[QTI] Eqiat version 0.1

[Bart Nagel]

I've just released the first version of Eqiat, an easy QTI item 
authoring tool. It is web based and aims to make simple question types 
easy to author. It's licensed under the Creative Commons "Attribution 
non-commercial share alike" licence.

Only a few question types are supported at present but it's pretty 
easy to add more -- just write one PHP class file and no other changes 
to the code should be necessary.

I don't have a permanent publicly viewable demo server yet but my 
testing server is temporarily visible to the world at 
<http://lslvm-bjn1.ecs.soton.ac.uk:3000/eqiat> so please have a play 
and send any comments my way. There's an issue tracker at 
<http://github.com/tremby/eqiat/issues> so any bug reports should go 
there, please.

It's available to download at <http://github.com/tremby/eqiat> -- both 
read-only git access and package downloads.

Eqiat's written in PHP but calls a small Java program to validate the 
QTI (validate is available at <http://github.com/tremby/validate> but 
is also included as a subtree within Eqiat).

It calls a remote instance of QTIEngine to provide previews of the 
items -- it uses the demo at qtiengine.qtitools.org by default. (Note 
that there's an outstanding issue whereby QTIEngine will throw error 
pages at you if you have a QTIEngine session cookie -- just clear all 
your session cookies or just that particular one and you should be 
good to go. Haven't figured out a workaround to this yet.)

More information is in the README file.

So please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions and 
report any issues you might find. I've only briefly tested on any 
browser other than Firefox 3.5 but things seem fine in Safari, Arora, 
Opera, Chrome and even my little goes on IE 7 and 6 seemed to go OK...

Patches are welcome too, of course.

--bart nagel

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