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Hello I'm trying to make some kind of tool for an school website, what I need to do is to make students take a test and according to what are the results (27 posibilities) they get a set of activities (questions) according to their level which they can solve in around 3 months logging periodically to the website, plus I need teachers to log and look at the reports.

Now, I'm a graphic designer myself so my skills are mostly html5 and css3 and I know some php (edit existing ones only) and javascript (jquery) as well, most people tell me that I need a CMS to do the tool but all I find is CMS for display like blogs or news websites which I think aren't useful for me because the website is already made in html and css3 only (I need to add an extra page for the tool)

I understand I need to create users and give them special rights according to what type of user they are and I also understand that I need a database where I can store all my questions.

What is the best way to do this? what do you suggest me?

Thanks

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Your best of taking a look at codecanyon for premade php scripts codecanyon.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=quiz – bybe Feb 20 at 15:26
I think someone around my place can help me with the logical part of how to make the quiz, what I'm really looking for is a way to store the content that will be viewed by the students, I know I need a database and users but I'm not sure if a CMS can help me manage that. – user2091756 Feb 20 at 17:49

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Since CMS's comprise a huge variety of options, it sounds like what you're thinking of implementing is an educationally oriented CMS (often called LMS's), e.g. Blackboard, or Moodle.

Moodle is an open-source option specifically designed and supplemented to work for class user dynamics, and with a host of tools that may answer you problem. As a CMS, you would set this up as a sub-domain most likely to maintain your otherwise html-based site.

Your hosting provider will likely have relevant instructions on making a sub-domain or simply a directory sub to the root for you to install the LMS in.

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Thanks for the answer, I know what Moodle is, I even have one installed in my pc using Xampp apache server because we were trying different options during the last months, I'm not really sure why we discarded moodle but there was a solid reason, I'll check again my documentation. Thanks – user2091756 Feb 20 at 20:49
I got the answer why we discarded moodle, idk if we can do this in moodle but the school wants the kids to take a test and according to that test the kids are set into a level, and according to that level the program gives the student a set of questions so they can improve their level, but this set is not static it should be flexible, in other words a student in a level 6 might have gotten the incorrect level so they want the tool to promote or demote the student 'on the fly' according to how their progress is going. The exact way to do this is still being developement by the teachers. – user2091756 Feb 20 at 21:40

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