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