Educational Toolkit
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Project description
As this laptop is aimed at children, it needs to have testing tools for checking a student’s knowledge regularly. Keeping this requirement, the objective of this project will be to create a platform for developing educational tests. With this toolkit, even a teacher who is not very familiar with computers will be able to create exciting educational tests for his/her students.
The project will consist of three parts:
1.A toolkit for creating new tests.
2.Conducting tests in a class over a network.
3.Providing tutorials and examples to get a teacher started in creating tests in a matter of minutes.
Features
1. Support for adding the following types of questions and their answers within few clicks:
a) Fill in the Blanks
b) Multiple choice Questions
c) Match the following
d) True/False
e) Image based Questions
f) Subjective Questions
2. Taking tests.
3. Automated Result Generation in case of objective questions.
Component Wise Analysis
1.Teacher and student Frontends: Will be developed in PyGTK.
2.Data Management: Question papers and answer sheets will be transferred in a XML format at a lower level.
3.Network Layer
Use Cases
1. Mr. Sharma, a geography teacher, wants to test his students on their knowledge regarding names of states in India. He designs a question paper containing a political map of India and having fill in the blanks. The test is distributed to the students and they submit their answers over the network which is checked by the software and is reported to Mr. Sharma.
2. Mr. Gupta, a language teacher, wants to test the vocabulary of his students. He prepares a set of Multiple Choice Questions for testing the vocabulary of his students to be done in a specified time period. Once the test is over, the software calculates results and reports them to Mr. Sharma.
Basic Working
The teacher's XO automatically uploads the prepared question set. An application at student's XO will automatically fetch the question paper. As soon as the children complete their test; they click on a Submit button which sends the answer sheets for evaluation process. The objective evaluation is done by the software and it gives a summary to the teacher.
Tutorials and Support Website
The project will include lots of tutorials and a support website for getting teachers started very easily.
Interested interns
Deepank Gupta
Email Id : deepankgupta@gmail.com I am a third year undergraduate student in Information Technology at NSIT, New Delhi. I have done a few projects and this one is quite close to my heart. We usually provide the teachers with the test-papers, content etc. but we never empower them to create their own material. This is a step in that direction. With OPLC being used in classrooms, teachers who have had no computer experience, would find the current tools to develop content and tests to be quite intimidating. Thus, we have a need for a very easy to use toolkit for developing test material.
Satyajeet Singh
Email Id : satyam.satyajeet@gmail.com I am an undergraduate engineering student with majors in Computer Engineering at NSIT, India . My key interest lies in software development.I have a nice experience of C/C++/Python. I am one of the developers of Deducto, a board game for XO as well as one of the founder members of the Open Source Community at our college. In SoCon 2007, I am interested in working on an Educational Toolkit for XO
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Other interested parties
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