[shamzblueworld]

I'm about to create a quiz/MCQs website for my fellow university students that will have chapter wise MCQs of all subjects so the students can practice and prepare well for exams.
I'm thinking of creating this website with Wordpress and some quiz plugin. Do you have any idea about this? Any suggestion for the platform, script or plugin?
Any kind of input will be very appreciable.
Thank you

[Masterminor]

I'm not sure on exactly how to do this, but why not make it fun? you can make it a bit entertain with some fun graphics and such, or something a bit gamey like the Impossible Quiz. That would make studying fun!

[chikitta]

Okay that's a nice way of helping students all I can say is try and make it fun or with some kind of humour so that the students don't get bored good luck

[Masterminor]

But also make it hard, what makes the impossible quiz hard is you only have 3 lives, and once you answer wrong 3 times (and you do not move on until you answer right) you have to start all the way over from question one! and there are 110 questions in that one. But there are also many questions and answers that make no sense and have no logic so must be memorized. There are even some questions with a time limit and if not answered in time, you lose all your lives. and in one particular question you literally have ONE second to answer. You can do something like that, it would be a challenge and tap into the competitive nature of those taking your quiz.

[Decentlady]

Hi. I am no expert on webmaster area but long back I did create a quiz on my personal blog. I had simoly used an existing format and applied it on my blog. I had imported a quiz template that was freely available online and created a quiz. It had its limitation and I was going to look for a better one but I got distracted and never looked into the matter again. You can check out the format here http://todayzu.blogspot.in/2015/11/diab ... z.html?m=1

Hope that helps.

[oldbuddy]

One possibility is a script included in most hosting accounts that have a one click installer called Question2Answer. If you have a hosting account, look around for it or it does come included in $1 a month accounts on NoSupportLinuxHosting. I set it up once a while back, but I decided I didn't have a good way to monetize it and abandoned the project.

[shamzblueworld]

One possibility is a script included in most hosting accounts that have a one click installer called Question2Answer. If you have a hosting account, look around for it or it does come included in $1 a month accounts on NoSupportLinuxHosting. I set it up once a while back, but I decided I didn't have a good way to monetize it and abandoned the project.

Can Quizzes/MCQs be created on Q2A?

[naruto100]

Sounds good concept. But I don't have any knowledge regarding wordpress. About what kind of plugins you are talking about.

[Sam]

Can Quizzes/MCQs be created on Q2A?

No. Q2A is like Quora or Yahoo Answers. You can add poll functionality via a plugin but not Quizzes.

Something we used years ago at school was Moodle, which does have a Quiz module option: https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Quiz_module. It's installable via Softaculous as well: https://www.softaculous.com/apps/educational/Moodle.

[jacktheking]

I used http://quizizz.com/ before and found this platform to be fun and entertaining. It is an ideal service of quick MCQs. It is not a open source project. You can only create and publish quizzes on their website. So if you really want to help your fellow university students you should use Quizizz.

Of course, if you have the skills, you may be able to clone a site similar to Quizizz. I tried searching of open source script similar to Quizizz but couldn't find any.

[shamzblueworld]

Can Quizzes/MCQs be created on Q2A?

No. Q2A is like Quora or Yahoo Answers. You can add poll functionality via a plugin but not Quizzes.

Something we used years ago at school was Moodle, which does have a Quiz module option: https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Quiz_module. It's installable via Softaculous as well: https://www.softaculous.com/apps/educational/Moodle.

Thanks I one worked with moodle for a brief period, but was long ago. Have you used the quiz module of moodle? What did you created for your school with moodle? I mean what kind of site was that.

I used http://quizizz.com/ before and found this platform to be fun and entertaining. It is an ideal service of quick MCQs. It is not a open source project. You can only create and publish quizzes on their website. So if you really want to help your fellow university students you should use Quizizz.

Of course, if you have the skills, you may be able to clone a site similar to Quizizz. I tried searching of open source script similar to Quizizz but couldn't find any.

Thanks jack, I'll look into it as well. What kind of site did you created with it?

[jacktheking]

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I used http://quizizz.com/ before and found this platform to be fun and entertaining. It is an ideal service of quick MCQs. It is not a open source project. You can only create and publish quizzes on their website. So if you really want to help your fellow university students you should use Quizizz.

Of course, if you have the skills, you may be able to clone a site similar to Quizizz. I tried searching of open source script similar to Quizizz but couldn't find any.

Thanks jack, I'll look into it as well. What kind of site did you created with it?

I don't create site with it because I cannot create a site with Quizizz. I just use it to revise short MCQs based theory.

You can only create and publish quizzes on their website. You cannot embed it into your site or download the source code (if I'm right).

[shamzblueworld]

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I used http://quizizz.com/ before and found this platform to be fun and entertaining. It is an ideal service of quick MCQs. It is not a open source project. You can only create and publish quizzes on their website. So if you really want to help your fellow university students you should use Quizizz.

Of course, if you have the skills, you may be able to clone a site similar to Quizizz. I tried searching of open source script similar to Quizizz but couldn't find any.

Thanks jack, I'll look into it as well. What kind of site did you created with it?

I don't create site with it because I cannot create a site with Quizizz. I just use it to revise short MCQs based theory.

You can only create and publish quizzes on their website. You cannot embed it into your site or download the source code (if I'm right).

Oh okay, then that is not of any use to me. I want to create a full website with millions of MCQs(yes I said millions, eventually). That's why I am thinking of using wordpress, because it is a reliable CMS system with huge functionalities and possibilities.
But Moodle is my second choice, but need to know more about it to finalize it.

[IcyFirefly]

Sounds like you will have a fun website to run. I don't have experience creating quizzes and I have very little knowledge using Wordpress platform. Once you are done, share your website with us

[germainebull]

I'm not a techie.
I cannot thus unfortunately offer you any technical advice.

Nevertheless, I think your idea is brilliant.

If I may ask, will this site be free to use?

[thisnthat]

Oldbuddy makes a good point. Do you plan to monetize your quiz site at all? If so, how do you plan to do it?

Will you also allow others to add quizzes? How will that work?

[oldbuddy]

Oh okay, then that is not of any use to me. I want to create a full website with millions of MCQs(yes I said millions, eventually). That's why I am thinking of using wordpress, because it is a reliable CMS system with huge functionalities and possibilities.

I don't know where you heard that WordPress was so reliable, but I would guess that what you would have after creating the system you describe here, is a paradise for WordPress Hackers and there are plenty of them around.

[shamzblueworld]

Yes it will be free.
I do plan to monetize it but not in the first couple of years at least.
And I know wordpress hackers are abundant, but so is wordpress support, isn't it the biggest platform used? Anyways, these are not the focus here. I am only asking for suggestions about either wordpress plugins for this or any other script that can do this. I am only asking if you have any experience of such work.
Thank you

[germainebull]

Hey!
Is your proposed site up yet?
What is its identity?

I'm anxiously waiting.

[shamzblueworld]

Hey!
Is your proposed site up yet?
What is its identity?

I'm anxiously waiting.

Not yet, I'm working on collecting the data... will be up soon.