Amid the lockdown due to Covid-19, the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), a prestigious management institute in Mumbai and ranked among the top 10 B-schools of India teamed up with mUni Campus, a leading education technology company and successfully conducted final examination with live proctoring for students of Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering (PGDIE); Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Management (PGDIM); Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Safety and Environmental Management (PGDISEM); Post Graduate Diploma in Manufacturing Management (PGDMM) on May 4 at 10 PM.

To conduct their online examination, NITIE opted for mUniParkisha – a tool for conduction of online examination like multiple choice questions, descriptive questions and answers based exam, assessment and viva exam.

The online examination of NITIE commenced on April 27 and students were provided an opportunity to practice online demo test for over two days to get comfortable with this new way of giving exams online. The examination was conducted in a quite innovative way. Students were able to appear for the exam comprising of a mix of MCQs, short & long descriptive questions. Students had a choice to write their answers in the text box provided for and/or write on paper and upload the scanned sheets before submitting their work for grading.

Prof Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Director, NITIE said, “Personally, I am very impressed by the details and every aspect of mUniParisksha features. mUni team has excellent domain knowledge of education field and have understood all the challenges faced by an educator and institution in conducting examination. mUni has developed Pariksha which meets and in some areas exceeds the requirements of an institution in terms of traditional examinations. Congratulation to the entire team of mUni for their efforts in making Pariksha available to us at such a short notice.”

Dr. Hema Date, Professor& Dean (SA), Decision Sciences and Information systems at NITIE said that “NITIE has provided valuable inputs and suggestions which were quickly adopted by mUni team to make mUniPariksha the platform of choice for NITIE and perhaps in future for every educational institute.”