Account Creation: Allow users to create accounts using email, social media, or mobile numbers, with different roles such as participants, quiz creators, and administrators.
Profile Management: Users can manage their profiles, including personal information, contact details, and competition history.
Role Management: Support for different user roles with varying access levels and permissions (e.g., participant, quiz master, administrator).
Quiz Creation and Management:
Quiz Design: Allow quiz creators to design quizzes, including setting questions, answer choices, and correct answers.
Question Types: Support various question types such as multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.
Difficulty Levels: Enable quiz creators to set difficulty levels for questions and quizzes.
Quiz Scheduling: Allow scheduling of quizzes with start and end times, including recurring quizzes.
Participant Management:
Registration: Allow participants to register for quizzes, including joining individual or team-based competitions.
Team Formation: Support the creation of teams with multiple participants, if applicable.
Tracking: Track participant progress and performance throughout the competition.
Quiz Execution:
Timed Quizzes: Implement timed quizzes with countdown timers for each question or the entire quiz.
Real-Time Interaction: Provide real-time interaction for answering questions and receiving feedback.
Randomization: Randomize question order and answer choices to ensure fairness.
Scoring and Results:
Automatic Scoring: Automatically score quizzes based on correct answers and predefined criteria.
Leaderboard: Display leaderboards showing top-performing participants or teams.
Results Notification: Notify participants of their scores and rankings after quiz completion.
Content Management:
Question Bank: Maintain a repository of questions that can be reused across multiple quizzes.
Content Moderation: Provide tools for moderating and approving quiz content and questions.
Reporting and Analytics:
Performance Reports: Generate reports on quiz performance, participant scores, and overall competition statistics.
Custom Reports: Allow administrators to generate custom reports based on specific criteria.
Communication:
Messaging System: Provide a messaging system for communication between participants, quiz creators, and administrators.
Notifications: Send notifications for quiz reminders, updates, and results.
Admin Panel:
Dashboard: A central dashboard for administrators to manage quizzes, participants, scores, and system settings.
User Management: Admins can add, remove, or modify user accounts and roles.
System Configuration: Allow admins to configure system settings, including quiz formats, scoring rules, and user permissions.
Integration with External Systems:
Third-Party Services: Optionally integrate with third-party services for additional features such as social media sharing, authentication, or payment processing.
Non-Functional Requirements
Performance:
Speed: Ensure fast load times for the platform, quick response times for quiz interactions, and efficient scoring.
Scalability: The system should handle increasing numbers of users, quizzes, and concurrent interactions without performance degradation.
Security:
Data Protection: Implement encryption and secure storage for sensitive user data, including personal information and quiz results.
Access Control: Enforce role-based access controls to prevent unauthorized access to data and system features.
Integrity: Ensure the integrity of quiz content and results to prevent tampering or cheating.
Usability:
User Interface: Design an intuitive and user-friendly interface for quiz creation, participation, and management.
Accessibility: Ensure the platform is accessible to users with disabilities, following WCAG guidelines.
Reliability:
Uptime: Aim for high availability with minimal downtime to ensure continuous access to quizzes and competitions.
Backup and Recovery: Implement regular backups and a disaster recovery plan to protect data and ensure business continuity.
Maintainability:
Code Quality: Maintain clean, well-documented code to facilitate easy updates and maintenance.
Modularity: Design the system in a modular way to allow for easy addition of new features and updates.
Compatibility:
Cross-Browser Support: Ensure compatibility with major web browsers (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge).
Mobile Responsiveness: The platform should be fully functional on various mobile devices and screen sizes.
Localization:
Multilingual Support: Provide the platform in multiple languages if serving a diverse user base.
Regional Customization: Allow for region-specific content, compliance, and system configurations.
Analytics and Reporting:
Data Insights: Provide actionable insights into quiz participation, performance, and user engagement.
Custom Reporting: Allow administrators to generate and customize reports based on specific criteria.