, proposal 34
Create and evaluate multiple choice exams
a german acronym standing for Elektronisches LehrVeranstaltungsInformationsSystem (electronic course information system), is a development of the Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology (Vienna University of Technology) by a group of teaching assistants and tutors. It was started in 2000 and consisted in little script fragments (e.g. database and command-line tool replaced MS Excel sheets) which made everyday life of a tutor a little bit easier. The following schematic diagramme will shed some light on the functionality:
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The module for generating exam documents ELVIS::XGEN (eXam GENerator) has now been rewritten and scaled up to a complete web application to better support the cooperative working practice of designing exams and enhancing the application's functionality. The following schematic lines out the apparent advantages of this undertaking and concludes the outline of this project:
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