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Online Exam Software Guide: For IIT JEE Coaching institutes

Given the fact that there are so many online exam software in the market, finding the right software for your IIT JEE Coaching Institute is not an easy task. In this article, we are listing the important features to consider while choosing the online exam software for your IIT JEE Coaching Institute. About IIT JEE Exam: IIT JEE Mains contains 90 questions. Since all the questions are MCQs with a single response, most of the simple online exam software in the market would suit for IIT JEE Mains. IIT JEE Advanced consists of 2 papers. Each paper has 54 questions and 9 sections. here to download the instructions for JEE Advanced 2018. There are 3 different question formats in IIT JEE Advanced as follows MCQ with a single correct responseMCQ with multiple correct responsesSingle digit numerical answer 3 important things to consider while choosing the online exam software for IIT JEE 1. Partial Marking support: Few questions in the Advanced exam has more than one correct responses. There are partial marks for partially correct answers.  For example, if (a), (c) and (d) are all the correct options for a question, marking all these three will get +4 marks; marking only (a) and (d) will get +2 marks; and marking (a) and (b) will get –2 marks, as a wrong option is also marked. The online exam software should be able to support partial grading for the questions. 2. Single Digit Answer and onscreen keyboard support: The second section in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics has 5 questions. The answer to each question is a SINGLE DIGIT INTEGER ranging from 0 to 9, both inclusive. Exam conducting board do not provide the keyboard for the students. They have to choose the single digit answer through an onscreen keyboard as shown in the below picture. Onscreen keyboard support 3. Easy uploading of Equations: Most of the questions are equation based questions. The uploading of equations based question should not take so much of time. The software you choose should support bulk upload of equations in Latex Format. Do not choose the software in which you can upload the equations only as images. Uploading of the equations as images provide poor readability to the users. You can check this article to convert the word equations to Latex type. Fill this form, We shall help you set up an online test software for your coaching institute.

What's new in Testpress Learning Management System ?

SEO Settings You can now customize the meta title and description of your landing page. This will help you to position your portal better in Google Search results. SEO settings are available in the Settings -> SEO Settings page.Student Report for admin and student Last month we released a feature where you could download students report as excel. We took this one step further and provided option to view the same in a beautiful web page. This will give you a birds eye view of a student's activity. Cover image for Contents (a.k.a Thumbnail support) We added cover image support for all course contents. Cover images give quick snapshot of the contents for your students as they're browsing the course. You can also use this to come up with creative ways to generate curiosity for your students. Cover Image for contents Transcoding info We now show some additional info on the transcoding process of a video. This will help you give more update on the progress of a video transcoding. Transcoding info for a video Reduced video sizes We've reduced the video sizes of the uploaded video. This is achieved by using a lower bitrate. For a 1 hour video following are the video sizes 240p - 151.6 MB360p - 266 MB480p - 350 MB720p - 614 MB Compare this with vimeo 240p - 174.018 MB360p - 317.581 MB540p - 655.779 MB720p - 995.915 MB This will help your students reduce their data costs if watching from their mobile. This will also reduce your bandwidth usage thus reducing your bills. Web video player shortcuts We made our video player more user friendly by adding keyboard shortcuts for playing. You can use the spacebar to play/pause the video, arrow keys to seek the video front and back.

Why your online course should support download videos to watch offline?

Just imagine.. You've spent hours creating the perfect video course content for your students. Lots and lots of editing with every minute details taken care.. As a result, the videos have come beautifully. It has become a boon for your students during this lock down time. You feel happy that your efforts are ensuring that your students are able to learn and understand better. But.. One thing which you might be encountering as a constant complaint is that your students might not always have access to a Wi-Fi or data connection. Or you might be getting complaints like the following... Sir.. In spite of having a stable internet connection, there is video buffering and audio visual lag. It is taking more time to load a video and too much buffering. Kindly have a look and try to resolve it ASAP Sir app not working properly ..since last 3 nights after 11 PM videos are buffering.. please help You keep wondering that your LMS is working perfectly for you but it isn't the same for all your students. When it comes to streaming  your videos, one thing which is not in your control is connectivity of your students. Connectivity problems are mainly of two types.. No connectivityLow connectivity (This is worse!) The current COVID situation has made this worse as now all members of the family are made to work from home. This means bandwidth is getting shared amongst different members of the family. Hence there is a need to use it judiciously. LMS with Download Video for Offline It is in these situations, the ability to watch videos offline comes in handy. With Testpress e-learning software, you can enable this functionality by means of a simple setting. When enabled, all your videos can be downloaded for offline watching by your students. Students can click the download option in the current video playback to start downloading. Download Video for Watching Offline Once started, the app will start downloading the video and displays the same using a circular progress bar. Video downloading showing progress After download gets completed, the video will be available for offline playback. It will automatically use the downloaded video for playback thus saving bandwidth of your students. Downloaded offline video The downloaded contents are also available from a dedicated downloads list in the UI. Downloads List View Security There is however a need to protect your content. You don't want people to steal your hard work and make profits out of it. Neither do you want people to keep watching the video even after the validity of their purchase has been expired. Testpress addresses all these issues with ironclad security. All the videos are encrypted. This means even if they somehow copy the downloaded video, they won't be playable. The videos need an encryption key for playback.Screen shot and screen capturing has been disabled in the entire appEven if they use any outside camera to record, all videos playback are watermarked with the user's email as shown below Watermarking of student's email on top of video The downloaded videos have a validity of two days. The app needs to be connected to internet at least once it two days. Else the videos will get erased automatically One of the important side effects of COVID is that people have started consuming more content than ever before. If you've not started offering Video Courses for your student yet, you need to revisit. If you've started online courses but your video courses aren't offline friendly, you might not be getting the extra edge to stay ahead of your competitors.