Air Academy Associates: Enhancing an Online Testing System

Project Details

Air Academy Associates travel around the country to companies and provide training in a number of areas (Statistics, Six Sigma, etc.). Once a class is complete, they often administer an exam which has been in paper format in the past. The online testing system is supposed to help automate that process.

• OTS automates the process of creating, evaluating, and taking examinations by Air Academy Associates.
• Team of students from NDSU in spring 2010 has created a web-based, online testing system.
• Main features Implemented by team 2010 spring Air Academy Associates were:
• Creating the exam
• Enrolling students one at a time
• Taking the exam
• Reporting results

Major enhancements made by the 2011 team:

• When creating the exam:
• Display topics alphabetically
• Import questions from an external source (Excel)
• No duplicate topic names are allowed
• When enrolling students:
• Import students from an external source
• E-mail Notify student automatically
• When reporting results:
• Final pass/fail report of student
• Print certificate
• When taking the exam:
• Improve display of data sets and images
• No duplicate exam names are allowed
• Remove the bugs from the current system to make it up to date
• Fix security and browser compatibility issues