Deployment Models

We appreciate that educational establishments have complex ICT infrastructures, and in-house, LEA and other staff have to work within many constraints when adding new software to their systems.

We don't want to add to those headaches, so we have made InQuizitor as straightforward as possible to install and deploy - and flexible enough to work with the wide variety of technologies used in educational establishments.

Standalone

InQuizitor can be installed on standalone PCs that meet the system requirements. These may be systems that are out of reach of the network, or are to be taken home by staff or pupils. Simply follow the installation instructions supplied with the InQuizitor CDs and place any required Question Banks and Quizzes on the local hard disk (default location is "3MRT InQuizitor Files" within "My Documents" but you can choose an alternative).

Network

The InQuizitor applications - the Player and the Editor - must reside on the local hard disk of each PC they will run on. This removes the need for complex server installations and the resulting management of users, permissions, etc - and is necessary to deliver the performance required to create a realistic game-based experience for your learners.

Usually, the Player application will be accessed by learners and staff, while the Editor will only be accessed by staff.

For larger installations, proprietary network management tools, or facilities such as Active Directory found on many networks are often used to create a single installation image that is "pushed" out to network stations from the server.

Question Banks and Quizzes are not tied into the applications' locations and can be stored anywhere on the network that the appropriate users can access. The main content used by learners are Quizzes that have been created by staff; some establishments store these in a server location dedicated to InQuizitor content, others distribute them around existing subject or class-specific locations. It is common to store two sets of Question Banks on the server - one for the use of staff when preparing Preset Quizzes (these may be read, modified and saved under the same or different names) and one that learners can access to make up their own Random Quizzes (these will only be read).

When deciding on the storage of Quizzes, there is some performance benefit (and a reduction in network traffic) if they are organised into sub-folders rather then held in one large repository.

Licencing

The InQuizitor Player is licenced on a per computer or per site basis, not per concurrent user. This means that a 30-station licence (for example) can only be installed on 30 nominated PCs. It cannot be installed on all stations on a network even if there is a means of ensuring only 30 users access it concurrently.

A site licence allows installation on all PCs and unlimited concurrent users within a single physical site. Split site establishments and other special situations will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Standalone PCs (typically laptops) that are owned by the establishment but taken off site are covered by both computer and site licences, though they count towards your allocation of computer licences.

Deployment Models

Standalone

Network

Licencing

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