ccnmtl / quizcon

Quizcon provides an alternative question type to faculty who use multiple choice questions as part of their assessments.

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

1. Clone

   git clone https://github.com/ccnmtl/quizcon.git cd quizcon

2. Create the database

   For Postgres:

   • Create a database user/password (if needed)
   • Create the database createdb quizcon

3. Customize settings

   • Create a local_settings.py file in the quizcon subdirectory OR

   • Copy quizcon/settings_shared.py to quizcon/local_settings.py

   • 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', ]

   • The PYLTI_CONFIG variable in your local_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>'
             }
         }
     }
     

4. Build the virtual environment

   make will build the virtualenv

5. Migrate the database

   ./manage.py migrate

6. 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