Re: Quiz robot

["Pete St. Onge" <pete@seul.org>]

Hm, you know, perhaps quiz building might be another useful application
of sdoc. In this way, the teacher could easily build the quiz and
administer it across a lan (say within a computer lab) using simple
tools.

Upsides would include:
    - being able to use any GUI editor to build the quiz
    - ability to use any sufficient browser to read the quiz
    - be able to have the quiz (multiple choice or mathematical) marked
      automatically
    - be able to monitor progress of any given student.

Some work would have to be done so that the quiz generator could choose
from a bank of questions, so that students would have different
questions to deal with each time. This would allow the teacher to
rapidly evaluate which questions / concepts the learner has not yet
fully grasped and thus need elaboration.

Downsides would include: 
    - needing a web server with CGI capabilities
    - a way to simply add / modify / remove questions

Just a thought,

Cheers,

Pete (who is still trying to bring his second linux box to life)

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