Digital testing & evaluation

The Central IT Service, Digital Media and Learning Technologies Department provides the following systems for "digital examinations":

• OpenOlat: Learning Management System (LMS) for conducting online tests, online self-tests and questionnaires - https://lms.uibk.ac.at/dmz/
• SafeExams: OpenOlat examination instance: for examinations with Safe Exam Browser - https://eexams.uibk.ac.at
• Particify: web-based voting system (Audience Response System) for the interactive design of courses - https://ars.uibk.ac.at/
• Paperexam: Pen & paper tests for face-to-face examinations with automatic scanner evaluation - https://paperexam.uibk.ac.at
• Similarity check: Checking written work for similarities with similarity by turnitin

 

At the Institute of Statistics the R/Exams system is being developed, mainly by Prof Dr Achim Zeileis.

• R/exams (http://www.r-exams.org/) is a software package designed to support lecturers in setting up sufficient examination materials with minor or major random variations in courses with many participants. As protection against cheating attempts in written exams or for the provision of individualised online quizzes or simply to use different versions of tasks in different exercise groups or similar. It allows its users to create tasks in simple text files that can optionally contain different types of random selection.