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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This document explains a high level architecture, design, use-cases and
the effort estimate (cost and time) for the project codenamed CoExams,
which is a scalable, resilient and highly available online service for
students to practice and take up various competitive exams provided by
Competitive-Success on various interfaces desktop, smart phones,
tablets, etc.
This document is prepared by TripleW, a web, design and software
development company built to help its customers scale and develop
solutions to the next level of modern interactivity. This document is
intended for Vani institute/Competitive Success only. This document, as a
whole or any part of the content shall not be shared with any third party.

PROBLEM/OPPORTUNITY
In current times, more and more people are connected to the Internet and
Internet adoption in India is growing at a very fast pace. Also, the
education landscape is shifting at a tremendous pace. From K-12 to degree
colleges, technology solutions are sought to solve todays challenges in
explaining complicated concepts, gather materials for instructors, conduct
exams, etc. Major competitive exams such as GATE and CAT are already
being conducted online and many other exams are becoming more and
more streamlined, optimized and centrally maintained and the results are
delivered instantly.
Today, every student would want to practice and solve exams in as similar
an environment to what will be available at the examination center, which
we can provide very easily. But, we also have an opportunity to do more
and go where no one has ventured to. We can provide the student to take
the exams anywhere, any device and offline. This would enable the
students to take the exams/practice for them at their leisure, and also
provide instant results even when they are not online. Collecting feedback
about the questions answered would also allow us to inform the student
about their strength/weaknesses in several areas and enable them to
improve the particular field of study. Not going the above approach would
mean a missed opportunity (and revenue) and will enable others to surge
ahead with this approach.
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decided later.
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This application would replace pocket dictionaries and heavy and bulky
books that students usually refer to and provide a seamless experience to
the student, the instructor and your institution in providing a novel and
unique offering not available anywhere in the industry.
In summary, we would be solving several problems with one approach:
1. Students can take exams anytime anywhere within the due-dates
(saves time)
2. The Institute need not photocopy question papers to distribute to all
students (saves money)
3. The Institute need not worry about providing reference and practice
question books to students (saves money)
4. The institute need not worry about scheduling a center at
predefined time for the student to take the exams (saves time and
money)
5. Students get improved analysis of their strengths and weaknesses
(Feedback)
6. This service is a novel, unique approach to exams and an
opportunity to be an industry trend-setter (generate revenue)

HIGH LEVEL SOLUTION

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FIGURE 1 DELIVERY M ODEL

The overall software suite is to be divided into 2 tiers:
1. Web-based backend and server
2. Web and smart phone based clients

1. WEB-BASED

BACKEND AND SERVER

This is the major software that needs to be developed for administration,
tracking, monitoring, serving exams, analyzing results and managing the

Leaderboa
rd
entire software
the webservice API

Analytics

Exams
Center

Notificati
on
suite. Also, it has
which serves the

Manage
Users

Authorizati
on

User
Management
Schedule
Exams

Results

Control
Exams Studio

Payment
Gateway

Webservice API

Device
Access

Revision

Collaborative
Authoring
Manage
Questions

Reporting

Status
Management

F IGURE 2 A RCHITECTURE OF BACK -END

exams to various clients. The webservice APIs which will allow us to write a
variety of clients for the same in an extensible manner we can consume
the APIs to be used on web-browser, android, iOS, Windows, or any other
operating system or platform for that matter (eg. Smartwatch)

USERS
Various category of users need to be defined for this purpose:
1. Student undertakes the exams available or practices various
questions available to him via various interfaces web,
smartphones, tablets, etc.
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2. Exam Author authors the exams, sets the time limit for each
question (if any), etc.
3. Center Administrator the administrator at each center who
schedules the exams for batches of students, which need to be
taken at a predefined time. He also manages the students at the
center, able to view their progress, etc. Only at the center level
4. Chief Administrator has all of the privileges above at a global level

USER MANAGEMENT (FOR CENTER ADMINS AND ABOVE)

This module allows the administrators to
1. Centrally manage students and exam authors at a center level.
2. Globally manage students, exam authors, and center administrators
at a global level.
3. Password recovery, login and authentication, etc.
4. Grant access to system, suspend user, archive user, device access,
etc.

EXAMS STUDIO (FOR EXAM AUTHORS ONLY)

This module allows exam authors to
1. Create questions of various types multiple choice, image based,
multiple answer, numerical input, match, video based, time based,
linked answer questions.
2. Set difficulty of exams
3. Collaboratively author the exams (to be discussed)
4. Revision control
5. Archive exams
6. Status management of exams from draft to pending to published,
etc
7. Set exam configuration such as whether to allow going back to
previous questions, points based on time in which the questions
were answered, etc.
8. Set the grading/badging for various scores scored in the exam.

