National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) and mUniPariksha conducted India’s first online hybrid subjective examination (Online + paper and Pen) during lock-down which paved a way for conduction of online examination for other academic institutes.
4. Our credentials
Developed online examination in 2002 with remote proctoring
Launched online application way back in 2002
Launched online campus recruitment services first time in India in 2006.
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6. Online Examination Challenges
● We don’t have any experience examination conduction
● How do students appear from home?
● How do faculties can proctors examinations from home
● How to find out if online examination will work or not?
● What model of examinations should we adopt pure online or hybrid?
● Should we conduct on laptop or mobile phone?
● What if internet does down during the examination?
● How to maintain the sanctity and authenticity of examinations online?
● How to stop impersonation during the examination?
● How do we decide which features are critical for our test?
● How do we build a robust process?
● What can work for my university?
● How do we manage the examinations? Designing papers, pooling question,
distribution of answer sheets for evaluations etc
9. How to conduct subjective exam while
students are at home?
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13. NITIE Online exam use case
● Conducted India’s first online hybrid (MCQ + Subjective) examination
● Students used paper and pen to write the examination while looking at the
questions in the browser on laptop.
● Some students used mobile application
● Live proctoring
● MCQs generated randomly from pool of questions
● Faculties evaluated the answer sheets from their respective faculty accounts
● Results downloaded from portal
● Real time dashboard for Exam controller & Faculty
14. How to stop impersonation during the examination?
Photo ID verification
Live proctoring
15. How to prevent students from copy-pasting
answers from any source?
mUni’s Solution- Safe browser
What is safe browser ?
● Safe Exam Browser is a web browser-environment to carry out online-exams safely.
● The Browser changes any computer into a secure portal.
● It regulates the access to any utilities and prevents students from using unauthorised resources.
● Fullscreen or browser window mode (without any navigation elements)
● Prevents students from surfing the internet during an exam
● Disables shortcuts and operating system functions like Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del / Cmd-Alt-Esc),
program switcher (Alt-Tab, Win-Tab / Cmd-Tab), Print Screen / Screenshot etc.
Which should not be available during an exam.
16. How to maintain sanctity & authenticity of exams online?
Online Proctoring
Live video streaming
➢ Monitoring of Live Streaming of Candidate View.
➢ Streaming of environment around candidate.
➢ Live Chat by the Remote Proctor with candidate
attempting the online exam.
Random Photographs
➢ Students pictures will be taken at pre-decided
interval.
➢ Helps in monitoring any malicious activity of students
with the help of AI.
➢ Pictures are stored on the portal for later access.
Start exam
- Scan ID and Live photo
- Accept terms and conditions
Live video proctoring
- Monitoring of Live Streaming of Candidate View.
- Face Recognition and AI algorithm to detect
exam malpractices.
Random Photographs
- Random photographs at background
- At interval set by Examiner
17. What if the internet fails during examination?
● The student progress is continuously saved.
● In case of internet failure, the exam can be resumed from the same point.
● Auto submission once exam time runs out.
● In mobile app internet connectivity is only required to start the exam and at
the time of submission.
18. How to develop question bank?
Managed service model
Train faculties and provide the Infra
19. How to ensure success of online exam?
Technology + Robust Process + Examination design
Sensitize the students
Conduct a mock examination before final examination