SECURING ONLINE ASSESSMENTS IN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS USING BLOCKCHAIN

Abstract

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to more and more universities adopting an online-only option for studying. As a result, students often take course assessment through an online form within the Learning Management System (LMS), and hence the need for secure LMSs become more evident. Commercially available LMS solutions may not be secure in every aspect, especially when it comes to online assessments and their grading, either automatic or manual. In this paper, we present a blockchain-based add-on for the purposes of securing online assessments. We show that with our proposed solution, secure assessment and grading can be achieved with the innate security properties of blockchain.