Collaboration Supported Automatic Examination Architecture

During the past few years, automatic computer examination systems have been widely used for computer-based tests. But these systems are based on the traditional question-answer examination style which is limited for the collaborative examination. The collaborative examination needs multiple examinees and can be parallel performed. The collaborative examination also should consider the context of the examinee, e.g. the order of questions or the permissions of the examinee. To address the problems brought by the collaborative examination, we propose a novel collaboration supported automatic examination architecture based on task which is abstracted from the examination process. Our architecture is compatible with the traditional question-answer style examination and could meet the requests of the collaborative examination, such as order, dependency and collaboration.