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1 | # qomet |
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| 3 | ### Questions Ouvertes ou à options Multiples pour l'Évaluation des éTudiants | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | Or "... pour Examens sur inTernet", in french. | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | In english, just revert the acronym: | |
| 8 | "sTudents Evaluation with Multiple chOices or Open Questions (or ...inTernet Exams with). | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | ## Features | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | Allow teachers to create courses, containing assessments. Each of them can be public, or | |
| 13 | restricted to a classroom (identification by student ID). | |
| 14 | Individual answers to an exam are monitored in real time, and feedback is sent | |
| 15 | to each participant in the end (answers, computing grade). | |
| 16 | Once a series of exam is over, the teacher can get all grades in CSV format from course page. | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | *Note:* for now the monitoring + socket part is still unimplemented, | |
| 19 | and exams composition is limited to single question exercises. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | ## Installation | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | See setup/README | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | ## Usage | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | TODO: write tutorial, maybe a demo video. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | *Note about exams:* | |
| 30 | Once an assessment is started, it's impossible to quit and restart using another browser, | |
| 31 | because a password stored in cookies need to be sent with every request. | |
| 32 | So under normal circumstances it's also impossible for a student to continue the exam of another. | |
| 33 | (The password is destroyed when exam ends or when the teacher decide to finish assessment). | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | ## Limitations | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | Version "standard classroom": some potential cheating ways, | |
| 38 | - headless browsers with renamed http-user-agent; difficult to counter with 100% confidence | |
| 39 | - block JS script using e.g. μblock, then re-inject the script cleaned of listeners | |
| 40 | - intercept HTTP response to "start quiz" signal, re-compose the page without listeners and run | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | The only way to garanty 0 internet cheat is to use some SELinux configuration in kiosk mode | |
| 43 | with just one safe web browser enabled, e.g. [surf](https://surf.suckless.org/). | |
| 44 | Not that more traditional ways of cheating may still be used (phones, talking, signs, memos...) | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | ## Alternative softwares | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | * [moodle](https://moodle.org)<br/> | |
| 49 | Full-featured (open source!) project to manage learning activities. | |
| 50 | Too big for my purpose; however qomet might be re-thought as a moodle plugin | |
| 51 | (although [at least one](https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_exam) already exists for this task). | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | * [evalbox](https://evalbox.com/)<br/> | |
| 54 | The closest to my goals, but only for simple quizzes, and not actively developed anymore. | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | * [wims](http://wims.unice.fr/~wims/)<br/> | |
| 57 | Full-featured (and open source) training center for students, with various types of exercises, | |
| 58 | possibly in exam mode too. | |
| 59 | The spirit, however, is more "enhanced homework" than "internet exams". | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | * [socrative](https://socrative.com/)<br/> | |
| 62 | Nice looking realtime feedback (lacking in evalbox), but thought for interactive classes. | |
| 63 | In this perspective, I also found [educaplay](https://www.educaplay.com) appealing. | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | * [testmoz](https://testmoz.com/)<br/> | |
| 66 | Old-fashioned look, lacking some features. Still interesting to set-up a quick test. |