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Abstract— Web-based Exam Management Systems (EMS) are learning and help them to achieve their learning goals. For
an effective solution for mass education evaluation. This paper example, readiness self-assessments are often used in open
proposed web based online examination system based. This universities to help students determine if they have the
system carries out the examination and auto-grading for students necessary skills and attitudes for successful completion of a
exams. This system facilitates conducting exams, collection of course or program. Another application of exam management
answers, auto marking the submissions and production of
systems includes assessment of the learning process itself.
reports for the test. It supports many kinds of questions. It is
used via Internet and is therefore suitable for both local and Self-assessment tests are commonly used in technology
remote examination. This system could help lecturers, enhanced environments (7), especially in learning
instructors, teachers and others who are willing to create new management systems. Students can use such self-assessment
exams or edit existing ones as well as students participating in the tests to check their acquired knowledge and get feedback
exams. about their learning progress.
The system is built using. various open source technologies Exam management systems are very important for all whom
AJAX, PHP, HTML and MYSQL database are used in this involved in the education process like (Faculty, students and
system. An auto-grading module is generalized to enable administration staff).
different exam and question types.
The system is tested in the Mansoura university quality For the faculty:
assurance center. The test proved the validity of using this kind Marking the test is done automatically and
of web based systems for evaluates students in the institutions instantaneously; the faculty is relieved from these,
with high rate of students
time consuming duties,
Index Term-- E-Learning, Exam Management Systems, Questions can be easily recycled from the question
Automatic assessment system, web-based exams, Validation, bank, easily edited and changed,
Usability. Different versions of the same question can be
generated for different students.
I. INTRODUCTION
The growth of the Internet, and in particular the World Wide For the students:
Web, is already influencing the way science is taught and will Tests can be taken anytime
undoubtedly do so to greater extent in the future. In areas of Tests can be taken anywhere,
education it offers a medium that has the potential to be more Questions can be attempted in a stress-less
responsive to students. To encourage greater participation in environment,
their own learning, and to give greater access to different Test can be taken using a simple personal computer
sources of information than traditional methods offer. (1),( and the minimal requirement is just a Web browser,
2),(3). Questions can be viewed with special visual effects
In past decades, a variety of assessment approaches and such as 3D, and objects in motion can be viewed.
systems have been proposed. And as information technology
keeps improving, numerous of them have been transformed For the administration:
from traditional paper-and-pencil to computerized and web- The marks are automatically collected, analyzed, and
based format in recent years. It is necessary to build a Web- disseminated for purposes like evaluation of teaching
based examination system for institutions which has a large and learning process.
number of students like in Egyptian universities, as an The extensive use of automated testing in grading reduces
effective solution to mass learning and evaluation of basic grading time and allows graders to focus on issues such as
undergraduate education. code style. In this paper the focus is on the marriage of
It is urgent to develop an automatic grading system which computerized testing systems with the World Wide Web to
can grade the operating questions as well as the objective produce web-based assessment and testing systems. This
ones. However, the previous Web-based exam system cannot paper focuses on comprehensive systems in which exams are
support such functions (4). Testing the students through the delivered and graded by a central server. The objective of this
Internet is one of the most difficult challenges in E-learning work is to build exam management tool for students and
(5), as part of the modern development in the technology of instructors to monitor and boost learning and teaching
education systems. practices.
Web-based Examination system could be used via The proposed EMS is able to grades homework, quizzes, tests,
Internet or intranet for manages student examination (6). Web- mid-term, and final exams. At the end of a semester, students
based assessment is widely used to support students in should understand all the required core knowledge and master
User Interface
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Is the screen easy to read
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THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF
SCIENCE BY JI-HOON LEE Norman, Oklahoma 2000, SCHOOL
OF AEROSPACE AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
Fig. 6. Usability chart
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In this paper a Web-Based Examination System has been (ICALT’01), 2001 IEEE
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design, and technologies has been done. International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and
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students have explored themselves and accessed a larger Integrated in a Real Use Context", Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE
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found the system is secure. Authors concluded that the