| During the first half of the academic year 2004-2005, in view of the automation of some structures of the university, an electronic examination system called “e-University Project” was implemented at the university.
The process of realization of the students’ exams via a computer program com-menced in January 2005. In February, all students of the university began to take exams via this system.
During the academic year 2006-2007, the transition of the program to the Bologna system started, and students passed their summer exams (II semester of the academic year 2006-2007) based on the Bologna system. During all this period of time, the program was expanded further and a number of new modules were added into it.
The graduation-state exams of the academic year 2008-2009 were also taken via this program.
In 2009, one more innovation, i.e. the inclusion of biometric data of students into the program was realized. This is the process of verification of a student’s identification by his finger-prints, while he is sitting his exam, which in its turn, plays a big role in preventing many negative cases.
Scenarios. The examination process is conducted on the basis of special scenarios. The scenario allows to take exams in several formats during the same academic year. The scenario reflects the number of would-be asked questions, the stages of a colloquium and its units, the start and finish dates of the exams, the starting and ending hours of the exams during a day, the evaluation policy, the application period, and other relevant information. This, in its turn, brings the chance of a mechanical mistake, i.e. the human factor to a minimum.
Examination process. During an examination period, a student may enter an exam on any subject at any time. In doing so, the program checks the entry of the student to that specific subject by the pre-agreed structures. If a student has been permitted by the appropriate structure to the exam, then the examination supervisor sends him to one of the numbered computers. While starting the exam, the data about the student (his first and last names, group, subject name, semester, colloquium point, etc.) are shown on the screen, and the student starts the examination. The student must finish the examination within the time allowed as per the scenario. The student may end the examination at any time he wishes. In case if he does not end it in time, a warning appears on the screen, and when the examination time expires, the program automatically ends the examination. After that, the program calculates the results and displays them on the screen (the number of correct and wrong answers, total points, received mark, etc.). Thereafter, full results of the examination together with the correct and wrong answers (in this case, a correct answer is also noted) appear on the screen and the student is given 5 minutes to the review the result. After that, the examination ends.
From that moment, the mark, received by the student, gets reflected on the system. As a result of this, the dean’s office, the application commission, etc. receive full information about the mark received by the student concerned, the questions he was asked to answer, the given answers.
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