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SAFE

Smart, Authenticated, Fast Exams

Transform the Conduct of Exams, Classes

Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman

Department of CSE, IIT Bombay

Nishit Bhandari, Ved Ratan, Prateek Chandan, Arun Babu, Vinay Chandra, Akshay Veer, Kurien Zacharia, Nihal Singh, Sonika Malloth

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SAFE: Smart, Authenticated, Fast Exams

Transform the Conduct of Exams, Classes

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SAFE can Transform your Exams, Classes

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  • Continuous assessment:
    • Conduct short quizzes, as easy as asking a verbal question
    • Instant feedback to student and teacher
  • Easy, paper-free objective exams:
    • No hassle of printing and manual evaluation
    • SAFE ⇒ paper-free and cheating-free objective exams
  • Check mental presence:
    • Are students mentally present? Have they grasped what you taught?
    • SAFE-quiz in the class enables; replaces sophisticated hardware clickers!
  • Surveys and polls:
    • SAFE enables easy surveys & polls
    • Configurable anonymity for those answering

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SAFE Architecture

  • Proctored exam in a WiFi enabled room
  • BYOD: Bring your own device
  • Cheating-free: lock phone to SAFE app
  • Fast, scalable
  • Server dashboard

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SAFE is Safe

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SAFE Features

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SAFE Status: Off the Ground

  • Used for 200+ in-class quizzes in 17 IITB courses in the last 3 years: CS305, CS224m, CS224, CS743, CL302, CS641, BB101, CL692, HS309, CS742, CS416m
  • Used for IITB CSE MTech RA pre-interview screening test (184 candidates)
  • Jun-Aug’17: Sessional exams in 4 departments of GHRCE, Nagpur
  • Oct’17: Sessional exams in 6 departments of GHRCE, Pune
  • Entrance test for foreign language course, advanced English
  • Pre-interview screening: Mojo Networks
  • Evaluation tests: Pratham Education Foundation
  • Repurposed for feedback/survey: Drupal & WiFi-KS workshops, course feedback
  • Quiz/exam durations: 5min, 20min, 30min, 45min, 60min, 90min
  • Scale: ~90 devices per WiFi AP per exam room
  • Security: open challenges to students not yet breached
  • Student/instructor feedback: very positive

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Technology Behind the Scenes

  • Understanding of WiFi scaling
  • Prevention/reporting of various cheating scenarios
  • “SAFE: Smart Authenticated Fast Exams for Student Evaluation in Classrooms”, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, Vinay Chandra, Akshay Veer, Kurien Zacharia, SIGCSE 2017, Seattle, USA.

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Thanks!

Contact us to use SAFE for exam/quiz/survey/feedback

chebrolu@cse.iitb.ac.in

br@cse.iitb.ac.in