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Assessment Management System: Mans-FCI Experience

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This blog starts two days after the Beta unleash of : http://www.m-assessment.info. This site has a story. In the graduation Projects of Mansoura-FCI Year 2006/2007, I was supervising one of the graduation projects. I suggested the topic: Mobile Learning, and it was highly welcomed by the group members. They suggested the Mobile Assessment, because it is an important topic that affects Learning Process, and assessment is one of the learning activities that can be achieved via mobile devices. I liked the idea, and we started working the project. I was about to sign a contract with SMS service provider company in Egypt, when they told me that I have to have a dedicated IP address, so they can push SMS I receive to that server. I reserved the Domain Name: M-Assessment; stands for: Mobile Assessment, and we started building the required application.

Unfortunatly, we faced a programmatical situation where we had to handle via programmatic solution that does not meet Web servers security level. Without mentioning lots of details, we were not able to run the application in real life scenario due to technical difficulties. I still have M-Assessment, without activiating it. I even thought about dropping the domain, and letting this dream goes; just like any dream I let go before.

But, I found out the Faculty need for a system that provides assessments for students; those assessments can advance to be mid-term exams. This system will help the faculty overcome many limitations, and help Teaching Assistants, and Doctors greatly too.

Then, it was the idea to turn M-Assessment from Mobile Assessment TO Mansoura Assessment. It turned to be: Mansoura Faculty of Computers and Information Systems Assessment Experience. I am not telling lies or unbelivable stories in this blog, but I thought about documenting the unleash, establishment, and system details, so it might be used later to develop the system. It took me 25 hours to build the first two pages of the system, and this is only the start. Our Assessment Management System is still an infant, that needs lots of efforts to fit our requirements, and I promise you: We will not stop. I needed the chance to give this Faculty a worth product, and Thanks to God, I have found the Chance.

This site will not include Coding Details; not because Codes are secrets; I love to share code, but becuase I focus on Analysis, Design, Algorithms, and Features.

Again, this blog tends to provide our experience, activities, and system details in a way that can not be available on the Web site.

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