Account Creation: Allow users to create accounts and manage their profiles. Users may include quiz creators (educators, trainers) and participants (students, trainees).
Role-Based Access: Implement role-based access control to differentiate between quiz creators, participants, and administrators.
Quiz Creation and Management
Quiz Design: Provide tools for creating quizzes, including adding questions, setting difficulty levels, and defining question types (e.g., multiple choice, true/false, short answer).
Question Types: Support various question types such as multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, and short answer.
Question Bank: Allow quiz creators to build and manage a question bank, categorizing questions by topic, difficulty, and type.
Quiz Customization: Enable customization of quizzes with options such as time limits, randomization of questions and answers, and scoring rules.
Quiz Administration
Scheduling: Allow quiz creators to schedule quizzes, including start and end times, and availability windows.
Access Control: Manage quiz access by setting restrictions, such as password protection, access codes, or specific user groups.
Notifications: Send notifications to participants about upcoming quizzes, deadlines, and results.
Participant Interaction
Quiz Taking: Provide a user-friendly interface for participants to take quizzes, including clear instructions, question navigation, and answer submission.
Progress Tracking: Display progress indicators and allow participants to review their answers before final submission.
Immediate Feedback: Offer immediate feedback on answers, including correct/incorrect responses and explanations where applicable.
Scoring and Results
Automatic Scoring: Automatically score quizzes based on predefined answer keys and scoring rules.
Result Analysis: Generate and display detailed results and analytics, including scores, completion times, and performance breakdowns.
Result Reporting: Provide options for generating and exporting reports, including individual results and overall quiz performance.
Analytics and Reporting
Performance Metrics: Offer analytics on quiz performance, including average scores, question difficulty, and participant performance trends.
Export Options: Allow exporting of quiz results and analytics in various formats (e.g., PDF, Excel).
Content Management
Media Integration: Support the integration of multimedia elements (e.g., images, audio, video) into quizzes.
Content Moderation: Implement content moderation tools to review and approve questions and quizzes before publication.
Integration
Learning Management Systems (LMS): Integrate with LMS platforms for seamless quiz management and participant tracking.
Third-Party Tools: Allow integration with third-party tools for additional functionalities, such as advanced analytics or plagiarism detection.
Security and Compliance
Data Protection: Ensure the protection of sensitive data, including quiz content, participant information, and results.
Compliance: Comply with relevant data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, FERPA) and ensure quiz integrity.
Support and Help
Help Resources: Provide access to help resources, including FAQs, user guides, and tutorials.
Customer Support: Offer support channels for troubleshooting and assistance, including help desks and online support.
Non-Functional Requirements
Performance
Response Time: Ensure fast response times for quiz creation, participation, and result generation (e.g., under 2 seconds for most interactions).
Scalability: The system should handle increasing numbers of quizzes, participants, and concurrent users without performance degradation.
Reliability
Uptime: Ensure high system availability with minimal downtime (e.g., 99.9% uptime).
Error Handling: Implement robust error handling and recovery mechanisms to manage system failures and ensure data integrity.
Security
Data Encryption: Encrypt sensitive data, including quiz content, participant information, and results, both in transit and at rest.
Authentication and Authorization: Use secure authentication methods and role-based access control to manage user permissions and protect content.
Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
Usability
User Interface: Design an intuitive and user-friendly interface for creating, taking, and managing quizzes.
Accessibility: Ensure the system is accessible to users with disabilities, following accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG).
Maintainability
Code Quality: Write high-quality, well-documented code to facilitate system maintenance and updates.
Documentation: Provide comprehensive documentation for users, administrators, and developers, including user guides, technical manuals, and troubleshooting guides.
Availability
Backup and Recovery: Implement regular data backups and establish procedures for data recovery in case of system failures or data loss.
Failover: Ensure the system has failover capabilities to switch to backup systems or servers if necessary.
Portability
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Ensure the system is compatible with various devices and operating systems used by users, including desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
Supportability
Technical Support: Provide mechanisms for obtaining technical support and resolving issues, including help desks, online resources, and customer service.
Error Reporting: Include functionality for reporting issues or bugs and tracking their resolution.
