If you're looking to build one from sratch you might want to take a look at using XML to send and retieve information from the database. Christopher Lomvardias has a good presentation on this subject at http://www.cfug-md.org/talks/mdcfug_2003December.ppt. Its a bit heavy on the database site, however, doing it this way will save a lot of time building the application.
He does a great job explaining how this would work for a situation such as yours. (and doing it this way will save a tremendous amount of code-- doing it without XML would involve complicated querries and quite a bit of CF logic to display the page properly!)
Bascially, the hard part of creating any quiz is generating the checkboxes, radio button and the select lists -- and generating XML is a clean fast way of moving this information in and out of the database, espcally if you have 20-30 questions in your quiz. On the creation side, you might want to look at using a bit of _javascript_ to add the elements you'll need to add checkboxes, select lists and radio buttons.
Jeremy Brodie
Intelix
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>I've been looking for a nice quiz/test builder for an online course system
>i'm working on and can't seem to find one, at least not one for ColdFusion.
>Anyone come across anything like this? I'd rather buy some open code than
>write it myself, too many other things to work on right now. Most of what i
>see out there are poll generators though, nothing for quizzes or tests.
>
>If you know where i can find it, or would like to sell what you've made,
>please contact me. Thanks!!! ... .joe
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