YAQ (Yet Another Quiz Extension)
For Joomla 4/5
Developer: KevinsGuides.com / Kevin Olson
License GPL v3
Full Documentation / How To Use
This is a component for Joomla 4/5.
It allows you to add graded review quizzes to your website.
Currently, this is in beta. Do not use on critical sites or without testing.
Requirements
You just need a site running Joomla 5 with a template that uses Bootstrap 5 (most templates will work).
Install it like any other component. Extension works with Joomla's cache system, but not the full page cache plugin.
What's Working...
- Create Quizzes and Questions
- Multiple Choice Questions
- True/False Questions
- Fill in blank / input text Questions
- Question Points System
- Basic Question Feedback System
- Basic form validation
- Quiz access levels on front end
- Some, but not all permissions are respected
- Question ordering
- Single page or multi page quizzes
- Basic access control (for create edit delete)
- record hit and submission count of each quiz
- checkins for quizzes are working
- javascript quiz mode
- cache first page of quizzes (or entire quiz for js quizzes)
- Able to save general and individual quiz results for every user
- Display general stats about a quiz, like # of subs and average score
- Import questions from Excel spreadsheet
- Basic templating system for all front end pages
- You can set a limit on the number of quiz attempts for logged in users.
- Permission for viewing other users results
- Page to view users results in backend
- reset stats, attempt count, etc.
- two main styles + custom
- Quiz Certificates (PDF)
- Router with SEF URLs, Quiz item alias, etc.
Todo
- parent front end all quizzes view
- HTML quiz cert option for performance or compatibility
- expire/auto remove results after x days
- maybe show all quizzes the user has taken on first page, then their results for each quiz on a separate page, rather than all results for all quiz on one page
- make checkin system work for quizzes and questions
- quiz by category - a quiz that automatically pulls all questions from a category
- randomize from pool - ability to select a random # of questions from a category
- Other question types
- hot spot
- matching
- dropdown or dragging fill in blank
- Fix Language Files/Constants (~90 done)
- Individually edit student grades, delete individual records, etc.
- Score/range based quizzes (Personality tests, diagnostic tests, range etc.)
- Email results to teacher and/or student (or just use kind of like a general form builder)
- Auto category mode - Each quiz is given a unique category and questions are automatically isolated to that quiz
- Easy insert mode - add quiz questions with JS, more responsive
- Overhaul JS quiz system to tie in with rest of the system
Basic Build Instructions
You can build from source by creating a component install package manually.
- Create new directory.
- Create "admin" and "site" directories
- Copy contents of components/com_yaquiz into site
- Copy contents of administrator/components/com_yaquiz into admin
- Move yaquiz.xml file from admin to root of new directory
- Zip everything and install as normal
If you want excel function to work you need to run composer install/update commands and ensure all dependencies are in components admin/vendor folder