An Advanced Authentication Scheme for E-evaluation Using Students Behaviors Over E-learning Platform

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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i04.11571

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e-learning platform, e-learning security, student behavior, authentication, e-evaluation.

Abstract


E-learning became attractive choices for academic institutions owing to their benefits, especially offering transparent and fast students' evaluation as well as innovative teaching methods. However, security issues related to e-learning have been raised by its stakeholders mainly faculty members, students, and administration. Authenticate examination takers during the electronic evaluation (e- evaluation), comprising assessment (E-assessment) and exam (E-exam), is a major challenge. In this paper, an advanced scheme is proposed to resolve this imperative challenge by introducing an efficient secure approach for supervising e-evaluation. The scheme collects information related to student and its behavior during the courses' activities and uses them for controlling unethical behavior during e-evaluation. The proposal doesn't need additional components and considered the continuous authentication using the random generation of a variable number of questions built from the collected information. The concerned student must respond to these questions which are generated periodically throughout the e-evaluation for guaranteeing his continuous authentication. Simulation experiments are conducted to validate our approach in which the obtained results show that student authentication is effectively guaranteed at a low cost whatever the student number and whatever the e-evaluation content.

Author Biography

Yassine Khlifi, Umm Al-Qura, University, Makkah, KSA. Carthage University, Tunisia.

Yassine Khlifi received M.S. degrees and Ph.D. in information and communications technologies from High school of communication (Sup’Com) of Tunisia in 2002 and 2007 respectively. He is Assistant professor in Telecommunications at Carthage University, Tunisia, where he is a researcher at the Digital Security (DS) Laboratory. He is currently Assistant professor at Umm Al-Qura University, KSA, where he is currently an academic consultant and research & development director at IT deanship. He has authored / co-authored of several conferences and journals papers as well as a chapter in computer networks handbook. His active area of research is in optical networks, focusing on the design and analysis of optical label/packet/burst switched network architectures, optical protocols especially signaling, switching, routing, grooming and QoS provision as well as networks protection and security.

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Published

2020-02-26

How to Cite

Khlifi, Y. (2020). An Advanced Authentication Scheme for E-evaluation Using Students Behaviors Over E-learning Platform. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(04), pp. 90–111. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i04.11571

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