CERTIFIED ROOMS FOR ELEARNING STUDENTS EVALUATION
Jorge Borges, Carlos Vaz, Margarida Amaral, Elsa Justino, João Barroso, Arsénio Reis · INTED proceedings · 2017
The University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro is part of a consortium that is providing courses in an e-learning model.In this courses, the students evaluation requires their physical presence.Currently, the consortium has the general objective of provide evaluation activities in all of the consortium's institutions, independently of the student's Higher Education Institution (HEI) of origin.That way, the student can go through the learning process on-line, using the Learning Management System (LMS), and attend an evaluation activity at the HEI geographically more conveniently located.In pursuing this objective, the consortium is creating a set of specific rooms with the sole purpose of supporting the evaluation of e-learning students.These rooms are located in each one of the HEIs, and equipped with thin personal computers (PC), connected to a local, properly configured, server.These PCs and server will run a customized version of the operating system, in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) model, providing a controlled and safe infrastructure for the usage of the LMS to execute the evaluation activities.In a first phase, it is being created one room in each one of the consortium HEIs.A set of rules and a certification process will be designed, in order to have a standard level of service across all the rooms.Together with the certification process it will also be defined an audit process in order to regularly verify the compliance of the rooms with the previously designed certification standards.