Anil M Shende

US Patent:

6341212, Jan 22, 2002

Filed:

Dec 17, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/466181

Inventors:

Anil M. Shende - Roanoke VA
Linda N. Dalch - Richmond VA
Mark R. Warner - Alexandria VA

Assignee:

Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges - Richmond VA

International Classification:

G09B 300

US Classification:

434350, 434118, 434322, 434323, 434219

Abstract:

A system which contains a plurality of examinee systems connected over the Internet to an exam distribution server. The exam distribution server connects to an exam database system which contains a plurality of exam questions that have been approved by one or more exam question approvers. The exam database system may store a plurality of potential exam questions for each of a plurality of sections of the examination, including a section for web search and evaluation, a section for general computing concepts, a web page design section, a section for using presentation software, a section relating to spreadsheets and word processing, and a section relating to legal and ethical issues. An exam administrator system then generates an exam through an exam generation module that selects a predetermined number of questions in each of the predetermined sections of the examination and presents the proposed exam to the exam administration system. The exam administrator may then selectively substitute one or more questions from the exam database into the proposed examination, until the exam administrator is satisfied that the exam covers all of the topics that the exam administrator desires to cover. At that point, the exam administrator makes the exam available over the Internet to one or more of the plurality of examinee systems who may then take the exam over the Internet and store their submitted exam at the exam distribution server which in turn grades the exams for certification.