Installation Guide¶

• This installation guide corresponds to version 0.2.3 JQuarks
• The Version of Joomla is used v1.5.14

Prerequisites for installation¶

JQuarks component is optimized to work with the TinyMCE editor, support for other editors (JCE, etc. ..) will be added soon. In order for JQuarks to work properly it is necessary to have

• TinyMCE v3.2.4.1 or
• Joomla! v1.5.12 or later (version 3.2.4.1 is shipped with this version)

Installation¶

Installing JQuarks is the same as for any other extension installation under Joomla.

First we start by downloading the latest version of JQuarks and unzip it.
For version 0.2.3, for example the package contains the following files:

File	Type	Description
com_jquarks_v0.2.3.zip	Component	This is the JQuarks component that will add quiz management functionality to our site
mod_jquarks_v0.2.2.zip	Module	This module will allow us to have a view of the available quizzes
plg_user_jquarks_v0.2.2.zip	Plugin	This plugin allow maintaining consistency between the JQuarks and Joomla's User Management component
plg_editor_syntaxhighlight_jquarks_v0.2.2.zip	plugin	This module allows you to add a button to the TinyMCE editor. This button will allow us to apply syntax highlighting if our questions involves source code

• N.B. JQuarks * uses "SyntaxHighlighter" http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter

Now let's login the back-office of our website. And head to Extension -> Install / Uninstall

We will install JQuarks using the archive transfer method. Let's start by com_jquarks_v0.2.3.zip, we run the installation by validating with the button "Upload File & Install"

The following message shall be displayed :

Now we install the remaining modules / plugins following the same procedure.

JQuarks is now installed. All that remains to do is to activate the plugins and enable / configure the module

In order to do this we head to Extension -> Management plugins

Tip: Making a search with the keyword JQuarks will only display the two plugin that interest us.

We just now activate our plugins by clicking on the corresponding button of each one.

Next is the module. Under Extension -> Management modules

We need to publish our module to do that we start editing it.

At the editing screen we can change the title of our module (Default is JQuarks), we attribute it a position, and publish it
Under settings we will be able to change the number of quizzes to show, for both private and public quizzes (default is 2 quizzes each), and change their display order

Once we have finished configuring the module we just save the modification.

Now that JQuarks is installed, we can begin creating our quizzes !

Let's see how in our User Guide