Jquarks

JQuarks is an open source Quiz & Surveys component for the content management systems (CMS). JQuarks is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database environment for storage.
Quiz & Surveys Component for Joomla
JQuarks allows Joomla!-based site administrators to create multipurpose Quiz & Surveys. Here three most popular use cases of JQuarks:
* Business & Marketing: It allows decision makers to lead market research projects.
* Education: Learning by mistake
* Human Resources: Online assessment of job candidates
JQuarks is an easy-to-use extension for Joomla! and offers all the features needed in a questioning system.
JQuarks is available in 4 languages: English, German, Norwegian and French.
JQuarks runs on Joomla!1.5 native.
JQuarks is one of the most popular and top rated components on it's category in Joomla.org.
History
JQuarks was created by IP-Tech (a Tunisian IT outsourcing house) for its own enrollments needs. Assessment were used next to the usual résumé screening.
JQuarks was released on Joomla official extension directory on 28 November 2009 as a free and open source component.
As of 24 December 2009, three releases were issued and it has been downloaded more than 4000 times
Features
JQuarks is a Joomla! component that allow administrator to create quizzes and propose them to their users, it's main features are :
* Create and categories questions
* Define custom and random sets of questions
* Compile and publish sets into "quizzes"
* All types of questions are supported (unique, multiple or free answers)
* Paginated quizzes (the number of question / page is configurable)
* Open and time-limited quizzes
* Public and private quizzes
* Assign Joomla! users to quizzes and notify them by e-mail
* Export sessions (results, time, etc.) to csv format
Criticism
Missing features
JQuarks users are missing several features as reported in its community page:
* No result page for test takers
* No overall top-scores page
* No statistics are available neither for test takers nor for administrators: Administrators have access to only a session grid that displays details for each test session.
Security issues
JQuarks was red listed during two days in Joomla! Vulnerable Extensions List for an SQL injection vulnerability. The reported issue was solved and a new version that includes a security update has been issued.
Requirements
* 1.5.12 or above.
* PHP 5.2.x or above
* MySQL 5.0.x or above

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