The world has gone hi-tech. Right from the digital wrist watch in your hand to the minute SIM card in your cellphone, we are governed by technology. Corporate PDAs have taken place of the traditional Business Organizers. Everything from cars to multi-billion-dollar organizations are thriving due to technology. And no-doubt, the internet has played a pivotal role in its phenomenal growth.

Essentially, education has been a front runner in utilizing technology to its benefit. Online Classrooms, Webinars, e-books etc – all take a prominent credit in taking the use of technology for education one level up. However, there are still some very basic areas where education has not been able to exploit technology to its optimum potential. Most schools across the world are still using the traditional model of paper tests for testing their students. The biggest disadvantage of this system is that it involves a lot of clerical work for the teachers and examiners – and obviously increases operational overheads. Additionally, we all know that cheating is a big nuisance during examining students. For such reasons, a Learning Management System (LMS) comes as a handy option for schools and other educational institutes to conduct online computer based assessments.

Under this premise, I would like to introduce Examination Online. Examination Online is a feature rich Online Learning Management System (LMS). It is a hosted application service, which basically means that we host the tests on our server while they are conducted through the client’s web interface.

A fresh and positive approach towards Conducting Examinations
A lot of research done lately has emphasized on the importance and associated advantages of conducting online examinations. A report published by University of Technology, Sydney’s Institute of Interactive Media and learning quotes:

Sambell, Sambell and Sexton (1999) found that their students reported less exam anxiety when computer assessments were a component of continuous assessment throughout the semester as each test did not represent a high level of risk for the students and they were able to build their confidence in their abilities along the way. Students particularly appreciated the opportunity to do practice tests online, reporting that they assisted them in knowing what to study and they helped them to pace their revision so they did not just cram for the final exam.

Harvey and Mogey (1999) suggest the advantage of online assessment is the possibility to introduce more variables into the structure of the assessment pattern so that computerbased tests can be offered at different times, locations or even different tests to different students. As issues of security, access and equity, support and training for students are resolved summative online testing will be one more strategy for managing large volumes of marking and administration that has the potential to generate efficiencies that can ease academic workloads.

Features	Benefit
Random Question Paper to each Candidate	No chance of cheating or copying
Instant evaluation of results	Get rid of result declaration delay
Flexibility on change of answers	Get full control over your question Paper
Time limit for (a) each section (b) each question (c) full paper	Ideal for Mock tests of competitive exams like SAT, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, CAT etc
Save a current exam	Ideal for IQ tests and Psychoanalytical Tests
Notification of results by email, text Message	Facilitation to both examiner and students
Power Failure Handling	Once power is restored, the question paper, marks and the time remaining are restored back to the point of power failure.
Integrate on your website	Hosted on our server.
Available in multiple languages	French, German, Portuguese – you name it, we have
Generates graphical reports	No need to find percentages, GPA, Percentile and Merit Rankings
Negative Marking Available in various Forms	Provision for fixed and differential marking
Password Protection for Question Paper	Only the examiner can edit the question paper
hack proof	Entire data is encrypted on a secured Server
Crawler Proof	No search engine, bot or worm can reach your Question Paper
Admit Card Generation	Candidates can print admit cards from their homes

Empirical Approach for LMS suits one and all
If one analyzes, a perfect Learning Management System is almost impossible to develop. There are infinite ways of examinations and infinite models for testing available in the real world. Even if such a perfect LMS id developed, it wouldn’t cater to most audience because every institute has its different testing needs. So, we decided to work on an empirical approach. We created a basic examination skeleton having various points to plug more modules in. Now, the empirical model allows one to create and take basic examinations. But if they have more specific requirements, we create new modules as per the user’s needs. This way, the users pay only for what they want – implying perfect return on their investment.

Examination Online has earned quite a few admirers throughout the world. If you are a teacher, professor or even a student who thinks that your school should now reach up to the next level of educational standards, do visit examination online and take a trial – absolutely free! We are also open to resellers and affiliates and provide high affiliate commission and reseller discounts.

That sums up for this week. I hope you will try examination online once and send your valuble feedback to us. If you liked this and other posts on Blogoxy, subscribe to our feed now!