Saving A Filled-In (Completed) Form

[wayne]

I teach two on-line Botany and Biology classes through Palomar College. Each multiple choice html exam has a corresponding submission form with 100 to 200 numbered questions, depending on the particular exam. On the submission form, each question has a box that must be filled in with the correct letter choice that corresponds with the exam. When the answer form is completed, the student clicks on the submit button and the form is sent to Discover.com for grading and then back to my e-mail box; however, sometimes an exam doesn't reach me. Is there a way for a student to save their answer form with all the answer boxes filled in? Then they could simply resubmit the completed form. The way it is now, if a completed form is saved, all the boxes are empty. In fact, it would be especially nice if a student could save their form partially filled in, and then complete the form and submit it later. The following URL has a sample exam form.

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/exam0ans.htm

[AdamGundry]

You could use cookies to store the answers, then reload them on request. If you have a server-side language available, you could save them to a database.

Adam

[Fang]

You could also have the form sent to Discover.com and to you before grading, then you would always have a backup.

[Nevermore]

Does your server support any of the following: PHP ASP SSI MySQL SQL