TCExam - Computer-Based Assessment

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PLEASE MAKE A DONATION: http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=159398 FOR COMMERCIAL USAGE PLEASE CONTACT: info@tecnick.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Name: TCExam Version: 11.2.030 Release date: 2012-04-30 Author: Nicola Asuni Copyright (c) 2004-2012: Nicola Asuni Tecnick.com LTD Manor Coach House, Church Hill Aldershot, Hants, GU12 4RQ UK http://www.tecnick.com URLs: http://www.tcexam.org http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcexam Requirements and Install Documentation: [ENG] install/index.htm Check also the documentation on http://www.tcexam.org Source Documentation: http://www.tcexam.org Support - Help: Please use support forum under http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcexam Software License Copyright (C) 2004-2012 Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com LTD This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Additionally, you can't remove, move or hide the original TCExam logo, copyrights statements and links to Tecnick.com and TCExam Websites. Please contact info@tecnick.com for commercial usage. See LICENSE.TXT file for more information. Third-party Software PHPMailer Full Featured Email Transfer Class for PHP. Author: Brent R. Matzelle (bmatzelle@yahoo.com) Homepage: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ License: LGPL (GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE) Location: /shared/phpmailer/ LaTeX rendering Class is based on: LaTeX Rendering Class v0.8 by Benjamin Zeiss, currently maintained by Steve Mayer. Homepage: http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/tex.htm License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Location: /shared/code/tce_latexrender.php Radius Class Radius client implementation in pure PHP. Author: SysCo/al (developer@sysco.ch) Homepage: http://developer.sysco.ch/php/ License: LGPL (GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE) Location: /shared/radius/ phpCAS CAS client in PHP. Copyright: Copyright © 2003-2008, The ESUP-Portail consortium & the JA-SIG Collaborative. All rights reserved. Author: Pascal Aubry. Developers: Pascal Aubry, University of Rennes 1, Brett Bieber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Julien Marchal, University of Nancy 2, Olivier Berger, Institut TELECOM, SudParis. This class includes an integrated copy of domxml-php4-php5.php, written by Alexandre Alapetite, Copyright 2004, Licence: Creative Commons "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 France" BY-SA. This class has been changed and fixed for better PHP5 compatibility by: Tim Gebhardt (DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media) and Nicola Asuni (Tecnick.com LTD). Homepage: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/phpCAS License: New BSD License, an OSI-certified ("open") and Gnu/FSF-recognized ("free") license. Location: /shared/cas/ The DHTML Calendar Calendar widget written in Javascript. Author: Mihai Bazon (mihai_bazon@yahoo.com) Homepage: http://dynarch.com/mishoo/ License: LGPL (GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE) Location: /shared/jscripts/jscalendar/ Fonts TCExam includes fonts for the TCPDF library, they are not striclty required but have been included as you convenience. The original TTF font files have been renamed for compatibility with TCPDF and compressed using the gzcompress PHP function that uses the ZLIB data format (.z files). To get the original distribution archives please check the information on fonts subfolders: DejaVu fonts 2.33 (Bitstream) - Copyright, License and other info: fonts/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33 GNU FreeFont (GNU-GPLv3) - Copyright, License and other info: fonts/freefont-20100919 Description: TCExam is a technological solution (CBA - Computer-Based Assessment) to drastically simplify the evaluation process for schools, universities, recruiting firms as well as private and public companies, allowing professors, teachers and examiners to create, distribute and manage exams, tests, surveys and quizzes. Compared to the traditional Pen-and-Paper Testing (PPT), TCExam simplifies the whole process of evaluation reducing costs and improving quality and reliability of the examinations. TCExam comes in a variety of languages and is already used all over the world by top universities, schools, private and public institutions, independent educators and research centers. KEY FEATURES * Flexibility and Configurability: The system has been designed to offer a high degree of adaptability to cover a great variety of usage scenarios. Numerous configuration features allow customizing TCExam to fit all possible requirements. * Free Open Source Software (FOSS): TCExam software is distributed with GNU-AGPLv3 license. Open Source promotes Software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of the source code. * Web-based Architecture: TCExam is Web-based and developed with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) technology. User-friendly interface allows you to install and use TCExam by simply connecting one cable to the switch of your computer network. All the computers on the network will be able to use TCExam independently from the client’s operating system as a normal intranet website, with no need to install any additional software or plug-in. * Internationalization (I18N): TCExam is language-independent through the adoption of the UTF-8, Unicode and TMX standards. It supports the Right-To-Left mode and currently includes translations in 23 different languages. * Accessibility and Usability: TCExam Web interface conforms to the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard, the guidelines on Accessibility (W3C-WAI-WCAG 1.0) and Usability, to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities, including blindness. * Results and Statistics: TCExam outputs a variety of result pages, enabling various selection filters and providing numerous statistical indexes. Results and statistics can then be exported into various formats for filing or reworking. The test-takers can immediately be informed of the result of their test, or have it delivered via email. * Data Import and Export: TCExam uses Open Standard protocols for data filing and interchange: CSV, XML and PDF. Everything is fully documented to be easily extended or used by external applications. Custom filters can be added to import data from other systems. Include Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) system to import users' answers from paper sheets. TCExam supports several types of remote authentication and single-sign-on protocols: LDAP, RADIUS, CAS. * Multimedia Content: TCExam uses a common mark-up language to add text formatting, images, multimedia objects (audio and video) and mathematical formulas (supports LaTeX). * Unique Tests: TCExam can simultaneously generate unique tests for different users by randomly selecting and sorting questions and alternative answers. This feature drastically reduces or eliminates the chances of cheating on the test. * Paper Testing with Optical Character Recognition (OMR): TCExam can generate printable PDF documents for pen-and-paper testing. The OMR answer sheet can be scanned and uploaded to TCExam for automatic test importing, scoring and reporting. * Security: TCExam is more secure than traditional Pen-and-Paper testing. It uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption and includes various authentication levels to discriminate the access to the various sections (user/password, access level, group, IP address). Test time, test activity, results, and statistics: every part of the test is managed and stored in the server, leaving no sensitive data in the users’ client computers. ================================================================================