Testing the new Urtak poll widget

Updated on Monday, September 16, 2013 at 8:33 PM by Logan Molen

I've stumbled across an interesting poll/quiz widget called Urtak that not only collects data but allows participates to add their own questions. 

That's an interesting twist on traditional online quizzes, and ensures that where you start may not be where you end up.

I've embedded the poll widget in the upper right of all my page templates, and currently am asking questions about personal technology. Give it a spin and let me know what you think. 

Urtak is a polling widget with a twistUrtak (an Icelandic word meaning "statistical sample") is free and simple to get started, although it took me three tries to make sure my questions were written in the required Yes/No phrasing. And while adding questions is a snap, I was unable to edit my mistakes or disable quizzes, which go live immediately for the world to see. Until you get the hang of writing in a Yes/No format, it's easy to mess up, so having an edit function would seem like a major need.

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