ONLINE EXAMINATION

SYSTEM
 By
 Dolly Gujarathi
 Priyanka Gosai

 MPSTME-NMIMS University
 Btech I.T.
 Introduction

 Online examinations are conducted through the internet or

in an intranet (if within the Organization) to test a remote
candidate .
 Candidate is given a limited time to answer the questions
and after the time expiry the answer paper is disabled
automatically and answers is sent to the examiner.
 The examiner will evaluate answers, either through
automated process or manually and the results will be sent
to the candidate through email or made available in the
web site.
Advantages

 it can be conducted for remote candidates and

evaluation of answers can be fully automated for MCQ
questions and other essay type questions can be
evaluated manually or through automated system.

 online examinations can be conducted at any time and

does not incur higher cost as traditional exam scenario
as there is no paper work involved
 Need

 There are three major components of effort required to

administer an examination:
1. Create the examination, and keep the contents secure until
the examination starts.
2. Supervise the examination
3. Mark the examinations.

 Using computer technology, it should be possible to

streamline these three phases, and also disconnect them
from each other.

 examination system offers the following features

1. Reliability
2. User Details
 Proposed System

 The Online Examination System is a web based application.

 The system suits the need of Educational Institutions,

Primary and Secondary Schools, Colleges, Professional and
Vocational Institutes, Universities or Training Academies

 The product (system) aims at reducing costs associated

with conducting exams over a period of time and achieving
total automation of examination system-related tasks like
registration, publication of results, which leads to a very
high degree of system efficiency.
 Features

 Type of Questions- multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blanks and

essay.

 Exams can be timed or untimed- set the date and time when the
specific test has to be available.

 Can include pictures, graphics and flash (.swf) files in the questions of
the Online examinations.

 The Student and Faculty details are stored in the database.

 The Online examination system has a password based authentication

system for students as well as System Administrator.

 Trends Graphs Included for analysis-system is capable of generating

statistical data for examiner.
 Communities and Groups can be formed for specific organizations

 Practice Tests- providing a large bank of practice test questions that

students can practice with.

 Exam Simulators-practice taking exams in a real exam environment.

 Exams and questions can be edited, deleted, and re-used anytime

 Discussion Blog- to discuss the problems/doubts students have

regarding a test.
 Results: Students and instructors get instant results via
e-mail. Results can also be printed as soon as the test
finishes.

 Colour Code for Question Status:

 Orange : Question seen but no any action (Review &
Confirm)
 Gray : Not seen questions
 Green : Confirmed Answer
• Alerts: Reminders are set to alert examinee 10
minutes before time expiry.
Advanced Features

 The examiner who uploads the questions gets an option of

specifying
whether the questions can be used for practice tests or not.

 Communities or groups can be formed for specific

organizations.

 A variety of analysis options based on different parameters or

combinations of different parameters for faculty/examiners
conducting the test.

 Testing and Management of the system are important

advanced features that are offered by the proposed system.
They are discussed as follows.
Testing:

The interactive online testing interface greatly expands the

capabilities of the assessment offering, and gives candidates
the benefits of:

 Multimedia and Interactive questions.

 No more handwriting concerns.

 The ability to log on and sit their exams from any Internet
terminal (when supervision is not required).

 Real time data backup facility, to prevent loss of work.

The interactive Testing Engine delivers the test session
using a secure, timed interface.
 Management:

 At the heart of the system is a powerful database application

which ensures that all administration data is kept cohesive, up
to date and reliable.

 Tools for administrators are included such as:

a) Online exam timetable and resource planning tools.

b) Integrated allocation engine for candidates, markers and

moderators.

c) Secure online sign on and access control.

Administrators can easily set exam timetables and allocate
assessments/exam/test to markers, moderators and candidates.
 Existing Systems

 A number of online examination system soft wares are available today.

 The system of online exams has been widely adopted by a good number
of organizations and universities.
 The tasks of maintaining records, score cards, student details, question
papers and so on is very easily managed by the system.
 Management of continuously assessed coursework is just as
straightforward as summative final exams.
 Few examples of available technologies are Exam-software Test Engine,
Aotea Online Assessment System, iSummation Technologies - Online
Courses Examination System (OCES) and so on.
 A brief overview of two of the above available soft wares is followed.
 1. Exam-Software Test Engine

 Exam Software is a Test Management Software to create and

conduct computer based online examination.
 You can create quiz, question bank, certification examination
questions in any language.
 Useful for school, college, university, teachers and professors
for managing question papers and examinations. Recruiting
agencies, companies can use it for candidate's skills
evaluation by conducting online test.
 It is very useful for parents in the academic development of
kids to improve their educational skills.
 Exam Software provides password protection to exam files to
prevent unauthorized access to the question paper.
 Exam Software provides Print utility to print the question
paper as per your requirement.
 2. Aotea Online Assessment System

 A comprehensive administration tool which is directly tailored to the

needs of large scale assessment providers and academic institutions
 The Aotea system is a complete software environment which provides
an integrated platform for the authoring, marking and management of
examination online.
 An online searchable Item Bank.
 A Dynamic Item allocation engine.
 Print facility for the reports and a history maintained of number of
questions generated and answered each time.
 Advantages of the proposed
system
Communities and Groups:

The System provides a feature of creating

communities and groups for organizations.
Students and faculty of the organization can access
the general subject tests.
Privacy for organizations.

Discussion forums:

Feedbacks from the users

Improvements suggested can be implemented
Blogs are introduced for regular updates
 Learning material :

 Facility to revise before taking up a test

 Course material made available to students
 Faculty uploads all the necessary documents for students on a
regular basis.

Analysis of performance:

 Facility to analyze every student’s performance.

 Easy to difficult level of distinction between questions.
 Essay type Subjective questions:

Essay type questions for which evaluation criteria are defined

as follows:

 The marks given depends on the matched keywords in the

answer
 The marks given depends on the total length of the answer
 Spelling and grammatical errors are checked with the help of
an inbuilt dictionary in the system

Introduction of multimedia:

 The proposed Online Examination System supports multimedia

files such as images, photos, graphs etc which can be used
while forming various types of questions.
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