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From: "Thomas Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:40 PM
Subject: [Zope] making a dynamic quiz help
I would like some suggestions on building a dynamic quiz.
There are categories and in each category the question can be multiple
choice or true/false. For each category a specific number of questions
is
asked. The questions asked are randomly chosen from a collection of
questions for the category. The number of questions chosen may be
different
for each category.
example
category one - 3 questions
category two - 1 question
category three - 2 questions
My first thought is a python script does the randomization selecting
questions
from my postgresql database. Quizzes submitted updates the database
counting
correct and wrong answers and emails the results to the student and
instructors.
A second thought is a python script builds a dtml page quiz from
individual
dtml files which categories can be folders with an individual dtml file
for
each question. Then submit questions and answers to database and email
student and instructors.
A third thought is create a collection of complete quizzes and then
randomly
select a quiz (least preferred).
I've searched and the closest I could find was on the zope edu wiki just
discussing an aggregated quiz but I haven't found where that has been
persued. Most or all quiz products create static quizzes not one that
can
be built "on the fly". Any other designs would be appreciated.
If I was building this app I would have a dtml method (or ZPT, whatever you
are most comfortable with) that invokes a python script (or external method)
to provide data for the dtml/zpt form fields. A second dtml method/zpt
would be used as the form processor, it would invoke a python
script/external method to process the form data input by the user (update
db, send email, whatever) and then display some confirmation/thank you
message to the user.
Pretty straightforward app.
Have fun!
Jonathan
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