Analysis of Advantages and Problems in Teaching and Assessment with Online System during Covid-19

Abstract

During Covid-19 spread over, throughout the world, online classes were arranged at school and University level. In certain institutions, the experiments of online systems were successful while in certain cases difficulties were observed and reported. In this paper, we are interested to highlight and analyze the problems occurring in assessment and evaluation. The delivery of lectures and grades assessment, comparison of time spent on in-class lectures and online, the provided infrastructure and technology to faculty and its synchronization with that arranged by students. The objective type questions are automatically marked by the system for example Moodle, whereas the essay type (subjective type) questions are normally preferred to be marked by faculty on the system. This is indeed a facility that all students are provided with different question papers. The online system is more economical, time-saving and easily usable. The most serious issues have been unfair means and cheating used by students during examinations. A detailed analysis of the state-of-the-art is presented in this paper. We also present a comparison of online and in-class teaching and assessment, but irresistibly the benefits of online system are more advantageous. For example, a lot of stationary is saved. The online system causes breaks and pauses during delivery of lessons due to instability of internet and concavity issues. The most important is the choice concerning system subject to available facility with leaner and the faculty and its compatibility with emphasis on technology. The use of anti-cheating software makes the examination secure.