ONLINE EXAMINATION

SYSTEM

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.

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 students
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.