[Phptest-users] modifications to phptest

[Kathleen A. Ferraro]

Hello everyone,

I've begun some modifications to phptest for a new project. If someone 
else has already made similar
changes or has a need for a similarly modified version and would like 
to collaborate, please let me know.

1. Using the one question at a time option, provide feedback after each 
question is answered.
Essentially, when they click the question's submit button, take them to 
the view_answers.php
feedback rather than the view_results.php list.

2. In the answer's table, replace the question, answer, and 
user_answers text data with numbers
corresponding to these fields in the questions table.

3. Move answer choices from the questions table to a separate 
answer_choices table.

4. Create an explanations table linked to the answer_choices table so 
that users get different feedback
depending on which answer they give.

5. Create some media (clips, stills, sounds) tables linked to 
answer_choices.

I've looked at some other quiz/test programs, both standalone 
applications and quiz components of
course management systems. Several are structured as I describe but I 
find the phptest code
to be much more intelligible and, therefore, easier to modify than 
anything else I've looked at.

Best,

Kathie

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Kathleen A. Ferraro
Information Systems Architect
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
412.648.1099; address@hidden