TCExam
TCExam is a free, open source FLOSS Computer-Based Assessment
software system for electronic exams (also known as E-assessment,
Computer-Based Testing or e-exam) that enables educators and trainers
to author, schedule, deliver, and report on quizzes, tests and exams.
It is web based software that runs on a number of different platforms
including Linux.
Compared to the traditional Pen-and-Paper Testing (PPT),
TCExam simplifies the whole process of evaluation reducing costs and
improving quality and reliability of the examinations.
TCExam comes in a variety of languages and is already used all
over the world by top universities, schools, private and public
institutions, independent educators and research centers.
TCExam users include important universities, schools, public
and private companies.
TCExam 11.2.026
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Price
Free to download
Size
11.5MB
License
GNU AGPL v3
Developer
Nicola Asuni
Website
www.tcexam.org
System Requirements
Apache 1.3 or higher
PHP 5 or higher
MySQL 4.1 or higher / PostgreSQL 8.2 or higher
LaTeX
Optical Mark Recognition system
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
SourceForge
Project Page
Selected
Reviews:
SourceForge
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Features include:
- Low hardware requirements - install on almost any computer
- Flexibility and Configurability - designed to offer a
high degree of adaptability to cover a great variety of usage scenarios
- Accessibility and Usability: TCExam Web interface conforms
to the XHTML
1.0 Strict standard, the guidelines on Accessibility (W3C-WAI-WCAG 1.0)
and
Usability, to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with
disabilities, including blindness
- Questions are grouped into modules and topics. TCExam can
store an unlimited number of modules
- Common mark-up language, similar to the common BBCode, to
add text formatting, images, multimedia objects (audio and video) and
mathematical formulas (supports LaTeX)
- Paper Testing with Optical Character Recognition (OMR) to
import users' answers from paper sheets
- Common Three-Tier structure. Administration and public
areas are physically separated on file system to improve security. It
uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption and includes various
authentication levels to discriminate the access to the various
sections (user/password, access level, group, IP address)
- Results and Statistics - outputs a variety of result pages,
enabling various selection filters and providing numerous
statistical indexes
- Multimedia Content - uses a common mark-up language to add
text formatting, images, multimedia objects (audio and video) and
mathematical formulas (supports LaTeX)
- Unique Tests - simultaneously generate unique tests for
different users by randomly selecting and sorting questions and
alternative answers
- Offline testing
- Export or import users, questions or results data using
various open formats: CSV (Comma Separated Values), XML (eXtensible
Mark-up Language) and PDF (Portable Document Format)
- Web-based application developed on the popular LAMP
platform (GNU-Linux Operative System, Apache Web server, MySQL Database
Management System and PHP programming language)
- RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service), LDAP
(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and CAS (Central Authentication
Service) modules, to directly access existing large database of users
- Web-based Architecture
- Internationalization support adopting the UTF-8,
Unicode and TMX standards
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