What Features Should be Included in Online Examination System

With the development the Internet technology, online examination has become an effective complement to traditional test. It is efficient, flexible and adaptable, which can provide a new and open mode of examination meeting the needs of various courses. Preventing cheating and ensuring the fairness of the examination results are required. A good examination system should be developed based on the needs of a real examination. There are some features an examination system should provide:

Examination Instruction

The examination instruction will show the basis contents of the examination and something should be paid attention to. Usually the following elements such as total questions, full score, passing rate, passing score, time limit, etc. are included in the instruction page.

Accessibility of Examination Content

Preset accounts and passwords can be set to protect the contents. And participants can register themselves online. Only authorized users can take the assessment contents. What’s more, domain hosting limitation can be set. Even if the participants have downloaded the flash assessment, it can not be played.

Valid Time of Examination Content

The participants can log in the examination system with their accounts and passwords to access the relevant page to complete the testing in the valid time. The examination will be unavailable when the valid time expires.

Time Limit of the Examination

Participants may log in the system to take the examination after the start time. When the testing time is used up, the examination results will be submitted by participants. Even if the examination is not completely finished at that moment, it will be submitted to the reporting system too. The start time and end time will be recorded precisely in seconds.

Time Reminder for the Examination

The timer will tell the participants how much time left for their exam. When it comes to the ending of the testing, there will be some alter audio to remind you to submit your examination paper.

Submission Ways

Two ways to submit your answers to the reporting system: Submit one question at a time, or submit all at once. Submit one question at a time means the participants can not review and modify their answers to their submitted questions. If the submission way is submit all at once, the participants can review their answered questions and modify their answers before they submit their final answers.

Result Release

Immediate release or timed release can be set to the examination. For some examinations consisting of objective questions, the scores can be calculated automatically when the testing is over. The participants can view the results instantly. If you don’t want the results to be viewed so early or there are some subjective questions needs manual grading, you can finish the grading job first and then the participants can visit the system website to check their testing results.

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