5 Reasons to Shift to Online Exams

Covid has pushed us to migrate to the digital world, and we are migrating fast. Online teaching and learning sessions are not so alien anymore- even teachers who were once reluctant to embrace online classes have to do it now, like it or not.

But it looks like we’re overlooking one tiny problem:

How about online exams? Guess it is about time for exams to join the digital bandwagon too.

Here are 5 reasons why you need to shift to online exams:

1. ? Minimise marking and grading work (we know it is very time-consuming for the teachers and lecturers)

Exams or tests are naturally conducted towards the end of each school term, which means near term holidays. This also means that the teachers and lecturers spend a huge chunk of their term holidays marking and grading. By using a proper online exam system such as Smart Exam Management Systems (SEMS), marking time is cut by half. Thanks to the technology, subjective questions are marked automatically too; based on selective keywords. These digital benefits are highly valued by teachers, especially for mathematical questions, vocabulary tests, and other tasks that expect short answers.

2. ? Feedback and progress tracking in realtime

When marking and grading takes time, students tend to forget the test questions that they took. This creates a less effective reflection for the students to learn from their mistakes. Teachers also get a realtime view of the students’ progress during exams which enables them to identify the problem areas for each student.

3. ? Tech-enhanced questions?

Various mediums have been used to deliver teaching and learning materials, thus it is natural for examinations to follow the engaging, tech-enhanced style as well. Questions can now be presented in images, video form (can even be embedded from YouTube), interactive multiple-choice and a lot more. Say goodbye to boring ink and papers.?

4. ? Anti-cheating

“How does this even work?”. Online exam system like SEMS has this technology to help you prevent cheating by shuffling questions and answer options or creating different combinations of questions to make cheating harder. To top that, proctoring is available as well to optimise the invigilation process.

5. ? Bank and storage

A smart way to avoid time-wasting when building exam papers. For example, SEMS has a dedicated exam questions bank to help teachers and lecturers save time preparing for their exams. Exam papers are ready with only a few simple clicks.

Time to future-proof your education by choosing online exams. Digitise your institutions’ exams smartly with Smart Exam Management System (SEMS). For further info, drop us an email at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you in a jiffy!?