Online exams and automated certification

The foundation issues officially recognized professional qualifications, and the whole process ran on an older system whose source code the foundation didn't have access to. That meant no other developer could extend it or even fix its bugs. On top of that, contact with the one developer responsible had broken off. The system was unstable and full of errors no one was left to repair. The foundation needed two things: a system rebuilt from the ground up, and someone to look after it after launch, a developer they could actually reach.

I built a system that carries this process end to end in one place. The center registers an exam in the app, the foundation approves it, the examiner runs it, the candidate takes it in the browser, and the certificate with its registry number generates itself as a print-ready PDF. Everyone sees only what concerns them: the center its own exams, the examiner their own dates, the foundation everything.

An exam isn't built from scratch every time. The system holds exam templates, a question bank and learning outcomes. The foundation assembles an exam from existing pieces, and every question is linked to a specific learning outcome, so it's clear the exam checks exactly what the qualification requires.

Exam time is watched by the system, not the candidate's computer. If someone's internet drops mid-exam, they come back and keep writing, and the answers don't get lost. When time runs out, the exam ends on its own. During the test phase I had a live view of everything happening in the app, so I fixed bugs before anyone got around to reporting them.

I did the whole thing alone: I designed the UX/UI at the client's request, wrote the code and deployed the system.