Implementation of an Automated Grading System for Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets and Word Documents

Abstract

This paper describes an automated grading system for MS-Excel files and MS-Word files for information technology education. The system can relieve teachers’ workloads to grade many exercises of MS-Excel/MS-Word files. It can also provide immediate feedback and has a mechanism to prevent students from submitting copied files.In addition, we discuss the system’s effectiveness from both perspectives: the time to grade MS-Excel/MS-Word files and the average normalized gain computed by the operation records of the system in our university.