Design and Implementation of Online Examination System ...

Webology, Volume 18, Number 1, April, 2021

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Design and Implementation of Online Examination System based on

MSVS and SQL for University Students in Iraq

Ali Talib Qasim Al-aqbi*

Assistant Lecturer, Al-Mustansiriyah University, College of Engineering, Computer

Engineering Department, Baghdad, Iraq.

E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Rana Riad K. Al-Taie

Lecturer, Al-Mustansiriyah University, College of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Department, Baghdad, Iraq.

E-mail: [email protected]

Sarmad K. Ibrahim

Lecturer, Al-Mustansiriyah University, College of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Department, Baghdad, Iraq.

E-mail: [email protected]

Received December 30, 2020; Accepted March 08, 2021

ISSN: 1735-188X

DOI: 10.14704/WEB/V18I1/WEB18098

Abstract

The transfer of knowledge and skills is a process that is closely linked to the measurement of

its usefulness. It's hard to imagine teaching without considering the results and evaluation of

students. At the same time, the current education system is based on a longstanding traditional

paradigm. The aim of this article is to propose a new digital review system based on

Microsoft visual studio (MSVS); it is the only one of its kind in terms of application

versatility and also features professional interfaces for the interactive display of questions and

answers. In our school, we have systematically assessed this program to determine the system

performance of teaching staff and students, the findings of this study demonstrate the

assumption that students were prepared for this type of knowledge; the evaluation result of the

propose exam system outperforms conventional system about approximately 80%.

Keywords

E-Learning, SQL, MSVS, Exam Online System.

Introduction

The popularity of web-based and web-based software has grown rapidly in recent times.

The way we do our day-to-day activities has changed. Throughout recent years, the use of

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computers and the Internet as educational apps has increased rapidly. Generally, the word

e-learning refers to the use of distinct types of information and communication technology

(ICT) and digital devices in education (Fluck, Pullen and Harper, 2009). This is a generic

term used by some or all of the electronic devices or the teaching and learning activities

network. The training approach is generated using digitally distributed material or experi-

ences that are achieved. E-learning focuses primarily on using computers remotely or in

the classroom to provide information to learners (Hadullo, Oboko and Omwenga,

2017)(Guragain, 2016). Exams are part of the learning process. To date, the preparation of

examinations and the preparation of the tests has been done manually, which has taken on

more extensive internet inspection scheme, based on the demands of today, is of great

importance to the educational organization in preparing for examinations and saves effort

and time in reviewing examinations and producing results reports (Askarali, 2015). The

internet examination system is a web-based examination system that conducts the internet

examination, or the results are immediately calculated and released in a central database

for future paperwork and scheduling purposes and evaluation on the internet or intranet. It

is an effective way for mass education to be evaluated (Ana and Bukie, 2013). This

scheme allows academic organizations to monitor their learners 'progress. He also looked

at a methodology to research rapid growth due to its accuracy and speed. It also needs

fewer workers to finish the test. Today, as it shortens students ' time on exams (Askarali,

2015), almost all organizations handle exams through the internet examination system.

Related Work

The proposed system aims to establish an electronic structure that meets the requirements

of certain parts of the examination process in universities and higher education

institutions, particularly for Al-Mustansiryiah College of Engineering / University.

Nevertheless, the primary motivation is to solve the difficulties that may exist in manual

testing systems such as the moratorium in the preparation of tests. Records are a

challenge, and it takes more time and effort to achieve sorting of records. To perform

online verifications, it is not necessary to create a separate application.

It is a web-based software that can be accessed via the network area of Internet / Intranet /

Local area. These works can be represented as follows: Many different types of research

have focused on the subject of an online review system:

The Exam Management System (EMS) was introduced with a protected login as a

web-based online review system. EMS can be used to monitor the assessment and

self-grading of exams and to facilitate the execution of examinations. Responses will be



collected; submissions will be automatically labelled, reports will be generated at the end

of the test. EMS embraces the features of multi-instructor and portability. The program,

however, skipped other features such as resumption power, random question collection,

distribution of random questions, and distribution of random choice (Rashad et al., 2010).

For implementation in Nigerian universities, a computer-based test (CBT) program is

proposed. This is an interactive exam system that provides the student with questions set

by the lecturers and produces a report of the results of the students taking the exam as

well as a description of the overall results of the exam based on the user's query (Fagbola,

Adigun and Oke, 2013).

