Quizzing With Confidence
Quizcon provides an alternative question type to faculty who use multiple choice questions as part of their assessments. The platform uses confidence-weighted multiple choice questions to give students an opportunity to not only receive partial credit in a multiple choice question, but to also more directly show their level of understanding of a specific concept.
Configuration
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Clone
git clone https://github.com/ccnmtl/quizcon.git cd quizcon
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Create the database
For Postgres:
- Create a database user/password (if needed)
- Create the database
createdb quizcon
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Customize settings
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Create a local_settings.py file in the
quizcon
subdirectory OR -
Copy
quizcon/settings_shared.py
toquizcon/local_settings.py
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Then, override the variables from
settings_shared.py
that you need to customize for your local installation.- Customize your
DATABASES
dictionary- e.g. set NAME, HOST, USER, and PASSWORD. remove PORT (unless it's non-standard)
- Specify ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ 'localhost', '.your.blackboard.or.moodle.domain', '.your.workstation.domain', ]
- Customize your
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The
PYLTI_CONFIG
variable in yourlocal_settings.py
configures the application consumers and secrets. Generate two long random numbers for these values.PYLTI_CONFIG = { 'consumers': { '<random number string>': { 'secret': '<random number string>' } } }
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Build the virtual environment
make
will build the virtualenv -
Migrate the database
./manage.py migrate
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Run
make runserver
LMS INSTALLATION
Canvas
- https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-13117-415274482
- Note: the URL to enter in these steps will be
https://<app hostname>/lti/config.xml
- Note: the URL to enter in these steps will be