Students of the School of Open Learning (SOL), University of Delhi have claimed that SOL site slammed Thursday when they signed on to attempt to download their concede cards and question papers for interior evaluation. This comes not exactly seven days before Delhi University (DU) holds incorporated online open-book tests (OBE) for its last year understudies.
In the interim, 25 Academic Council (AC) and Executive Council (EC) individuals kept in touch with the DU Vice-Chancellor to drop the OBE.
A few understudies who attempted to get to the SOL site Thursday said the site was not stacking. “The inquiry papers for eight papers that make up our BA program course should be transferred today on our own dashboard. We should answer them and send it back by July 11 as a feature of an inward appraisal. I was attempting since 9:30 AM to get to the site however it continued indicating a mistake. One entire day has squandered,” said Stuti Kohli, an understudy.
Bhavishya Sharma, a BA (Hons) English understudy, said the college had not educated them when they would get their concede card in spite of tests starting on July 1. “The site had before said they would be accessible after June 25. At the point when I attempted to open it today, I proved unable. There is no lucidity about when we’ll get our concede cards now,” she said.
Kajal Sharma, another understudy of BA (Hons) English, said they were additionally educated false tests would be led before the online OBE yet there had been no development on that front. “Typically we get an email much before the tests that the concede card is accessible to download. This time I didn’t get it. Since we were disclosed to it will be on June 25, I attempted to open the site yet it gave some blunder. It involves worry for us this is the circumstance only a couple of days before our test,” she said.
SOL official on extraordinary obligation (OSD) U S Pandey said there was some “specialized issue” for quite a while in the first part of the day however it was fixed. Inquired as to whether specialized issues could influence online OBE, he stated, “You can’t sum up that way. We have the best IT innovation. We have led 1000 talks on the web. Some specialized issues may come yet we are solid and steady.”
In the mean time, the AC and EC individuals have asked that the tests be rejected, refering to remarks by Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal.
“The Hon. Association Minister of HRD is figured out how to have prompted the UGC to return to its previous rules with respect to Conduct of Examinations and Academic Calendar and it has additionally been accounted for that the UGC Expert Committee has suggested the wiping out of assessments for terminal semester/year understudies. Apparently both the HRD serve and the UGC Committee have valued the protests raised by educators and understudies against the college’s choice to lead online open-book tests,” they wrote to VC Yogesh Tyagi.
They said the tests were “biased” particularly because of “the absence of access to on the web or different assets just as mechanical help, and the way that the OBE would advance the utilization of out of line implies and punish genuine students”.
