1. Electronic Exams Electronic Exams: An Idea Whose Time has Come James Harland School of Computer Science & IT RMIT University james.harland@rmit.edu.au 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle

2. Electronic Exams Writing in the Jurassic Era … Where were you on Monday, 3 rd September, 1984? 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle CS335 Formal Semantics lecture by Michael Maher

3. Electronic Exams 21 st Century student life 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle Lecture Tutorial Exam

4. Electronic Exams What would this look like? 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle  Students bring laptops to exam room  NOT remote or online  Boot from a special CD or memory stick  Shut off access to Internet, hard disk, …  Provide all necessary software on the CD or stick  Adapt Ubuntu (or a similar Linux distribution)  Submit answer  On memory stick  Open a special port and upload to a server

5. Electronic Exams Existing Software 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle PJ Radcliffe & Heiko Rudolph, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT  Bootable CD software  Used for lab exams  Submit via opening a port  Develop some answer processing software as well

6. Electronic Exams Existing Software 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle Andrew Fluck, IT Lecturer, School of Education, University of Tasmania  Boots from a memory stick  Answers recorded on the memory stick  Used for exams in a variety of subjects (chemistry, music, history, law, …)  Can download from http://www.eexaminations.org

7. Electronic Exams So … ? 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle  Potential solutions seem to exist  Trials in secondary schools taking place in NSW, Norway, and probably other places “Some IT academic should do something about this”  Applied for internal funding at RMIT  Run three trials in 2011 with various software  Prizes ($1000? iPad?) for anyone `cracking’ the system  Get experience with design of electronic exams  Make user interface `idiot proof’  Develop into an ALTC application in 2011  SO WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN IN?

8. Electronic Exams Questions? 19 th November, 2010Melbourne Conventicle