online examination project

8/7/2019 Online examination project

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Online Examination System

Originators:

Osman

Zahid rehman A

Gulshan iqbal

1) Overview statement

Our project is aimed at developing an online examination system through which an institute or

university can conduct online examination for their registered students and display their overall results

on the web after completion.

2) Costumers

The costumers of this systems are registered students and teachers of the all departments and

the administrator and the examiner.

3) Goals

a) Reduce the cost as there is no paper work involved (e.g printing exam papers, prepare paperregistrations etc)

b) Speed up the registration process

c) Speed up the exam and result process

d) Calculate the marks accurately with automatic grading

e) Avoid errors or mistakes

f) Conduct fair professor-student relation free examination

g) Notify the students on time

Architecture:


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4) System Functions

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

a) The candidate should be able to register online for the examination online

b) The system should be capable of issuing online-admission cards(index

Numbers (roll no)/or passwords) for exam entry.

c) The system should be capable of storing candidates records

d) Teachers should be able to store the questions in a question bank

e) Examiner should be able to setup and generate the papers randomly and prepare the marking

scheme without involvement of other Technical personnel such as developers, system

administrators and teachers.

f) Examiner should be able to accept or reject the questions created by teachers

g) System should be able to present the result online on the web and generate report

h) System should be able to notify the students about exam schedule and rules and regulations of

the exam


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i) Administrator should be able to modify the system passwords and change the

Authentications if there are more than one user.

j) System should be capable of presenting MCQ, true false, fill in the blanks and short questions.

k) Teachers should be able to receive short question answers securely through the system and mark

them.

l) The system should be capable of present questions at once or page by page

according to the requirements of the examiner.

m) The system should be with a save function so, that the answered questions can be verified back

if any exception occurs

n) The system should be capable of generate statistical data for examiner

- Number of registered candidates

- Number of Candidates on exam at the moment

- Number of questions answered by the candidates etc.

o) The system should be synchronized with the server time and should be

capable of disable answer page automatically after time out

p) On automatic answer disable, the system should be capable of accept

answers on that time( Submit option should be activated or automatically

saved)

q) System should not allow one candidate to (one index number holder) to take

the exam more than one time .

r) System should be able to lock the questions in answer form after the student has selected or fill

the answer

s) System should be able to show the pop-up picture of the candidate at any time on specified

location for verification by invigilators during attempting examination and the remaining time.

t) System should to able to disable the refreshing and back tracking and copy-paste facilities toavoid unfair situations during filling the answer form

u) system should provide a login page for the existing user where the

username and password are verified and then if he is a valid user, he is allowed forfurther advancements.


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Non Functional Requirements:

u) The system should be designed in as a secured system applying security

measures

v) Special exception handling mechanism should be in place to avoid system

errors.

w) Should be capable of giving access to concurrent users without degrading the

System performance and accept answers.

x) Sessions of each candidate should be synchronized with server and duration

calculations should be done according to the server time.

y) Integrity should be maintained and all the constraints should be satisfied.

z) The system should work in any available platforms and browsers

5) Function Categories

Ref # Function category

Fr 1 Register online evident

Fr 2 Issue index numbers evident

Fr 3 Store records evident

Fr 4 Store questions evident


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Fr 5 Generate questions and marking scheme evident

Fr 6 Accept reject questions evident

Fr 7 Show result and generate report evident

Fr 8 Show Notifications and rule and regulation evident

Fr 9 Modify passwords and Authentications evident

Fr 10 Present questions evident

Fr 11 Receive short answers evident

Fr 12 Present questions once or page by page evident

Fr 13 Save session progress evident

Fr 14 Generate statistical data evident


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Fr 15 Server synchronization time out evident

Fr 16 Submit answer paper evident

Fr 17 Candidate Allowance once evident

Fr 18 Lock answers evident

Fr 19 Show popup picture and remaining time evident

Fr 20 Disable refresh ,backtracking, copy paste evident

Fr 21 Login Page evident

Fr 22 Exam centre accessibility

Nfr 23 Security hidden

Nfr 24 Exception handling hidden


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Nfr 25 performance hidden

Nfr 26 integrity hidden

Nfr 27 portability frill

6) System attributes

Ref#

Function Attributes Detailedconstraints

category remarks

Fr 1 Register online The dataentered by the

student like

name,

percentage,

marks, age etc

should be

validated

appropriately.

must This feature will improve the

robustness of the application, a

this feature is a must as it

prevents the incorrect data bein

entered in the database.

