Lesson Learned Management System (LLMS), Department of Management and Technology, Faculty of Technology Management, Business and Entrepreneurship, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor

Dearest All JPTians,

This February month, I would like to share with all of you how IT technology management can assist our academic assessment process, namely administering an exam / test. Administer an exam...!  Are you kidding me Ros... All lecturers and tutors have already known how to conduct or administer a test. Yes, I do know you all are better than me in administering a test, be it  Test 1 or 2 etc.

What I'm getting at is... online test / exam. Yes, online test...!, it saves us our time in administering it, marking it and saving lots of paper too. If you are already an active user of E-learning Blackboard System, you ought to use THIS GREAT feature of online test. Every semester, on my taught subject, I engage one online test, esp. Test 1.  Of course, final exam you cannot execute online, must be conventional approach at Exam Hall @ F2. Majority of my students said they liked online test approach.

Here's how to prepare and execute an online test...

(1) Prepare the soft copy file of your Test, as normally done via Word. This file contents will be cut-and-paste into online test.

(2) Log-in into e-Learning Blackboard System.

(3) Create an entry dialog box for "Online Test", set the features you need, eg. multiple choices, or essay, set the marks, time

(4) Launch the online test and normally I give my students within 3 days to answer the test ( time it to 60 min. or 90 min. etc.)

(5) If the exam is set 60 mins, student must "SUBMIT" their answers within 60 mins or earlier

(6) If students got technical glitches, lecturers as "administrators" can always reset it, so student may retake the test.

(7) Marking is a breeze with online test, the computer marks it for you; if it is all multiple choices.

(8) Sounds tough, no problem... contact me or Mr. Hemmy (CAD-453 7474) for support. Once you know, it is always easy.

(9) To learn new things, there must always be a first time trial; else we never learn new knowledge.

(10) Keep learning and trying new knowledge means our tomorrow shall be better than today.....  TQVM DrRos.