This week we help you find the right tool for creating online quizzes, and we see how The Washington Post is redesigning the mobile experience.
PART 1: Online quiz tools
Interactive quizzes have become a popular way to engage online audiences, and new tools are making it simple to create and embed them into news-related websites. We walk through the features of four different tools: Playbuzz, Qzzr, Sporcle and ContentTools.
Reporting by Daniel Shapiro.
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Tools included in our report:
- PlayBuzz – Enables personality, trivia and gallery quizzes, plus polls, lists and flip cards. Free but quizzes maintain PlayBuzz branding. There’s also a customized white label option.
- Qzzr – Enables trivia and personality quizzes, plus interactive polls available with a paid plan. Free and lower-priced subscriptions have Qzzr branding on quizzes and limit the number of responses. Top-level subscription has no restrictions. There’s also a customized white label option.
- Sporcle – Offers personality, interpretive and trivia quizzes, with an option for quizzes to be timed. Free but with a limit of 25 public quizzes per month.
- ContentTools – All the standard quiz formats plus more sophisticated quiz options like rankings or image caption submission and up/down voting. Basic plans begin at $50 per month. More advanced/customized options also available.
PART 2: The Washington Post for iPhone and iPad
With its new app for Apple devices, The Washington Post aims to create a different kind of experience uniquely suited to mobile reading. We get details about the design-driven approach from Cory Haik, executive producer and senior editor for digital news, and Julia Beizer, director of mobile product.
Reporting by Berkeley Lovelace and Reuben Stern.
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Reuben Stern is the deputy director of the Futures Lab at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and host and co-producer of the weekly Futures Lab video update.