Veda

Outcome:

To develop an online testing and question banking system for use in academic and corporate.

About Veda:

Veda's question bank consists of a pool of questions. Questions are organized into topics and topics have user-specific rights which control the access and manipulation of questions. Veda supports a variety of questions containing text as well as multimedia. Through rich user interface, a teacher can create and edit questions, quizzes and exams and administer the exam to a group of students. Veda takes care of abrupt system crashes due to external factors (like network connection failure) by detailed and high frequency logging to restore the exam status of the student with minimum loss.

The testing framework supports positive as well as negative marking scheme. Veda generates a wide range of analysis reports providing extensive information about performance of students, exams, quizzes, questions etc. This information is repetitively updated and can be used in appropriate selection of a question ( with a known difficulty level and/or discrimination parameter and/or correlation coefficient), diagnosis of certain problems like ambiguous or wrong options, identifying strength and weakness of student etc. This in turn will make the system more efficient and accurate.

Salient Features

Automatic evaluation of questions
Security and Recovery
- Automatic recovery of exam to the last known state in case of network failures etc
- Uses Java Cryptography APIs to ensure secure data transfer over networks
- Scrambling of questions and options within questions to prevent copy cases
Types of exams like ordered, unordered
Report analysis
User, group, and session management
Support for various type of questions
- Multiple choice single answer question
- Multiple choice multiple answer question (MCMA)
- Match the following question (MTF)

Support RTF (Rich Text Format) in all question types
Multimedia support include
- Image types - jpg, gif, bmp etc
- Audio formats - wav, mp3 etc
- Video formats - mpeg etc