Quiz Quartet was built to automate the process for generating a quiz so no developer has to be involved and write repetitive code! Check out the project at http://quiz-generator.herokuapp.com
This app uses Middleman, so cd to your project directory and just run:
gem install middleman
bundle install
bundle exec middleman server
bundle exec middleman build
The quiz tool is powered by (you guessed it!) Google Spreadsheets. Editors use a Google Spreadsheet Template to input the content of the quiz. For each question, they enter the question text, four choices, an optional question description, the correct answer, incorrect message, correct message and a hint. Once the editor is done, they publish the spreadsheet to the web and grab its public URL.
The editor then feeds the spreadsheet URL into our authoring tool, which uses Tabletop.js to collect the spreadsheet data. In order to make the tool more reliable, the authoring tool uses Tabletop.js to collect the spreadsheet data into a JSON object, which is then attached to the embed code. This means that the quiz embed code will need to be regenerated every time a change is made in the spreadsheet, but the quiz will be more stable since it does not rely on accessing Google Spreadsheets every time it loads.
Next, the editor picks from one of Vox Media’s verticals (the tool currently supports Vox.com, SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Eater and Racked). A vertical-specific stylesheet URL is then generated, e.g. quiz-vox.css. The stylesheet, together with the quiz data, is parsed together with a script tag using the quiz.js library. All of these files are currently hosted on Amazon S3. Now, editors can copy and paste the embed code into the CMS and voilà -- an interactive quiz without touching any code!
The quiz dynamically generates an array of multiple choice questions from a JSON object. Users’ answers are highlighted when selected, then the chosen string is compared to the correct answer. Users can also see a hint for each question. Scores are incremented if the user answers correctly, and the final result is displayed at the end of the quiz for users to share on social media.
The app is fully functional, but we would like to add more options for creating different kinds of quizzes (true/false, flowchart-ish). We’d also like to make options for inserting images/video/audio within questions, answers, and hints (as our project is currently completely text-based). We’d also like to polish/write better Javascript!
Copyright (c) 2014 Vox Media Inc., KK Rebecca Lai, Nicole Zhu, Adam Baumgartner
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