Our product
An exam system where educational institutions prepare and run their exams online.
A paper exam takes time at every step: writing the questions, printing, handing out and marking. When the results are in, finding out why a question was hard takes another round of calculation. We built Sigma Online Exam System so that educational institutions can prepare, run and assess their exams online. It is designed for every institution that runs exams, from schools and language courses to tutoring centers, the human resources departments of companies and certification bodies.
In Sigma the institution first builds its question bank: questions are stored by topic and difficulty level, so a question written once is reused in different exams. An exam is prepared from this bank with questions picked by hand or drawn at random; its duration, start and end time are set. Question types include multiple choice, true or false, matching, fill in the blanks and short answer, and questions can carry images, audio and video. Showing the questions, and the options of multiple choice questions, in a different order to every student makes cheating harder; one account cannot sign in twice at the same time, and the exam is completed within its time limit. Long answer questions are graded manually, and mathematical expressions and coding questions are supported as well. When the exam ends, scoring is automatic and students see their result at once. Students can also take exams on tablets and smartphones.
The institution follows every student's result, the averages of a class or a group and the share of correct answers per question in its reports, and students who struggle with a topic become visible in the topic analysis. The difficulty and the discrimination of every question show in the per-question statistics, so the institution decides with data which question to change in the next exam. Progress over time can be followed, and results can be compared with earlier exams or other groups. Reports can be exported as PDF, Excel and CSV. Today Sigma is offered through onlinekurum.com. Its building blocks, such as exams, automatic scoring and reporting, are also within the scope of our education software service.
We build software that runs student, payment, exam and distance learning processes for course centers, tutoring schools and educational institutions. We adapt our ready-made products to your institution or build a system just for you.
Describe in a few sentences what you want to build. We review your needs and write back with how we can move forward.