Welcome to QuizBaker
What is QuizBaker?
With QuizMaker from Articulate software you can create interactive multimedia quizzes, that are engaging and fun. However, QuizMaker comes without support for data analysis after the quiz is done. Quizbaker solves this problem. Quizbaker automatically stores results from Articulate Quizmaker tests in a database.
Who is it for?
If you are a teacher or trainer, you can now make your own multimedia quizzes using a simple to use interface. Your quizzes can include movies, images, sound, and there's a plethora of options for question types, including drag and drop, fill in the blank, hotspot image, etc.
Why use it?
Your classes can be highly improved by using QuizMaker. You can let students practice, and you can take exams for final grades. Students love this way of working. All results are stored in a database that is easily accessible.
Articulate also has a licensed version of online results, but this comes with a hefty price tag, that most schools and institutions find difficult to cough up. This open source solution is completely free, and completely customizable.
Who made QuizBaker?
My name is Michiel van der Blonk. I am a teacher at a technical school, and QuizBaker is my side project. I help my colleages to make their classes more interactive and transition to a digital classroom. Our school purchased QuizMaker and I realized that without tracking results it would be a product with less value for teachers. I used to be a web developer, so I started digging in the internals and found out I could save the results by working around the internal javascript.
Screenshots
Check out screenshots of the new design. Note screenshots are in Dutch but implementation will be in English.
Technical
There are two versions of the project. One is created in PHP and one in ASP. That way you don't get tied down to a server environment. If it's Windows, choose ASP, if it's linux you can choose PHP. You will get full database scripts, and all the source code for reports, searches, analysis and maintenance.
Getting started
First download your version:
Windows (IIS)
Linux (Apache)
1. Make sure to setup your server. You can get a free Web server on Windows (but you'd best have Win PRO) as well as on Linux.
2. Now unzip the package and create the database
3. Make a quizmaker quiz and publish it somewhere on the server
4. Replace the generated quiz.html with the new /quiz/quiz.html from the project
5. Run the quiz.
6. You should now see results stored in the database
Please note that Articulate Quizmaker is part of commercial software that is required to create the Flash content used in the project.