Test/quiz authorizing software?

October 11, 2006 8:43 AM

Help me find simple test/quiz authoring software for my company.

The needs are relatively simple - true/false and multiple choice questions to be posted on our companies intranet. So, no remote hosting. I'd like users to log in with a username and PIN, the test to be graded once submitted to the server and the results including username (which is actually the employee ID) to be stored in a database. The database will be uploaded to our education tracking software on a bi-weekly basis. Bonus points if the software is easily interfaced with other programs, skipping the uploading business. We don't need Flash or embedded sound. Cheap is good.

Any recommendations?

posted by TorontoSandy to education (4 comments total)

If you have the budget, you may try Articulate Quizmaker or Quiz Builder from the developers of demo-builder.com
posted by labnol at 8:59 AM on October 11, 2006

Cheap as in Free? I'm currently examing software for an online HIPAA Security Quizes for my staff on our Intranet.

Here's what I'm looking at:
http://www.phpsurveyor.org/
posted by bleucube at 9:57 AM on October 11, 2006 [1 favorite]

not quite what you wanted... but maybe you could use.
Quia.com is $49 per year and you can make all sorts of quizzes and such. Free for 30 days. But it doesn't look like what you want.
posted by nimsey lou at 11:03 AM on October 11, 2006

Try QuizFaber. It has a wide range of functionality, most of which I've never needed, but it does support:

- True/false questions
- Multiple choice questions
- Quiz can be hosted on intranet
- Login options may be limited. It can be made to ask what the user's name is before starting, but I don't know if it will go as far as you'd like. It won't authenticate usernames or anything.
- Not sure about database intercompatibility. Results can be emailed, and apparently it supports "storing results to server," but I don't know enough about that to tell you much more.

It's free software, as well.
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 3:33 PM on October 11, 2006