Improvements on a Web-based Examination System

We have developed some education support systems using Web, and made some trials of the systems in our college. This paper reports one of the above systems, the Web-based examination system. There are many advantages in learning and examination using PC, compared to the conventional methods via books and paper texts. However, some problems such as authoring load and diversification of the test form and test security were pointed out. Here, by solving these problems, we present Web-based examination system that has advantages for both teachers and students. In this system, security environment of the client PC was drastically improved further than the Web browser by the adoption of the secure exclusive client operation screen.