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Open Source. High Performance. Complete Control.

          Open Source Initiative
"To us, open source means providing you our best software, not an inferior version."


   

Why Choose QST for Your Assessments?

QST is a complete, open source, self-hosted assessment platform built from the ground up to give you full control, security, scalability, and flexibility — without sacrificing ease of use or advanced functionality.


From a quick quiz on your phone to very large scale high stakes proctored desktop testing, QST provides it.


✅ What Makes QST Stand Out

  • Truly Open Source & Vendor Neutral — Under GPLv2, QST is free to use and rebrand, with no licensing restrictions or hidden fees.
  • Scales on Modest Hardware — QST runs on Windows, Linux, or macOS (laptop, desktop, server, or cloud) and supports thousands of simultaneous users through multithreaded architecture — no need for complex infrastructure or heavy cloud hosting.
  • Full Assessment Lifecycle — Built-in GradeBook & Analytics — Auto-marking for objective items, manual grading for essays/short answers, statistical analysis of results, per-question performance breakdowns, exportable QST details and exportable GradeBook (CSV/JSON) for deeper analysis or import into other systems.
  • Rich, Flexible Question & Delivery Options — Supports multiple question types (MCQ, multiple answer, matching, true/false, short answer, essay, surveys, branch/skip-logic), advanced formatting including math/chemistry equations (MathJax / TeX / MathML / mhchem), images, media, and even the unique “Memory” feature that shows information to students only once.
  • Question Portability & Interoperability — Import and export in standard formats (QST XML, Word XML, Moodle XML, QTI 1/2/3, PDF) enabling reuse, backup, or migration of question banks across platforms — so you are never locked in.
  • Secure, Privacy-Focused & Self-Hosted — Because you run QST on your own network or server, all student data and assessment content stays under your control. The design emphasizes secure access, no remote dependencies, and safe handling of user sessions.
  • Ease of Use & Administration — Intuitive web interface for students/instructors/admins; ability to bulk upload users, classes, user photos; straightforward installation (laptop/desktop/server/cloud) with minimal configuration; multilingual UI support; and broad browser compatibility.


🧑‍🏫 Best For

QST is ideal for educational institutions, training organizations, certification bodies, or private companies that want:

  • A self-hosted, open-source solution to avoid vendor lock-in.
  • A platform that scales to hundreds or thousands of users — while still running on modest hardware.
  • A full-featured assessment system (quizzes, exams, surveys, assignments) — but not a full LMS, if you prefer minimal overhead.
  • Robust grading, reporting, analytics and full control over question data and results.
  • Flexibility to import existing question banks, or export to share or migrate later.


Use QST if you want a dependable, flexible, scalable assessment platform that stays under your control — now and in the future.


   



Immediate results

Questions are auto marked and students graded.

Results of quizzzes/tests for each student in class.


Actionable detailed analysis

Easily and quickly see where students are having issues.
Detailed results of which students got which questions correct.



Avoid vendor lockin of your questions!
  • Use in other Open Source Apps
  • Export/Download copies to store as backups
  • Easily share with others
  • We uniquely provide interchangeability
    • QST XML
    • Word XML
    • Moodle XML
    • QTI
    • PDF

    You OWN your questions!

Create, export/import/convert questions to common/standard formats.
            Import from: Moodle, Canvas, SharePoint, Chamilo, Sakai,
            BrightSpace, Neo LMS, Blackboard, TAO, ATutor, Desire2Learn,
            FastTest, Inspera, Cognero, GradeMaker, ONYX, QuestionMark,
            SharePoint, Trifork, Question Writer, Anthology, PowerSchool,
            TestGen, GetMarked, Respondus and OpenStax OER Test banks. 

Includes text, formatting, HTML and images relinked.
ALT in image tags will be image file description per WCAG AA.
  - Easily add your own descriptions to your images.

Our Free/Demo Account does Free conversions.
  - Tens of thousands of questions have been converted for free.

View of the 4 question type input options: QST XML, Word XML, Moodle XML and QTI which can be imported

View of the 4 question export options: QST XML, Moodle XML, QTI 2.2 and PDF which can be exported




Test a students active recall and retention-key aspects of knowledge!

View of the Memory option in QST



  Our revolutionary MEMORY feature allows you to display material once to a student.

  Once they click Continue, that material will no longer be available to them.
    - a secure implementation not using javascript nor H5P

  Now ask them a question about it.

  A very innovative feature not available on other platforms.

  Greatly expands the versatility of your assessments.




Installs on:
Laptop, desktop, server or cloud.
(Windows 7/10/11 - Linux - Mac OS, all production grade)

Available on:
Android & Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave browsers



Phone
A quiz being conducted on a phone.

Desktop/Laptop/Tablet
An exam being conducted on a laptop.

Submited QST
A submitted exam shown to student.


Creating a question could not be simpler!
creating a question.




Create Math and Chemistry equations

Includes support for multiple symbols, logic, etc..
Also export as MathML to paste into your other web pages.  
Thank you to MathJax.org and SummerNote.org .

x = b ± b 2 4 a c 2 a

Hg A 2 + I A HgI A 2 I A [ Hg A II I A 4 ] A 2

x Na ( NH A 4 ) HPO A 4 Δ ( NaPO A 3 ) A x + x NH A 3 + x H A 2 O





We support our Open Source software.

We answer your emails and the Discussion at SourceForge.net!
Usually the same day.




Since June 2018 we have logged over 24,000 downloads at SourceForge.net

Latest SourceForge review:

A testimonial of a user in regards to the positive aspects of the software.


QST - made in Canada used globally.

From individuals to government/educational institutions to private industry.
We are the most downloaded quiz/exam software at Sourceforge.net

A map of the world showing the countries QST has been downloaded to.



Our mission:

To be,
"the default assessment solution for general use"
by providing this free, open source, continually evolving software for everyone.

When Security matters, QST is the answer.

It is inherent in the design of our software.
All input is verified, sized, sanitized and whitelisted.
We built it that way from day one.
You can confidently run QST on your hardware.
We are very proud of our 0 security vulnerabilities record!


When Scalability matters, QST is the answer.

All components running multi-threaded handle unbelievable loads.
On Linux having 5,000 apache threads waiting for requests, along with 2,500 mod_perl threads means you're already scaled.
We understand how to get the most out of your hardware.
You don't need AWS to scale - but you can.
Our Windows implementation is unmatched for scalability.


QST is released under GPLv2 only.

You can run it as a service and not release your code.
No licence needed for commercial use.
Rebrand or change QST, it's yours!

Perl, the langauge our software is written in has proven to be one of the most stable and robust over decades of use by fortune 500 companies.
Our feature set is very substantial (and always growing from your suggestions) and our analytics are second to none.
Little support is required because, well, it's Perl.
If you need help installing or scaling we provide free email assistance.


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