Social distancing norms are forcing education institutions to conduct online exams for all kinds of subjects. Most of the institutes have opted for multiple choice based questions (MCQ) based online exams. Universities and institutes are also trying to identify new ways to conduct practical exams and theory/ subjective exams. Remote proctored exams are becoming new normal to manage examination processes for academic courses as well as professional courses. Students are also getting used to the new situation. However there are some students who have found ways to cheat in proctored exams using hi tech methods.

1. HOW LEADING
UNIVERSITY
PREVENTED CHEATING
DURING ONLINE EXAMS
Want to conduct Fair Exams to
test knowledge of the
students?
Eklavvya's platform for online examinations has
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Success Story of Eklavvya
Platform to conduct fair online
exams
While conducting online exams for a reputed
University, The question navigation was
enabled. This led to increase in cheating and
thus unexpected results.
Conducting Online Exam with
Question Navigation
The University decided to set a timer for
each question as well as for the entire exam.
Each question was displayed on the screen
for a stipulated time within which the
students were supposed to select the
answer option.
Setting per Question Timer for
cheating Prevention
Result of the Online Exam with
per question Timer
Implementation of per question timer
prevented the students from logging in and
out of the exam frequently. This resulted in
the fair and expected results of the exam
which were similar to the traditional pen-
paper based exam.
Defining timer for each question forces the
students to attempt the question in a sequential
manner. This helps to eliminate the chances of
cheating or malpractices carried out by the
students during online exams.
Due to social distancing norms, educational
institutes are conducting exams in online
mode. Remote proctored exams are
becoming new normal to manage
examination processes
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