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Multiple Choice Surveys - instructions for staff

These instructions on how to customise a MultipleChoice page are mostly for the maintainer's benefit, though teaching staff might like to see what's on offer. There are options to control access in the CUED context, to monitor who's replies and to monitor replies. Configurable options are

picture - the URL of an image that will appear on the top-left of the screen. Defaults to ""
contact_address - the hermes address that users can contact if they have queries. Defaults to "tl136"
title - The title of the page
students - a list of who's allowed to fill in entries. As special cases, YEAR1, YEAR2, YEAR3 and YEAR4 are accepted as list items.
private - Controls who can see the page. It can be set to yes or no. If no, then all CUED people can see the page, otherwise only the students can.
thequestions - a list of questions.
theanswers - a list of answers (usually 5 answers per question). If instead of an array of answers you have "NUMBER" then a short text field will be displayed. If instead of an array you have "TEXT", a 600-character text field will be displayed at the foot of the page. You can only have one text field.
administrators - an array of UIDs of people who can process the replies. The people with access to the example page shown here will be able see who has and who hasn't replied (from the allowable list of people) using
```
   http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/php/multiplechoice/replies.php?context=expomap
```
and process the replies using
```
   http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/php/multiplechoice/processing.php?context=expomap
```

Each page also has a unique keyword that will form part of the URL. For example, the example shown here has this URL

   http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/php/multiplechoice/index.php?context=expomap

(shortened versions might be available on demand). Authentication is via Raven or CUED's PIN.

Mail your preferences to tl136 in the first instance - "free-form" information on how to set each of the variables above should be enough. The full configuration in its final form for the example shown is as follows

 $administrators=array( 1 => "tpl", "tl136");
 $picture="http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/tour/images/dpofaded.jpg";
 $title="CUED Exposition Survey";
 $students= array( 1 => "tpl",  "tl136", "hs10000", "hrs", "YEAR1");
 $thequestions=array(1=> "How much did you like the Initial activity?",
     "Quality of Statics experiment?", "Hours taken?", "Any other comments?");
 $theanswers=array(1=>
   array("Not at all", " ", " ", " ", "Very"),
   array("Poor", " ", " ", " ", "Excellent"),
   "NUMBER", 
   "TEXT");
 $text1="<p>This is a special survey dedicated to your Exposition activity this term. We take feedback very seriously, but clearly it is only useful if everyone participates.  All replies and comments will be completely anonymous.</p>";

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