E-learning or online e-learning refers to the mode of imparting knowledge by making use of the World Wide Web. There are various factors that have contributed to the growth of the online education industry which is at present worth about 38 billion euros. One of the significant factors that have encouraged the development of online education and learning is that it is quite convenient for one to continue education from home with the aid of a personal computer with an internet connection without traveling physically or an institution and with the prevalence of computers in every nook and corner, this is no more a difficult proposition. Moreover, the popularity of online education has further encouraged various prominent institutions worldwide to introduce some of their flagship courses online which gives many students the opportunity to be a part of its eminent alumni by admitting themselves to these online courses. It is to be noted that in case of online education assessments are common features and there are various software applications which provide aid to the tutors in designing these assessment assignments which are vital for making the tutor realize the progress of his students in the absence of any kind of face-to–face confrontation. TCExam refers to a prominent web-assessment software application which is used in adding online learning courses. It is a free and open source software tool and it also known as Computer Based Training or Computer Based Assessment or e-exam software. It is somewhat parallel to the written format test systems which are conducted in traditional educational institutions and helps the trainers or online tutors to design their assignments and deliver them in the form of surveys, exams, tests and quizzes. Moreover, it is interesting to note that since TCExam is an open source software, it is possible for users to add further features to it in order to increase its efficiency in terms of functioning. It conforms to all the valid format standards and specifications and can function in almost all the leading operating systems without any form of alteration like in Mac OS X, NetWare, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows and Unix. Most webhost providers and those that support PHP formats are suitable for the use of TCExam.



Some of the important features of the TCExam include Multilanguage support, access to various groups and adequate users and group management, instant and automatic calculation of achieved scores, different types of question patterns are supported by it, usage of standard technical tools like PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XHTML, PDF etc.