The system included various features including user registration, exam instruction, correct

examination time, time reminder, response script submission, and test results release. The

system made it possible for the admin or super admin to create a test from a question bank

that includes various subject areas. System testing is conducted with ten users with a

sample that included 20 questions from four topics such as Bangla, English, General

Knowledge, and Science and Technology (Islam, Rahman and Islam, 2013), authors in-

troduced an Online Examination System (OLES) discussing all the features chosen to en-

able online review. The proposed system was implemented with the TCP-IP client / server

networking infrastructure based on a spiral design using Java programming language and

Derby database. In order to distinguish its unique features, a comparison was made be-

tween the proposed OLES and other similar works, and some suggestions for future work

were provided (Younis and Hussein, 2015).

Author observes the perceptions of students about e-learning that would assist in the im-

plementation of new campus teaching (R and Vinayak Mahajan, 2020).

The effect of the Online Social Media Networks on the E-Learning performance, the re-

sult of this paper will be help to implement the successful application (Naveed, Hoda and

Ahmad, 2019). Authors evaluate a new and engaging digital score reporting system that

provides students with personalized feedback after completing their examinations (Bulut

et al., 2019). These kinds of systems have emerged because the education system, which

is considered conventional, has evolved very slowly for many decades (Al-aqbi,

2017)(Al-aqbi et al., 2019)(Ali Talib Qasim al-Aqbi, Ahmed Yousif Falih Saedi, 2018).

System Activities Requirements

It is possible to imagine and combine the parts of the entire system in many different way.



Codes are broken into several major modules and then reassembled by creating a linking

technology.

Figure 1 shows different activities for each level.

Fig. 1 System Functionalities Outlines

System Design and Implementation

After establishing a connection via the Internet or an intranet, the proposed online

verification system can work with the client / server architecture as shown in Figure 2, the

work steps of the proposed system are shown in figure 3.

Fig.2 Design of the proposed examination system network

Initialization

S=0;

P=degree of pass;

D=degree of question;

M=number of questions;

N=enter full name;

i=1;

While (time of exam>=0) and (i<M) do

K(i)=answer Q(i);

I=i+1;

If k(i)=True then

S=S+D;

else



S=S;

end

end

If S>=P then

Name : n and degree: is PASS;

Else

Name : n and degree: is FAIL

end

Algorithm 1: How to Execute the Proposed Program

Fig. 3 Workflow of the proposed system



The database was designed by Microsoft Access, which consists of several tables

designed to select as a unique identifier primary key for a table database. In the proposed

system, two data are inserted. First data represents the question data consisting of data

records on questions such as question name, question degree, and question type, while

answer data consists of data records on the question and its answers such as question

number, correct answer, and student response as shown in Figure 4.

Fig. 4 The GUI of the teacher page

The program proposed is characterized by its ability to apply the examination and print

the result immediately after the examination has been completed. After completing the

system implementation, we list the key benefits of the proposed program:

1. The program consists of professional interfaces from the start of the examination to

the end. Instructions for supporting the student during the test, such as switching

between questions, knowing the time and remaining questions, and using the

calculator are included. An examination time countdown is used to complete the

examination immediately after completion.

2. The program can save the answers of the students to each question and save the fina

l degree (used in the case of student objection to the degree).

The suggested software consists of several qualified interfaces to print the result as shown

in Figures 5 to 10, beginning from the support screen.



Figure 5 shows the page of examination instructions that helps the student know the

examination instructions and can also refer to this page during the examination. Following

the help page is the login page where the student's name is entered, as well as the number

of questions and time, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 7 displays the test questions section, which consists of the user's selected questions

or as pictures and answers. There are commands to switch between the questions at the

top of the page, identifying questions that have not been answered as shown in Figure 8,

the time remaining for the test, completing the examination, and printing the result is

shown in Figure 9.

Fig. 5 The page of instructions

In recent decades there has been a rapid growth in Internet technology, leading to a

significant shift in communication between users. Where it has become one of the best

methods to send data using the Internet instead of the public telephone network PSTN as a

result of the tremendous development of wireless packet development networks in terms

of reducing costs for users and providers of service. As a result of the rapid development

of Internet services, especially in voice applications and the presence of modern

communication devices such as the iPhone, voice has become one of the important

standards in voice applications in Internet networks. It is now available to use the Internet

service to make voice and video communications and high quality of communication at a

lower cost than PSTN at any time and from anywhere using the mobile phone available

frequently (Fluck, Pullen and Harper, 2009). Which led to the possibility of making calls



with high quality, despite being a long distance as a result of the development of commu-

nications from one generation to another more efficient to improve the quality of service

for voip Institutions such as call centers and businesses as well as ordinary users by a very

large. The fact that the voip and the video have become widespread around the world to

work for the common wimax, and using the standard ieee802.16, so as to equip contact

spaces far and high quality working methods and a variety of mobile cellular access. The

wimax features are high-speed, up to 40 Mbps (Hadullo, Oboko and Omwenga, 2017);

moreover a wide coverage area ranging from 30km to 50km moreover the low cost of

wimax network deployment Thus, wimax is a great technology that works with real time,

non real time and is equipped with integrated audio and video.

