The College of Computer Science and Information Technology at Basra University organized a workshop on how to design an electronic exam and ways to reduce cheating.
The workshop aimed at introducing professors to the electronic test method, its most important features, the type of questions and the exam quality standards in its two sections, the test quality standard, the student identification questions, the content quality standard for the questions, and how they are clear, concise and linked to the curriculum.
The teacher, Ali Shi'a Allawi, showed the most important elements of the electronic exam, represented by the student, the professor, the subject, the examination environment, as well as success factors such as the tools and techniques used, the time of the exam and the time period.
The workshop clarified how to take emergency precautions in terms of protecting the computer, backing up files and saving them in different places.
The workshop dealt with the practical aspect of how to conduct an electronic exam using Google Forms, the method of automatic correction and feedback, making an excel sheet with grades, and applying the process of arranging random questions and random answer options to reduce the process of sharing answers among students and writing more than one set of questions and distributing them in a random way for students, and this process will reduce cheating.