Fr 2 Issue index numbers Auto-generatedunique

numbers.

An auto-

generated email

should be sent

to candidates

withrollno,username

and password

for exam.

must This email should be responded

the candidates in a weeks time

The examiner will approve the

accepted students who will

receive login information.

Fr 3 Store questions Questions can

be categorizedaccording to

topic, types,

must


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etc.

the short

answers fieldshould be

limited.

System musthandle/insert

the Greekalphabet,

subscripts andsuperscripts.

Fr 4 Generate questions A paper can be

compiled withquestions from

differenttopics/libraries.

paper can be

created on arandom basis.

must The questions can be set by the

examiner only by generating it

randomly from a question bank

Fr 5 marking MCQs ,fill in

blanks, true

false must

have same

marking

scheme for

each question.

Mark shortanswers based

on limited

number

scheme.

Automatically

The marking scheme and marki

short questions can be can be s

by the teacher only.

Result is available only after the

short questions are also checke

by the teachers.


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add the marks

allocated ineach question

to determinethe total mark

for the paper.

Fr 6 Accept reject

questions (excluded)

The rejected

questions will

be not stored

in question

bank.

must

Fr 7 Show result

Show Results

overall perstudent.Student

number, nameand gained

mark.

must

generate report Printable

standard DMC

format.

Report of each

student can be

generated.

Marks per

subject for the

course for each

student should

be displayed.

Fr 8 Notifications and

rule and regulations

Must be

Updatednotifications.

must


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Fr 9 Modify passwords

and Authentications

want The profile for a teacher and

examiner can be created only b

an Administrator.

He must have direct access to th

database

Fr10 Present questions No limitationon the amountof text(scroll

bar)

must

Fr

11

Receive short

answers

Short answers

must bepresented

according tothe original

question/idnumbers.

must

Fr12

Present questionsonce or page by

page

First pagedisplay mcqs,

Fill in blanks,

true false.

Next page

display short

questions.

must

Fr

13

Save session

progress

must Answers can be saved in real

time (if a power failure occurthe answers must be saved up

that point) and providerestoring facility.

Fr14

Generate statistical

data

Number of

register

candidates,

No of

candidates on

exam at the

moment, no of

questions

answered by

candidates

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Fr15

Server

synchronization

time out

Remaining time

should bedisplayed.

number ofquestions

answered canbe displayed.

must Paper is submitted

automatically.

Fr16

Submit answer page Can exit the

page before

time expires.

must Students can be allowed to ex

the test before completing allthe questions.

Fr17

One time exam

Entry

must This feature will prevent the

student from giving the exam

more than once.

Fr18

Lock answers must This feature will allow mcqthe blanks and true false to be

answered only

Fr

19

Show popup picture must This feature will allow

candidates verification during

exam.

Fr20

Examination page

restrictions

Disable refresh

,backtracking,

copy paste

must Only once answering and avoi

cheating.

Fr21

Login Page A specific date

and time forexam to be

active be setfor student to

login.

A successfully

signed in

messageshould appear

on signing in.

Only registered

studentshaving roll no

have access to

must Administrator is responsible f

login and activating.


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exam.

Fr

22

Exam centre

accessibility

The student can only access a

attend exam from examinatiocentre only

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Security Only allowedstudents are

able to accessexam.

The exam can

be madeavailable at

specific timeand date.

The number of

times studentsaccess exam

should be set.

The online

examination

system should

limit logins toa specificsubnet.

must

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Exception handling must

Nfr

25

performance must The speed of delivery of test

from the server to client shoube acceptable.

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integrity must


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portability must


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