PHP/MySQL Quiz System

[Ellason]

Hello, I am looking to create an educational assessment system that will consist of online quizzes. The system will have a student log on and and teacher log on. I want the questions of the quizzes to be stored in the database so the teacher can edit them from there and I want the results of the quizzes to be stored in the database also so both the student can view their marks and the teacher can assess the students performance. I want to use MySQL and PHP. Can anyone tell me how i go about doing this? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[cameraman]

Welcome to Webmaster World, Ellason.

If you want to write one yourself, a good place to start is this forum's library [webmasterworld.com], which has topics on User Authentication and Passwords, Basics of extracting data from MySQL, Basics of submitting forms, and other valuable information.

Or you might want to look for Moodle (it's top entry in a google search) which is a free open source online course management app that does all the things you mentioned. I've played with it a bit and found it pretty easy to use.

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Ellason,

Do you really want to do it from scratch?

There are definitely scripts that exist that can do quizzes, I would think you could find one that manages users as well.

Maybe start with hotscripts.com, sourceforge.net and any other online script repositories and a few searches on your search engine of choice.

<added>cameraman was quicker, curses! ;)

[coopster]

I'll second Moodle. I've worked with it, modified it and watched how it works from the public side. It will do everything you are asking, Ellason, and uses the components/criteria you mentioned. It was also supported by the Google Summer of Code project in the recent past.

[Ellason]

Thanks for all the help, gona have a wee look at the sites and see what I can find.

[Ellason]

Ps I have to write it all from scratch, its for a uni project...

[jatar_k]

well then pull moodle apart if you have trouble or you could at least use it to model some screens, I wouldn't say that's cheating, just doing some research

this is a good thread to start with
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among many other threads in the library [webmasterworld.com]