Semi-network independent educational electronic exam engine

摘要

Embodiments relate to electronic administration of an academic examination. Execution of an exam file on a student device causes exam questions to be presented. Input from students is translated into responses. Response data identifying one or more responses and a student identifier may be transmitted from the student user device to another device during an exam period or at the end of the exam period. However, the transmission may be explicitly or functionally conditioned by network connection strength, network availability and so forth. When the condition is not satisfied or when a transmission fails, response data is locally and securely cached at the student user device. The response(s) is immediately locked or locked at the end of an examination period, such that a student user can no longer modify the response(s). The student user device subsequently transmits the response data (e.g., when the transmission condition is satisfied).

主权项

1. A system for administering academic examinations and conditioning transmission of examination responses on results of a connection assessment, the system comprising:
an exam retriever that receives, at an electronic student device, one or more electronic examination files; an exam access engine that executes, at the electronic student device, the one or more electronic examination files, wherein the execution causes:
an academic exam question to be presented via an interface of the electronic student device; andinput corresponding to a response to the academic exam question to be received via the interface; a response engine that, at the electronic student device:
translates the input to the response; andgenerates response data that includes an identifier of the academic exam question, an identifier of the response, and an identifier of the electronic student device or of a student; a connection assessor that, at the electronic student device:
determines one or more connection variables by assessing one or more network connections available to the electronic student device, a connection variable of the one or more connection variables being indicative of a number of networks available; andevaluates a transmission condition based on the one or more connection variables, the evaluation including comparing each of the at least one connection variable to a threshold, a result of the evaluation indicating that the transmission condition is satisfied when the connection variable exceeds the threshold; and a response transmitter that conditionally transmits the response data from the electronic student device, such that:
the response data is transmitted to a receiving other device at a first time when the transmission condition is satisfied; andtransmission of the response data is delayed from the first time when the transmission condition is not satisfied, such that, subsequent to the delay, the response data is retrieved from storage and transmitted to the receiving device.