University Testing Center—Project Description
The purpose of University Testing Center is to provide test registering and test
administering services for students and faculty nationwide. Sites are located across the
country and also one site is located at the University.
Mission Statement of University Testing Center
The University Testing Center strives to ensure that all tests are administered under
standardized conditions that are efficient, fair, and secure, while providing examinees
with the utmost level of student-friendly service that allows each the opportunity to
demonstrate his/her ability and provide comparable results.
Faculty can submit exams to the testing center to be given to students. These must be
secure so they can only be seen during the time they are available.
Students can register for exams/tests through telephone or internet. Once the registration
process is completed, the test administering staff identifies the list of examinees for a
particular test day and makes necessary arrangements for administering that test. For
some tests, students who have registered for an exam can take the actual exam at a testing
center near to them.
The University Testing Center needs to provide information about various tests and the
test dates to the students. The testing center is also responsible for notifying students
about any change in a test schedule.
Process:
1.) Students can register for a test through phone or by going to the testing center
website.
2.) On the test day, the test center staff generates an exam schedule report from their
website. They then merge this report with the hand-written data collected through
phone calls, into one single word document. This word document contains details
about all examinees for a particular test date.
3.) This manual merging process is tedious and is time consuming, and they are
looking for a better solution.
4.) Once the test is over, the testing center needs to send a word document to the
professor telling them who took the exam. They currently hand write these
documents. They would like to automate this process.
5.) At present the testing center is using a website provided by a company called
Razor Blast, for the test registration process. They would rather do this in-house
and have the functionality on their own web site.
6.) Distant students, who registered at the University testing center, can take their
exam at a different testing center which is closer to them. In such a situation, the
testing center sends the exam to the other testing center through email.