System for the Administration of a Secure, Online, Proctored Examination
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Abstract
A system for secure, web-based, proctored examinations is provided. A web-based platform allows for test delivery beyond a local testing center with the test delivered directly to the test-taker. Computing devices that have been secured for the taking of an examination allow a student or prospective professional to access an examination wherever there is an Internet connection. As a result, students and professionals can take examinations where they live, learn, and work thereby reducing the costs associated with travelling to testing centers and minimizing time away from work. Test-takers, proctors, instructors, administrators, authors, and test developers can all access data and test information anytime and anywhere. Secure examinations can be taken under the purview of a proctor either in person or via the Internet and utilizing any number of testing environment capture devices in conjunction with data forensic technologies.
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14 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A system for administration of a secure, proctored examination via a network, the system comprising:
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a testing server coupled to the network, the testing server providing testing data for the examination; a registration server coupled to the network, the registration server receiving authentication data to authenticate a test taker of the examination; a computing device coupled to the network, the computing device; providing the authentication data to the registration server so that the registration server may verify a user of the computing device as the test taker, receiving the testing data to execute a testing routine for the examination, and executing a secure testing application that implements security limitations for the computing device during the testing routine and provides observation data concerning the testing routine to a proctoring center; and a proctoring center that receives the observation data over the network in order to monitor the testing routine executed by the computing device. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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