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3.3.9.4 Tests and Examinations

In addition to providing course material, tests can be provided online. Students' answers can be submitted via HTML forms. Small multiple choice tests can even be corrected automatically by the server using CGI scripts, and again, with additional programs, students' success can be logged and analysed. If students passed the test at the first attempt, they probably cheated [DB96], and if they did not pass it after many attempts, they probably had not studied the course material properly. In the future, even final examinations could be conducted using this technique. This, of course, will require user authentication which is not implemented in ``first generation'' WWW servers[*]. Encrypted data transmission would provide the security, and to avoid fraud, a camera could be placed on the computer to identify the student, or alternatively, the student could have to go to a computer lab where a supervisor checks each student's identity and ensures that there is no cheating. For distance education, this method would ease the examination process enormously. However, there is not doubt that students will do everything within their power to develop new cheating methods.