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NCDesk

Technical Notes - Architecture

The NCDesk application is a locally installed client application. It is developed using Java™, requiring client computers to have a Java™ runtime installation. When using NCDesk for learning and practice, the software does not require connection to the internet. However, when used for testing, NCDesk communicates to a central "testing" server to get test items and collect responses from students.

This file was modified on Wednesday, August 29, 2007; at 1:36:41 PM