Exams in Minecraft!

This plugin lets server owner setup pre-defined exams which players can take to obtain certain ranks (permission groups) on the server OR execute a certain command for the player if he passes the exam.

Exams is a simple, lightwight and automated way to handle certain ranks on the server, such as :

• Citizen (Player need to read and understand the rules before he can build on the server)
• Wizard (Player need to know how he actually use the wizard spells before he can be a wizard)
• Police (Player need to know under what conditions he should jail players)

From my own experience, using this plugin is a very efficient way to guarantee quality players on your server when players need to pass an exam to be able to build on the server.

By editing the exams.yml file, a server admins can define any type of exam for any rank they like.

Exams are taken by clicking on signs in the world to encourage people to build schools in the game world where players can go to take exams.

Exam questions

Setting up an exam is easy:

• Place a sign with the words "Exam" on line 1, and the name of the exam (from the exam.yml file) on line 3.
• Players can now signup and take the exam by right-clicking on the exam sign

Being a Student

• During the exam, the player will be put in the "Student" permission group.
• If the player fails his exam he will be reverted back to the permission group he had before starting the exam

Installation

Put the Exams.jar file in your /plugins folder and you are ready to go!

Defining your exams

Just edit the exams.yml that appears in the Exams folder. The layout should be simple to understand:

Citizen:
  RankName: Citizen
  Command: give $PlayerName 38 1
  StartTime: 600
  EndTime: 13000
  Price: 100
  NumberOfQuestions: 2
  Questions:
    Is it ok to grief on the server?:
      Options:
      - Yes
      - No
      - I will grief like theres no tomorrow!
      - Maybe
      CorrectOption: B
  Questions:
    What is NOT a way to obtain items?:
      Options:
      - Asking an admin for it
      - Crafting them
      - Buying them
      - Asking other players for them
      CorrectOption: A
  Questions:
    How do I obtain a higher rank?:
      Options:
      - By yelling and screaming about it
      - By convincing an admin
      - By taking the exam for that rank
      - No idea
      CorrectOption: C

This exam puts him in the "Citizen" group (RankName) and hands him a rose (38).

Notice that the exam above will select 2 questions (NumberOfQuestions) at random out of all available 3 questions for the exam.
In this way, the exam will never be exactly the same and players will not be able to simply record the sequence of the answers.

This exam has both the "RankName" and "Command" settings.
Either of these are optional: You can setup up an exam that only performs a command or only puts the player in a group or both.

Optional: Required Exams

An exam can be setup to require passing another exam first.
You can set another exam as being required for taking this exam, by specifying the RequiredExam value.

Citizen:
  RankName: MasterCitizen
  RequiredExam: Citizen
  Command: give $PlayerName 38 200
  StartTime: 600
  EndTime: 13000
  Price: 10000
  NumberOfQuestions: 64
  Questions:
    Is it ok to grief on the server?:
      Options:
      - Yes
      - No
      - I will grief like theres no tomorrow!
      - Maybe
      CorrectOption: B

Optional: Payment

You can set the required payment for taking an exam by specifying the Price value.
NOTE: You need Vault installed on the server to use payment.

Optional: RankName

You can set the permission group that the player will be put in if the player passes the exam, by specifying the RankName value.

Optional: Command

You can set the command that the plugin will execute if the player passes the exam, by specifying the Command value.

Optional: Multiple Commands

You can set a list of command that the plugin will execute if the player passes the exam, by specifying the Commands value.

Citizen:
  RankName: Citizen
  Commands: 
  - give $PlayerName 38 1
  - tppos $PlayerName 128 65 128
  StartTime: 600
  ...

Optional: Required rank

You can set another rank (permission group) as being required for taking this exam, by specifying the RequiredRank value.

Optional: Opening Hours

You can set the opening hours for each exam by specifying the StartTime and EndTime values. Note that these values are in minecraft time.

Commands

Permission Nodes

Note that Exams currently supports PermissionsBukkit, PermissionsEX, bPermissions and GroupManager.

• exams.* - Player can do everything below
• exams.updates - Player gets notifications about updates to the Exams plugin
• exams.reload - Player can reload the Exams configuration file

Configuration

Want to contribute? Exams is open source!

Check out the official repository on github