Active Web Pages

Active Web Pages allows Results Edition users to automatically capture and analyse results. If you do not have a Results Edition licence you can still try it in unlicensed mode by selecting Preferences from the Options menu and changing the Edition setting.

Active Web Pages saves results summaries for lessons and tests.

Active Web Pages automatically analyses responses to questions, which is useful for lessons and tests and essential for surveys.

Active Web pages lists user results for lessons and tests, and you can press the View button by each one to open and step through the marked screens for any individual users.

Active Web Pages shows the raw data in a table, which you can copy and paste into any spreadsheet for further analysis

Creating Active Web pages

Click here for details of the settings you can change. Developer Options lists some further features only available to users with a Developer licence.

Testing on your own computer

• If you want to run a web server from your own computer then this is possible and free. However, it does require a small amount of setup, and if you are unfamiliar with this sort of technology it might be best to ask your local technician to do it for you.
• You need a web server, and you can get the world's leading web server for free from: Apache Web Server downloads.
• You will also need PHP, which you can get for free from PHP downloads where you need to get the Windows binaries if you are using Microsoft Windows. Question Tools Active Web Pages will only work if PHP can write files to directories (folders). This is turned on by default, but some internet service provider administrators turn this feature off.
• Once you have installed both a web server and PHP, and once you have configured the web server to work with PHP, you can save your Active Web Pages to the web pages folder for the web server (usually www on ISS or htdocs on Apache). Providing your web server is running, you will be able to open your web browser and enter localhost as the address, together with the name of your lesson, survey or test start page, and all should work.
• Patience is required if you want to do this, but once it is set up it is very easy to use.

Notes

Efficient results analysis. Results are analyzed whenever someone looks at the group results. However, results are analyzed in a cumulative way so that each result is only ever analyzed once. If you look at the results after 300 people have taken your test, lesson or survey then all 300 will be analyzed. If you look at it again the next day after a further 20 people have added their results, only 20 results will be analyzed, and these will be added to a summary for the existing 300. This means that you do not wait long periods when look at large numbers of results.

Incomplete lessons, surveys and tests. If users do not complete a lesson, survey or test then it is not immediately included in an analysis. Only after 1 hour are incomplete results analyzed. This is to allow time for users who may be slow, or may have been looking at the same screen for some time.

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