MISESS: Web –based Examination, Evaluation, and Guidance

We get a look at an online system that is used to give information and test students through online courses. The system that is shown to us is different from other online courses in that it offers more options to the students involved in the course. The extras options that MISESS offers are that students have a range of time to complete a test rather than a set amount of time on a certain date. The students can logon one day, complete a portion of the test, and restart the test the next day. They only need to complete the test by the date set by the professor. This eliminates situations in which students lose their connection and get an F due to their bad internet service. MISESS also provides feedback to its students from the professor in the form of posted grades and comments. It is also designed to be a supplement to a traditional course set in a classroom. The MISESS system can supplement a classroom setting, making a more flexible situation for many students and professors. The ultimate goal of the MISESS system is to give all students more access to a course of study and to provide a better platform for online courses that gives a better range of responses to the students. It also provides professors of online courses a better range of testing strategies than previous options.

I have not personally taken an online course, I think I would find it too hard to communicate with the teacher. But MISESS sounds like a more complete form of online classroom, especially with the essay tests and teacher feedback. It interests me to know how teachers combat cheating in these courses, who is to say that while taking a test someone’s friend is not giving them step by step direction over their shoulder. But that is not relevant at the moment, all in all I believe that an education should be available to anybody who wants it bad enough. MISESS offers this service to people who might not other wise get it due to their proximity to a university or college. Its work as a supplementary tool to traditional schooling is also excellent.