QAAEL

Quality Assurance Analytics Tool for E-Learning

e-Learning is now catching up resulting in proliferation of a large number of learning managemnt systems. Quality assurance of these systems and the content hosted is done on a very informal basis. Formal frameworks do not exist for evaluating the quality of the tools and the content. The identification and quantification of various quality metrics for e-Learning environment is an area of reaseach in e-Learning

Quality Aspects

• Operational Characteristics
• Transition Characteristics
• Revision Characteristics

Quality Parameter

• Accessiblity
• Performance
• Content Re-Usability & Portability
• Usability
• Security
• Standards Compliance

Architecture

The QA framework is built on web service based architecture to facilitate enhancements to the quality evaluation approach. Each quality evaluation approach is implemented as a web service and presentation layer is maintained seperately for report generation purpose.

Evaluation Architecture :

Features

• Web Service Architecture
• Platform Independent
• Database Independent
• Standards Conformance Evaluation
• Evaluation Management
• Grade based Analysis
• Analytical Reports
• Executive Summary

User Roles :

Administrator

• User Management
• Privilige Management
• System Configuration Set-up
• Test Case Formation
• URL Recording
• Assign Test to Quality Analyzer
• Approve Summary Report

Quality Analyzer

• Specify Test case Requirements
• Initiate Test case
• Select Evaluators
• Prepare Analytical Report

Evaluator

• Visit Recorded URLs
• Semi automated Evaluation
• Rating of URLs