Quizit

Quizit is an offline-first live quiz application designed for places with no internet access. It is similar to applications like Kahoot.

Quizit is designed to be run on a laptop or single board computer. Each of the players then connect from their phones to the IP address of the 'server'.

Quizit was originally made for an event in less than a week. The venue didn't have internet and we wanted to still have a 'Kahoot-like' quiz.

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jake-walker/quizit
# Install pipenv if you haven't already
sudo python3 -m pip install pipenv
# Install dependencies
pipenv install
# Run Quizit
pipenv run python3 index.py
# Join the quiz at https://localhost:5000/ (or at the computer's IP)
#   administrate the quiz at https://localhost:5000/admin (or at the computer's IP)

Issues

This is definitely not perfect code so you should expect bugs and big issues. Some of the problems at the moment are:

• Authentication: Admin commands are currently unauthenticated and can be run by a normal player. The admin page also has no password.
• Lots of data is sent and stored on the client, some of this data perhaps isn't needed. More data can be processed on the server side to save on individual device processing.

Creating a Quiz

Quizes are stored in YAML files for easy editing. Below is the format of a quiz.

• name is the name of the quiz and (at the moment) is only shown in the admin area.
• questions contains each of the questions in the quiz.
  • type (at the moment) can only be choice
  • prompt is the question that is shown on the player's devices.
  • answers is an array with possible answers to the prompt. The number of answers doesn't have to be 4.
  • correct is the exact value of the correct answer.
  • score is the base score value for the particular question. A time bonus (0 to 10 points) is applied which depends on how quickly the question is answered in the given time.
  • time is the number of seconds that players have to answer. This shouldn't be too long because (at the moment) questions cannot be skipped (i.e the full time must elapse).

name: "Alphabet Quiz"
questions:
  - type: choice
    prompt: What is the first letter of the alphabet?
    answers: [A, B, C, D]
    correct: A
    score: 5
    time: 5
  - type: choice
    prompt: What is the third letter of the alphabet?
    answers: [A, B, C, D]
    correct: C
    score: 10
    time: 5

Setting Team Names

Teams are stored in the config.yaml file in the root of Quizit. Players will have to select a team to join the quiz. If the quiz is all against all, one team can be set.

• teams list of teams
  • id is a machine friendly name for the team (anything can go here as long as it is unique)
  • name is the human friendly name for the team, this will be shown on player's devices

teams:
  - id: "1"
    name: "Team 1"
  - id: "2"
    name: "Team 2"
  - id: "3"
    name: "Team 3"