Exam Wizard e-assessment platform: new features, field test results and instructor’s experience

Abstract

During the Covid-19 lockdowns, e-learning and e-assessment became immensely popular worldwide. Exam Wizard is a web-based online e-assessment platform which provides a variety of features including question pool creation, automatic grading, automatic resumption, reusability, simplicity, exam monitoring and scheduling, weighted questions, a count-down timer, and automatic generation of statistics. Exam Wizard supports three kinds of users: administrators, instructors and students. This paper describes some new features of Exam Wizard, as well as the responsibilities and the User Interfaces (UI) of each user role. In addition, this paper describes the instructor’s experience from the use of Exam Wizard in pilot tests and midterm exams of technical courses offered by a higher education institution. The instructor found the tool useful because it produces immediate results, saving time and effort; when the instructor’s time is limited or in the case of large classes, e-assessment is the only viable option. During the evaluation of Exam Wizard the students appreciated the fact that they received immediate feedback, and the instructor happily stated that as long as there are questions banks available, it is a matter of minutes to create a new exam.