KU to adopt remote proctoring for distance education pupils
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Maintaining exam’s integrity
* Remote proctoring enables students to write an exam in a remote location while maintaining the exam’s integrity.
* A proctoring software confirms a student’s identity and monitors him/her through a webcam.
* The video recorded during a remote proctored exam helps flag any suspicious activity or behaviour.
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Nitish Sharma
Tribune News Service
Kurukshetra, July 17
Kurukshetra University (KU) has decided to conduct remote proctoring of online examinations through a software prepared by an agency.
The Controller of Examinations, Dr Hukam Singh, said, “The examinations of distance education and private candidates will start from July 22. On the recommendation of the university’s standing committee, the exams will be conducted in a blended mode (offline/online). However, this time remote proctoring will be done to prevent cheating. A portal has been prepared and a tender has been allotted to a firm for the remote proctoring of online examinations. Around 10,000 students will take exams. Arrangements have been made for private and distance education students as there was no such facility available earlier. Meanwhile, the exams of regular students have already started and their proctoring is being done through Google Meet like the last year.”
Dr Hukam said the students would have to get themselves registered for online or offline examinations and they wouldn’t be allowed to change their option later.
For the online option, the candidates must have high-speed Internet, smartphone or laptop. The students will get the question paper through a link that would be shared on the portal. They would have to sit in the front of a webcam. The position of the webcam has to be adjusted in such a way that the full view of the candidate attempting the paper is visible to the proctor.
After the exam, the students would have to upload the PDF of their answer sheet on the given link.
As per the university’s guidelines, disconnection/disappearances during the online examinations would not be allowed. All such activities would be treated as the case of use of unfair means. No battery or power-related issues during the exam duration would be considered as an excuse for time relaxation.
