Transcript Internet Training Solution - RIVA Technologies, Inc.

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Company Introduction and e•test™ Tour
RIVA Background
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Founded in 1993
Privately held Texas corporation, Dallas/Fort Worth
Debt free and profitable since inception
Original work in training/visual/flight simulation systems
Significant early web work for major publishing clients
Using Java since 1.0 in custom Java e-book
23 Person staff of computer professionals
Representative Customers
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Large …
McGraw-Hill
Macmillan Computer Publishing
QUE Education and Training
Que / Ziff Davis
Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Pearson
Prentice-Hall
Addison Wessley
Learning Network
Silicon Graphics
Lockheed-Martin
Aeronautical Systems Company
Tactical Aircraft Systems
Raytheon Training / Hughes Training
Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
Federal Aviation Administration
Flight Standards Branch
Civil AeroMedical Institute
Nortel Networks
… and Small
Innovative Multimedia
ESPI.com
ISIS Papyrus America
Koyote Internet
Visual Engineering
Caballero Television
Engineering Animation Services
ReelFX
Probasco Design
SportSimulation
Space Imaging Systems
Vaultnet
Velocity Enterprises
HighTechCampus.com
Willamette Industries
eTest3 Title
A full-featured, highly scalable, fully web-based
system for creation, deployment, and management of
dynamic assessments
Complete Online Testing System
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True Web Interface for All Features
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ALL features available through web GUI
no plug-ins required
Question (Item), section, and test creation or use test-bank(s)
Flexible and powerful test delivery
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Single or multiple questions per screen
Multiple levels of randomization
Timed assessments
Grade-Book and Reporting tools
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8 Canned Report plus report generator for saving custom reports
8 common question types with designed in growth
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e•test JavaScript™ API for multimedia or custom questions of any type
e•test™ Roles and Functions
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Instructor
Administrator
Student
Test Delivery
Users
Classes
Test Delivery
Grade Book
Assessment Manager
Question Authoring
View Grades
True / False
Fill-In-Blank
Profiles
Multiple
Choice
Matching
e-Commerce
Multiple
Response
Short
Answer
Security
Likert
Scale
Essay
Multimedia
Image Map
Section / Test
Authoring
Randomize
Hand Grading
Results
Reporter
Item Analysis
Courses
Modify
Summary
Import / Export
Student
Roster
LMS Integration
e•test API
Test
Other
Features
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True Web-based product
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No Plug-Ins Required
Easily customizable
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XSL/CSS modifications enable easy custom interface for an organization
Highly scalable architecture
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Supports clustering/load balancing at each tier
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Database : EJB : Web Server
Modular EJB Architecture Supports “Drop In” New Features
Internet and/or intranet delivery
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Hosted or On-Site Solutions Available
Customizable feature set
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From user interface to low-level features
Programmers API for modification of business logic
Support for customer branding
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Templates and XSL customization available
Baseline Question Types
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True/False (or Yes/No)
Multiple Choice (unlimited choices)
Multiple Correct (unlimited choices)
Matching (unlimited choices)
Likert Scale (agree…don’t know…disagree)
Fill-in-the-Blank
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Ordered and unordered
Unlimited blanks
Short Answer (Auto-graded or hand-graded)
Essay (hand-graded)
Multimedia, Images, HTML in any question type
Easy Test Authoring
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Basic questions require no knowledge of HTML
Unlimited answer choices on all choice question types
HTML character formatting in the questions or answers
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Bold, italic, underline, font colors, etc.
Advanced HTML questions for HTML users
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Tables, Images, Multimedia, etc.
Anything you can do in HTML, you can do in questions
Hyperlinks in the question or answers
Multimedia in the question or answers
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Images, video, audio
Animation
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Shockwave, Flash, Java applets
Flexible Test Delivery
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Unlimited questions in database
Tests made up of sections
Unlimited number of sections per test
Independently randomize each section
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x of x questions in strict order
x of x questions in random order
x of y questions in random order
Allows groups of questions by difficulty or subject to be independently
randomized
Reuse or modify existing sections for quick test preparation
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Build final exam from existing sections
Delivery at future date/time
Let’s Take a Tour – Passwords Required
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e•test™ Question Creation Page
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e•test™ Test Builder Pages (1)
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e*test™ Test Builder Pages (2)
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e•test™ On-line Test Delivery (1)
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e•test™ On-line Test Delivery (2)
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e•test™ On-line Test Delivery (3)
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Grading and Reporting
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Automatically grades all selection and short answer types
Allow for common misspellings or alternate entries
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WWII versus World War II
Includes hand grading of essay and short answer questions
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Assign grading to instructors by class or by question
Flexible Grade Reporting
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Course-/class-/section- level statistics
Item analysis
Create and save custom report queries
Reporting method selection
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Live results to student at completion
Summary of All Tests I’ve Taken
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My History Test Summary
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Results of a History Test (1)
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More Results of a History Test (2)
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Pop-up Lets Me See Correct Answers
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Ultra-Scalable Architecture
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RIVA is currently working on delivery of a system with 800,000
learners. This is possible because of the following.
Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) with Database Logic in the Beans
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
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Developed/Tested with Oracle 8i and MS SQL Server 2000
Future Support for any JDBC Compliant Database
4-tier design for maximum clustering / load balancing options
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Separates web server hardware tier from EJB
Scalable 4-tier Physical Architecture
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Client Tier
Presentation Tier
HTTP Server
Cluster
Web Browser
Clients
Business Logic Tier
Data Tier
App Server
Cluster
Servlets
EJBs
RDBMS
Cluster
JSPs
• Unix/Linux/Win32/Mac
• Solaris/Linux/WinNT/Win2k
•Solaris/WinNT/Win2k
• Solaris/WinNT/Win2k
• MS Internet Explorer 4+
• Netscape Navigator 4+
• Apache, iPlanet, or Weblogic
• Jakarta / Tomcat
• Xalan / Xerces
• BEA Weblogic 5.1
• Oracle 8i
• SQL Server
Platform Independent and Massively Scalable
Standards-Based Design
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Enterprise Java Standards (J2EE/EJB/JDBC 2.0)
Native XML data at business logic tier
IMS Project Question & Test Interoperability (QT&I) Spec
XSL to HTML display rendering on the server
Clean HTML Interface requires no plug-ins on client
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Supports Standard 4.x and 5.x Browsers
JavaScript For High Quality Interface
Attention to Modularity and Growth
in System and Software Design
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EJB container independence
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Abstracted WebLogic specific implementations
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Logging mechanisms
Deployment methods
Plans on testing with other popular EJB servers
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WebSphere
Freeware EJB server(s) when they are adequate
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JBOSS
JONASS
Database logic in the Beans for maximum database flexibility
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Minimal stored procedures
No triggers
XSL Display Rendering
Vertical Modularity / Customization
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Customizable
Interface
Assessment
Manager
Test
Delivery
HTML
HTML
AM XSL
TD XSL
Results
Reporter
CustomerDefined/Developed
HTML
HTML
HTML
GB XSL
RR XSL
Grade-book
Custom XSL
Common GUI XSLT Templates = Mass Customization
XML
XML
XML
XML
XML
Programming
API
AM
Session EJBs
TD
Session EJBs
GB
Session EJBs
RR
Session EJBs
Custom
Session EJBs
PowerProgramming
API
AM
Entity EJBs
TD
Entity EJBs
GB
Entity EJBs
RR
Entity EJBs
Custom
Entity EJBs
AM
Database
TD
Database
GB
Database
RR
Database
Custom
Database
Hosted Physical Architecture
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Administrator
/ Instructor
Administrator
Hosting Facility
optional
SQL
EJB
WWW
Fire
Wall
Fire
Wall
Internet
Intranet
Learner
RDBMS
Cluster
EJB Application
Server Cluster
Web Server
Cluster
optional
Learner
Benefits of e•test™
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Born-on-the-web test authoring and test delivery with SSL security
Automates and organizes the test building and test delivery process
Delivers tests within minutes of item creation – no programming skills
are required
Saves time and money in authoring and test delivery. The software
typically pays for itself in the first year.
Automatically builds an item bank on your SQL or Oracle database
Randomization of items and sections helps control learner behaviors
Learners get immediate feed back. (This is important to assure rapid
assessment of knowledge and determining marginal knowledge in key
personnel.)
Interim knowledge assessments, employee and customer surveys,
skills testing improve the quality of relationship with your customers.
Customer relationships improve.
Conclusions
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Enterprise class architecture, software design, database design
Born-on-the Web test authoring and test delivery
Automated test item creation, modification and deletion process
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Test items are immediately available from the database
Virtually unlimited test items in the item database
Learner gets immediate test results with instructor comments.
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Web accessible
Intuitive user interfaces
Flexible role hierarchy for Administrators, Instructors and Student
RIVA e•test™ is the Answer.