Invigilated online assessment: Various ways to minimize unauthorized help

In eLearning, the main advantage of using advanced technologies is to lower the burden on the instructor and increase the student´s scope of learning. eLearning provides a wide spectrum of learning services from content delivery to online assessment. Besides offering various opportunities to the students in improving their learning, it is also making the ways easier for the students to perform malpractices during the assessment conducted in the absence of the instructor. This will lead the students to get high score without gaining the knowledge, deviating the education goal. This paper puts forward various proposed solutions of constructing reliable assessment models in eLearning environment. One of the main goals of this paper is to provide a secured online assessment that drives the use of one time and one place assessments to ubiquitous environment. This paper also discusses a proposed approach with the consideration of the existing solutions to minimize unauthorized access/help during invigilated online assessment.