About

The Quiz module is a drupal contributed module (actually a set of modules) that provides framework which enables the creation of interactive tests, assessments, or quizzes for site visitors.

It allows the creation of questions of varying types matching, true/false, multi-choice, short answer and long answer questions. Quiz authors can give users instant feedback if desired, and organizes the quiz responses into a ranked table that demonstrates either a pass/fail or a ranking based upon their results compared to other users.

A quiz is given as a series of questions, with only one question appearing per page. Quiz questions, scores and results are stored in the database.

Purpose

This module provides tools for

• Online courses (Audio and Video enabled)
• Self-learning programs
• Training programs
• Supplementary classroom activities
• Survey purpose

Features

Quiz module is trying to possess the features of typical e-learning quiz engines. It has the following set of features

• Scale - a new questions Type to handle survey type of questions.
• Admin Dashboard - To display a statistics of quiz results using google chart API.
• Option to view answer out of quiz - for self evaluation purpose.
• Item collection (or question bank) - repository of questions which can be re-used.
• New question types
  • Question Direction
  • True or False
  • Matching
  • Short Answers
  • Long Answers
  • Scale
• A better admin interface
• jQuery-based timer for timed quiz
• Complete Views to Integration to create custom blocks and pages of quiz results.
• Better Reporting
• Auto-complete for Questions title
• Drag and Drop in order to rearrange the sequence of questions
• API to ease creation of new question type
• Resume supported quiz
• Userpoints module integration - marks scored in quiz can be credited to user points
• WYSIWYG editor integration - to create questions with HTML format.

How it Works

This module has two types of functionality:

• The quiz.module provides the framework for creating quizzes and,
• The helper modules i.e ( multichoice.module) provides various question types within a quiz.

In order to achieve proper functionality the Quiz module and at least one question-type module must be enabled.

To create a quiz for your users, make a new quiz node, then make at least two question nodes. Once you have some questions, you can add them to any quiz node.