Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Our Mini Project

MCQ EVALUATOR AND BARCODE SCANNER
Team: Ashish, Shaunak, Chaitanya, Sameer

In today’s competitive world our skill sets are put to test in every sphere of life, right from the educational sphere as a student to the professional sphere as a compatible human resource (HR). This ‘fast track’ world demands ‘fast track’ gadgets. Online examinations are catching up to cater to the ever-increasing evaluation needs but they are not always feasible mainly due to the lack of resources. Yet time is at a premium, which necessitates minimization of the evaluation time overhead.
Our gadget bridges this gap by allowing on the spot (handheld) evaluation of MCQ type objective tests. Thus any MCQ examination sheet can be appended with our custom made objective sheet sticker that will be scanned by our device for evaluation. Dedicated answer sheet prototypes can also be provided; low cost mass production of such sheets is possible and convenient to be used for evaluation along with our product. Each sheet will be provided with a unique barcode carrying the Roll No. which can be decoded using the same hardware as that of the MCQ evaluator.
The complete product features a user-friendly computer based GUI that will allow the evaluator to enter the master correct answer record and then display all statistics pertaining to the current papers being scanned. Also, each sheet will be identified by a special bar code based system for easier authorization.

Graphical user interface was created in Visual Basic 6. We started from learning VB from books and implementing simple tools and functions.

Following is a video demonstration of our Project's GUI.
(Commentary by Shaunak)

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