4.3 Exam Sieve
Exam sieve is conceived to analyze question papers on their topic distribution. It currently takes the place of the crypt system in Newcastle but with significant advantages of having extra metadata on each exam paper.
This is achieved by tagging each question with a tag and using this information to calculate the overall distribution of marks. This activity is to be done voluntarily by the students in the current set up.
Tags on the questions
The app currently aims to replace the crypt system employed at the university but with extension of having metadata available on each question paper that helps the students to visualize the topic distribution.
The rationale behind creating this app was foremost to create awareness about the topic distributions in each paper so that a student can use the data visualization to inform himself on where to focus on. In my evaluation, there are two ways to interpret the data, either the student can prioritize on the topics that have been recurrently appearing each year and focus only on the ones that have higher proportion but on the same hand, the other topics as they become diminished in their importance could be chose by the tutors to appear this year since question papers were never set on those topics.
Design
The design uses a sidebar to feature all the modules the student is enrolled in. It also features a menubar that lets the user to navigate to the most important exam papers in the past few years with the help of a sliding queue of last four years.