Quiz/Survey/Test -- February 23, 2024
QST is a free, complete, secure, heavy duty, open source assessment solution. You can try it at qstonline.org and download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qstonline/.
Open source assessment software has been getting a bad name from commercial vendors enticing you to their sites with their claims of "open source software" only to find a crippled version of their commercial product and little/no support. Others talk about the benefits of new features developed by the open source community being available to you, but it's been years since anyone developed new features! Many require you to run oudated software (example PHP 7.x and earlier) which can lead to security issues, because they do not want to spend the money to upgrade their non-paying software.
Others add additional terms to their GPL licenses which is not allowed under the GPL and thus mislead you about your rights to the software. The Free Software Foundation which enforces the GPL licenses are cracking down on this misuse of the GPL and you should see these restrictive terms removed from these types of GPL abuses. Under the GPL license, you can make any changes you want to the software.
To us, open source means providing you our best software, not an inferior version.
Check the number of vulnerabilities in our software versus other offerings, including LMS's with quiz/test abilities.
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Our single point access, with all input sized and sanitized guarantees your security.
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User lock out after 5 unsuccessful logins for 4 minutes (can be adjusted) foils brute force attacks.
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Only single logins for each user allowed.
Don't believe the uncorroborated marketing statements vendors place on their sites claiming thousands to millions of users/downloads, etc., nor how they may be built on 'open standards'. How your software is implemented has no bearing on a standard format it may output, nor how well it performs.
We are NOT SELLING software.
Our mission:
- To be 'the default assessment solution for general use' by providing this free, continually evolving software for everyone.
We possess many, many decades of software development experience which translates to a product that will save you money by being very economical to run at small or large scale, is extremely stable, secure and has a feature set that no others can match.
At QST our teams mandate is to support this software and create new features (many are from users requests). We provide free email support for installs and scaling. We've been doing this since we first posted QST in 2018 and will continue to do so for many, many years to come. At sourceforge.net you can see our track record and the work we put into our software. We have just surpassed 17,000 downloads at sourceforge.net .
We do not update this site very regularly. Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/qstonline/ for updates and new versions.
Our latest release is QST version 3.12.02 on February 21, 2024.
We are currently completing our Copy/Paste interface for adding questions to QST generated by AI with our Import AI feature. It will work with other templates on offer from other vendors and some basic formats already in use.
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We are proud of our contribution to open source assessment/examination and our ability to let you "own your questions" withtout being locked into one vendors format.
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AI is going to offer a huge abilty to create questions and QST fills the void for securely and economically using them to assess achievemnent levels.
Want to create an online or mobile quiz, survey or test? From a quick quiz on your phone to large scale, high stakes proctored desktop testing, our software makes it easy, secure and economical.
The numerous features (Immediate detailed results, WYSIWYG/Math-Chemistry/Equation/Formula/Symbol and Basic Text Editors, Question Bank, Multiple Question Types, Multiple Delivery Styles, Multiple Delivery Options, Multiple Results Options, Randomly Chosen Questions, Branching Questions/Skip Logic, Auto Marking, Print a QST, Save a users marked QST as a PDF, Schedule a QST, Bulk upload students/instructors/classes, etc.) in open source QST rival or surpass those found in commercial online exam and survey software systems. Too many features to mention here, but following are a few.
QST allows you to view/mark users quizzes and tests and examine detailed statistics for each quiz/survey/test and question(s) in it. Real time results analysis. View detailed QST results by class/group in GradeBook.
Share your questions with other QST users or your Question Bank Administrator (export/import questions with images and pdf's and explanations and file descriptions as QST XML).
Import questions and answers (including images) in your word .docs.
Export/Import Moodle XML questions: multiple choice (one or many answers), matching, true/false, short answer and essay. Includes images in questions and answers. Also file descriptions in alt tags for screen readers and General feedback.
Export/Import IMS QTI 1.2/2.0/2.1/2.2/3 open format questions: multiple choice (one or many answers), matching, true/false, short answer and essay. Includes images in questions and answers and rubrics.
Convert questions to other popular formats for export: Moodle XML, QTI 2 open format, QST XML, PDF.
Free Converter is also available with a Free Account at qstonline.org.
GradeBook is also included, so you may also create marks for other assignments and add weights(%) to qst's and assignments for a Complete Assessment Solution. Interpret all your results here.
Change the QST interface to your own language.
Installs on Windows 7/10/11, Ubuntu, Mac OS and is production grade on all.
Runs on your laptop, desktop, server or the cloud.
Easily scales to thousands of simultaneous users and more. No need for complicated infrastructure to support it. All components of QST run multithreaded which greatly reduces the hardware requirements.
On android at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=qstonline.ca or download it from sourceforge.net.
Available on Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave.
Get QST at https://sourceforge.net/projects/qstonline/ .
Licenced under GPL v2.
Thank you to summernote.org for their super WYSIWIG editor, mathjax.com and letsencrypt.org for their free SSL certificates.
Contact us at qstsupport@shaw.ca .