Interactive examination management system

To handle several online examination settings, a web-based application test management software, namely interactive examination management system (iEMS), is proposed in this paper. The outstanding points of the proposed system are its good architecture designs, ease of uses, rich features, flexibilities and extensibilities. Seven standard types of questions are supported including multiple-choice, true/false, matching, ordering, fill-in the blank, short answer and essay questions. Except the essay questions, the iEMS can automatically grade the answers. Several design issues are discussed such as the graphic user interface, the special control character of the system and the flow of controls used in such systems. The student feedbacks on the iEMS are positive. That is, the simple graphic user interface is easy to learn; the interactive feature of the iEMS allows the students to get the results very fast; more tests can be given and automatically graded which results in a high attendant rate.