for functions of type y=f(x).
- Words being edited in crossword are highlighted.
- You can now use "##" as separator for certain Quiz/Worksheet questions. (But the old "||" separator will still work as well). Reason is that '#' is more commonly available on different keyboard layouts.
- Auto-capitalization of input has been disabled for Crossword and some Quiz/Worksheet questions.
- Flashcard images automatically resize and center.
- Split Worksheet: color used for answers inside and outside of edit boxes can now be configured independantly. (depending on which license you have)
- Split worksheet: connector dot color for match questions can now be configured. (depending on which license you have)
- Quiz/Worksheet widgets: you can now assign a weight to each question which is used when calculating total score.
Bugfixes
- Question table comparisons in Quiz/Worksheet widgets ignored case-sensitive comparison setting.
- Problem where copy/pasting some special characters in book title would block the widget is solved.
- Automatic correction problem for text entered with Japanese iPad keyboard solved.
- Immediately highlighting problem for select parts of Fill-In-Text questions solved.
- 'The answer' text for Quiz and Worksheet widgets can now be translated.
- Stability issues with crossword generation fixed.
- Name conflicts of images now generate a warning when saving a widget
- Problem with trailing newlines in Fill-In-Table question solved.
- Default widget cover images no longer have alpha channel.
- Various fixes and workarounds for iBooks on OSX Mavericks issues.
Bugfixes
- Added a "Revert to default" button to the Design settings tab. If you're loading a widget created with an earlier version of Book Widgets, and can't see the background image you're setting, press this "Revert to default" button and try again.
Important new functionality
- Color! You can now use background images for most widgets, either from the list of provided images or using your own image. This feature is available for all packages. New widgets will now have a default background image set.
- Design customization user interface has been reworked. Editing now happens in preview mode and gives immediate feedback.
- New Spreadsheet widget: configure text, formulas, layout in the tool, fill in values or text using the widget.
- New question type for Quiz and Worksheet widgets: Fill In Table
Enhancements
- Quiz, Worksheet & Whiteboard widgets: a return email address can be filled in when submitting results. Teachers can now simply reply to emails to provide feedback.
- Crossword: crossword size can now be specified
- Crossword: localizing is now possible.
- Answers to 'open-ended' questions, which can't be automatically corrected, are now marked 'blue' when showing results to clearly differentiate from correct and wrong answers
- New toolbar design for Whiteboard and SplitWhiteboard widgets
Bugfixes
- Crossword: crossword was not shown when you used descriptions with doublequotes.
- Fill-in-text: questions used case sensitivity setting of last Fill-in-text question instead of their own.
Important new functionality
- Improved widget configuration, clearer dialogs with focus on required fields, clearer question type selection, ...
- New widget selection window, providing new icons, immediate access to examples and widget configuration, quick access to recently used widgets and loading of widgets through the new 'Recently Opened' tab.
- New, uniform default widget images.
- New widget: Bingo Cards. Provide a list of words and quickly create a topic-specific Bingo for use inside of the classroom.
- New widget: Word Search. Search horizontal, veritical and diagonal words in a matrix of letters.
Enhancements
- Support for multiple choice selection for Fill In the Blanks questions.
- Support for embedding YouTube videos in Quiz, Worksheet and SplitWorksheet info blocks./
- Quiz question area is now scrollable to support long rationale.
- Provided company info, email and server information is now reused for new widgets.
- The position of the calculator button is now configurable for Quiz, Worksheet and SplitWorksheet widgets.
- Spreadsheet import of multiple choice questions added to Quiz/Worksheet/SplitWorksheet widgets.
- Configuration of the widget cover image (the image used to represent your widget in your book) can now be done inside of BookWidgets.
Bugfixes
- Last color button of split whiteboard is now always fully visible.
- Multiple choice answer configuration problem with newlines solved.
- Drag&drop box headers are now centered when using auto-positioned boxes.
- White border removed from WebEmbed.
Important new functionality
- New widget: MindMap. Allow your readers to create a mind map related to a certain topic.
- New widget: Crossword. Create a crossword puzzle from the words you enter.
- New widget: Chart. Provide column & header rows during configuration, widget can enter values. Barchart is drawn.
- An optional scientific calculator can be added during configuration to Quiz and Whiteboard widgets.
- New question type for Quiz, Worksheet and SplitWorksheet: text and picture drag & drop widget.
- You can now insert pure 'text' sections in the Quiz widgets, e.g. to add instructions.
- Our large publisher product package is now available, allowing for design customization & custom server for handling quiz / whiteboard result processing.
Enhancements
- New configuration option for Quiz and Whiteboard widgets to color correct answers green immediately.
- Whiteboard widgets now have a text tool, which allows typing in text on a whiteboard.
- Translation table (in localization tab) now support load/save.
- Rich text editor (used for SplitWorksheet and SplitWhiteboard widgets) now supports tables.
- User-defined numbering for Quiz and Whitebaord questions is now supported.
- Quiz and Worksheet widgets now allow rationale for each question type.
- Quiz and Worksheet match question types now support mathematical expressions.
- Quiz and Worksheet widgets now allow spellcheck to be enabled / disabled.
- Quiz, Worksheet and FlashCard widgets now support format editing for multiline text fields.
Bugfixes
- Flashcard csv import now supports importing of Excel-exported text file with 'special' characters. Export from Excel using unicode text export.
