• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

New add-on: Quizzes - need testers

Jeff Duda

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I have recently added a new feature for the forum software called "Quiz Manager," which enables users to create quizzes for others to take. Quiz Manager seems a lot like poll threads, except the question types are expanded and an answer key can be supplied. For whatever reason, however, access to the quizzes seems to require specific permission that can only be given on a per-user basis (rather than a batch allowance to let every user use them). Also, the add-on itself appears to require setup in terms of adding categories, prefixes, and fields, which all need to be done manually. As a result, I have not yet opened this feature to the general user base. However, I now wish to open the Quiz Manager feature to some users who may find it interesting or useful.

To proceed, first let me know what you see when you click on this link: https://stormtrack.org/quizzes/

My guess is that you will be told either that site is not found or that you do not have access. If you wish to help me figure out the details of this add-on, respond in this thread with your desire to have permission added. Once that is done, please attempt to fill out the test quiz I have setup here: https://stormtrack.org/quizzes/the-hydrostatic-equation.1/

We will then go from there.
 
Clicking on the quizzes link, it gives a page with a link to 'The hydrostatic equation' ,
as well as a button to 'Add quiz'

Clicking on hydrostatic equation(from the quizzes page) goes to the quiz itself. (I didn't attempt to answer)
Clicking add brings you to a page where it looks like you could add a quiz (again, I didn't actually do the final steps)
 
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