ONLINE EXAMINATION SYSTEM

Guided by,
Mrs.L.Sujatha M.C.A

Submitted by,
12MCA16 K.Aravind

INTRODUCTION OnlineExams is being launched because a need for a destination that is beneficial for both institutes and students. With this site, institutes can register and host online exams. Students can give exams and view their results. This site is an attempt to remove the existing flaws in the manual system of conducting exams. Purpose Online Exams System fulfills the requirements of the institutes to conduct the exams online. They do not have to go to any software developer to make a separate site for being able to conduct exams online. They just have to register on the site and enter the exam details and the lists of the students which can appear in the exam. Students can give exam without the need of going to any physical destination. They can view the result at the same time. Thus the purpose of the site is to provide a system that saves the efforts and time of both the institutes and the students. What is Online Exams System all about? Online Exams System is a web application that establishes a network between the institutes and the students. Institutes enter on the site the questions they want in the exam. These questions are displayed as a test to the eligible students. The answers enter by the students are then evaluated and their score is calculated and saved. This score then can be accessed by the institutes to determine the passes students or to evaluate their performance. Online Exams System provides the platform but does not directly participate in, nor is it involved in any tests conducted. Questions are posted not by the site, but users of the site. The site requires an institute to register before posting the questions. The site has an administrator who keeps an eye on the overall functioning of the system. The site gets revenue by charging the institutes each time they want to conduct the exam. The system entitled Online Exams System is application software, which aims at providing services to the institutes and providing them with an option of selecting the eligible students by themselves. A website, ONLINE EXAM SYSTEM, is to be designed to conduct online tests. Also like other online websites, it will help students by: Saving the extra time of going to far away Exam Centre. Students need not wait for their results. Also this website will remove the flaws of existing Manual Systems like: Reducing the manual labor (Decreases Overheads). Avoiding Mistakes Due To Human Error (Accurate). Will Increase Efficiency and Save Time. Will Allow Neat Handling Of Data Rather Than Error Prone Records. The institutes will register themselves with a unique login name and password, the unique id will be issued to the institutes by the website. After login: They will enter exam details like number of questions, +ve and -ve marks. Then they will enter the questions along with the answers which can later be deleted and edited.

Also they will enter the list of eligible candidates with their id names which can also be edited later. Institutes will be able to view the students list along with their respective results. Also for students: They should be able to login with their id, name and institute id. They should be able to give the exam as per the details entered by respective institutes. Also they should be able to view their score after test finishes. If already given the test then they should just be able to view their scores. Other users can take sample tests to get feel and look of how the online tests are conducted. Other key points: Different set of questions should be given to different students. The questions should be selected randomly from the database. ONLINE TEST SYSTEM PURPOSE: The purpose of on-line test simulator is to take online test in an efficient manner and no time wasting for checking the paper. The main objective of on-line test simulator is to efficiently evaluate the candidate thoroughly through a fully automated system that not only saves lot of time but also gives fast results. For students they give papers according to their convenience and time and there is no need of using extra thing like paper, pen etc. SCOPE: Scope of this project is very broad in terms of other manually taking exams. Few of them are:_ This can be used in educational institutions as well as in corporate world. _ Can be used anywhere any time as it is a web based application (user Location doesnt matter). _ No restriction that examiner has to be present when the candidate takes the test. FEATURES: _ Secure _ Easy to use _ Reliable and accurate _ No need of examiner OVEVIEW: The online test created for taking online test has following stages _ Login _ Test _ Result

Login:There is a quality login window because this is more secure than other login forms as in a normal login window there are multiple logins available so that more than one person can access to test with their individual login. But in this project there is only one login id i.e. administrator id and password by which a person enter the site. Hence it is more secure and reliable than previously used on-line test simulators. TEST: Test page is the most creative and important page in this project. It consists of 2 modules namely: _ Subject selection _ Utilities

Subject selection:From the given choices the candidate can select his field (like C, C++ and JAVA etc.) for taking on with the test. Utilities:It includes:_ Skip and come back to the question afterwards if needed. Gives the list of attempted and unattempt questions and can go to any question directly and can either Attempt or change the answer of the already attempted question.

MODULAR DESIGN A software system is always divided into several sub systems that makes it easier for the development. A software system that is structured into several subsystems makes it easy for the development and testing. The different subsystems are known as the modules and the process of dividing an entire system into subsystems is known as modularization or decomposition.

A system cannot be decomposed into several subsystems in any way. There must some logical barrier, which facilitates the separation of each module. The separation must be simple but yet must be effective so that the development is not affected. The system under consideration has been divided into several modules taking in consideration the abovementioned criteria. The different modules are 1) Login Module 2) Registration Module. 3) Question paper creation Module. 4) Examination Module. 5) Student Module. 6) Administrator Module.

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The Purpose of the modules in this project is to conduct the online examinations for Each and every course present in the university. The modules are comprises of three applications: Question Bank maintenance Application Exam processing Application Report Generation Application 1. Question Bank maintenance: This application deals with question bank maintenance. This application is supposed to contain the following modules. Entry Check: Enables the user to make subject selection and Checks the entry of faculty by using a login form before Entering/Updating questions. Question Entry: Enables the authorized faculty to enter new questions in Text/Image format into the database. Question Editor: This module deals with modifying existing questions and deleting the questions from the database by the authorized faculty. Maintaining the student Details and Course details in the database. Creating the tables necessary for Exam conducting application. 2. Exam Processing: The main purpose of this application is to conduct the exam and to store the results of each and every candidate in a subject wise order. Also the application stores the questions and specified answers of each question for each student in the proof table for future verification. This application is supposed to contain the following Modules. Connecting to Database: In this Module, the application connects to the database with the help of user credentials such as Server Name, User id and password. After successful connection to the database it will display the student login form Student identification: in this step the candidate will enter his own credentials given by the authority which include roll number, user id and password. After successful login, the candidate will be displayed his question form. With all the required options. Submission of results: After answering all the questions, the candidate needs to click on "Submit" button available at the bottom of the question form. This will store the details of questions and answers of each candidate and compares with correct answers and soon it will display the marks report to the candidate. 3. Report Generation: This application serves the authority to make a report of the examination results course wise (or) Semester wise (or) Roll number wise. The facility for the authority to store the results in an excel file is also included in the application. This application comprises of the following Modules. Entry Screen: This module will display all the subject codes of each and every semester/Course, for which the examination is conducted. Marks Report for Each Course: This module will generate the marks reports Subject wise / Semester wise/Course wise. Transferring report to excel file: This enables the authority to take an excel copy of the reports that are generated.