- Solved problem where widgets didn't show up due to copy & paste of text with newlines in configuration field where single-line input was expected.
- Solved problem where screenshot of preview showed part of toolbar.
- Solved problem where saving result of match widgets saved both user connections as well as correction connections.
- Solved problem where widget didn't show up if word ordering question type was configured with words split over multiple lines.
- Solved problem where youtube widget URL's with extra parameters were not supported.
- Solved problem where answers spreadsheet could not be downloaded from website if spreadsheet contained unicode characters.
- If you modified a widget / saved it to a different name / added it to the same book, the stored data would conflict with the original widget. Now you can update the storage ID to prevent this from happening
- Solved problem where save/restore did not work if you did not enter a book name.
Important new functionality
- New widget: PDF Viewer. Embed PDF documents in your book.
- New question types for Quiz, Worksheet and SplitWorksheet: Word/Word matching, Word/Picture matching and Picture/Picture matching.
- A new multiple choice question type, with different scoring value for each answer, together with the option to show the score at the end of the quiz, extends the use of the Quiz and Worksheet widgets, e.g. by allowing simple personality tests.
- Whiteboard: you can now define a text to be shown on the whiteboard.
Enhancements
- Flashcards now supports mathematical formula.
- Flashcards can now be configured through Excel import.
- ActivePlot now shows X/Y values.
- Whiteboard line smoothing improved - handwriting is now better readable.
- Mathematical formula supported in title of whiteboard.
- Mathematical formula supported in fill-in-text questions (not answers).
- Youtube widget now plays back movies in HD, if available.
- For quizzes and worksheets which are password protected you can now select whether password is required once or every time quiz is entered.
Bugfixes
- You can now have more than 5 mathematical formula in one text string.
- Whiteboard now supports dots.
- ActivePlot now allows to configure Y positioning of view window.
- ActivePlot now allows to use floating point values for definition of minX, maxX values.
- ActivePlot: graph was not shown when parameter used after '-' operator became negative.
Important new functionality
- New widget: FlashCards. Flash Cards are a great way for students to practice vocabulary, terms, definitions, dates... you name it.
- New widget: SplitWhiteboard. Need a complex description and a freehand drawing area? This widget combines the capabilities of a whiteboard with a scrollable text.
- Mathematical formulas. Frequently requested by math and chemistry teachers: you can now enter formulas when configuring Quiz, Worksheet, SplitWorksheet and SplitWhiteboard widgets.
- Mailing of drawings. Drawings made in both Whiteboard and SplitWhiteboard widgets can now be mailed.
- Password protect your quizes: make sure quizes and worksheets can only be started when you want them to.
Enhancements
- Font size for word ordering questions has been increased.
- Background color for word ordering questions is now lighter.
Bugfixes
- Quizes and worksheets were graded incorrectly after closing / reopening the widget.
- Emailing quiz results now treats addresses and names case-insensitive and trims whitespace.
BookWidgets is now out of beta! If you were holding off for our public release, the wait is over!
Important new functionality
- Improved graphical design of ActivePlot, Quiz, Worksheet, Whiteboard and Wikipedia widgets to make overall look more consistent, and to better match the iBooks built-in widgets
- New widget: SplitWorksheet. This widget combines the capabilities of a worksheet with a scrollable text. It's great for reading comprehension tests!
- The Quiz and Worksheet widgets have additional question types:
- Multi Select questions provide text multiple choice with multiple correct answers
- Word Ordering questions allow words or word groups to be drag & dropped in order
- The Quiz and Worksheet email reporting mechanisms changed:
- To prevent unsolicited emails to be sent from Quiz and Worksheet, users need to acknowledge that they want to receive mails from iBooks
- Optionally, quiz results can be stored on bookwidgets.com website and retrieved in .csv format which can be opened in Microsoft Excel
- Audio widget was removed (iBooks Author 2.0 has built-in support).
- Improved installation procedure
Enhancements
- Whiteboard widget now has pen thickness selection
- Youtube movies now stop playing when you exit the widget
- The Quiz widget now supports saving/restoring of results inside the iBook
- Quiz configuration can now be imported in a Worksheet and vice versa through menu
Bugfixes
- Crash when playing Youtube movies fullscreen on iOS 6 is fixed
- Tutorial video caused a crash on certain machines, this is now fixed
- Exported widgets were not working on some machines, this is now fixed
Important new functionality
- Completely overhauled pricing model. The credits are gone! Check out http://bookwidgets.com/pricing for details
- New widget: worksheets
- New widget: whiteboard
Bugfixes
- Quiz widget: fixed incorrect insertion of underscores in multiple choice questions
- Wikipedia widget: articles with a redirect are now displayed properly
Enhancements
- Quiz widget: added a 'clear and start over' button
- Quiz widget: you can now display an accompanying image alongside every question
- Quiz widget: you can now adapt the text of buttons and dialogs to you environement. Great for translating them to your own language (localization).
Bugfixes
- Fixed date issue with quiz email report
- Fixed Audio widget issue on iOS 6
- Fixed Wikipedia widget bug for non-English articles
- Added extra debug instrumentation to troubleshoot rare startup issue
Enhancements
- Quiz widget: you can now fix teacher's email address or set a default value for it
- Quiz widget: new question type: Fill-in-the-blanks!
- Branding message is a lot more subtle now
- Added extra debug instrumentation to troubleshoot rare startup issue