Since the installation of the open source learning management system ILIAS at JGU, the range of e-exams has been steadily expanded, and the 25,000th e-exam was written as early as 2008. At the beginning of 2024, we could look back on over 560,000 e-exams.
Timeline The data shown only includes e-exams that were written in ILIAS. The “take-home exams”, which have been possible since the summer semester of 2020, were only taken into account if they were written in ILIAS.
Since the introduction of e-exams in the winter semester of 2004/2005, numerous lecturers and students have taken advantage of the computer-based examination procedures every semester. Initially there were only a few hundred, but in the winter semester of 2014/15 the mark of 20,000 participants per semester was exceeded.
In the summer semester of 2020 in particular, significantly fewer e-exams could be written in person than before due to infection control measures (COVID-19), as only a third of the places normally available for e-exams were available in the rooms used for e-exams. As a result, many lecturers have returned to paper exams or EvaExam exams (paper exams with scannable results recording). These types of exams are not included in the statistics. Nor can we make any statements about how many exams were taken via Moodle or submitted by email/file submission. However, the proportion is likely to be quite high due to the room problem, so that the falling values can be explained in connection with lower student numbers.
Exam cases per semester
The following diagram shows how the number of exams compares to the number of students - starting with the winter semester of 2009/10:
Exam cases and number of Students
The development of the number of exams per semester can be seen in the following diagram:
Number of exams per semester
Faculty 04 (University Medicine) makes particularly frequent use of e-exams. However, the uncomplicated method of online examinations is also very popular in the humanities and business sciences:
Exam participants by subject area until SoSe2024
The following chart shows how the questions are distributed across the different question types:
Distribution of question types until SoSe2024