About Us

Some time ago we were nominated Member of the Month at the Educational Software Cooperative. Here is an excerpt from what we said about ourselves at the time:
Wow ... Rosemary (the Webmaster) and the ESC really caught us by surprise ... the news about the Member of the Month nomination came just after we had released major updates to our programs. We were preparing for the usual wrestling match with the first support questions, and secretly planning to emigrate to somewhere where there are no computers and where stamp collecting is regarded as a respectable way to earn a living.
The Quiz Maker programs we produce eare authoring suites of templates to produce tests and quizzes for the inter- or intranet. They are aimed at teachers or parents who want to catch up with screen-happy children, or at coaches in the corporate training market who require a motivating and entertaining e-learning platform. Our guiding principle has always been 'Keep it Simple'. You can easily check out whether we have succeeded or not by downloading fully-functional evaluation versions of the software from our web site.
Our first educational software publication was a remarkably stable and compact DOS program called 'The Grammar and Vocabulary of Business English' It was published way back in 1991 by Cornelsen/Oxford University Press and was still being sold a couple of years ago! We will be more than happy if our current applications achieve a similar life-cycle ... if not there's always the stamp collecting option.
Quite a lot has happened since the publication of our details at the ESC. In January 2013, the members of the Educational Software Cooperative voted in favour of the dissolution of the Association. Sad after 20 years of operation but it is certainly not the end of the story. Memberships have been transferred to the
Association of Software Professionals where there will be ample opportunity to work together on the further development of educational software and technology.

Simply The Best ...

All of the TAC-Soft Quiz Maker programs offer a quick, easy-to-use and affordable way to prepare and present your tests and quizzes
- ready for the Internet or as free-standing ebook files for distribution to your students, your friends or business colleagues and customers. It takes less than 10 minutes to create and compile an entertaining and motivating quiz.
The award-winning Quiz Maker programs are the result of more than 10 years' experience in the development and distribution of educational software for the
Microsoft Windows platform.
At the start of each program, you will immediately see the main build screen. Create the test by filling in the fields and then save your test.
To see how it looks in HTML, simply click on the View Quiz button and your well-rendered Web page will be displayed within seconds.There is immediate feedback on the correctness of an answer for the test-takers and, if required, a message with the results can be forwarded directly to your e-mail address.
You do not need to know any HTML or JavaScript to create your exercises. If you are familiar with the coding, however, you are free to edit the source files or adjust the templates.

Why Us?

Over the years, our programs have received many positive reviews and 5 Star awards from shareware archives, magazines and various other software evaluation agencies.
You will find more details in the Internet and on the TAC-Soft Links page.

Trading Since

1991