OwlMark

For our computer science capstone project, my team and I developed an Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) application to help our clients efficiently create and grade bubble sheet exams, to replace their existing legacy system. The application serves instructors, students, and administrators.

Instructors can create courses, enroll students, generate custom bubble sheets, schedule exams, submit answer keys, process grades, review statistics, and manage exam visibility. Students can enroll, view upcoming exams, access annotated results, and request re-evaluations. Administrators manage user roles, courses, and semesters, with automatic archival for compliance with UBC data standards.

Our system’s key value lies in its pre-trained OMR model, which accurately reads bubble sheets without manual configuration. It supports UBC templates and employs a containerized, queue-based processing approach, enabling multiple simultaneous grading jobs for a seamless, automated experience.

This project was highly successful, with our client selecting our team's solution over other competitors. This gave us the opportunity to deploy the system into production and earned us the highest grade in the capstone course.