Online Examination also called OES in short, is a Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) based examination system. It offers Test Conductors, the Students and Administrators the flexibility and ease to perform the act of examination. Test conductors are people responsible for preparing and conducting text, administrators are the people responsible for management of users, subject, tests, results and data backup and recovery and students are candidate taking examination.
Online Examination System will help to conduct online examination. This web based application can be used by colleges, universities, training institutes, professional examination centers. Examination can be conducted on site or offsite i.e. remotely via internet. These types of applications are mainly driven by time. The whole examination timeline is defined upfront. A candidate can only take exam during the defined time duration. As soon as the time duration ends the examination is closed and user is redirected to a thank you page.
The features of online examination system widely vary based on the examination type to be conducted. Some of the popular features of online examination system that our students consider while developing applications are mentioned below:
- create categories so that a user can take exams of different categories
- add questions on different categories
- add multiple answers for a question and select the correct answer
- registration facility for a user to participate on the exam
- display the questions randomly based on the level of the examination e.g. beginner, intermediate, advanced.
- keep track of the time for a particular question, if the time exceeds the examiner will be directed automatically to another question by the system.
- keep track of the time duration of the whole quiz and as soon as the time exceeds the user will be driven to a thank you page showing the result of the examiner instantaneously.
- We can also give a facility to the user to view all the examinations given in the past and go through the answers given. This helps an examinee to know the weak areas.
- analysis tool to show the result trend for eg. percentage of the user who have scored high
There are also various benefits of conducting the examination online. Some of the benefits are listed below:
- The student don't have physically present for examination.
- The evaluation process is predefined making it more authenticate and trustworthy
- Reduction in operation cost as system automatically checks and generates results
- Monitoring of examinee and examination procedure
- Instant result and reviewing of answers