This is the Quiz mod, originally by Phyron, later updated by Whisper68. Carsten ported it to 2.1 and added much functionality.

It allows your members to create multiple choice quizzes, then release them for other members to take the quizzes. it keeps a high score list, allows for the use of a timer, and has some pretty good coding built in to make it much harder to cheat. (Thanks, Carsten!)







Mod History

01/24/2009 -- No version change. Minor updates to Quiz.pl to prevent duplicate breadcrumb issue ... thanks to Derek Barnstorm for the corrections! Just upload new Quiz.pl file, no need to uninstall and reinstall the mod itself.

01/17/2009 -- No version change. Added a YaMMS compatible mod file for those who are adding this mod after YaMMS. Otherwise no changes.

01/04/09 -- beta 0.5, this would have worked with 2.3.1 without any updates, but I made a couple of minor corrections that wouldn't affect operating, and added in Carsten's easy tab update method. And minor correction to that file now in zip package.

12/07/08 -- beta 0.2, added Jet Li's language files to main zip and corrected small layout issue.

11/??/08 -- beta 0.1, updated to run with YaBB 2.3, no other changes.

I updated it to 2.3, and added no functionality. It was just tweaked to be able to install. All credit goes to earlier mod creators. Thanks to Jet Li for info on how to add it to the tabs for 2.3 style templates.

It has worked on two 2.3 forums for me, and has been tested by a couple of others. It seems to work decently.

For a demo, visit my science fiction board. You can find it in the link in my signature. (You can see some of the mod as a guest, but to take quizzes or create one, you will have to register for an account.)

I am releasing this mod because I have sent Carsten four e-mails over two months, and have not heard back from him. Therefore, by the general policies BoardMod follows, and my attempts to contact, I am releasing the update. If Carsten wishes to return and take this up again, he is more than welcome, and I would be overjoyed to see my favorate mod writer return.

If people run into problems, I will do my best to figure out how to fix them, but I am not a coder and do not know how to program perl, so I will not be adding any new features.

If anybody wants new features, the only way they will come to be is if somebody else takes up the ball and codes them.

Personally, I would love to see the ability to do a couple other kinds of questions ... fill in the blank, and word scramble. I wouldn't think either would be terribly difficult, but I don't know how to do it myself.

Try it out, see if you like it, and report any problems! If corrections are needed, I may add in some tweaks which don't affect performance, but match it more closely to current YaBB coding styles. As far as I can tell, this works fine, right now.

Thanks, Jet Li!

Batchman

I installed this mod in v2.1 just before I upgraded to v2.2. It was great and would have continued to use it when I moved up to v2.2 but I failed to patch it up the way and just gave up trying.

For now I still use v2.2 and tonight I had a go at patching your v2.3 mod down to my v2.2 mod and the original created quizzes burst back into life so I want to say a big thanks to you for posting the mod up date and of course to Carsten for the great original mod.

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Hi Batchman

Wonder if you can advise? I have setup my forum in frames (Possibly Irrelevant) however, in Firefox the text for the YaBB copyright is floating on the right of the page with the quiz tables on the left. If I reduce the size of the window the copyright drops beneath the quiz tables.

In Internet Explorer the quiz table extends 100% over the page with copyright text below.

As normal, it will be some editing that I have done in the past else where that is possibly causing the problem. Have you any idea where I can look for the cause. I have tried several things with no success.

Here is the relevant quiz frame without the other menu frames etc.

http://www.HopeCentreBurundi.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=quiz

It's not a problem if you have no suggestions to offer.

Many Thanks

Yes, the quiz mod's display is large enough that I don't see any reason to have it sharing stuff with the other.

Will update that little bit and get a new file up in the first post later today. Maybe I'll even include a couple of screen shots.

Zip file in first message updated for Derek's fix. Jet Li's German and German_Du language files added to zip.

Three screen shots added to show the mod in action.

It would probably need slight tweaking, but not likely too much.You might speak to ccarr ... looks like he already adapted it back to 2.2 ... he might be able to pass on what tweaks he had to use.

@mick
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