Copyright © 2024 by Author/s and Licensed by Kuey. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Educational Administration: Theory and Practice 2024, 30(5), 2799-2810 ISSN: 2148-2403 https://kuey.net/ Research Article The New Order Of Web-Based Assessment System In Higher Education: A Study Of An Indian B-School Dr Navin Kumar Shrivastava 1* , Prof Kamal Kalra 2 1* Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Plot No.5, Knowledge Park II, 201306 (NCR), India, Mobile: +91 9818870695, Alternate No:+91 9891627555 Email: n.shrivastava@bimtech.ac.in Alternate : profnks3010@gmail.com 2 Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Plot No.5, Knowledge Park II, 201306 (NCR), India, Mobile: +91 9999908390, Email: kamal.kalra@bimtech.ac.in *Corresponding Author: Dr Navin Kumar Shrivastava *Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Plot No.5, Knowledge Park II, 201306 (NCR), India, Mobile: +91 9818870695, Alternate No:+91 9891627555 Citation: Dr Navin Kumar Shrivastava, et al (2024), The New Order Of Web-Based Assessment System In Higher Education: A Study Of An Indian B-School, Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 30(5), 2799-2810, Doi: 10.53555/kuey.v30i5.2088 ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT We used a mixed method and experimented with the features of the web-based online system Moodle applied in four programmes offering business management courses with more than 400 students per trimester at Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida, a premier Private B-School in India. The study assesses Moodle, e-Mail, and a self- developed Knowledge Management System based on Network Address Translation (NAT) platforms. The major contributions of this study are as follows: First, it adapts Moodle an online Learning Management System (LMS) platform for conducting web-based external examinations smoothly. Second, it compared the outcomes of three modes of external examinations, i.e. Offline, Online, and Hybrid and their relevance in the digital era. Third, it provides an option of a self-contained assessment tool for fair and better results. Thus, the innovative design saved the efforts of both teachers and students, demonstrating its future implications and effectiveness in higher education. Keywords: Web-based assessment system, Moodle, NAT, self-contained test paper generation, India, higher education and Business Management. 1.Introduction In this era of remote working several leading universities and education institutions are in search of an effective examination management system. Amidst high uncertainty because of the pandemic in March 2020, one of the leading private B-Schools in India, BIMTECH, faced the challenge of conducting online examinations in the aftermath of the spreading COVID virus in India. The advisory from the expert committee of the University Grants Commission (UGC) 1 was that if conducting online examinations was not feasible, the management of B-schools could complete assessments by doubling internal evaluation marks. While the safety net was offered to educational institutes, it was felt that this would be the easy way out and the examination/Information Technology (IT) department(s) were entrusted with the role of recommending a system that would retain the criticalities of teaching, learning, integrity, and proctoring in a single comprehensive system. As it was a unique situation that the educational system found itself in, a unique solution had to be found to address the teaching and learning challenges imposed by COVID. BIMTECH was required to prepare a system addressing the challenges imposed on the education system. This study was designed to formulate a new format of the online examination system to account for the various challenges aligned with such forms of examinations (Alghamdi, 2020; Guo, 2017; Zhang, 2015). The new format of online teaching, learning, and evaluation system for the various challenges are enumerated in this paper. 1 University governing authority of India.