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SINGAPORE \u2013 Students at all three Institute of Technical Education (ITE) colleges here taking online exams from June 4 to June 11 had to do their assessments on paper instead, after the online exam system crashed.<\/p>\n
The online exam sessions were scheduled from June 2 to June 11, excluding weekends, and students encountered difficulties accessing the system on June 4, ITE said in a media reply. The sessions on June 2 and June 3 were unaffected.<\/p>\n
It added that all three of its colleges \u2013 East, West and Central \u2013 were affected, but did not say how many students, exams or courses were affected.<\/p>\n
The exams that were disrupted on June 4 were rescheduled to June 11 with printed scripts, ITE said.<\/p>\n
Exams from June 5 to June 11 proceeded as scheduled, also using printed scripts, it added on June 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working with the vendor to resolve the issue,\u201d ITE said, but did not reveal who the vendor is.<\/p>\n
A Reddit user, who said he was from ITE College East, said students reporting for an exam at 9am on June 4 were unable to log into the exam system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe waited in the exam venue for two hours straight before the invigilator told us to come back next week for the exam,\u201d the user said.<\/p>\n
Shannen Ooi Xun Ying, who takes a Higher Nitec course on web development and design, was among those affected on June 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at a lab for attendance-taking when a few moments later, my form teacher announced the bad news,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old said the exam had been scheduled for 3pm to 4.15pm at ITE College West. In the end, the students were dismissed only after 4.50pm.<\/p>\n
She added that she had taken online exams at ITE before and they were usually conducted using Janison Replay, on a laptop provided by the school.<\/p>\n
Janison Replay is an online assessment platform by Janison Education Group, a tech provider based in Australia.<\/p>\n
Janison said in an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange on March 20, 2020, that it had completed \u201cthe development of a software solution tailored specifically for online exam assessments for the higher-education market\u201d and the product would be used by ITE students.<\/p>\n
When contacted, Janison referred The Straits Times\u2019 queries on the online exam system outage to ITE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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