TCExam

An e-exam (or CBT - Computer Based Testing) is an electronic exam that can be executed by using a personal computer or an equivalent electronic device (e.g. handheld computer).

This software allows simplifying the exam cycles, including generating, executing, evaluating, presenting and archiving.

Features:

• Automatic Installation System
• platform-independent server-side software
• multilanguage support (includes support for TMX standard and UTF-8 Unicode)
• based on standard and open standard technologies PHP5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, XHTML, JavaScript, PDF)
• includes a Database Abstraction Layer with drivers for AND PostgreSQL
• Web-based "XHTML 1.0 Strict" accessible and usable user interfaces
• protected administration area, from which it is possible to manage the whole system
• users and groups management
• multilevel and group access
• includes an additional security system to access the tests based on the check of the IP addresses
• supports an unlimited number of tests, topics, questions and answers
• supports text formatting and use of images and multimedia objects in the description of the tests, the questions and the answers
• once defined, the topics can be used alone or together for different tests
• supports variour types of question: multiple-choice-single-answer, multiple-choice-multiple-answer and free-answer questions (essay questions)
• automatically calculates the cumulative score for multiple answers
• includes a system to manually evaluate the free answers
• generates unique tests for each user by randomly selecting questions and possible answers
• supports timing for starting time and duration of the tests
• can generate PDF versions of the tests so that they can be done without using a computer
• generates reports and statistical data both in XHTML and PDF formats
• allows the customization of the format and the headers of the PDF documents
• supports the output of the test results for the final user
• sends test results to users via email
• import and export questions and users' data using CSV or XML formats

What is new in this release:

• TCPDF library was updated.
• Installation instructions were udpdated.

What is new in version 7.0.015:

• TCPDF library was updated.
• language_tmx.xml was updated (arabic).
• strtoupper function was removed from several files to improve compatibility with some languages.

Requirements:

• LaTeX
• ImageMagick
• Ghostscript