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Abstract

This project designs and implements a tool to enhance the current means of availing coursework information in educational systems. The project addresses current issues in availing course work information like, decentralized locations of coursework information, handling different types of questions, randomization of coursework contents, classification of questions by topic, and sharing of questions among instructors. The project encompasses review of related application tools to address and identify the limitations that exist compared to the common day-to-day activities that are inherent in the teaching'environment. The new tool is developed using a component based methodology and has a capability of being installed as client/server application and as a web-based application with minimal configuration setups as opposed to complete change of software program. The tool utilizes the state-of-the-art Oracle database system to store coursework data, Oracle Internet Application Server (OiAS) to process the logic and setup the communication media between the client and server application. The user interface is implemented using Oracle Forms 6i tool. The product has undergone two