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Export manager
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| This article relates to features introduced in version 1.4.4. |
The Qedoc Quiz Maker has an export manager. The export manager is an application-within-an-application. It controls export of Qedoc quizzes (or parts of them) to other formats, environment and places. Once you've made a quiz, you need to deploy it somehow and somewhere. The export manager is usually what you will go through to get there.
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The simplest way to deploy a quiz
The simplest way to deploy a quiz does not involve the export manager.
- Click the satellite dish button to upload the quiz for publication.
- Once published, open the Qedoc Quiz Player and use the remote loading option (click the online learning modules' tab) to load your published quiz from the web. See: how to load a learning module.
When to use the export manager
If you wish to deploy quizzes to yourself or your students as described above, you won't need the export manager. For just about anything else, you need the export manager.
For example:
- Distributing on removable media such as floppy disks, CD-ROM's, memory sticks.
- Distributing via your own website.
- Making a backup on a different computer.
- Turning a quiz into a mini-website.
- Converting the quiz for use in a virtual learning environment such as Moodle.
- Converting the quiz into wiki-markup for use in a MediaWiki implementation such as Wikiversity
How to use the export manager
Where to launch the export manager
The correct icon the the 3rd from the left. You can also go via the menu system (file --> export).
What happens when you launch the export manager
Two different things will happen, depending on your registration status.
- Commercial licence holders will be taken straight to the export manager interface.
- Free users will first be requested to load a published module from the internet. The export manager interface will then start by itself as soon as the online module has been loaded. This different procedure is to ensure that the principle of share-or-pay is adhered to. For free users, export functions are only available for modules which have been shared (published). If you haven't published the module you want to export, then click the satellite dish button.
What the export manager looks like
The screenshot to the right shows the export manager. The interface is designed to be self-explanatory, with embedded context-sensitive help and instructions.
The export manager offers the following features:
- Module title display in the top left-hand corner.
- Choice of output formats, with help buttons next to each which launch pop-up help screens.
- List of levels (quizzes) within the module. Exports are normally based on levels. You export a level, not the whole module (although a level could be defined to include all the questions in a module). Levels can be selected in the left-hand column.
- At the bottom of the interface are two tabs providing instructions and messages about the latest conversion.
- The toolbar provides buttons for saving, converting, copying to the clipboard and clearing the display.
- The main display ("converted data") shows, for those formats which are text-based, the converted code. The contents of the display can be saved to a file, or copied to the clipboard for pasting directly into another application.
