MultipleChoiceQuestionsFiveMethods a project funded by
This is a project funded by JISC to produce an authoring service to develop objective test questions. The five (now six!) methods are:
The demonstrator for converting from QTEXT into other formats at: http://smirkboard.herts.ac.uk:8080/mcqfm/qtextConverter.jsp
But the outrageously clever part which converts back from QML into QTEXT can be found at: http://smirkboard.herts.ac.uk:8080/mcqfm/qmlConverter.jsp
The code can be downloaded from our sourceforge site at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcqfm
Our blog is at: http://mcqfm.blospot.com and has lots of background information which have informed the development process
Two very primitive client side apps which try to link mcqfm authoring system to the r2q2 renderer can be downloaded from here:
Dist.rar is a small little java app which will take a set of questions – turn them into qti 2.0 at the mcqfm server, then sends the resulting zips off to the r2q2 server to be turned into html files. Once the operation is complete, **in the same directory as the application** there will be 1 zip per question, 1 html file per question and 1 html file which attempts to put them all together. However, it doesn’t seem possible to submit those generated html files to the server (probably because there must be come connection/cookie object which happens at the moment of submission of the zip file to the server in r2q2in order to tell it how to mark the question {I am deducing})
Mcqfm2r2q2.rar is a little app written in vb 6 which does almost the same thing – you send off the questions to the mcqfm server it then sends back the zip file, but then the zips are pasted into the text fields on the r2q2 demonstrator page and the questions are then automatically submitted to r2q2 using the inline browser in order that they can indeed be taken and marked by the user. (To use this, put the exe file anywhere, but the vbuzip10.dll file into the winsys folder). Be careful however! This application at the time of writing puts the zips in the root - c:\ directory - they are all named rather idiosyncratically (zip1.zip zip2.zip etc) - so shouldn't overwrite anything of yours. However, just in case you too have used those naming conventions on files of your own, beware!
The initial bid and initial workplan available from the relevant links. If you want to try out mcqfm on your local tomcat server the latest war file is here