Online Examinations
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The exam is open-book and open-notes but you are not allowed to discuss
with anybody else during the exam. Use of electronic devices (smartphones,
laptop/desktop computer etc) is allowed only for downloading the question
paper, referring to your book/notes if you do not have them in hard-copy and
need to refer to e-copy, and uploading the answer script.
Please remember that while this is open-book/open-notes, you are not
supposed to use an Internet search during the period that you are taking the
exam. You will use the Internet only to download the question paper PDF, and to
upload the scanned PDF after the exam is complete.
Please feel free to use any book/notes/pre-downloaded material:
just do not use the Internet during the exam. Please do not use
unfair means: you will have to have the pledge in the last point
below signed, as the first scanned sheet in your PDF script, anyway.
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The question paper will be emailed to you, and sent on the course
WhatsApp link (and put up on the gradescope link as well,
possibly), according to the schedule mentioned. The scanned
scripts are to be uploaded in the requisite format (please see,
below) within 20 minutes of the end of the exmination.
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Gradescope submissions:
The uploading has to be on gradescope. The gradescope portal has
been populated with your official IITD email ID, and most of you
should practice it well before the exam. You can test
matters out, with practice uploads. The final upload before the
time ends, will have to be your proper exam script scan.
(The final upload will over-write all previous uploads, so do not
worry about a temporary upload which you may have made earlier,
for practice.)
Please also note that you can see the course on your gradescope login.
Please be careful here, since your official IITD email ID as your
login, could be for instance,
me1200903@iitd.ac.in
OR
me1200903@mech.iitd.ac.in
, depending on what the link with moodle
was able to populate, in turn from the IITD academic website.
Please check this well in advance, before the examination itself.
Please check the following video for how to upload a PDF, and
mark the pages corresponding to a question:
https://www.gradescope.com/get_started#student-submission
Please note that you have to point gradescope to what questions
correspond to which page numbers. gradescope has a procedure for
this, just after you have uploaded the PDF. Please note that this
also needs a bit of practice, to master.
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You can answer the exam on paper, and scan and upload the answer script
at the end of the exam. Please answer each question on a separate sheet of
paper. Scan has to be of good quality, any problems with the scan cannot be
rectified after the time window for submission closes.
As mentioned before, you will not need a computer, and broadband
connectivity. (If you have these, it is fine.) A mobile phone with 2G/3G/4G
connectivity will suffice. Please ensure that the phone(s) around have
scanner software (to scan in your pages, convert them into a PDF and send it
to me), a PDF viewer, an email/WhatsApp client. The scanner software could
be ClearScanner/Microsoft Lens/..., the PDF viewer could be the one from
Adobe. A phone will serve as the source for your question paper, as well as
your possible connectivity agent. Please ensure that you have at least one
phone with connectivity, and a battery full of charge to last you through
the examination, and the 15-20 minutes extra for scanning and uploading.
Please keep sheets of paper and pen(s) ready. Clearly write your name and
roll number on the first sheet at least.
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Please ensure that you
create ONE PDF with your scanner app. Please check various
parameters of the software, in order to get the page in view (and
not the bed-sheet/chair/table underneath. Please also ensure that
you choose a mode which works best with text (a photo mode is
usually not the best): a document mode, or a clear mode (at least
one, which has a good contrast), where
the text is accentuated, and the remaining part of the page (such
as what is there on the other side of the sheet) does not make an
appearance. You may need to keep your phone's flash on for the
scanning process. Please ensure that all sheets are also there
the right way up, and not rotated.
Please practice this well, and well in advance!
For instance, I have attached one of Junior's history assignments,
a subject which I am badly struggling to teach him:
http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~sumantra/courses/history.pdf
I had the impression that the subject was history for me, but I
hadn't reckoned with the realisation that history repeats itself.
These are some relatively decent phone scans in the right mode,
with all pages in order converted into a single PDF, written in a
relatively decent readable handwriting (something I can only
dream of).
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If you have a tablet PC (`Tab') with a stylus, please feel free
to use that to write, and generate a PDF, following the general
rules mentioned above.
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Are you planning to use gradescope on your mobile phone?
The gradescope app is currently quite buggy (at least, the
Android version). There are issues with logins (and not finding
the required information), issues with using the built-in scanner
(unstable!), and issues with upload speeds. Please use gradescope
on a browser. Use a phone scanner app (as above) to generate a
good quality PDF, and suitably upload it to gradescope on the
phone's browser, and perform the page to question mapping.
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In case you plan to use gradescope on your laptop, please get your
phone's cable to get the scanned PDF onto the computer, and
upload the file from there. The process for a tablet PC (`Tab')
would be similar to that of a mobile phone.
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Question-paper-related queries? It will not be nice to have queries over any
means (WhatsApp/email/Piazza/phone calls...).
You have to make your own assumptions: if found incorrect, marks will be
deducted accordingly.
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In case the course mentions the compulsory use of a pledge:
A student pledge as given by the Dean of students, is as below (in plain
text. You can either print this and fill in your details and sign, or write this
pledge by hand. Please prepare this sheet before the exam so as not to
lose time during the exam. The pledge page should be a part of
the uploaded PDF: please mark the page corresponding to the
pledge as well. (This will be a zero mark question: please see the
example on gradescope.)
student_pledge.txt
Sumantra Dutta Roy,
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas,
New Delhi - 110 016, INDIA.
sumantra@ee.iitd.ac.in