Re: [seul-edu] Consolidated quiz program

["Jeff Clement" <jeff@charsplat.net>]

I've written something similar called YAWTA which ( at the moment ) only
handles letting users enter answers into the quiz and saving them on the web
server in some XMLish looking files.  I would concur with your suggesting of
PHP and MySQL or maybe Python.  I had plans for YAWTA to make it a complete
quizzing package where instructors could login, create exams, mark exams,
etc.  Students could write the exams and retrieve grades from the system.
But if a project like this is already starting I would be happy to join up
with that.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen A Quam" <squam@utdallas.edu>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Consolidated quiz program


> I am for consolidating the quiz program into one effort. I think we need
> to put some thought into its design. As it has to be easy to use. Quiz
> input needs to be simple. I would recomend a web interface. I have
> designed a system like this before. Unfortunately I don't have the source
> code, and it was written in Cold Fusion. Which doesn't help us. I would
> recomend using MySQL as the DB, and PHP3. As these are available for
> free.
>
> Stephen
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> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Doug Loss wrote:
>
> >
> > Since we seem to be having some success on consolidating a number of
> > people's independent work on a gradebook program into a single effort, I
> > thought we might want to do something similar with quiz programs.
> >
> > Roman Suzi had started design work a while ago on QZB, and Dan Kionka
has a
> > number of good links on his Quiz Page
<http://cvs.seul.org/~dkionka/quiz/>.
> >  Stephen Quam is interested in doing some database work on a project
like
> > this, and there are some other quiz programs around that the coders
might
> > be interested in folding into a consolidated effort.  I think a good
solid
> > backend with multiple interfaces (CGI, GTK, curses, etc.) could be very
> > handy here.  We've already got a quiz task group mailing list
> > (quiztg@seul.org), and Roman has already offered to have his QZB project
> > entry be changed into a consolidated quiz/test program entry.  What do
you
> > all think?
> >
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