A Dummies Guide to Secure Digital eAssessment

www.ecomscotland.com

A Dummies Guide to

Secure Digital eAssessment

Secure eAssessment using Digital Pens

eCom Scotland Ltd

� eLearning Account Manager

� eLearning & eAssessment bespoke development

Martin Gower

� eLearning & eAssessment bespoke development

� Project Manage various projects within eCom

� 14 years commercial experience

� Started life as programmer

� Work with eCom for just over a year


eCom Scotland Ltd

� Founded in 1996

� Specialists in learning management and workforce

Company Highlights

� Specialists in learning management and workforce

competence solutions

� Origins in Education

� Flagship product: eNet Enterprise™

� Recognised as an Investor in People (IIP)


Memberships

� Founder Member of

The eLearning Alliance

Involvement in eLearning Groups

The eLearning Alliance

� Board Member of

The e-Assessment Association


Some eCom customers


A Dummies Guide to Secure Digital eAssessment

� Dummies Guide?

� In its broadest sense, eAssessment is the use of IT

Workshop

� In its broadest sense, eAssessment is the use of IT

for any assessment-related activity

� Some people for many reasons do not cope with IT

� IT needs a helping hand or an interface to ensure

that people can be securely assessed



� A normal ink cartridge

� An infrared camera

� 50 frames per/sec


� Processor

� Memory

� 128bt Encrypted

� Battery


1.8 mm

1.8

mm


� Single Unique Pattern

� Small dots printed on an invisible grid

� Visually a slight grey tone on the paper

� Images & Text can be overprinted


� eCom work with SQA & Security Industry

Authority (SIA)

� Assessments for Security Industry

� Photograph required against signature


� Photograph required against signature

� Invigilator checks ID against signature and

uses a simple webcam to take photograph

to produce the candidate’s identification card




� Workshop

� You have a go!

� Complete the form

� Tick the box at the bottom right


� Tick the box at the bottom right

� We’ll come back and look at

the results in a minute


� Sent to email inbox

� Sent to your smartphone

Results can be:

� Sent to your smartphone

� Sent to the back end of an eAssessment engine

� Sent to a database

� Verified

� Or assessed instantaneously and results passed

back to candidate on the spot



� Capturing signatures with photographs

� Assessing non IT literate candidates

Application for digital pens in eAssessment:

� Assessing non IT literate candidates

� Assessing candidates where IT is not available

� Automated storing of the assessment

� ?


eCom Scotland takes your vision and works with you to

make it a reality.

From scope through design and build to usability testing

and maintenance.


eCom Scotland’s experience and creativity gives you

added value throughout the project.

We will deliver a solution which achieves your business

objectives.


http://www.ecomscotland.com/

@ecomscotland


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