Quizmaker results to a database

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!