Enhancing drupal quiz module

hello geeks,

      Updated proposal is here http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/sivaji2...

About Me

I am sivaji from India doing B.E Final year computer science engineering, i have been using drupal for past six months, very much comfortable with its features and community support. I am looking for a chance to contribute something to our drupal community and learn some nifty hacks. My work and area of interest revolves around Ubuntu, PHP, Drupal, Ajax, Jquery, Joomla.

Overview

Recently i got an opportunity to work with (drupal 5) quiz modules, i found that its very interesting especially the quiz results and feedback features, i think it requires a lot of tweaks to be done. Here the some of my new features and enhancement idea.

Description

New Features

1. quiz results Notification via Email
2. CSV, TSV questions Upload
3. Result statistics and analysis using Drupal chart module (Optional)
4. Result Dashboard.

Enhancement

1. Send all the questions to client side and display it one by one as the user proceeds with the test. eg when the user answers for the first question second one will be displayed and so on.

   Advantage :

   1. It reduces the server load and number of request and delay. Because the current version of quiz module sends a request for each question, imagine if 100 users are attending quiz contest which has 20 questions its very expensive isn't it ?.
   2. It reduces the delay and makes the quiz more interactive by giving instant response.

   3. Allows the users to view all the answered questions in a single page and he/she can verify the answers before submitting it.

   4. Ajax paper for add multi-choice question page where already available multi-choice questions were being display.

   Also i would like to implement the todo and feature requests for quiz module given in this links

   http://drupal.org/node/199575
   http://groups.drupal.org/node/7412
   http://groups.drupal.org/node/16549

Mentors

• Expected mentor mbutcher
• Backup mentor -
• ALocalMentor -

 Updated proposal is here http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/sivaji2...

Difficulty : Medium

I would like to implement the above ideas to druapl 7.x also (in future) and want to be a long term drupal contributor. digitalfreak and mbutcher seems to be very interested in quiz module, i am happy to work with them, hope we will have lot of fun this summer with drupal. Please post your suggestions to make it better.