Examination Management System for British Council

Abstract

BC Srilanka is one of the well-known Organization for conducting UK exams in Srilanka and Maldives. BC was established 69 years ago in Colombo – Srilanka. Presently plays a vital role with UK exams operations, English Courses, Direct for professional exams and supportive to other English activities for teachers and student in Srilanka. British Council Srilanka coordinates lot of examinations through examination boards (Cambridge, Pearson, BCS and ACCA) of UK such as School exams, IELTS, BCS, ACCA and Cambridge English in many BC branches operates through a high quality rates, standards and regulations according to network within BC staff. At present, BC website operate daily exam registration using an automated system but this process is inefficient, unavailability and very slow for real-time transactions in web due to increase in large no of data volume with new exams and venues among these countries. Therefore, suggested Web-based Exam Management System for BC will ease up standard keyvalue functions internally and externally in business process as Administration, Candidate, Exam, Venue, Staff, Resource Management, Report and Backup modules within critical data protection through confidentiality and authentication security. This system recover features are Email, SMS, verification code, Scanning ID documents upload, captcha and chat forum for professional exam candidates and also works which will be updated by examination branch by authorized examination staff. Further, it enables the candidate to make their preliminary exam registration process online and to track down the status of their payment online through Payment cards or PayPal. The System has tailored Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture and Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) techniques. The system will be develop based on the Iterative and Incremental Development Methodology of Rational Unified Process (RUP) hence each increment can be providing a working milestone to the customer. The HTML5 is core markup language, Bootstrap, CSS3 for styling, and MEAN technology as M – MongoDB (Database), E – Express.js (Node.js framework), A – Angular2 for client-side scripting (front end), N - Node.js use for server-side (backend), and IDE is IntelliJ IDEA. EMBC would improve the efficiency and productivity of the daily functions of the business, and also would strengthen the Exams – Business – Candidates relationship which leads to adding competitive advantage to the business in for future progress. The online distributed nature of the system will be very helpful to expand their business in the future as well.