WiMAX plans to give remote broadband Internet in a range of a few kilometers and is

planned basically for metropolitan systems (Guragain, 2016).

Umts is one of the parts of the third generation that was later developed as an integrated

network system that is characterized by high coverage to include the rural speaker as well

as urban areas and offices and institutions as well as being highly dynamic to meet the

wishes of users in different regions. As it supports multimedia applications for Video or

audio over the voip and of the maximum link limit down link 14.4 mbps in real time so it

became very important to know the amount of the difference between each of wimax and

umts to assess the quality of service and possible ways between the two models

(Guragain, 2016).

We consider so as to the categorization of QoS prerequisites are diverse for real-time As

well as multimedia execution assist in selecting the superior the Network is offered

without Reduce from Quality of service applications. Those sorting be able to utilized for

realization the resource preparation system respecting UMTS As well WiMAX as soon as

they are joined together. For instance, depending on the network overcrowding

Additionally resources can be obtained, a call able to be conveyed as of UMTS for

WiMAX or Conversely And to get superior QoS to the user (Askarali, 2015). Further,

giving QoS to versatile access turns out to be more testing with disabilities like time fluc-

tuation and flightiness of the channel, multipath blurring, shadowing, inactivity and bun-

dle misfortune by continuous handovers and restricted data transmission (Ana and Bukie,

2013). In this paper gives the proposed type of interworking building were designed be-

tween UMTS and WiMAX networks based on the quality of service (QoS), like: jitter,

End-To- End Delay, Throughput and Traffic Dropped. by using OPNET Modeler 14.5.



Fig.6 The page of login

Fig. 7 The page of the exam

Fig. 8 The page of the review



Fig. 9 Result of the examination

After the end of the examination, the student's choices and the final grade are stored in the

computer in order to be relied on during the student's objection to his grade, as shown in

Figure 10.

Fig.10 Page of file storage options and student grade



Evaluation Research Methodology

The evaluation research’ goal is to highlight our examination system as a software for

taking exams and analyzing the results that we got from students. This software has the

selection test method which is multiple-choice test. An initial question for students was

applied -before taking their exams by our examination system- to collect information

about their experiments with the exams that they took using traditional ways such as paper

and pencil. After taking their exams using our examination system, the students have been

asked again about their experiment with this examination system.

The duration that this research has taken is 7 months, from October 2018 to June 2019,

and the examination system was applied for the first and the second semester according to

the Iraqi education system. There were 92 students who have taken their exams through

our examination system. The number of students that participated in this research

distributed as follows: 46 sophomore students and 46 senior students. And the materials

that this examination system has used for are Computer Network and Computer Software.

An initial exam has been taken by the students at the end of October 2018 to determine

the level of the students, and according to the results of this exam we divided the students

into two groups. One is the control group which has 46 students (23 sophomore students

and 23 senior students) and the other group which was the test group has also 46 students

(23 sophomore students and 23 senior students).

Results

In the first semester, we examed the students using the traditional way of examination and

after that we asked both groups – the control and the test group - their opinions about the

traditional exams. The more than 80 percent of students (80 students) said that the tradi-

tional exams were boring, dry, and intimidating. On the other hand, the rest of the stu-

dents (12 students) said that the traditional exams were comfortable, relaxing, and flexi-

ble. At the end of the first semester we examed the control group using the traditional ex-

amination way and the test group using our examination system. We gave both of them

the same questions of the exam. After the exam, we asked both groups their opinion about

the traditional and our exam regarding to stressful, difficulty, the preferences of

implementing our exam at the whole university, relaxing, flexibility, efficiency, time, and

cost. The results came as presented in Figure11.



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Conclusion

The online exam system is becoming more and more popular. The benefits for students

are very encouraging. They surpass their weaknesses in most cases. The review system

offers new educational opportunities for different groups of people. It's the answer to the

changing world of education. The results of this research support the belief that students

are ready for this kind of knowledge. It has been showed that the proposed system

outperforms traditional system about to 80%.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Mustansiriyah University (www.uomustansiriyah.edu.iq)

Baghdad- Iraq for its support in the present work.

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