Uttar Pradesh partners with Wheebox to digitize examination process for Board of Technical Education

With the increasing role of technology in examinations during the pandemic, Government of Uttar Pradesh conducted online exams as a viable alternative to technical education institutes. Government of Uttar Pradesh has roped Wheebox, a Cloud-based Global Assessment Platform to digitize its entire examination process.

A total of over 200 thousand students took exams from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical University and approximately 300 thousand students appeared from The Board of Technical Education Uttar Pradesh (BTE) for the online exams. These AI-enabled remote proctored exams offered robustness, scalability, seamlessness, and anti-cheating prowess.  It also ensured credible and secured exams.

Dedicated teams were deployed by the Universities and Technical Board along with Wheebox specialists for deployment, execution and monitoring, ensuring a secured exam. More than 3000 remote proctored were deployed across the state to monitor candidates.

The assessments boast of offering the NextGenOnline Proctoring Solutions, with the face recognition feature that enables a candidate to log in matching from the face library of registration in a secured layer helping the proctors to see whether a candidate is bona fide or not.

“The smooth deployment of Online testing using Artificial Intelligence and Human Proctors has ensured not only the delivery of exams but the online process ensured that results are declared within stipulated time,” Secretary of Board of Technical Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh, commented.

Candidates’ movements are captured in real time using face tracking tool and corrective messages are displayed using AI to the candidate. Features such as Object detection are also used to absolutely clamp down on cheating.