Online Examination System

A Project work submitted to the

DEPARTMENT OF BACHLER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

D.S COLLEGE KATIHAR

Submitted by
Jagriti Kumari
Shaheen Perween
Monika Jha
Sarita Kumari
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BCA-3rd year
D.S COLLEGE KATIHAR

Guided by

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Final Year Project Synopsis

Index:-

1. Name /Title of the project

2. Introduction of Project

3. Objective and scope of project

4. Section of project

5. ER Diagrams for Online Examination System

6. Hardware and software support
7. Conclusion

Project Name: - Online Examination System

Introduction

This project assesses students by conducting online objective tests. The tests would be highly
customizable. This project will enable educational institutes to conduct test and have automated
checking of answers based on the response by the candidates.
Online Test System will provide a basis for effective fulfillment of conducting online
tests as a replacement for the paper based tests which are conducted during the internals
in the college. The only necessary condition for the usage of this software is that there
should be following users:
Administrator: He is the person who will be responsible for maintaining the whole
system. He will have access to the profile of every student which will give the record
of the performance of that student in various tests he gave. He will be provided with
the effective test system supervision.
Faculty: He is the person who will be responsible for incorporating new questions of
different levels in the database. He will be given options for modifying as well as
deleting the already existing questions. Further, he will be supposed to decide the
question paper pattern, the marking scheme and the duration.
Student: He is the person who will be appearing in the test which will be conducted
online by the faculty. He will know his result instantaneously. Also, he will get the

answers of the paper. Before all this, he will have to register himself or fill login-id
and password if already registered.

Scope
This project would be very useful for educational institutes where regular
evaluation of students is required. Further it can also be useful for anyone who
requires feedback based on objective type responses.

Section of project: Student Aspect:

1. Requesting registration
2. Logging into the system.
3. Edit user information.
4. Selecting the test.
5. Selecting whether the test to be taken in practice mode where the
correct answer is shown immediately after the candidate selects
an option.
6. Appearing for the examination.
7. Printing the result at the end of the examination.
8. Reviewing the given responses.
9. Changing password.
10.Resetting of forgotten password

Admin
1. Authenticating users based on username and password
2. Keeping session track of user activity
3. Recording candidates responses to every question
4. Checking whether the given response is correct or not
5. Keeping history of test reports of all users

Teacher:-

Faculty Aspect

1. Logging into the system.

2. Creating a test
3. Posting questions in the above test
4. Posting multiple options to respective question
5. Marking correct answer within the given options
6. Set negative marks for wrong responses

ER Diagrams for Online Examination System

DFD - Data Flow Diagram for Online Examination System

Software Requirement

Visual Studio 2008 or 10 or 12

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is

used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web sites, web
applications and web services. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such
as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows
Store and Microsoft Silver light. It can produce both native code and managed code.
Visual Studio supports different programming languages and allows the code editor and debugger
to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a language-specific
service exists. Built-in languages include C,[6] C++ and C++/CLI (via Visual C+
+), VB.NET (via Visual Basic .NET), C# (via Visual C#), and F#

SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a
database, it is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested
by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another
computer across a network (including the Internet). There are at least a dozen different editions of
Microsoft SQL Server aimed at different audiences and for workloads ranging from small singlemachine applications to large Internet-facing applications with many concurrent users. Its primary
query languages are T-SQL and ANSI SQL.

.Net

framework 3.5 or 4.0

.NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs
primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large class library known as Framework Class
Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in
other languages) across several programming languages. Programs written for .NET Framework
execute in a software environment (as contrasted to hardware environment), known as Common
Language Runtime (CLR), an application virtual machine that provides services such as
security, memory management, and exception handling. FCL and CLR together constitute .NET
Framework.
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Processor: Intel dual core or above

Processor Speed:1.0GHZ or above
RAM: 1 GB RAM or above
Hard Disk: 20 GB hard disk or above

Future Improvements
We have prepare new system after identify issue in existing manual examination system. Scope of this online
examination system is very broad in terms of other manually taking exams. However we can improve our system
in next version like.

Linking of other online site

Include graphical and media file as question and answers

Use of JQuery for more smooth interface

Security

Administrator has the highest authority to edit/delete/create database

Faculty have the authority to add/expel students

Students can only view their test records.

Faculty can view all the test records of every student.

Critical information like passwords should be transferred in encrypted form

Passwords should be stored in encrypted form

Password will not be mailed to the user in case user forgets password,
instead either temporary password or a password reset link will be sent.

Scope for Enhancement

Present system carries certain drawbacks and limitations as listed below
1. Current system provides only multiple choices but single correct answer
selection. Faculty may wish to provide multiple choices multiple selection
responses.
2. Incase questions and/or answers need to be in graphics, current system has
no provision.
3. Unregistered users cannot answer test, they must belong to some group. This
is a drawback incase the faculty wants anyone even anonymous users to
answer the test.

4. Top score could be displayed on the home page; but this could be easily
implemented while programming the home page.
5. Security logs though not implemented in this system would be well available
through the respective database management system and web server
software.