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PLEASE MAKE A DONATION: http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=159398 FOR COMMERCIAL USAGE PLEASE CONTACT: info@tecnick.com -----------------------------------------------------------Name: TCExam Version: 11.2.015 Release date: 2011-10-12 Author: Nicola Asuni Copyright (c) 2004-2011: Nicola Asuni Tecnick.com S.r.l. Via Della Pace, 11 09044 Quartucciu (CA) ITALY http://www.tecnick.com URLs: http://www.tcexam.org http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcexam Description: TCExam is a technological solution (CBA - Computer-Based Assessment) to drastically simplify the evaluation process for schools, universities, recruiting firms as well as private and public companies, allowing professors, teachers and examiners to create, distribute and manage exam s, tests, surveys and quizzes. Compared to the traditional Pen-and-Paper Testing (PPT), TCExam simplifi es the whole process of evaluation reducing costs and improving quality and reliability of the examinations. TCExam comes in a variety of languages and is already used all over the world by top universities, schools, private and public institutions, independent educators and research centers. KEY FEATURES * Flexibility and Configurability: The system has been designed to offer a high degree of adaptability to cover a great variety of usage scenarios. Numerous configuration features allow customizing TCExam to fit all poss ible requirements. * Free Open Source Software (FOSS): TCExam software is distributed with GNU-AGPLv3 license. Open Source promotes Software reliability and qualit

y by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of the source cod e. * Web-based Architecture: TCExam is Web-based and developed with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) technology. User-friendly interface allows y ou to install and use TCExam by simply connecting one cable to the switch o f your computer network. All the computers on the network will be able to use TCExam independently from the client s operating system as a normal intranet website, with no need to install any additional software or plug-in. * Internationalization (I18N): TCExam is language-independent through th e adoption of the UTF-8, Unicode and TMX standards. It supports the Right-To-Left mode and currently includes translations in 23 different languages. * Accessibility and Usability: TCExam Web interface conforms to the XHTM L 1.0 Strict standard, the guidelines on Accessibility (W3C-WAI-WCAG 1.0) and Usability, to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities, including blindness. * Results and Statistics: TCExam outputs a variety of result pages, enab ling various selection filters and providing numerous statistical indexes. Results and statistics can then be exported into various formats for fil ing or reworking. The test-takers can immediately be informed of the result of their test, or have it delivered via email. * Data Import and Export: TCExam uses Open Standard protocols for data filing and interchange: CSV, XML and PDF. Everything is fully documented to be easily extended or used by external applications. Custom filters can be added to import data from other systems. Include Optical Mark Recognitio n (OMR) system to import users' answers from paper sheets. TCExam supports several types of remote authentication and single-sign-on protocols: LDA P, RADIUS, CAS. * Multimedia Content: TCExam uses a common mark-up language to add text formatting, images, multimedia objects (audio and video) and mathematica l formulas (supports LaTeX). * Unique Tests: TCExam can simultaneously generate unique tests for different users by randomly selecting and sorting questions and alternat ive answers. This feature drastically reduces or eliminates the chances of cheating on the test. * Paper Testing with Optical Character Recognition (OMR): TCExam can

generate printable PDF documents for pen-and-paper testing. The OMR answ er sheet can be scanned and uploaded to TCExam for automatic test importing , scoring and reporting. * Security: TCExam is more secure than traditional Pen-and-Paper testing . It uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption and includes various authentication levels to discriminate the access to the various sections (user/password, access level, group, IP address). Test time, test activi ty, results, and statistics: every part of the test is managed and stored in the server, leaving no sensitive data in the users client computers. Software License Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com S.r.l. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Additionally, you can't remove, move or hide the original TCExam logo, copyrights statements and links to Tecnick.com and TCExam Websites . Please contact info@tecnick.com for commercial usage. See LICENSE.TXT file for more information. Requirements and Install Documentation: [ENG] install/index.htm Check also the documentation on http://www.tcexam.org Source Documentation: http://www.tcexam.org Support - Help: Please use support forum under http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcexa m ============================================================