Proposal for Online Examination System

Proposal for Online Examination System Submitted by M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef, Lecturer Dept. of Mass Communication, Centre for Electronic Media Pondicherry University-Pondicherry

Principal Investigator M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef Lecturer, Dept. of Mass Commn, Centre for Electronic Media, Pondicherry University, Puducherry Teaching – 6+ years Journalism – 2.5 years E-learning industry – 5 years (Instructional Design Manager/Project Manager) - Sifyelearning - HurixPvt Ltd - Aptech - Interakt

Co-Investigator Dr S Arul Selvan Reader, Centre for Electronic Media, Pondicherry University, Puducherry Formerly with Tamil Nadu Open University Exp. in e-learning project execution UNESCO consultant

Online Examination System (OES) Assess students on specific learning objectives with respect to corresponding subjects Score their performance in continuous assessments and main exams – no room for essay type questions (short answers can be tried out) Develop students’ test taking skills To provide training to faculty through workshops on how to use the OES to conduct online exams

Online Examination System (OES) Content OES Structure

Question Types To evaluate students at Knowledge and Comprehension level - Multiple Choice - True or False - Fill-in-the Blanks

To evaluate students at comprehension and application level - Scenario-based questions - Simulation-based activities - Sequencing Other level 1 interactive questions – puzzle, crossword and any other creative question types (initially limited to 10 or 12 types including paragraph) Question Types

Difficulty Level

Generating Questions

- Creating questions on Journalism, Communication and New Media Studies • Collaborating with three to five institutions in generating questions • Checklist/SME guidelines will be prepared • Review guidelines will also be prepared separately Generating Questions

Structure Architecture Structure GUI design

Design templates for each question format will be prepared • Questions will be either Text only or Art only or Text and Graphic GUI Design

T Text only template GUI Design – sample for MCQ Submit Submit

System Admin • Test Admin • Instructor • Student Architecture

Test Admin Architecture

Instructor Admin Architecture - Instructor Add more images

Server Side: .NET, My SQL Client Side: Windows XP or above, IE 6.0 or above, Fire fox 2.0 or above, Microsoft Office 2000 or above and Acrobat Reader 5.0 or above for viewing reports Phase 1 – Login, System Admin, Test Admin UAT Phase 2 – Instructor and Student Modules Integration and UAT Development

Content: Subject Matter Experts from Pondicherry University and other universities in India Content vetting by English and Communication teachers Project Team

Content Writers: 50 (5 x 10 subjects) Each will create 60 questions 50x10000 = 5, 00, 000 Content vetting by English and Communication teachers 20000x3x5 = Rs 3,00,000 Total = Rs 8,00,000 Project Team - Budget

Senior Developer from the industry - 1 Senior Developer from academics - 1 Junior Developer from academics - 1 Junior Developer from industry - 1 Graphic Designers, UI designers – 3 Development Team

Senior Developer from the industry – 1x11x30000=3,30,000 Senior Developer from academics – 1x11x30000=3,30,000 Junior Developer from academics – 1x11x25000=2,75,000 Junior Developer from the industry - 1x11x25000=2,75,000 Graphic Designers, UI designers – 3x7x20000= 4, 20, 000 Total Rs 16,30,000 Development Team - Budget

Contingency @10 % of project cost – 3,00,000 Consumables – 70,000 Travel – 1,00,000 Training to teachers to use OES (4 groups of 25 teachers each) – 4x50,000=2,00,000 Infrastructure – 3, 50,000 Total Rs 6,70,000 Other Expenditure

Content generation – Rs 8,00,000 Design, Development & Testing – 16,30,000 Others – Rs 6,70,000 Total = Rs 31,00,000 Total Budget

Templates created will be SCORM compliant Second stage – deployment in Moodles Content generated in English will be translated to other required languages Nice to Know

Thank You

Proposal for Online Examination System