Online examination system :

Abstract

Online examination system was defined as a web-based examination system where examinations are given online. The main goal of this online examination system was to effectively evaluate the students thoroughly through a totally automated system which does a lot of things that include: obtaining fast and accurate results. This did not need the use of pen and paper. The students (end users don’t need to physically be in class for them to have an examination. The reason that encouraged me to carry on this research was to overcome the manual way of doing examinations using pen/pencil and paper, reducing the time spent during the sitting arrangement exercise, the time taken to mark the examinations by the teachers and finally, also reduce the human error during the computing of the student’s results. The methodology that was first applied was SSADM (Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology which was used for analysing and designing the system. This was followed by the RAD methodology which was also easy to deliver a working system with all modules worked on one after the other and finally the prototyping methodology was applied. For Data base management system, I used MySQL. And HTML, PHP as my programming languages I also used Xxamp server, as the local host and sublime text editor to develop and run the proposed system. At the end of it all, the system was expected to be an online examination system which would be used by the following end users: (the examiner who was able to set question papers and upload them online, the examiner was also able to edit a question paper). The system allowed the student to access the question paper and attempt it online and receive results in the shortest time possible after the system marking and the ranking of students was done automatically. The following browsers were used to carry out research; Google chrome, Phoenix, internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox.