Architecture and organization of e-Assessment cloud solution

Abstract

All e-Assessment systems have several challenges, such as accurate evaluation, security and data privacy, performance, scalability etc. In this paper we focus on e-Assessment scalability and performance. We propose a SOA architecture of a cloud hosted e-Assessment system which uses scalability and elasticity in order to achieve sustainable performance. Our solution consists of three subsystems, the first for management, the second for reports, and the third for on-demand activities during the assessments. It reduces the overall costs since it uses minimum resources utilized only during the e-Assessment. Better performance is expected to be achieved since the active subsystem for each assessment works with much smaller data compared to the centralized one.