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Drupal Quiz 3.0 Alpha 2 is now released.

The major news for this release is that it has gotten three big new features:

• A new Matching question type has been added.
• A new Short answer question type has been added (and it offers fill-in-the-blank-like functionality)
• QTI (Question & Test Interoperability) XML, version 1.2, can now be imported by Question Import.

Here are some screenshots of the new question types:
MatchingShort answer

An Alpha release of the Drupal Quiz 3.0 module has been released. This new version adds the following features:

New Quiz UI (3.0)

• New Administrative UI
  • Drag-and-drop quiz reorganizing
  • Autocomplete question lookup
• A JavaScript enabled quiz timer
• Multiple question types
  • Long answer
  • Question directions
  • True/False
• A question importer
• Complete Views 2 support
• An object-oriented framework for adding question types
• CCK integration
• Many bugs fixed
• Many more

To download the new release, go to http://drupal.org/project/quiz

And if you find a bug, please report it!

The Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard is an XML-based data interchange format for test questions. The standard has gone through several revisions, with the QTI 1p2 standard being the most widely implemented. This week, the Drupal Quiz team has begun adding QTI support to Drupal.

My current implementation takes a QTI XML file and extracts the questions. It then attempts to match the question types against existing Quiz question types. Data is imported into Drupal nodes, and the questions immediately show up for addition in new quizzes.

In parallel to my efforts, Sivaji has been developing the Questions Import module, which provides a standard module for importing data into Quiz. Now that I have a working version, we will try to integrate the two together (if Sivaji deems that practical). The result, I hope, will be an improve QTI XML importer.

Next Steps

Once this importer is complete, we will need Quiz users to test against their own QTI files. I have a very small set of QTI files to test, and the "interoperability" part is only good when we can test against multiple implementations. Visit http://drupal.org/project/quiz for more information.