{"id":786,"date":"2011-03-02T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=786"},"modified":"2017-06-19T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:08:30","slug":"electronic-blue-books-and-online-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2011\/03\/02\/electronic-blue-books-and-online-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Blue Books and Online Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swarthmore ITS supports faculty interested in moving from paper blue books to their electronic equivalents. \u00a0Swarthmore uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwaresecure.com\/US\/solution\/securexam-student.aspx\">SecureExam<\/a> software to allow students to take tests on public area computers while providing a safe and secure way of administering tests. \u00a0Many students prefer typing to writing and the software provides a basic word processor and spell checking tools. \u00a0Many faculty prefer reading typed papers instead of deciphering handwritten pages.\u00a0\u00a0The software prevents students from accessing other programs while taking the test so it is possible to have a &#8220;closed book&#8221; exam. \u00a0At the end of the exam, students submit their work and the faculty member gets a folder containing all the exams in PDF format.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-790\" title=\"secure_exam\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/secure_exam-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Students taking an online exam\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The software has been used for Honors Exams beginning last year and was recently used for a Religion midterm exam. \u00a0 Mark Davis, ITS Software Specialist, set up and administers the system. \u00a0He notes that the software saved the college a significant amount of money in express mail deliveries since honors exam papers can now be sent electronically instead of having to send paper copies to the external examiners. \u00a0In addition, the project is expected to reduce faculty eyestrain by 76% thereby saving the college health insurance thousands of dollars normally spent on\u00a0optometrist visits and updated glasses prescriptions*.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in learning more about the system, contact Mark Davis (davis) or one of the ITS Academic Technologists &#8211; Eric Behrens (behrens), Andrew Ruether (aruethe2), and Doug Willen (willen).<\/p>\n<p>* statistic fabricated for effect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarthmore ITS supports faculty interested in moving from paper blue books to their electronic equivalents. \u00a0Swarthmore uses SecureExam software to allow students to take tests on public area computers while providing a safe and secure way of administering tests. \u00a0Many students prefer typing to writing and the software provides a basic word processor and spell checking tools. \u00a0Many faculty prefer reading typed papers instead of deciphering handwritten pages.\u00a0\u00a0The software prevents students from accessing other programs while taking the test so it is possible to have a &#8220;closed book&#8221; exam. \u00a0At the end of the exam, students submit their work and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2011\/03\/02\/electronic-blue-books-and-online-testing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electronic Blue Books and Online Testing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,99,113,109,96,97,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-computer-classrooms","category-facultystaff","category-public-computing","category-security","category-software","category-students","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-cG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}