my sister is looking for some tool which she could use to create some polls and tests. It should be relatively user-friendly (need support for UTF-8 or CP1250 encoding for national characters) enough for normal user to be able to create new test. She expects using it for something in psychology - e.g. the tests will have variable number of questions, answer sometimes boolean - yes/no, sometimes multiple choice (a, b, c, d). She needs to be able to assign custom score for each variant. After filling the test she need it to calculate the final score she could copy and paste somewhere in text document for further work.

So, this software should not be limited for personal use only (optimal would be open-source) and also should be not Windows only, as currently she has Ubuntu linux.

I was thinking about using some simple CMS together with XAMPP on localhost (it probably would make it possible to make it online in future and sychronize both). Someone also recommended me Moodle, but the whole pack is relatively big and my brother is afraid if the laptop (HP550 with Celeron, 1GB ram and Intel graphics) could handle this without problems.

What would you recommend?

thanks

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The laptop should be able to handle moodle, especially if there aren't multiple concurrent users. I would probably go for the web-based solution as your friend suggested. – Joseph Redfern Jun 2 '11 at 20:01
I recommend you try Moodle to see how it truly works on your computer instead of living in fear of the performance of an old laptop. – P.Brian.Mackey Jun 2 '11 at 20:04
Thanks, I already tried Moodle online demo (on my desktop) and it looks promising. I am going to install it this weekend and we will see. Nice is that it is GNU ( GPLv2) so there should be no problem to use it within clinical practice (= payed) in future. – Juhele Jun 3 '11 at 9:35
Ok, Moodle failed - we asked some detailed questions about quiz settings etc. and they recommend us to use some other software. I spent some longer time by googling something - especially free php poll scripts and then found LimeSurvey which we are currently testing and it looks to be more suitable for our needs while it is still GNU. – Juhele Jun 8 '11 at 6:10
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