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Title. Company Introduction and e•test™ Tour. RIVA Background. Founded in 1993 Privately held Texas corporation, Dallas/Fort Worth Debt free and profitable since inception Original work in training/visual/flight simulation systems Significant early web work for major publishing clients

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  1. Title Company Introduction and e•test™ Tour

  2. RIVA Background • Founded in 1993 • Privately held Texas corporation, Dallas/Fort Worth • Debt free and profitable since inception • Original work in training/visual/flight simulation systems • Significant early web work for major publishing clients • Using Java since 1.0 in custom Java e-book • 23 Person staff of computer professionals

  3. Representative Customers Large … … and Small McGraw-HillMacmillan Computer Publishing QUE Education and Training Que / Ziff Davis Harcourt Brace College Publishers Pearson Prentice-Hall Addison Wessley Learning NetworkSilicon GraphicsLockheed-Martin Aeronautical Systems Company Tactical Aircraft SystemsRaytheon Training / Hughes TrainingBell Helicopter Textron, Inc.Federal Aviation Administration Flight Standards Branch Civil AeroMedical InstituteNortel Networks Innovative Multimedia ESPI.com ISIS Papyrus America Koyote Internet Visual Engineering Caballero Television Engineering Animation Services ReelFX Probasco Design SportSimulation Space Imaging Systems Vaultnet Velocity Enterprises HighTechCampus.com Willamette Industries

  4. eTest3 Title A full-featured, highly scalable, fully web-based system for creation, deployment, and management of dynamic assessments

  5. Complete Online Testing System • True Web Interface for All Features • ALL features available through web GUI • no plug-ins required • Question (Item), section, and test creation or use test-bank(s) • Flexible and powerful test delivery • Single or multiple questions per screen • Multiple levels of randomization • Timed assessments • Grade-Book and Reporting tools • 8 Canned Report plus report generator for saving custom reports • 8 common question types with designed in growth • e•test JavaScript™ API for multimedia or custom questions of any type

  6. e•test™ Roles and Functions Instructor Student Administrator Test Delivery Assessment Manager Grade Book Users Question Authoring Section / Test Authoring Hand Grading Test Delivery Results Reporter Classes True / False Fill-In-Blank Randomize View Grades Item Analysis Courses Multiple Choice Matching Modify Profiles Summary e-Commerce Multiple Response Short Answer Import / Export Student Roster Likert Scale Essay e•test API Security Test Multimedia Image Map Other LMS Integration

  7. Features • True Web-based product • No Plug-Ins Required • Easily customizable • XSL/CSS modifications enable easy custom interface for an organization • Highly scalable architecture • Supports clustering/load balancing at each tier • Database : EJB : Web Server • Modular EJB Architecture Supports “Drop In” New Features • Internet and/or intranet delivery • Hosted or On-Site Solutions Available • Customizable feature set • From user interface to low-level features • Programmers API for modification of business logic • Support for customer branding • Templates and XSL customization available

  8. Baseline Question Types • True/False (or Yes/No) • Multiple Choice (unlimited choices) • Multiple Correct (unlimited choices) • Matching (unlimited choices) • Likert Scale (agree…don’t know…disagree) • Fill-in-the-Blank • Ordered and unordered • Unlimited blanks • Short Answer (Auto-graded or hand-graded) • Essay (hand-graded) • Multimedia, Images, HTML in any question type

  9. Easy Test Authoring • Basic questions require no knowledge of HTML • Unlimited answer choices on all choice question types • HTML character formatting in the questions or answers • Bold, italic, underline, font colors, etc. • Advanced HTML questions for HTML users • Tables, Images, Multimedia, etc. • Anything you can do in HTML, you can do in questions • Hyperlinks in the question or answers • Multimedia in the question or answers • Images, video, audio • Animation • Shockwave, Flash, Java applets

  10. Flexible Test Delivery • Unlimited questions in database • Tests made up of sections • Unlimited number of sections per test • Independently randomize each section • x of x questions in strict order • x of x questions in random order • x of y questions in random order • Allows groups of questions by difficulty or subject to be independently randomized • Reuse or modify existing sections for quick test preparation • Build final exam from existing sections • Delivery at future date/time

  11. Let’s Take a Tour – Passwords Required

  12. e•test™ Question Creation Page

  13. e•test™ Test Builder Pages (1)

  14. e*test™ Test Builder Pages (2)

  15. e•test™ On-line Test Delivery (1)

