The global pandemic, COVID-19 has effected almost all the sectors of the world economy in several ways. It has changed the socio-economic activities in such a way it took up a new diversion. Education sector has also undergone a great repercussion during this tough time to conduct classes, exams, evaluation process, publishing of the results etc. Even though initially there was a pause for the education system now everything is being back to normal. The classes and internal exams are now being held online and many schools have adapted the new changes very quickly. There is a great difficulty for the students and teachers to adapt to this new change but right now it has been the only possible way to continue education all are forced to get through this major change. Several education boards including CBSE are now planning to conduct the annual board exams as usual as the online classes are taking place successfully. They are now in the high time of releasing date sheets and sample question papers very soon for which many are waiting so as began the preparation with effect.
All the schools and tuition centers will release a schedule for the pre-board examinations as soon as the date sheets are published and then what are we waiting for? Conducting fair pre-board exams are a challenge to the institutions in this online mode which is an inevitable part of the academic session. It is very essential and crucial in such a time to evaluate, understand the progress of each students so as to provide additional support and care in this zero hero and also to improve in the required subjects. Schools must take bold steps for conducting a fair examination. Proctored systems can be used in the online examination so that all the malpractices and unfair activities can be avoided to great extent. Necessary actions also be taken against such activities since it affect adversely in board examination. Security and integrity of exams can be maintained very well using these systems because it has all the settings created for the enhancement of the quality of education, being the most important sector of our economy. We should always maintain the educational sector very well since its vital for the development of our country. So that all the possible steps must be taken by the school management to ensure the security of the examination. The future of the students is also very important factor regardless of the pandemic. In such a situation, schools can use thinkmerit online proctored system for conducting examination in a very fair manner. It has been developed especially for this purpose with all the features which are necessary for conducting fair examination. Its working features are very simple and helpful. ThinkMerit provides option to conduct exams in any format with wide variety of question types i.e., subjective, MCQ single correct, MCQ multi correct with partial marking, Numerical type questions etc . Its virtual cloud facility bring institute coordinators, faculties and students under a single umbrella. For subjective exams the faculties can upload the question paper and activate test for a class or batch. Subjective type is the most essential question type for the schools right now. The students can log in and view only the test activated by the faculty for them. After getting the question paper, the students can choose to type or write or upload the answers according to their personal convenience. The students also have an access to chat with the teacher in case of doubts or queries which is a private between the teacher and the student. The most important feature is the image and video proctoring which enable teachers to view all the students lively. From another window teachers/proctors can watch the students, extend their time if required, devices connected to their laptop or mobile phone and initiate a private conversation with the particular students if anything suspicious is found. The teachers can also terminate the test of students if any kind of malpractices arise. If any suspicious activity is being done by the student in his or her device that can be notified to the invigilator by different color codes. If the student is active and all the things properly he is displayed green, he is blue if he has submitted the exam and if anything suspicious is detected by the artificial intelligence detector, then he is displayed yellow so that the teacher can inquire. All the images of the student is captured in every twenty seconds so the overall activities will be captured in an approximate of five hundred images of which each picture can be converted to a video. The software contains an innovative audio proctor too in order to record all the voices. It has a proprietary algorithm which converts all the audios into texts and send to the teachers. If anything is found suspicious it will be flagged automatically so that it can detect the talks of the student during exam and prevent external helps too. The manual evaluation of subjective examination are the same as of the physical ones which has many features like answer script sharing, question wise analysis and time wise analysis etc. The software generate rank list once the evaluation is over and provide a class summary too for the teachers to the asses the performance. The question wise marking of each and every student is also displayed that there’s no additional work. The system provide a very simple user interface for the students which includes display of time remaining, question navigation and auto save after every five minutes. A wide range of device compatibility is offered through our system. Its also impossible for the students to cheat since our artificial intelligence system automatically terminate the test if anything suspicious is found. Students can view the test summary and review the answers before the final submission.
Technology has stepped into a new level and will continue to play a major role in educating next generations. The role of educator also changed to a mouse-click away like the knowledge in the world. Many of them didn’t actually know how to use a pc or mobile phone and accessing data through the same. But with online classes each child learned how to use a system effectively. With new examination strategy such as online exam using online proctors, we can truly evaluate the progress and extend of knowledge in each topic. And based on that appropriate measures can be taken to uplift each student and bring the best out of them in all possible manner. It can also avoid malpractices which occur during the traditional examination pattern. Thus we can undoubtedly say that COVID-19 has restructured our existing educational system efficiently.
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