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Puavo OS is an disk image based operating system that is built from Debian GNU/Linux and is specifically designed for learning.
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Next Exam - an interesting tool for examinations #712

Open ralf-krause opened 4 months ago

ralf-krause commented 4 months ago

Dear Puavo developers, I got a hint for an interesting tool for examinations: Next Exam. https://next-exam.at/

For Linux they have two AppImages, an app for teachers and an app for students. The teacher starts the examination with his computer. He configures the examination with a Moodle test for example. Then he gets a pin code for his students. The students connect their computers with the pin code and take the test. They get an environment without any click outside the Moodle test. It should be sure that the student get any help from a local file or from a website. The teacher can watch the student screen while the examination is running. The tool Next Exam takes some ideas from Veyon ... or the other way around.

I try to start the AppImages on Puavo Apulum (Bullseye) and Puavo Fermium (Bookworm). The students app does not start on Puavo Apulum (Bullseye) but it starts on Puavo Fermium (Bookworm) ... I can't say why. Perhaps there is an issue with the Puabo Bullseye and the AppImages.

Could it be an idea to get Next Exam as a Puavo pkg so schools in Magdeburg can install Next Exam with their Moodle platform? I found that the Moodle way with the Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is too difficult to configure. https://docs.moodle.org/en/Safe_Exam_Browser .

If you give schools the opportunity to try out the Next Exam tool, you should install Next Exam 1.0.0rc6 or higher, because 1.0.0rc5 uses a Moodle configuration that does not work with Moodle in Saxony-Anhalt. The problem is fixed in 1.0.0rc6 ... in the release notes https://next-exam.at/#releases you will find the note "# fix: allow moodle domains with subfolders".

Thanks and best regards, Ralf

asokero commented 3 months ago

Hey,

It is possible to add this as a puavo-pkg for testing. It seems that it is only available in german and as it is currently a one-man-band in development so no long term support can be expected yet. But it looks interesting.

There will be a separate built-in exam-mode in puavo-os which is currently in development (not in production images). Hopefully we could get the first versions available some-time next semester. https://github.com/puavo-org/puavo-os/tree/exammode

ralf-krause commented 3 months ago

Hey Antti, yes, the Next Exam project currently seems to be a one-man-show.

I found english language files in the gitlab repository. I think that the english app version will come very soon. https://gitlab.com/valueerror/next-exam/-/blob/master/teacher/packages/renderer/src/locales/en.json?ref_type=heads https://gitlab.com/valueerror/next-exam/-/blob/master/student/packages/renderer/src/locales/en.json?ref_type=heads

I hope that the Next Exam app will help Puavo to be better accepted in schools. We often get requests to turn off the WiFi in schools when students are supposed to take an exam. With Next Exam, the user is locked into the screen of their device and all is well.

Best regards, Ralf