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
Good work Joe!
Labels: eLearning Technology, Quizmaker
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You can also have the results emailed via a "sendmail" PHP script. It's very easy to do as detailed at: http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-quizmaker/3987-email-results-tutorial-php.html
The only downfall that I've found is that Firefox can't properly process the script. So, if most of your users are still on IE, this is a great alternative to Articulate's Email function in Quizmaker.
Hello Dave,
First of all, thanks for your blog. It helps a lot (Articulate users).
We really want know some news about Presenter 6. Do you know something about its launch?
Keep writing.
Best reagards!
Carolina
Hello Carolina,
Unfortunately company policy prohibits me from speaking about future versions of any of our products...sorry. I wish I could!