It will also do away with the chances of copying and fudging of marks, an allegation that the university is trying to get rid off. “The university has managed to assess engineering papers successfully online and hence is now planning to implement the same for other streams too,” said an official from the examination section. “Under this initiative answer sheets of around 8,000 students will be assessed online. Currently the university plans to implement this for BSc IT subject only and has issued a circular to the effect to concerned colleges.The university has been struggling to declare results on time due to the delay in assessment and moderation work. The software will enable marks to be automatically tallied on the student’s name, thus reducing chances of mistakes and errors during transferring marks from the physical format to the computer. Teachers will have to assess papers online and the marks given by them will be automatically added up and will reflect against the student’s seat and unique id number.
With the university being rocked by scandals pertaining to A4 COLORFUL PVC SHEET FOR BOOK BINDING COVERS Suppliers the examination section in recent years, the university administration has decided to take steps to remedy it by making some of the process online, one of them being the online assessment of answer sheets..Decision taken after success in evaluating engineering papersIn a bid to expedite the assessment of answer sheets, the University of Mumbai will be turning to online assessment of answer papers for the Science stream. The initiative will be applied to other streams too in a phased manner,” said the official from the examination section. University officials have said that as assessment of engineering papers has been successfully implemented online, assessment of science papers would be the next step. With the new initiative, a software will take care of transferring marks and collating the overall marks too thus allowing the results to be prepared with the least involvement of people. As part of the initiative, answer sheets of students will be scanned and uploaded on the exam portal, access of which will be given to teachers through a secure method.
