Dinky little quiz plugin adds value to TWiki-based training
I was asked on #twiki the other day if there was any support for generating online quizzes. I wrote something to do that years ago, so I got the garden spade out and went digging. The result is the TWiki:Plugins.QuizPlugin, an ultra-lightweight plugin that lets you develop simple quizzes. These are just the thing for embedding in online training, where you want to checkpoint a reader's learning in a non-threatening way.
At the moment the plugin doesn't capture any statistics about how well the quiz was answered, but it could be rather amusing to log that data. If your training course is working well, then the reader will answer the questions correctly. If it isn't, then it would be helpful to gather information about what parts of the message aren't getting through.
To avoid forcing people to log in to take the training, the data could be logged to the plugins work area. By saving that data as a CSV file it could easily be imported into a spreadsheet for analysis.
It will be interesting to hear feedback, and see if anyone is interested in taking it further.