Soon, MU students may see answer sheets online

Yogita.Rao@timesgroup.com

Mumbai:

In a move to make the assessment process transparent and studentfriendly, the University of Mumbai may soon provide copies of answersheets to all students online free of cost after their results are announced. The university also plans to allow teachers to remotely assess papers online at any time, even when they are vacationing.

Currently, photocopies of answersheets are given only to students who seek them if they are not satisfied with their marks, at a cost of Rs 50 per paper. Students can then go for revaluation of their paper based on the photocopies. Students can also seek photocopies and revaluation at the same time.

“Now, we are planning to give copies of answersheets on individual student login on an experimental basis,” vice-chancellor Suhas Pednekar said. “The answersheets are anyway scanned and available online for the assessment. It may not be difficult to make the assessed papers available online. The university is taking efforts to minimise inconvenience for students and to bring in more transparency.”

The move will streamline the assessment process and dispel uncertainties, if any, that students have over the quality of assessment, said a principal. He said it will increase accountability of teachers too.

To allow assessment of papers online anywhere and at any time, the university is likely to add security features. Doing this, though, may take time.

Among other reforms, the varsity will start giving online provisional marksheets to students. A mobile application to help students with exam schedules, answersheets, circulars, results is also in the pipeline in the current academic session. Pre-enrolment online registration, which is a compulsory step for undergraduate courses, will be made mandatory for postgraduate students, too, from the next year.

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