Setting Multiple Choice, Fill-in-the-Blank or Pick One Options

There are two customized settings screens; the first includes difficulty, language, answer options, and media. The second panel includes Shuffle or randomizing, Observed exclusions, Frequency, and Sound Effects.

Option

Description

Easy (default), Medium, or Hard

For Multiple Choice and Pick One, the harder the quiz, the more similar the multiple choices will be to the correct answer.
For
Fill-in-the-Blank:
Easy accepts just the last name or genus for your answer to be considered correct. Punctuation, upper-and lower-case, and spaces are ignored. For example, you could type junco instead of Dark-eyed Junco.
Medium requires you to type the entire name; however, punctuation, case, and spaces are ignored.
Hard requires you to type the entire name, and also use correct punctuation, case, and spaces.

Language

Click Common Name or Scientific Name (the choice Both is available only for Flash Cards quizzes and Pick One quizzes).

Answer Options

With One Try Only, whether correct or not, the quiz presents the next item.
With
Try until you get it right!, the quiz presents the next item if you are correct. If not, you can try again for the correct answer.
With either option, your score will be calculated on your first try only.

Media

Click which type of media you want presented for each item. For all but the Pick One quiz, the options are Picture, Picture and Sound, Sound, or Video.
Click whether you want the
Best picture or a Random Selection. Best is usually the male in breeding plumage while Random may include females, juveniles or birds in flight.

Allow Clues?

Click to check or clear the checkbox. Allowing clues provides all the media available for each species at quiz time, such as different pictures, the range map, and a video if available.
Note:
If you allow clues in a multiple choice quiz, it may cause a delay in loading quizzes with many species. Please be patient.

To continue with the quiz setup, click Next>> to display the second customization screen.

Option

Description

Shuffling

Click Yes to randomize the quiz list of species. Click No to present them in taxonomic order.

Exclusions

If you have logged any sightings, you can choose to exclude them from the quiz by clicking Yes. If you do this, you must then click an observer from the list.

Duplicates

You can adjust the number of duplicate items in the quiz from none to all by clicking the slide bar to move it to the desired point.

The percentage on the right adjusts to show the chance that a specific item will appear more than once. The total number shows the new number of items that will be in the quiz.

Sound Effects

You can choose to have sound effects during the quiz by clicking Yes. To disable sound effects, click No, don't use them.
·The Correct Answer sound effect plays when you click a correct answer.
· The Incorrect Answer sound effect plays when you click an incorrect answer.


For advanced users: The software provides the files named "correct.wav" and "incorrect.wav" in your eViewer folder.
You can change the sound effect by clicking the
[…] icon next to the sound effect name. This opens a File Open dialog box so you can browse to a sound file (filename.wav) on your computer.
You can sample a chosen sound effect by clicking the
speaker icon next to the sound effect name.
Note: if you hear no sound or the speaker is disabled (gray) the software cannot find the file listed in the path-and-name box so you need to browse and select a wav file.

To make further option changes, use this screen or click Back to return to the previous options panel.

To begin the quiz with these settings, click Next.

For Help on taking the quiz, see the appropriate topic Taking a Multiple Choice Quiz or Taking a Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz or Taking a Pick One Quiz.