Designing a restful question bank service in cloud

Online question bank systems play a critical role in evaluating learners' achievement. For easy sharing and reusing, there is a standard for encoding question banks' pedagogical contents and presentational format. However, access interfaces to most online question banks are proprietary, such that the offered contents are available to limited users only and difficult to utilize and circulate. SOAP-based Web service to some extent solves the openness issue by conforming to existing standards. To enrich contents of question banks and facilitate sharing them among educators, it is of great importance to build easy-accessible as well as open question banks. This article proposes a method for designing a question bank in cloud according to the representational state transfer architectural style. Accordingly, the question bank can allows instructors and students using various devices to access online assessment resources under various learning circumstances.