EXAMS CENTER (FOR CENTER ADMINS AND ABOVE)

This module allows center administrators and above to
1. Schedule exams for a certain period of time for a center in a
calendar view
2. Show results for individual exams
3. Show focus areas for individual exams
4. View all exams which are online and in progress
5. View leaderboard of all students
6. View major weaknesses/focus areas in the students

PAYMENT GATEWAY
This module allows the students to buy this package online through a
payment gateway, which has to be purchased by Vani
Institute/Competitive-success if this option is required.
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2. FRONT-END CLIENT
The front-end client is much more simpler than the Backend due to the
fact that it has lesser features to be implemented, focused on only one
kind of user - Students and its architecture is common across all the
various clients such as Browser, smartphones, tablets, and any other
interfaces that may come up in the future. The front-end consumes the
data that is made available from the Webservice API from the backend.
Login

Authorization

Encryption

Notification

Reporting

Rendering questions
Evaluation of Exams Leader Board
Rankings / ProgressExams Practice

Results Update Time Tracking

Analytics Badging / Grading

Sections / Analytics

Exams Engine

Student Dashboard

Exams Practice

Webservice APIs
This front end allows the students to download the exams that are
available right now and take the exams offline.
FIGURE 3 F RONT -END A RCHITECTURE

EXAM ENGINE
The Quiz Engine is the major module, which is responsible for
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Rendering all types of questions

Providing and collecting feedback about practice questions
Evaluating results of the exam
Updating the results of the exam to the server
Time tracking of exam where the student spent most time, etc.

STUDENT DASHBOARD
The student dashboard allows students to
1. Exams that are available to take and exams that have been
missed
2. View their progress against their peers
3. Check their rankings
4. View weaknesses, strengths in various areas through intelligent
analytics, etc.
5. View their current badge/grade

EXAM PRACTICE
Students can practice the questions uploaded for practice at any time
without any schedule or rank. This is purely meant for their improvement.
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So, they can choose a section of an exam and practice with it and get the
answers instantly, even without solving the problems along with the
explanations. Students can download entire sets of questions uploaded for
a particular category and practice at their leisure.

TECHNOLOGY APPROACH
1. Use Strong Authentication and authorization protocols for failsafe
exams.
2. Use industry standard encryption and secure the questions
downloaded safely.
3. For the Web Browser version, the exams are online. No offline
exams are supported
4. For the Backend and servers, we will be using the typical LAMP
(Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) stack to develop all our code on top
of frameworks such as CodeIgniter, CakePHP
5. For the frontend client, well be using the native technologies of
individual operating systems to implement the code.

OUR PROCESS
1. Agile (Scrum) methodology
a. All features will be collected and prioritized
b. Features will be implemented from highest priority to the
lowest priority.
c. Planning of tasks at the start of bi-weekly Sprint
d. Continuous feedback from client and constant interaction
e. Every 2 weeks a potentially shippable product will be ready.
2. Bi-weekly demo of product development and feedback collection
(can be customized)

WHY US?
At TripleW, we have developed some of the most comprehensive software,
tools and technologies for the past 4 years to some of the iconic clients
such as PerthGP Australia, Grill & Chill AU, MyPol, Wadhwani Foundation,
Kennametal, Vijay Foundation, VWF Industries, and JWW. We have more
than 250 projects under our kitty and are proven in our expertise.
More than the projects and the deliverables, we believe in doing what is
right rather than a load of nonsense that other companies market. As
illustrated before to your institute, we are interested in long term
relationships and helping the client succeed than a short-term spiff.

EFFORT ESTIMATE
Sl
1

Particulars
Web Service Layer

Duration
4 weeks

Amount
Rs.

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70,000.00
2
Web application backend & front end
4 weeks
Rs.
(parallel)
50,000.00
2
Development of Android based
3 weeks
Rs.
application
(parallel)
50,000.00
3
Support (Minor bug fixes,
3 months
Complimenta
documentation, etc)
ry
Total
8-11 weeks Rs.
1,70,000.00
Note: Any new feature deployment apart from what is agreed
in Requirements document will be timed and charged
accordingly.

TERMS
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AND CONDITIONS:
Service Tax is applicable at the rate of 12.36% including Education
Cess and Secondary Education Cess.
40% of the total cost to be given as advance. 30% mid-way of the
construction. The remaining amount is to be given when the
website is up and running.
We require an agreement be signed between our companies as a
proof of approval of contract.
Payment must be made in the form of Cheque/DD/ECS in favour of
TripleW payable at Mysore.
We shall not be held responsible for any wrong statements or
misinterpretations in the data provided to us by our clients. The
client shall be solely responsible for any legal issues that may arise.
We shall not be responsible for any vulnerability/defect in the
underlying platform, be it hardware or software.

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