Dave Mozealous

Quizmaker results to a database

3 Comments Dave blogged on Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 10:48 PM.

I spent a couple of hours the other day looking at, and trying out the instruction in this forum post by Joep on the Articulate Community forums and I must say, it is pretty impressive what he has done.

Joe has created a C# web application that will capture results from Articulate Quizmaker quizzes and store them in a SQL database.

See the original post here:
Quiz to database, instructions and code

Below I have listed some initial impressions.

Positives:

Probably more reliable than sending results via email (because of technical limitations of browsers and email clients)
If you have a free Windows Server with IIS the cost is only the time it takes to setup

Drawbacks:

Requires a Windows Server with IIS
Pretty technically challenging to setup (not for novice non-IT people)
Requires modification to the quizmaker.html file after each publish
Only works in IE (at least it didn't work for me in Firefox, but if you are using a Windows Server with IIS you probably likely in an environment that requires IE)
Doesn't match the feature set you will get from Articulate Online or an LMS

It is pretty cool what Joe has done, and although I would recommend going with a more complete solution such as Articulate Online for capturing quiz results, Joe's method does provide users with very limited budgets an alternative to emailing quiz results as a method for capturing quiz results.

Good work Joe!

Labels: eLearning Technology, Quizmaker

Scaling Quizmaker Quiz

4 Comments Dave blogged on Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 4:07 PM.

Want a Quizmaker Quiz that will scale to fit in your browser window regardless of the size?

Here is how you can do it:

Download the this zip file.
Publish your quiz from Quizmaker as you normally would
Add the contents of the zip file to your published output (it will replace two files)

This is useful if you want the quiz to scale, so that the browser doesn't display scroll bars.

Example

Labels: Quizmaker

Desperately seeking Quizmaker projects

1 Comments Dave blogged on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 2:04 PM.

Have a pretty interesting Quizmaker project that really pushes the envelope on Quizmaker features? Well I would like to see it. I am looking to get some sample Quizmaker projects for testing, so if you have any Quizmaker projects you are willing to share with me you can upload them via the following form:

http://www.mozealous.com/dropbox/

Thanks much!

Labels: Quizmaker

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