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Is Online Assessment Safe ? eLearning Forum Asia 2011, NTU Singapore 1
Is Online Assessment Safe ?
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Our Journey
- SMU started to have controlled environment for Online Exams in
2005
- What we have tried ?
- 2005 ‐ OS, IP Address, User Profile
- High Manual Effort
- 2006 – 3rd Party Software like Software Secure
- High maintenance effort
- Frequent testing whenever computing environment changes
- Clashes with Anti‐Virus software
- Slow technical support from overseas
- 2007 – Self Made Exam Browser
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Benefits of Online Assessment
- Easier to Setup Quiz & Changes
- No printing/re-printing
- Select questions based on categories and question sets
- Keep track of Questions Usage
- Easy to tell what questions have been used
- Easy to shuffle questions and MCQ options
- Harder for students to copy even if they sit close to each other
- Less Marking
- MCQ, T/F, Fill in the Blanks, Picture Selection auto-marking, only need to
mark essays, plus do not need to deal with horrible handwriting
- Quick Analysis and Structured Report
- % of right and wrong, easy to tell strong and weak areas
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Our Users’ Requests
- Closed Book
- Block all access to Course Materials, Internet, Communications
- Semi‐Open Book
- Block access to Internet and Communications but not Course
Materials
- Open Book
- Block communications but not others
Communications (Email, Chat, Social Media and … etc)