IIT Kharagpur's take on the best methods to avoid malpractices in online exams

With Covid-19 forcing exams to move online, we need to understand how we can avoid malpractices in online exams. How to avoid malpractices in online exams Students of the IIT system are admitted through a very competitive process and there is no reason to assume that our students will be adopting malpractices of mass cheating in an examination. Nevertheless, we have adopted several measures to curb malpractices through several innovative ways: Use of technology - use of Moodle, a double shuffle examination software Through VIVA-VOCE to have one to one interaction Setting of tests to have time crunch Combination of written and oral tests Setting innovative questions wherein answers for each student differs Consider each examination as an open book examination We wish to inculcate amongst our students the same responsibility and try to imbibe amongst them that the acts such as malpractices in examination bring bad names not only for themselves but for the department/centre/units they come from but also for the institute and their family as well. Read: Only anti-cheating software may not be the best solution for online exams in universities Read: How online exams can be fair and authentic way of testing Read: How to prepare faculty and students for online examinations