Hyderabad: To declare results early, JNTUH goes for digital assessment

HYDERABAD: In view of Covid-19 pandemic, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) has decided to evaluate close to 17 lakh answer scripts digitally for the ensuing semester exams.
Last year, JNTUH had experimented with online evaluation for MTech exams. All the answer sheets were digitally evaluated wherein they were scanned and uploaded for online evaluation.The same process will be implemented for pharmacy, engineering and management semester exams, which are scheduled to commence from mid-October.

Officials said that the idea to implement digital evaluation is to declare results faster as students have already lost several academic days due to the pandemic induced lockdown. “Scanned papers will be uploaded on the central server. Faculty members will have to login with their credentials and evaluate the allotted answer scripts that are displayed on the screen. There are provisions to allocate marks and correct the answer scripts in a decentralized mode,” Kamakshi Prasad, director, evaluation, JNTUH, told TOI.
To facilitate digital evaluation, JNTUH has asked college managements to identify 30 computers or more and have internet facility for the spot valuation work. All faculty members, who are working at the colleges with more than five years of teaching experience and more than three times teaching experience in the specified subject, are eligible for valuation of the subject.
“The eligible faculty members shall be invited and given access to do valuation from their respective colleges. Participation in the spot valuation duty is mandatory for all the eligible faculty members including professors and other senior faculty,” reads a notice issued by JNTUH to all the constituent and affiliated colleges.
The university exam branch has obtained faculty details from the academic audit cell of the university and faculty members from this list shall be invited to do spot valuation work at their respective colleges.