Comments on: Test/quiz authorizing software?

Question: Test/quiz authorizing software?

TorontoSandy — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:43:08 -0800

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?

By: labnol

labnol — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:59:22 -0800

If you have the budget, you may try Articulate Quizmaker or Quiz Builder from the developers of demo-builder.com

By: bleucube

bleucube — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:57:58 -0800

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/

By: nimsey lou

nimsey lou — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:03:40 -0800

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.

By: Ziggy Zaga

Ziggy Zaga — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:33:11 -0800

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.