- Configuration options and features include:
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- Student score viewing: You can configure the program so that at the end of the quiz, it will (or will not) show the user the correct answer to incorrectly answered questions, the student's percentage score, previous high scorers on the quiz, and a grading scale or any combination of these, or even none of these.
- Authorized users: You can configure the program so that only certain students may take certain quizzes, or so that anyone can take any quiz.
- Timed Quizzes: Each quiz may be set up with a time limit, and the time taken for that quiz will be emailed to the instructor along with the results.
- Multiple instructors: You may configure the program with any number of designated instructors who may then create their own quizzes on the system, and have the results emailed to them.
- Emailing Results: You may configure the program so that it does not email the results to the instructor at all.
- Tested on Windows and Unix/Linux: Configuration options allow email score reporting to work on Windows and Unix/Linux web servers. (Tested on Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, BSDi, and Linux with Apache
- Detailed Statistics on Quiz Scores and Results: The program allows the instructor(s) to generate detailed statistics on each quiz, including the Mean, Median, Mode, Highest and Lowest total scores, as well as details for each question about how many students chose the correct and incorrect answers, plus detailed results about how each student answered each question, sortable by student ID or by question.
- Reset Quiz Results: You may reset the results of a quiz back to zero to start over with another group of students.
- One-Stop Quiz shop: By pulling up the web address of the QuizTest CGI program in your browser, you will be provided with a menu of all existing quizzes (and their instructors) as well as a link to log in to the administrative interface.
The student's name and score are written to a results database for later checking or import into an external spreadsheet.
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Program Summary
[Version 3.0.31 Released 04/03/2004]QuizTest v3.0 will allow you to create multiple-choice, or true-false quizzes online. On any given quiz, you may have both true/false questions and multiple choice, and the same program will grade the quizzes and email you (or other designated instructor) the results.
NOTE for those running QuizTest on a Mac OS X web server: There are two places in the script that say "use Socket;". This may not work on some Mac OS X servers. If you're getting a message about "aborted due to compilation errors," please feel free to email me the script and the full error message and I'll see if I can help. (Sorry, I do not have Mac OS X to test scripts on. I only found out about this problem recently from another Mac OS X user.)
Working Demo
To view a working demo version of this program, please click here.
To work with the administration sections, use the following information to log in:
Username: quiztest@tesol.net
Password: admin
If you've gotten QuizTest to work, send me the address of your
website and I'll post a link to it.
This
Google Search will bring up several sites using QuizTest 3.x.
atlingua is using QuizTest for English level assessment quizzes. This is a very nice integration job.
If you like David Eddings,
Mercedes Lackey, Lord of the Rings, or Riftwar, you'll get a kick out of
the quizzes at Annwyn Quiz Centre. How much do you know about these
books? (Using QuizTest 3.0.x)
The web server where this script will be installed must have Perl 5.000 or higher. Scripts that send email require that "Sendmail" or "qmail-inject" be available on Unix/Linux-type systems. Scripts that send email under Windows-based systems require use of the Socket Perl module (Socket.pm). All scripts may require the Perl CGI module, CGI.pm .
This script is NOT supported on the following web hosting providers:
Tripod.com
Angelfire.com
Lycos.com
Also, sorry, but the scripts are not supported under mod_perl, PerlEx, or speedy_cgi as I don't have any way to test them in that environment. :-(
You must be able to execute cgi programs on your web server. If
you're not sure whether you have permission to do this, or are not sure
how to configure the files, please ask your system administrator, or
check the web pages of your web hosting provider for Help or Support
information. For a free web hosting provider who supports CGI scripts, or
low-cost web hosting providers, you can try looking at
the "Some Places to Host
your Website" page I've put together.
The web server must support both the GET and POST request methods. (Ask your
hosting provider about this if you're not sure.)
Please remember: you get what you pay for, and free web hosting
services are often worth what you pay for them.
But first, the obligatory plea for funding. :-)
All the files you need are contained in these packages. Download it
in the format you wish. If you have MS Windows, there is a program called WinZip (available
at TuCows) which will
uncompress and de-archive tar/gz files as well as Zip files. The package contains the following files: After a major release, you may get one or two messages a week.
Mostly, though, I'm afraid it's less than once a month.
You may also sign up for announcements about other scripts on
the
main Scripts for Educators Mailing List page.
This list is ONLY for announcements specifically about QuizTest:
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On a Unix-type system, if you have console or command prompt access, you
may unzip the tar.gz file by typing 'gunzip < quiztest.tar.gz | tar -xvf
-'. If you're not very familiar with Unix, you may want to ask someone
who is to help you. The latest version of Stuffit for the Mac will also
handle tar.gz files.
I strongly recommend that you sign up here for update and bug fix
announcements about this script. I will not spam you with advertising: I
just want to make sure you have the latest fixes. :-)
The program will send a confirmation message to your email address when
you sign up. In order to get on the announcement list, you MUST click on
the confirmation link contained in that email message. This is to
protect you from someone signing you up as a joke, and to protect me
from being accused of spamming. Since update announcements are sometimes
few and far between, sometimes people forget that they've subscribed and
report me for sending junk mail. Luckily, the system logs the address,
time, and date of everyone who signs up so that I can prove I'm only
sending to people who asked for it. :-)