# Quick Starter Guide

This is a quick guide page to explore on the capabilities of inQuiry. 

The following section explains about the components of inQuiry on a high level and references to the respective areas of this microsite.

InQuiry has 3 components as stated below,

* Question & Question Set Editor (QuML Editor)
* Question Set Player (QuML Player)
* Question & Question Set Service (Micro-service)

The specification that enables all these 3 components work in tandem is a standard called [QuML](https://quml.sunbird.org/) (Question Markup Language)

## inQuiry components

The section below gives a high level overview of how the inQuiry components functions together. More details [here](https://inquiry.sunbird.org/learn/technical-architecture).

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## What is QuML?

QuML defines a standard format for representation of questions, tests and their results, supporting the exchange of this material between authoring and delivery systems, repositories and other e-learning systems.

More details on QuML is available [here](https://quml.sunbird.org/).

QuML is a specification for storage, rendering and distribution of Questions and QuestionSets.

Key advantages are,

* Interoperability
* Longevity
* Reusability

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## Different types of questions supported

As part of the standard offering, inQuiry supports the below questions out of the box

* Multiple Choice Question
* Multi-select Multiple Choice Question
* Subjective Question

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Examples of adopter implementation of question types are as follow,

* Fill In The Blanks
* Date
* Slider
* etc.

## Technology stack used in inQuiry Components

Editor is build using: Angular / HTML5 / CSS

Player is build using: Angular / HTML5 / CSS

Service is build using: Play Framework / Scala