MA ST and UP show how online exams will be organised

Coronavirus' Pandemia has also postponed exams in April's extraordinary term at Pristina University “Hasan Pristina”.

But if this situation lasts until the June deadline, UPI is making preparations to make it easier to take exams online, writes Online Economy, broadcasts Klan Kosova.

UPI Science Projector Faton Berisha has said he is thinking of how to organise online exams, but only for deadlines and rules.

“Hipotically if this situation continues even during June we are making all the preparations that we can recommend taking exams online, finding a system of proctoring, each faculty or Scifi field will give them an opportunity to use a specific means of communication for that field. We are considering how to organise online exams in regular terms”, he said.

According to Berisha, periodic exams, the tests, online quizs have been left to the authority of the professor of course, since they are part of teaching.

If the professor or the teaching assistant considers they can manage. The student's procurement is one of the problems in online learning, if they can manage this, they have been granted freedom to take periodic exams”, Berisha added.

Prorector Berisha, in this interview for Online Economics, has also indicated the performance of online learning at this university.

With the request of Pristina University's sector we had started online learning, yet the first case of infection soon passed on to online learning. Numbers and statistics show that Pristina University has turned into giant online learning” within days, he said.

According to him, 11 thousand and 555 hours of online instruction were held during March at Pristina University.

“The entire learning process, with the exception of Labaratoric jobs, has gone online, we're proud of the work the IT office has done for students, which has designed a follow-up reporting system, where they import data from Google Meat that they use for online meetings in our SEMS follow-up system, and everything works for students as if in teaching contact”, he added.

Meanwhile, he has made it known that practical, laboratory work is currently a little behind us.

What we're trying to do at relevant faculties is for professors to finish the theoretical online part during this time, and then if during this semester the situation normalizes, it creates a space so that labarial classes, practice”, Berisha added.

And Deputy Education Minister Xhavit Rexhaj has said that MASTI has decided to meet the best experts of all universities and create a common platform in more standardised approach to make it easier to evaluate students

April's <x0fat is not a regular deadline that is an damage to the education process, only the University of Pristina has until now extended the April deadline some have started holding, we have decided to meet the best experts of all universities from the reactor conference, and along with them whether Kosovo at the level of higher education can create a common platform, in more standardised approach to make it easier to evaluate students”, Rexja said.