I have observed how cheating in online exams are taking place in India and in our Union Territory of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh and ways how to curb this practice in our institutions for the Govt of India. This is in response to the coronavirus pandemic, universities across the globe opted for remote learning and rapid shift to conducting online classes and exams was commendable. But to what extent have Indian universities and autonomous bodies for external examinations prepared to adapt to virtual learning and resolve unattended concerns of the examiners and students that have further jeopardised the broken education system of Indian?Perhaps a student might cheat during an online exam .Would this this amount to academic dishonesty and moral corruption?Suspecting a student of Cheating had always been easier than arguing of the hand cheating either as a disinterested professor who failed to pass on his knowledge or as the invigilator who was only present for the sake of his fixed hourly compensation. Is this also not moral corruption? With more online exam during the pandemic academicians are concerned about the surge in academic dishonesty .Of course this not the first time that cheating in exams has made headlines and been a point of concern for everyone. In post during normalcy many times the invigilators were facilitated by bribed.No sense of responsibility exercised by the government as well as by the institutes to formulate a robust policy regarding conducting smooth yet cheating free online exams made students protest against the decision to take in-person exams despite the fact that all classes were held online. I think that cheating online is pretty easy and near all exam questions could be answered by using Google. I am unsure as to what extent they are right but a class of hunted students cheating online for the exam could nearly produce the same answers that are easy to catch in the erase of high-tech specialised software .Teachers believe that invigilating hundreds of students online might compromise the exam code.In comparison with overseas educational institutions we are not even spending half of the money as they have on research and development to invent methods to elevate academic standards for dispensing quality education and maintaining honour codes.In India with job security and other perks of being employed at public universities the professors barely struggle to prepare themselves for learning techniques of remote education. Lack of efforts to cover the syllabus poor response to students questioning due to lack of training and the grid future of the average students was the agenda of the recent students. By subscribing to automated proctoring services we could minimise the chance of online exam cheating .These services are extensively used by the foreign universities which are monitoring their studies taking online exams at home. They use artificial intelligence that automatically block intetnet browsers from accessing exam material websites, keeping check on students activity during the exam,verify students information and their geographical location and have the ability to detect suspicious movements of the test taker's head and eyes.Some software also has the ability to detect bluetooth devices and unusual eyeball movement of the students if they are looking at smell material outside the screens Government should design such software that have the privilege to closely monitor their prevention and strategies to minimise the risk of cheating on exams by online mode.On of them using an equitable low tech and affordable solution is the open book exam for everyone.This exam type not only helps in preventing a student to breach the honour code but also stimulates the thinking process and problem solving skills of the students as they encounter hypothetical questions in the exam that replicates the real life problem a student might face on the job.Last but not least ,India needs to overhaul it's British era inherited education system and should bring it in compliance with 21st century standards. I think it is the high time that central government should pay heed in providing quality online education as well as inventing ways for preventing cheating in online exams.
Mool Raj
Doda
