ONLINE EXAMINATIONSYSTEM

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.

Advantages

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

Need

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.

Proposed System

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.

Features

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.

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.

Advanced Features

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

Advantages of the proposed system

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.