| | 1 | # qomet - WARNING: prototype stage |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | ### Questions Ouvertes ou à options Multiples pour l'Évaluation des éTudiants |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | Or "... pour Examens sur inTernet", in french. In english, just revert the acronym: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | "sTudents Evaluation with Multiple choices or Open Questions (or ...inTernet Exams with). |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | Source code of [qomet.auder.net](https://qomet.auder.net) |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | ## Features |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | Allow teachers to create courses, containing assessments. Each of them can be public, or |
| | 14 | restricted to a classroom (identification by student ID). |
| | 15 | Individual answers to an exam are monitored in real time, and feedback is sent |
| | 16 | to each participant in the end (answers, computing grade). |
| | 17 | Once a series of exam is over, the teacher can get all grades in CSV format from course page. |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | *Note:* for now exams composition is limited to single question exercises. |
| | 20 | Automatic grades are also not available. |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | ## Installation |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | See setup/README |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | ## Usage |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | TODO: write tutorial, maybe a demo video. |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | *Note about exams:* |
| | 31 | Once an assessment is started, it's impossible to quit and restart using another browser, |
| | 32 | because a password stored in cookies need to be sent with every request. |
| | 33 | So under normal circumstances it's also impossible for a student to continue the exam of another. |
| | 34 | (The password is destroyed when exam ends or when the teacher decides to finish assessment). |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | ## Limitations |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | Version "standard classroom": some potential cheating ways, |
| | 39 | - headless browsers with renamed http-user-agent; difficult to counter with 100% confidence |
| | 40 | - block JS script using e.g. [uBlock Origin](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock), then re-inject the script cleaned of listeners |
| | 41 | - intercept HTTP response to "start quiz" signal, re-compose the page without listeners and run |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | The only way to garanty zero internet cheat is to use some SELinux configuration in kiosk mode |
| | 44 | with just one safe web browser enabled, e.g. [surf](https://surf.suckless.org/). |
| | 45 | Not that more traditional ways of cheating may still be used (phones, talking, signs, memos...) |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | ## Alternative softwares |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | * [moodle](https://moodle.org)<br/> |
| | 50 | Full-featured (open source!) project to manage learning activities. |
| | 51 | Too big for my purpose; however qomet might be re-thought as a moodle plugin |
| | 52 | (although [at least one](https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_exam) already exists for this task). |
| | 53 | |
| | 54 | * [evalbox](https://evalbox.com/)<br/> |
| | 55 | The closest to my goals, but only for simple quizzes, and not actively developed anymore. |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | * [wims](http://wims.unice.fr/~wims/)<br/> |
| | 58 | Full-featured (and open source) training center for students, with various types of exercises, |
| | 59 | possibly in exam mode too. |
| | 60 | The spirit, however, is more "enhanced homework" than "internet exams". |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | * [socrative](https://socrative.com/)<br/> |
| | 63 | Nice looking realtime feedback (lacking in evalbox), but thought for interactive classes. |
| | 64 | In this perspective, I also found [educaplay](https://www.educaplay.com) appealing. |
| | 65 | |
| | 66 | * [testmoz](https://testmoz.com/)<br/> |
| | 67 | Old-fashioned look, lacking some features. Still interesting to set-up a quick test. |
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