Test and Assessment

Excelsoft provides technologies and services to enable academic institutes run accurate, secure and affordable online exams, distance education assessments and on-going internal assessments. Our customers in the Academic sector span across K-12, Higher Education, Distance Education, Vocational Education, Coaching and Test Prep institutes. Read below for our offerings.

Online entrance exams

With Excelsoft’s proven & reliable technology and partners for exam delivery, Excelsoft has the experience of conducting large scale, high stake exams for admissions to Academic Institutes.

With the help of SARAS Unified Assessment Platform and its delivery partners for secure proctored test centers, Excelsoft’s solution handles the entire end to end process of:

  • Pre exam activitie
    • Registration process
    • Manage question banks, ensure security
      • Design & Development of Question Papers from SMEs
    • Developing and managing application process
      • Application Form Processing
      • Online payment gateway
      • Admit card/hall ticket processing
  • Question bank repository auto categorized or user defined with 100% security
  • Exam delivery
    • Via test taking centers (proctored environment)
    • Exam co-ordination across centers
    • Center monitoring by admins
    • Auto recovery of system during network failure
    • Modes of Delivery
      • Online, LAN based, offline, CD
  • Post exam support
    • Evaluation support
    • Results Management
    • Declaration of Results (online/Offline)
  • Customization option
    • Option to to customize Assessment deployments including customization of test / process flow,

Excelsoft’s online exam solution is powered by SARAS Unified Assessments Delivery Platform which has been designed Excelsoft’s SARAS UADP (Unified Assessment Delivery Platform), is a platform which has been specifically designed to author and deliver high stake exams in an online and distributed model scenario. The platform is proven to handle large scale, high concurrency requirements that can be delivered online or through a distributed network of test centers faced with network and power outages.

The highlights of the product features and the benefits delivered to the customer are mentioned below:

Solution Feature highlights with customer benefits

Feature
Benefit
Authoring of question banks. Online or Offline (conversion of questions in MS word to online question bank).
Easily send over the question content to us in current available format with negligible manual overhead for re-authoring/migration.
3 modes of test delivery: Online, mixed mode (can handle flaky internet connections) and offline. A unique feature of our product
Particularly important in the Indian operational scenario. Enables you to conduct online/computer based tests in remote areas with limited or no internet connectivity.
Support for centralized and distributed deployment models
No need to invest in Internet connectivity, can work with existing network setup.
Candidate verification: via on site photo verification.
Ensure sanctity of the test by stopping fraud or mis representation
Performance optimized to work in very low bandwidth, as low as 33.6 Kbps
No need to upgrade speed of internet connectivity
Remote monitoring of computers located in test centers to plug gaps in software and hardware infrastructure.
Removes any manual intervention to certify computers for test delivery
Suite of tools to support back office operations:

  • Export/import capability to pull in student registration info. Single sign on (SSO) to integrate the test center site with the test taking platform.
  • Offline scheduling tool to allow for mass scheduling. Accommodates dynamic changes in student schedules.
  • Center monitoring tools: Admins can see student attempts, attendance, results, etc.
  • Access codes can be generated on the fly for walk-in on the spot registrations.
  • Online authoring tools and auto conversion of questions and tests into QTI compliant question banks
  • Generation of Test packs and result packs to support distributed offline mode of test delivery.
These tools deliver improved operational efficiency and reduce human intervention

  • No time or money spent to integrate with any back office system.
  • Ability to handle dynamic changes in student schedules
  • Auto conversion of existing content into the question repository
Results Management: Delivered online or offline
Ensure sanctity of the results before announcing.
Support for all popular browsers in the market (all versions of IE, Mozilla and Safari) Support for all OS supported: Win 98, XP, Vista, ubuntu Linux
No minimum requirement on test taking computers. Works with old system configurations as well.
Cloud based deployment. SARAS Unified Assessment Platform leverages the cloud computing platform from Amazon to handle high load variability.
Auto scale up and scale down based on usage. Overall reduces total cost of ownership

Internal Assessments

From distance learning exams to on-going internal assessments, Excelsoft has the solution for your needs.

Powered by SARAS Unified Assessment Delivery Platform, we cater to delivery of all kinds of exams via online, offline, CD based and distributed models across test centers.Please refer the table above for a description of the solution features and customer benefits.

 

Solutions for Test Prep and Coaching centers

With our decade old experience working with academic and test prep institutes both in India and globally, Excelsoft is uniquely positioned to help coaching centers to offer online test prep and technology differentiated learning solutions. The benefits of e-assessments include:

  • Online Diagnostic assessments that outline student strengths and weaknesses relative to standards
  • Ensure class uniformity prior at the outset
    • Brush up with remedial content
  • Immediate feedback on student performance with reports
    • Data that can be acted upon to improve student progress
  • Predictive assessments to forecast student performance on competitive nation wide exams
  • Allows all stakeholder (parents, management) to review progress
  • Scale business with standardized content and tests
    • Helps address dearth of good teachers

In addition to online test prep solution, Excelsoft’s end to end technology offering for coaching Institutes includes:

  • Virtual Class room (Interactive)
    • IP based live streaming or VSAT based
  • Online learning
    • Formative tests
    • Remedial conten
    • Self learning aka distance education/correspondence course
  • Knowledge Forums, online mentoring/tuitions, study groups
  • Powered by Learning Spaces community platform
  • Content solutions
    • Test banks, learning objects, remedial content, e-Learning courses, simulation and games

Contact us for a free webinar and demo on how you can use technology to differentiate your coaching business