Computer-based testing for Nigerian secondary schools
ExamKeep takes your school from question bank to published results. Teachers set questions, HODs approve them, students sit timed exams in your computer lab, and objective answers are marked the moment a paper is submitted.
Before anything else
Every answer is saved on the student’s computer the moment it is chosen, then sent to the server. If the connection drops, the student keeps working; answers go through when it returns. A student who has to restart the computer picks up where they stopped, with their saved answers.
How exam day stays steadyIt is designed for ordinary lab machines: a 1366 × 768 screen, about 4 GB of memory and a dual-core processor, on a shared, slow connection. Older Windows 7 and 8.1 computers are supported through Firefox. Each computer is checked before a student starts.
See the lab requirementsThe correct answers are never sent to a student’s computer, so they cannot be read from it. Every score traces back to the answers the student recorded, and any change to a result is recorded with who made it and why.
How results are protectedHow an exam runs
Every exam follows the same five steps, and every step leaves a record.
Questions are written by subject and class level, then reviewed by the head of department. An approved question cannot be quietly edited afterwards: changes create a new version that is reviewed again.
Pick the questions, set the duration and marks, and choose the classes it is for. One exam can serve several arms of the same class, such as SS2A, SS2B and SS2C.
Run the exam in sittings to fit the number of computers you have. There is no single school-wide start time: each batch is opened when its students are seated.
A student’s time starts when they start, and is kept by the server, not the computer. Question order and option order can be shuffled for each student.
Objective answers are marked automatically as each paper is submitted. Results stay with staff until the school chooses to publish them to students.
On exam day
The exam officer opens each sitting and watches it live: who has started, who is working, who has submitted, and whose computer has stopped responding.
For everyone in the school
Roles follow how a Nigerian secondary school already works, from the school admin to the student in the lab.
Sets up the school, its sessions and terms, and keeps an eye on everything.
Keeps the school’s people and classes correct, often the exam officer.
Owns the quality of the department’s questions and exams.
Writes questions and sees how students performed.
Sits the exam, and nothing else gets in the way.
Questions you can stand behind
Teachers write; the head of department approves or sends it back with a note. Once approved, a question is locked, and every exam keeps the exact version its students answered.
Your records
Schools are asked to account for a score long after the exam. Every result traces back to the answers a student recorded, and nothing is deleted if a subscription lapses.
Questions
We’ll walk you through a sitting from start to published result, and answer the questions your staff will ask.
