Overview

Now, almost everything can be done digitally and in a remote manner, be it online grocery shopping or conducting and availing of online learning or anything else for that matter. Given the disruptive nature of the global pandemic, we have been observing significant shifts in our personal, professional, and societal lives. Similarly, the industry verticals such as healthcare, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, hospitality, etc. The education ecosystem also has undergone a transformative phase. 

Online exams have become the new normal, and this concept soon got massive approval and adoption by educational institutions as well as organisations looking to get the right talent onboard. Online examination systems have emerged as the go-to EdTech tools to facilitate online examinations and assessments in a comprehensive, convenient, and cost-effective manner. These play an important role in ensuring that the assessments are conducted in a cheat-free environment. 

Assessment and question banks are integral. Thus, online examination systems come with the online question bank capabilities too. It is a set of questions that are crafted based on the subject, and syllabus topics, which are hosted on an online platform. Being available online, these are easily accessible, anytime, anywhere. 

Eklavvya is a cutting-edge online examination system that comes with the online question bank capability. Several reputed institutions and organisations are already leveraging this platform to make the most of the current learning scenario. 

Next, we will discuss how question banks are managed online, with Eklavvya. 

Following Diagram specifies the structure of managing your question bank in the online examination system.

Subject : It is a top level entity. If you are considering importing to import English Language Question bank then the top level entity subject could be named as English.

Please refer step to create Subject in the System

Topic:  Each Subject can have one or more topics associated with it. If you have a entered top level entity subject as English then its topic could be Reading Comprehension , Tense, Grammar, Synonyms etc.

Please refer Step to Create Topics in the System

Difficulty Level 

Each Question can have one of the difficulty levels from 1 to 5.  1 rating is for very easy questions and 5 rating is for very difficult question ratings.

Marks

You can also define marks for each question.

Question Bank Structure is helpful while defining a question paper for the online examination using various patterns like Subject/ topics to be included, number of questions to be included, difficulty level associated with question, negative marking etc.

If you are looking for a detailed question paper generation solution then you can refer to this link.

Our solution provides support for defining question banks, generating question papers and distribution of question papers to examination centres.