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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2014
Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ (US);
Brendan Jared Kealey, Iowa City, IA (US);
Paul Joseph Arens, Coralville, IA (US);
Adam Walter Krapfl, Mount Vernon, IA (US);
Paul Christopher Grudnitski, Torrance, CA (US);
Robbie Allen Nielsen, Prior Lake, MN (US);
James Tavis Setaro, Austin, TX (US);
Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to electronic administration of an academic examination. Execution of an exam file on a student device causes exam questions to be presented. Input from students is translated into responses. Response data identifying one or more responses and a student identifier may be transmitted from the student user device to another device during an exam period or at the end of the exam period. However, the transmission may be explicitly or functionally conditioned by network connection strength, network availability and so forth. When the condition is not satisfied or when a transmission fails, response data is locally and securely cached at the student user device. The response(s) is immediately locked or locked at the end of an examination period, such that a student user can no longer modify the response(s). The student user device subsequently transmits the response data (e.g., when the transmission condition is satisfied).