  16. e•test™ On-line Test Delivery (2)

  17. e•test™ On-line Test Delivery (3)

  18. Grading and Reporting • Automatically grades all selection and short answer types • Allow for common misspellings or alternate entries • WWII versus World War II • Includes hand grading of essay and short answer questions • Assign grading to instructors by class or by question • Flexible Grade Reporting • Course-/class-/section- level statistics • Item analysis • Create and save custom report queries • Reporting method selection • Live results to student at completion

  19. Summary of All Tests I’ve Taken

  20. My History Test Summary

  21. Results of a History Test (1)

  22. More Results of a History Test (2)

  23. Pop-up Lets Me See Correct Answers

  24. Ultra-Scalable Architecture • RIVA is currently working on delivery of a system with 800,000 learners. This is possible because of the following. • Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) • Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) with Database Logic in the Beans • Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) • Developed/Tested with Oracle 8i and MS SQL Server 2000 • Future Support for any JDBC Compliant Database • 4-tier design for maximum clustering / load balancing options • Separates web server hardware tier from EJB

  25. Web Browser Clients JSPs Servlets EJBs RDBMS Cluster Scalable 4-tier Physical Architecture Client Tier Presentation Tier Business Logic Tier Data Tier HTTP Server Cluster App Server Cluster • Solaris/Linux/WinNT/Win2k • Apache, iPlanet, or Weblogic • Jakarta / Tomcat • Xalan / Xerces • Solaris/WinNT/Win2k • BEA Weblogic 5.1 • Solaris/WinNT/Win2k • Oracle 8i • SQL Server • Unix/Linux/Win32/Mac • MS Internet Explorer 4+ • Netscape Navigator 4+ Platform Independent and Massively Scalable

  26. Standards-Based Design • Enterprise Java Standards (J2EE/EJB/JDBC 2.0) • Native XML data at business logic tier • IMS Project Question & Test Interoperability (QT&I) Spec • XSL to HTML display rendering on the server • Clean HTML Interface requires no plug-ins on client • Supports Standard 4.x and 5.x Browsers • JavaScript For High Quality Interface

  27. Attention to Modularity and Growth in System and Software Design • EJB container independence • Abstracted WebLogic specific implementations • Logging mechanisms • Deployment methods • Plans on testing with other popular EJB servers • WebSphere • Freeware EJB server(s) when they are adequate • JBOSS • JONASS • Database logic in the Beans for maximum database flexibility • Minimal stored procedures • No triggers • XSL Display Rendering

  28. Vertical Modularity / Customization Assessment Manager Test Delivery Grade-book Results Reporter Customer- Defined/Developed HTML HTML HTML HTML HTML AM XSL TD XSL GB XSL RR XSL Custom XSL Customizable Interface Common GUI XSLT Templates = Mass Customization XML XML XML XML XML Programming API AM Session EJBs TD Session EJBs GB Session EJBs RR Session EJBs Custom Session EJBs Power- Programming API AM Entity EJBs TD Entity EJBs GB Entity EJBs RR Entity EJBs Custom Entity EJBs AM Database TD Database GB Database RR Database Custom Database

  29. Hosted Physical Architecture Administrator / Instructor Administrator Hosting Facility optional EJB SQL WWW Fire Wall Fire Wall Intranet Internet Learner RDBMS Cluster EJB Application Server Cluster Web Server Cluster optional Learner

  30. Benefits of e•test™ • Born-on-the-web test authoring and test delivery with SSL security • Automates and organizes the test building and test delivery process • Delivers tests within minutes of item creation – no programming skills are required • Saves time and money in authoring and test delivery. The software typically pays for itself in the first year. • Automatically builds an item bank on your SQL or Oracle database • Randomization of items and sections helps control learner behaviors • Learners get immediate feed back. (This is important to assure rapid assessment of knowledge and determining marginal knowledge in key personnel.) • Interim knowledge assessments, employee and customer surveys, skills testing improve the quality of relationship with your customers. Customer relationships improve.

  31. Conclusions • Enterprise class architecture, software design, database design • Born-on-the Web test authoring and test delivery • Automated test item creation, modification and deletion process • Test items are immediately available from the database • Virtually unlimited test items in the item database • Learner gets immediate test results with instructor comments. • Web accessible • Intuitive user interfaces • Flexible role hierarchy for Administrators, Instructors and Student RIVA e•test™ is the Answer.

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