Quizmaker newbie question

[elDuck]

Hi, whilst I've used Presenter and Engage for a while I have not dabbled with Quizmaker at all.

I'm interested in it not as part of a course but for a simple survey. I figured that whilst stuff like Zoomerang is free Quizmaker appears to have nicer functionality and I can make my survey look like I want it.

Now the "free" bit is important to me for this particular use so if I can't do it free with Quizmaker then I'll go and use Zoomerang or SurveyMonkey or the like.

I remembered that there was some fly in the ointment about emailing results from quizes and that, for example, with Firefox it does not work. I checked and understand this is still the case in Quizmaker '09. I see I could start my free trial of Articulate Online to host this... mmmm... probably not what I want to do as eventually there would be a cost. Or I could host it on an LMS.

The mere fact that those seem to be the only two ways of getting reporting out made me wonder about the other publishing methods - like CD and web - as to how useful they are for a survey in that the "survey" wouldn't actually go anywhere!

Now I have two sites that I could host a survey on - one is Joomla and the other Moodle - so I guess I could use the Moodle quiz for the survey or load Quizmaker into it. As for loading it into Joomla... no idea.

Has anyone got any pointers on loading Quizmaker surveys on the web and getting reporting out? My aim is to do a preferences survey of a set of visitors to a site and get statistics on those preferences.

Thanks.

[rsawchuk]

Although QuizMaker is a very good program, I'm not sure a free version is the best solution to what you want to do. As you concluded, QM's only supported output method is to AO.

As I see it, you have 3 options:

1. Use the Joomla polling mod if you want to ask only 1 question at a time. (Joomla probably has a survey extension. Check their forums).

2. Put a link on your website to your survey on SurveyMonkey

3. Create your own survey form and have the results sent to a database where you can query the data or export is for statistical analysis.

The latter is not that hard to do if you have some basic programming skills. For an example, see our online survey demo and reporting system over at our QuizReporter website.

Best of success.

Russ

[elDuck]

Russ, your conclusion is pretty much where I came to as well. Joomla does have a survey extension but for my purposes SurveyMonkey et al may be a simpler solution. Although a form and database may not be too tricky to do it comes down to the effort of learning to code the thing - that's after all one of the attractions of AP versus coding something in Flash...

I'll compare functionality/flexibility of Joomla extensions and the Zoomerang/Survey monkey.

Thanks.

[daveperso]

Quizmaker ’09 is designed primarily as an elearning development tool to be used in conjunction with Articulate Online or your own Learning Management System (LMS). Any SCORM or AICC compatible LMS should work with Quizmaker so you don't need to just rely on Articulate Online.

Your own SCORM- or AICC-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) will also provide accurate tracking capabilities. Some of our customers use Dokeos, an open-source LMS (ie. it is free). You can learn more about Dokeos at dokeos | Dokeos e-learning. And of course there is Moodle.

There is an LMS system too which links with Joomla but this is not free but works well with Articulate content.

Some of our customers are successfully sending Quizmaker results via PHP, or using a database, but these methods are not supported by Articulate. You can learn more here:

Articulate '09 - Email Results Tutorial - PHP
Quiz to database, instructions and code

Hope some of that helps.