One of the most significant trends that have been witnessed over the past few years is ?Everything-as-a-Service?, and ?Platform-as-a-service? (PaaS) is a part of the very same business model.
With technology shifting towards complete digitization, PaaS seems to be the perfect fit in today?s world. It has completely revolutionized the way various organizations operate!
What is PaaS?
It is a cloud-based computing model, wherein one can run, build, and manage an application without having to create one?s own infrastructure of the application. It is a subscription-based model where an organization can subscribe to a third-party platform and use the facilities being provided by the platform for a specific time-period.
PaaS and Proctored Assessment Solutions
An assessment platform as a service is a new concept in the advent of technology, and is bound to grow multifold over the years. In this model, an organization/institution can subscribe to an assessment platform and create, run, and conduct multiple assessments within a given period of time ? which can be annual, half-year, or even multi-year and follow a hassle-free approach of conducting assessments.
Benefits of Proctoring Platform as a Service
- One Platform - All Tests/Any Test
Subscribing to a proctoring platform enables organizations to use it freely and conduct as many tests as are required, without the chaos of looking for vendors over and over again. With the subscription, the access is unlimited ? within the given time ? and the process of conducting & creating assessments becomes a lot easier.
- Secured Assessments
The environment of the assessments is absolutely secured that makes it reliable for any organization to work on. The privacy of data is maintained and all the crucial credentials and information are kept secured. Also, proctoring solutions help track candidates for any movement or objectionable acts.
- Specified Time Period
Just like how an OTT works, an organization can subscribe to the platform for a specific time and access it freely for that particular period. This period can vary as per an organization?s requirement for assessments. It can vary among six months, a year, or even multiple years.
- Analytics and Reports
Organizations, on subscribing to a proctoring platform, don?t only get the normal results for assessments, but also the in-depth, domain-wise analytics of the candidates. This can help institutions/organizations help determine which skills their respective candidates might lack and where can they lead. The reports help determine and assess performances and this leads to better results.
- Cost-Effective
A proctoring-platform subscription is inexpensive as compared with buying assessments from different vendors whenever there is a requirement. It is on a pay-per-use basis that gives unlimited access to it. One is not paying for all the assessments, rather only for the platform.
Who can subscribe?
This subscription caters to organizations and educational institutes for their assessment and proctoring needs. Subscription makes it easier for the customer to conduct assessments with zero chaos and interference of the third party.
The entire access and control is in the hands of the administrator (the organization/institute) and any number of assessments can be conducted with the in-house platform.
Enterprise and PaaS
The enterprise sector deals with several situations where they require assessments and an assessment platform:
Lateral Hiring
An enterprise has to assess and determine the potential talents and to make this process more efficient, it chooses to conduct assessments. An organization might be in need of bulk-hiring or only wish to hire one good candidate.
This process of pre-hiring assessment can be required multiple times by the organization, and hence, subscription is the key to an efficient way of hiring. By subscribing to an assessment platform, the organization will get complete access to it for a specified time and can conduct assessments whenever there is a need to hire in that period of time.
Campus Hiring
Spanning across institutions and colleges, campus hiring is one tough nut to crack. But with a subscription model, an organization can bring a shift in this physical, human-intensive hiring process to a virtual and more efficient way of hiring.
This will further help them to extend their arms nationwide and will allow them to assess and determine the talents of the country in a better manner.
Learning and Development
Every organization trains its employees in different domains, and hence, assessing and identifying its employee's knowledge is necessary. This process becomes extremely difficult when the number of employees is huge.
Platform subscription can help conduct these assessments on a regular basis without hassles. Also, with an in-depth analysis of employee's knowledge, an organization can be at par with its employees and its vision.
Education and PaaS
The education sector deals with several situations where they require assessments and an assessment platform:
Entrance Exams
Institutes and Universities require entrance exams at least once in a year for admission and other purposes. It becomes a hassle for them to conduct so many entrance exams altogether, preparing them and then implementing them!
This can be solved through platform subscription. Subscribing to an assessment platform lessens the human external efforts and increases efficiency of the exams. Also, having everything available online, there is no need to get tangled with the pen & paper issues.
Semester Exams
Every University/College has semester exams to be conducted within the duration of 6 months. The subscription model ensures a chaos-free and systematic way of conducting these exams, and the proctoring helps avoid all sorts of malpractices.
These half-yearly exams become easier to conduct as there is no need to rush and find a vendor for the platform as Universities/Colleges have already subscribed to it.
Internal Exams
Along with the semester exams, there are internal exams as well. These can be short assessments by Colleges/Universities to assess the learning and knowledge of its students. To cater to these exams, a subscription model is just the right way.
These exams have to be conducted either fortnightly or once a month, and it becomes extremely difficult to go about each exam with a thousand other tasks to be completed. A subscription would help conduct these exams on a regular basis without the institute having to worry about it.
Employability Programs
Assessing and determining the talent and potential of students becomes an easy task when there is an in-house platform working to get the results. A student?s future employability can be mapped using the employability tests available with the platform to help learn where he/she stands.
Shifting to PaaS
For an organization shifting to the PaaS model is compelling, considering the potential cost savings over using on-premises alternatives. It also makes conducting assessments simple and convenient for the users. Creating and running tests becomes less complex. The PaaS model is the new way to go about assessments.
