Exam9 Educator 8-1 can set up an exam that:

• requires a password to be accessed.
• has a set time after which the exam is automatically submitted.
• exams can be grouped under class headings i.e. chemistry.
• all the questions used in exams under a class heading can be used to make a 'composite exam'. This is useful for annual exams.
• can use a penalty scheme for wrong answers. This can help prevent guessing as 0. for no answer is better than -1 or -0.5 for a wrong answer.
• has the option of displaying which answers have been answered correctly, incorrectly or skipped; or simply giving the exam mark.
• has the option of an introduction that can use either images (maps etc) or a Word, Excel, PDF document etc uploaded from the educator's computer.
• that can use HTML to format questions or create links to other web pages.
• the questions used in both normal exams and random exams will juggle the order of questions each time the test is taken to avoid familiarity with question sequences.
• tracks how many times a question has been answered correctly, incorrectly or skipped (in exams with penalties questions will be skipped).

Educator also has the option to:

• add, delete or edit student details
• edit questions in existing exams and to add or delete questions.
• view student results in tabular and graphic format for:

  a)   individual student
  b)   class
  c)   year
  d)   archived results for individuals (students can have their year number changed at       year end, but this causes existing results to be archived)

• add class names
• view a list of the passwords for all the exams
• use the 'Year Change' button to move all students up a year and to archive existing results
• the default character-set is unicode but this can be changed to many other characters sets in the admin area.
• exams can be deleted - this means that all results and questions associated with the exam will also be deleted.
• classes can be deleted - this means that all exams,questions and marks associated with the class will be deleted. This function is deactivated in the demonstration version.

Coldfusion programming and/or HTML skills they can:

• customize the exam features
• use the stylesheet to blend the styling with an existing website
• nearly all functional code is contained in 12 coldfusion components
• uses Application.cfc

The student can:

• Login using their student number and the password and take an exam.
• Login using their student number and date of birth to view their results.

Administrator

• If an error occurs a message is sent by email to the administrator's email address.

Security

• All queries to the database use a username and password.
• The administrator password is encrypted using the hash-function.
• Students/trainees login in using their student number and date of birth.
• An exam can only be resubmitted after the original result is deleted in the admin area.

Browsers

Testing was done mainly using Internet Explorer 7 & 8. Fireworks (pre 3.0) and Google Chrome.