CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTIONS:
A computerized examination system is an accessing platform that is used to give relaxed examination scenario where every act of misconduct by the student or lecturer over the manual method of paper and pen for examination is eradicated.
This document will propose all features and procedures to develop the system. Specially containing details about objectives, scope limitation, process model, primary requirements, team development, possible project risks, project schedule, and finally monitoring and reporting mechanisms. Computerized examination system is very useful for Educational Institute to prepare an exam, safe the time that will take to check the paper and prepare mark sheets. It will help the Institute to examining the students and develop their skills. But the disadvantages for this system, it takes a lot of time when you prepare the exam at the first time for usage.
And we are needs number of computers with the same number of students. The effective use of “Computerized examination system”, any Educational Institute or training centers can be use to develop their strategy for putting the exams, and for getting better results in less time.
However the formulation of question for examination is often treated with consciousness. With the developing of computer application technology, more and more computer application software is coming up.
This application software‟s associated to every part of people‟s daily life, and so does the examinations.
Just like other application system, examination systems develop very fast, from simple stand-alone system to C/S based system, and now some WEB based system. Although there are a lot of examination systems, but there also have blanks in some special fields. Examination Evaluation System integrated into the Multimedia Emulation Training System of certain type equipment is designed and will be introduced. This system can be used to help people familiar with the equipment usage quickly which can save money and time. Now the following will analysis and contrast the existing examination systems, and shoveling out the improvement of our examination system. Then we will introduce some characteristics of our system in chapter 3. And in chapter 4 we will introduce the key technology that applied in our system. At last we make a summary on our system and make a brief prospect on the future of the examination system.
1.1 DEFINITION OF PROBLEM
The problem currently faced in the manual method includes, the unsecure database questions, the costly effect of printing paper for the exams the psychological effect of student suffered due to lecturers favoritism, the constant exposure of student answer sheet leading missing scripts and too much work load on lecturers manually marking thousands of script and this might cause a delay in the publishing of student result. As regards to this problem stated I am making a proposal that serve as a solution to this problem stated and this solution is the
Design and implementation of a computerized examination system. This system allows candidates to register and take an examination in the system. The teachers of this system are allowed to login for contributing questions and viewing profile of candidates. Administrators will be able to access the system to sign up to a new examination, manage questions, accounts and view profile of the candidates and also change questions at will.
1.2 OBJECTIVE OF STUDY
• To reduce the expense incurred in manual method of printing question paper and answer sheet since every information is displayed on the monitor screen and marked and saved in the database.
• To provide question integrity by Create strong and secrete data base that allow for any connection in a secret way, to prevent any outside or inside attacks or question leakage.
• To specify authorization privileges to administrators to be able to change their question at will before the computerized examination date.
• Prevention of exam malpractices by applying strict timing possibility for each question and marking of questions immediately, The student fear of been marked down is eradicated and sorting practice is reduced.
1.3 JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SYSTEM
Due to the inconsistency which have persisted in examination system through the university administration system and neighboring institutions
The justification for this work is as follows:
• To do away with manual method of paper and pen for examination which have posed serious threat to the standard of student ability during exams.
• The manual method could not handle the problem of sorting, and exam malpractice during exams as result an efficient method has to be put in place to eradicate the possibility of reoccurrence.
• To reduce the fears of student thinking they where mark down during the examination and eradicate any form of missing script since it has always being a major issue in the school.
• To save cost of constant purchase of answer booklets and also save time and human labor of strolling round the exams checking for student irregular act in the exam hall, malpractices etc.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This Supplementary Specification applies to the computerized examination, which will be developed by me using all the necessary material within my reach to ensure a successful project result.
This specification defines the non-functional requirements of the system; such as reliability, usability, performance, and supportability, as well as functional requirements that are common across a number of use cases. (The functional requirements are defined in the system design and implementation)
1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This study was limited to a suitable programming language to used after which I resolved into learning how to use c# and sql server because of the database capacity of sql and c # has good procedural structuring method.