Quiz OMR

Introduction

• Quiz OMR(Optical Mark Reader) is an extension to Moodle's "Quiz" module. Quiz OMR provides online support for managing and evaluating objective-type assessments which are conducted offline using OMR sheets. This tool supports features provided by Moodle like question banking, automatic result evaluation, result analysis, result publication etc.

• Target Users : All the institutions where objective type exams are conducted off-line using OMR sheets are the target users. For example
  • Educational Institutions : For competitive and entrance examinations etc.
  • Corporate Institutions  : For recruitment tests and certification examinations etc.

Features

• Variant Generation (automatic and manual) from master question paper
• Printable version of variants available
• Off-line Quiz attempt Data Analysis (i.e. attempt data obtained after scanning OMR sheets): to detect errors in the off-line attempt data.
• Automatic Evaluation of off-line Quiz attempt data (i.e. attempt data obtained after scanning OMR sheets)
• On-line View Of Off-line Attempts

Integrated with following features of Moodle

• Question Bank
• Question Paper Analysis
• Student Performance Analysis
• Grade Book Management

Installation

• For Moodle 1.9.7+ : Apply the patch [1] to your Moodle installation.
• For Moodle version less than 1.9.7+
  • Apply the patch [2] to your Moodle installation
  • Edit "version.php" in "moodle/mod/quiz" by increasing the value of "$module->version" by one.
  • Click on "Notifications" in "Site Administration Block" .

User and teacher Manual

You can refer to User and Teacher Manuals [3] for detailed understanding of the features of OMR Quiz.

Testing with dummy data

Once you are done with the installation, test with dummy data [4]. Follow the instructions in the README file.

Publication

Extending Moodle to Support Offline Assessments [5]
Archana Rane, Akshay Kumar, Harmeet Saini, and M Sasikumar.
page no 31-39, Proceedings of ELELTECH India November 2009, Hyderabad, India