Name- Rajshri Shewate

Program name : M. A. II

Course : Governance and Management in Higher Education

Guide: Mr. Mahesh Mali

What is online examination?

Online examination is conducting a test online to measure the knowledge of the participants on a given topic. In the olden days everybody had to gather in a classroom at the same time to take an exam. With online examination students can do the exam online, in their own time and with their own device, regardless where they life. You online need a browser and internet connection.

How online examination system works

The teacher or course builder creates an account with an exam builder. In such an exam system you can create questions and add them to the exam. You can choose between multiple choice questions or free text questions. The students are provided with a link to the online exam, they sign up and can take the exam. They see the results immediately afterwards.

Benefits and limitations of an online examination system

The big benefit of online examination is the reduction of costs and time, both from the student as from the teacher. The biggest limitation is that you have to be online to use an online examination system. Hence the name "online".

Who uses an online examination system?

Everybody who needs an exam to be taken by a group of students. Our customers range from schools and teachers to companies.

What are typical features of an online examination system?

Obviously it must be possible to make an exam. And create questions. Preferably the exam provides for the option to create a question bank. And you have to be able to set the rules when a student passes or fails the exam. Those features are just the basics. Look at our online exam features to get a broader picture.

How Online Examination System Works

Our online test generator will help you creating your online exam. You’ve decided to give an online examination. Now you’re wondering which steps to follow to accomplish that. Good question! This article will you show a small overview that you will have to take for putting on an online examination.

Find an online examination software

The first step you’ll have to take is to find online examination system. You can surf on the Internet and see different kinds of online examination systems around. You can start with our user-friendly Exam Builder to create your online exam J

Set up the exam

It’s easy to get started with our online examination system. First you are able to write a short introduction. In this introduction you can write what participants can expect from your exam. After that, you can add questions (multiple choice, fill in the blanks or free text). To make your exam more lively, you can add an image, audio or video. An explanation of the answer will be shown after you’ve made the exam. The creator is able to set a time limit for the whole exam or per question. You may want to read more about how to write online exams.

Share the exam

You can decide the start date and the end date (including hours) for your participants to have access to the exam. After you’ve created the exam, it gives you the chance to put it online. By sharing the URL, participants are able to click on the link that will lead them to the exam.

Evaluate and track progress

After participants made the exam, the creator is able to view the progress of participants. You’re able to view the statistics per user or get an overall view of the performance of the group. Read more about the difference between a test and an exam.

Advantages and disadvantages of online examination system

To quote Johan Cruijff, one of the greatest football players ever: "elk voordeel heb zijn nadeel", Dutch for "Every advantage has a disadvantage". This also is true for an online examination system.

What are the advantages of an online examination?

An online examination system has plenty of advantages:

It saves paper.
You never have to print an exam for your students and hand them out. Saves paper. Saves trees. Everybody happy.
It saves time.
You can setup an exam in such a way that it will auto-grade itself. If you only use multiple choice questions you never have to check an exam again. The online exam system will take care of that hassle. Completly automated.
It saves more time.The distribution of the exam doens't take you any time. Just upload the email addressess of your students and send them an invite. And after the exam they get their result instantly.
It saves you money.
You don't need to buy any paper. Sending an email is free. On top of that you save on the logistics: your students don't have to assemble in classroom to take the exam. They can do it within a given time frame from their own device. You don't have to rent a classroom. You don't have to hire someone to check the students taking the exam.
It saves the student money.
Students don't have to travel to a specific location to conduct the exam. So even for students from remote area's it's possible to take the exam.
It's more secure.You can make a big question bank with a lot of questions. Every student gets a random selection from that question bank. So it's of little use to share the questions among the exam takers to give them a head start. Try that on paper ;)

What are the disadvantages of an online examination?

And now for the disadvantages:

You have to keep in mind that your students will take the exam on their own device in their own time with nobody to check up on them, so you have to alter your questions to provide for this situation. You have to ask questions which are not easily to be retrieved from books or the internet. Or you can add a timer to each question so their is no time to search for the answer.
Open text questions are possible, but they don't auto-grade, so you have to check them yourself.
An online exam system is a little bit more susceptible for fraud. So you have to keep that in mind if you setup your exam. Do you want to share the results immediatly after the result? In that case you can setup a question bank to solve the issue of fraud. Handing out all questions & Answers of a question bank to students is ok. Because they have to learn all the questions & answers by heart. And when they're done they master the material. Read more about proctored exams.

Now you know what the advantages and disadvantages are of an online examination, you may want to read more about the difference between a test and an examination.

Why use an online examination system?

There are lots of reasons you want to use an online exam system, but the main reason is the overwelming advantages you get form using such an online exam system instead of the good old fashioned paper exam.

Useful resources and reference-

ECPI UniversityUK

Ukessays

Wikipedia

https://www.onlineexambuilder.com/about/privacy-policy/item39

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