Interactive Item Template and Editing System

Gathered with the merits of expedition, convenience, and sharing, testing through the on-line item database has become commonly applied. The lack of interactive answering system within the item database system, however, makes it hard for the general teachers to incorporate interactive items into testing. To help testers to edit interactive items, this paper has developed interactive multimedia item templates with the technology of software component and JavaBean. We have defined an interactive test template software interface specification, have developed item template component bean (ITCBean), and have designed a relative visualized interactive test item system (ITIS). Each ITCBean represents a test item template, which not only carries interactive features of drag and drop, link, collide, and overlap, but also can add into the multimedia elements. The item editor can add test item template by dynamic loading new ITCBean (new test item type). Further, new items can be visually edited by simple drag&drop, link or parameter setting. Testing is conducted simply through the connection with the testing server, and the test report will be transmitted to the database after auto grading when the testing is completed.