Online exam system, What is an Online Exam System? An online exam system is a standalone feature in a school management system that covers the experience of administering an exam, taking an exam, and following outcomes from end to end. It provides a comprehensive examination experience for both students and teachers alike. It is less laborious and overhead intensive examination experience since it automated and digitizers the examination administration experience, while also ensuring greater flexibility and access for students from all corners of the world.
Why do Schools need an Online Exam Management System? The traditional examination system has been in place for a long time. Over the years, tweaks in exam duration, question format, evaluation methods, and feedback have evolved, but generally speaking this pen and paper model has persisted over decades of education. So why the change to an online examination system now? Simply put, with innovations in technology, an increasingly globalize world, and data-driven insights into teaching and learning methodologies, an online examination system might provide a better perspective into the scholarly journey of a student. Examinations are not just a part and parcel of student life. They are an evaluative tool that allows students, teachers, and parents to track and measure the student’s scholarly progress. It also serves as a concrete metric on which to base learning and teaching decisions for the future. Unlike a traditional examination system, an online examination system is more enhanced in numerous ways. From easier setup to remote access, to faster evaluations, an online exam system is better at fulfilling its primary role of being an evaluative tool.
It is also an easy way to collect data to evaluate a student’s performance over the long-term. The results speak for themselves as it benefits all stakeholders in the educational ecosystem – teachers, students, parents, and school management
What are the Features of an Online Exam System? An Online examination system can have a variety of features that would be helpful to both teachers and students alike. Below we discuss some key features in detail along with the benefits they bring to the table over a traditional pen and paper examination:
1. Create Subject and MCQ questions: The online examination software allows users to create examination papers by subject and using multiple-choice questions. This kind of granular ability to create curated questions ensures that examinations remain dynamic and up to date instead of being outdated or outmoded in any way. It also means that a constant stream of questions is being added to the institutional knowledge of the school in question or even archives of a question bank for future educators to use.
2. Check the existing exams batch-wise: It allows for users to evaluate existing exams on a batch-wise basis. This allows for task breakdown making it easier for teachers to check answers for questions in the examination administered. Traditional pen and paper examination evaluation can often feel like it is overwhelming due to the sheer physical volume of work to be assessed. With batch-wise evaluation in the online examination system, the task is broken down to be more surmountable, making it less time consuming and laborious in the process.
3. View Exam Results Batch Wise:Similar to the ability to evaluate batch-wise, the online examination system also allows exam results to be viewed as batch-wise. Once again, this allows students and teachers to take on a seemingly overwhelming task with more ease.
4. Reset Examination Batch Wise: Let us say an examination needs to be retaken due to unforeseen circumstances – from inclement weather delays to administration errors, there are many reasons an examination may need to be retaken. This can be done easily within the online examination system because the system allows you to reset an examination so all previous test scores and responses are disregarded and students can take the examination as a fresh exam. This also allows teachers creating an examination to create dummy exams and do a run through themselves to ensure that students have a hassle-free examination. This kind of beta testing is efficient and effective in ensuring a smooth examination experience for all students.
Conclusion:An online examination management system is the way of the future. It is not a revolutionizing of an existing system, instead of enhancement of it. It is the first step in better understanding and analysing absorption of course material by students, recall of said material, the effectiveness of teaching methods being used in a classroom. It is also an easy way to collect data to evaluate a student’s performance over the long-term. The results speak for themselves as it benefits all stakeholders in the educational ecosystem – teachers, students, parents, and school management.
(The author is a Retired Principal of Government Girls Senior Secondary School MHR Malout Punjab. Views are his own)
Flavour of the season – Integrated Program for mgmt
Ankit Kapoor
With an objective to mould young students into budding leaders of tomorrow, the five-year integrated Program (IPM) was initially introduced by IIM Indore in 2011 and ever since it has been the most successful program in the country. Following this bandwagon, other IIM’s including IIM-Rohtak, IIM-Bodh Gaya, IIM-Jammu, and IIM-Ranchi are the latest addition to this list of colleges. Recently NALSAR, Hyderabad has also introduced this course for management and IIIT Prayagraj has also proposed to start this management course from the upcoming academic year. Catering to students who have passed out from class XII, students in large numbers seek admissions for this course. A five-year program gives enough scope and time to hone the management skills which lacks in a two-year post-graduation diploma from the same institute. This course helps them to learn the basics of the course and refine their chosen area of specialisation. NALSARs Five Year Integrated program in management states that the course will contribute to the learning and learnability aspects of the students. The course will establish strong foundations of management and allow the students to develop strong work ethics. It will provide strong holistic thinking procedure and create opportunities for gaining practical exposure. An early management course helps the students to understand and develop the complete know-how of the field, providing with holistic development. It ensures that the students imbibe from the case studies and live projects conducted at college qualities of good leadership, Social sensibilities, and intellectual capabilities. The objective to start this course at various IIMs is clear from the fact that the course structure is designed in a way that a student gets knowledge of various aspects of theory and practical scenarios.
Pratham Test Prep, over the years has been preparing students for these entrance exams and paving the way for many students to reach IIMs and start their success journey of making a rewarding career. Special dedicated classes are conducted to cater to the needs of the students for the preparation of these exams.
The course helps them to develop their core competencies, Interpersonal skills, and work ethics. Early entry to one of the most prestigious institutions of the country IIM allows the students pursue management early on from the institutions imparting management education for quite some time. The College provides holistic development due to a well-crafted course curriculum along with better placement. Admission to these colleges is based on an aptitude-based entrance exam which is based on – Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Ability, and Logical Reasoning. Pratham Test Prep, over the years has been preparing students for these entrance exams and paving the way for many students to reach IIMs and start their success journey of making a rewarding career. Special dedicated classes are conducted to cater to the needs of the students for the preparation of these exams. ‘
(The author is Director Pratham Test Prep. Views are his own)
