A Novel Approach to Enhance Security for Online Exams

Abstract

Online exam is a field that is very popular and made many security assurances. Then also it fails to control cheating. Online exams have not been widely adopted well, but online education is adopted and using all over the world without any security issues. This paper proposes an enhanced secure filled online exam management environment mediated by group cryptography techniques using remote monitoring and control of ports and input. The target domain of this paper is that of online exams for any subject's contests in any level of study, as well as exams in online university courses with students in various remote locations. This paper proposes a easy solution to the issue of security and cheating for online exams. This solution uses an enhanced Security Control system in the Online Exam (SeCOnE) which is based on group cryptography with an e-monitoring scheme. This paper also determines the effects of malicious entities in the system, and the processes involved in handling failures. I. Introduction ONLINE education has expanded rapidly. Even so, the off- line test is usually chosen as the evaluation method for both off-line education and online education. The security of online examinations remains a problem. In some cases, the person writing the exam on a networked computer is monitored by a proctor at some predetermined location (1). But, the requirement for an exam location goes against the accessibility, the major attraction of e-learning or distance learning. The requirement may also negate the cost savings generated by e-learning or pose obstacles for remote students. Simplification and automation of educational processes are other benefits of online education (2, 3), and online exams inherit these advantages. To remove the requirement for human intervention in secure online exam management so as to capitalize on the advantages of online processes, this paper proposes a solution to the issue of security and cheating for online exams. This solution uses an enhanced Security Control system in the Online Exam (SeCOnE) which is based on group cryptography with an e-monitoring scheme. The cryptography supports enhanced security control for the online exam process, as well as authentication and integrity. The e-monitoring provides a proctor function to remote examinees to prevent cheating, and thus removes the requirement of having to go to a fixed location. The target of this paper is online exams for mathematics or English contests in middle or high school, and exams in online university courses with students at remote locations. This paper addresses the problem of administering an online exam at a fixed time with the same questions for all examinees, just like an off-line exam, but without restricting the physical location of the examinees. As the SeCOnE system enables many kinds of tests to be given online, it can provide teachers with better evaluation standards for students and may contribute to improving the quality of education.

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