Learning Outcome E-Exam System

This paper describes the e-exam management system (KAU-eExam). The KAU-eExam allows instructors to build questions bank for concerned course, generate, and delivery examinations sheet for undergraduate students at King Abdulaziz University. The technique of building the exam is to cover all intended learning outcomes of the course such as, knowledge, cognitive, interpersonal & responsibility, and communication, & information technology skills. These questions are built based on three levels of difficulties. This paper demonstrates the main functions of KAU-eExam in details. To ensure the proposed system could run success-fully, we conducted an empirical analysis on a real example of examination.

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