In the wake of Coronavirus pandemic, the National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai (NITIE) has conducted semester examinations for its final year students online. A total of 128 students participated in the three-hour long examination.
NITIE is among the few institutions which have taken the online route to conduct exams.
Director, Manoj K. Tiwari, its director, told the institute used a digital platform which was designed and tested to give the students an experience of writing exams from home during the ongoing COVID -19 lockdown.
The institute also plans to publish the results within one month on its website.
“We are happy that all the 128 students that appeared in the exam yesterday submitted their responses on time,” Tiwari said.
The semester examination was conducted in three parts and students were given time for each section and after three hours they had to submit their answers.
Students were also given 25-30 minutes to go through the questions. Some of the other universities in the country have also started to conduct examination through digital mode, recently Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) started its mid-semester examinations online.
