This installation is not recommended, and you should use this guide if quick installation doesn’t work. If you have any problem, you can send an e-mail to info@mathsformore.com.

Download WIRIS Quizzes and unzip it on your moodle’s root directory.

Copy all contents from wiris-quizzes/questiontypes to question/type

1.3.1      Editing questionlib.php

Copy lib/questionlib.php file to lib/questionlib.php.old, open lib/questionlib.php and then search this string:

if ($menuname) {

Then, add after this line the next code:

/**** start WIRIS plugin ****/

if (array_key_exists($name . "wiris", $QTYPES)) continue;

/**** end WIRIS Plugin ****/

Example:

Before:

foreach ($QTYPES as $name => $qtype) {

$menuname = $qtype->menu_name();

if ($menuname) {

$menu_options[$name] = $menuname;

}

}

After:

foreach ($QTYPES as $name => $qtype) {

$menuname = $qtype->menu_name();

if ($menuname) {

/**** start WIRIS plugin ****/

if (array_key_exists($name . "wiris", $QTYPES)) continue;

/**** end WIRIS Plugin ****/

$menu_options[$name] = $menuname;

}

}

1.3.2      Editing question.php

Copy question/question.php file to question/question.php.old, open question/question.php and then search this string:

// Validate the question category

Then, add before this line the next code:

/**** start WIRIS Plugin ****/

if (array_key_exists($question->type . "wiris", $QTYPES))

$question->qtype = $question->qtype . "wiris";

/**** end WIRIS Plugin ****/

Example:

Before:

// Validate the question category

if (!category = get_record(‘question_categories’, ‘id’, $question->category)) {

print_error(‘categorydoesnotexists’, ‘question’, $returnurl);

}

After:

/**** start WIRIS Plugin ****/

if (array_key_exists($question->type . "wiris", $QTYPES))

$question->qtype = $question->qtype . "wiris";

/**** end WIRIS Plugin ****/

 

// Validate the question category

if (!category = get_record(‘question_categories’, ‘id’, $question->category)) {

print_error(‘categorydoesnotexists’, ‘question’, $returnurl);

}

WIRIS Quizzes needs create some new tables on moodle’s database. If you want to create these tables automatically, open your web browser and type this link on navigation bar: http://your_server/moodle_path/wiris-quizzes/installdb.php.

Now you can set WIRIS Quizzes configuration editing wiris-quizzes/wrsqz_config.php file. There is a table that specifies each parameter:

Key	Description	Default value
$CFG->wirisquizzes_serverhost	Specifies the WIRIS Quizzes remote server host.	'www.wiris.com'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_serverport	Specifies the WIRIS Quizzes remote server port.	80
$CFG->wirisquizzes_serverpath	Specifies the WIRIS Quizzes remote server path.	'/quizzes/qwirisservlet'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_extension	Specifies the WIRIS Quizzes syntax extension that uses on HTML code.	'W'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_CAScode	Specifies the default value for CAS editor.	'<session version="2.0"><library closed="false"><mtext style="color:#ffc800">variables</mtext><group><command><input><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"/></input></command></group></library></session>'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_imagedir	Specifies the path relative to moodle data where images will be saved.	wiris-quizzes/imagecache
$CFG->wirisquizzes_plotborderstyle	Border style for plot images	'solid'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_plotborderwidth	Border width for plot images.	'1px'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_plotbordercolor	Border color for plot images.	'#8888ff'
$CFG->wirisquizzes_plotmargin	Margin width for plot images.	'5px'