“An open-book exam for which students don’t have to cite sources runs the risk of compromising academic quality. She said teachers won’t be able to check for the academic quality of the answers since there were no time-tested mechanisms in place. But this time, we don’t know how it will happen.” Teachers discussed the questions and answers among themselves and moderate marks accordingly. Generally, we went to the common evaluation centres where a robust moderation was in place, especially for humanities courses where marks can be subjective. “Teachers rue the fact that there is no clarity even now on the exact modalities of assessment. Sanam Khanna, who teaches English at Kamala Nehru College, said moderation can be a factor due to online evaluation of answer scripts. Many pointed out that not all students have high-end smartphones, which may result in unclear answer scripts. Garg, and several other teachers HT spoke to, said this will create problems for teachers who are not used to conducting a digital evaluation. Some students have both uploaded the answer sheets on the website and emailed it to the university as well as their colleges, leading to further increase in the number,” he said. Students have four subjects on an average, which will only increase the number of answer sheets. The exams started on August 10 and will continue till August 31 for around 260,000 students.Īccording to the guidelines, students can either upload their answer sheets on the website or email it to the varsity in the wake of technical glitches.įormer academic council member Pankaj Garg, who teaches Mathematics at Rajdhani College, said, “If there are over 2.4 lakh examinees and each of them upload around four pages on the portal, there will be at least 10 lakh answer sheets to sort and compile. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the central university – as a one-time measure-introduced the online OBE exams amid much resistance from students and teachers. As Delhi University heads towards wrapping up its first online open-book examination (OBE) for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students of regular and non-collegiate courses, teachers are now worried about the evaluation process ahead of them.

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