How to design the course file and how iCloudEMS simplifies its generation

Outcome-based Education(OBE) has become the buzzword in context with delivering quality education in Higher Education Institutes.The effective execution of OBE model demands the relevant curriculum design and effective teaching-learning processes that can demonstrate the acquired skills in students at the end of the program.

What is OBE and what is its need

William Spady is considered as the father of Outcome-Based Learning(OBE)and he might not have thought that his brain child would bringt ransb formation in Education sector. The basic principles of Outcome Based Education implementation include:

• Learner-centric – Learner governs his own learning and can measure his proficiency in his desired skill-set over time.
• Clear Expectations-The predefined specific outcomes clear the expectations of learning and foster the focus of learning.
• Scientifically design and delivery – OBE approach necessitates the curriculum design and delivery with a clear definition, including the expected outcomes and continuous mapping of the outcomes with the student’sperformance.
• Highexpectations–The ultimate focus of OBEis to enable learners to give the highest level of performance for which teachers should always be available as facilitators to motivate and guide to lead the path of success.

• Diverse opportunities –OBE does not allow to follow ‘One size fit all’ approach, thus make the students learn at their own pace. Such flexible learning expands the range of diverse learning opportunities according to their interests and needs of students. 
  

Thus, Outcome based education (OBE) is learner-centered education framework that tracks the learning trajectory of students by measuring knowledge, skills and attitudes of students through learning outcomes during the course of the program. The accreditation bodies such as NAAC, NBA etc. have mandated the OBE implementation in Higher Education to empower the practical and flexible learning than memorize and reproduce the content.

Various features of OBE include:

• OBE framework focuses on the right teaching-learning of students in line with the skills they should develop after they are taught.
• OBE encompasses the framing of curriculum, teaching practices, assessment and results that can clearly reflect the capabilities or qualitiesof students rather than mere a credit count.
• Discourages traditional education approaches based on direct instruction of facts and standard methods.
• It encourages the demonstration of acquired knowledge and skills of students that they have learnt during the program.
  

Limitations of our traditional Education System are:

• The instruction content and delivery are more schedule and time based rather than results based.
• More focus is on rote learning than the achievement of 21^st century competencies.
• The graduates do not get the sufficient exposure to soft skills, interpersonal skills, analytical skills and working attitude.
  

Measures to implement OBE in Higher Education Institutes are as follows:

• Define Vision and Mission statement of the department taking the reference of Vision/Mission statement of the Institute.
• Next Program Educational Objectives(PEOs) and Program Specific Objectives (PSOs) are designed considering the defined Vision and Mission statements.
• Map Mission Statements with Program Educational Objectives(PEOs)
• Design program outcomes considering the expected analytical abilities of students.
• Map Program Educational Objectives with Program outcomes
• Define course outcomes in compliance with Bloom’s Taxonomy for each Course
• Map COs with POs appropriate to the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Design instructional strategies for each topic
• Map topics of a course with its Cos.
• Derive test items or rubrics for each CO of each course
• Define delivery methods for each topic/COs
• Prepare session-wise plan for the courses
• Design questions in the framework of Bloom’s Taxonomy levels & other guidelines outcomes related guidelines.
• Track students’ performance by proposing proper remedial measures to redesign teaching strategies.
• Map and evaluate students’ performance against CO threshold,course-wise
• Semester-wise mapping and evaluation of students’ performance against PO parameters.
• Incorporate direct/indirect assessment tools to measure the attainment of each PO.
• Compare PO attainment for the previous three academic years and take remedial actions for continuous quality improvement
• Finally assess the attainment of Program outcomes and Learning objectives.
  

The approach to implement Outcome based learning can be summarized as:

• Systematically design and develop Outcome Based Curriculum.
• Develop appropriate ICT based Pedagogy Framework Tools to train faculty members to design, develop, monitor and review curricula based on the Industry / Expert feedback.
• Include references to appropriate learning material for all define outcomes, include case study, unsolved problem and resources in the respective outcome.
• Include adequate number of nontrivial practice problems, assignments etc. matching every course outcome to allow students to test their learning success.
  

Many accreditation bodies such as NBA in its criteria 2 has asked the details of  program curriculum teaching-learning processes undertaken throughout the semester and such data is to be maintained for several years that mandates the faculty of Higher Education Institutes to design a compiled documentation that comprises all the details of batch and its various attributes like curriculum design, delivery, assessment, evaluation, reinforcement of Teaching/Learning Processes, and continuous improvement records to reflect the level of attainment of course outcomes. For the actualization of OBE model in Higher Education Institutes, it is necessary to have all the data and reports of students and courses, so that the learning trajectory can be tracked and effectiveness of program can be gauged according to the results of outcomes’ accomplishment.

The course file is enriched on three dimensional scales of all the academic and details of the course taught in a semester. But creating and maintaining course file is challenging and a time-consuming effort of the instructors. iCloudEMS is a digital assistant of the instructors in simplifying the rigorous procedures in the present technofix era. We offer leading-edge products to automate all the imperative academic functions including course file generation. Our cloud-based platform provides unified solutions to store, access and process huge amount of generated data and records of courses, faculty and students. Faculty can retrieve all the necessary details with a couple of clicks only and can tailor their course file under the framework of OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy.

Checklist of the necessary details and statistics that are required to be hold in a course file

• Vision and Mission of University
• Vision and Mission of Department
• Academic calendar of University and School
• Time table faculty & Class
• Course syllabus
• POs, PSOs, PEOs & COs
• CO-PO-PSO Mapping
• Lecture plan
• List of students
• Tutorial Sheets & Assignments with sample solutions
• Question Paper for Quizzes, Sessional and End term Examination
• Evaluated Answer Scripts with award sheets to reflect attainment level of outcomes.
• Award sheet of assignments and End-semester examination with attainment.
• Study material for content beyond syllabus
• Innovative Teaching/Learning techniques used
• Attendance Report of the desired period
• Exhaustive Question Bank
• Sample Lecture Notes
• Course Exit Survey
• Various reports including Final Attainments, Result Analysis, and Feedbacks.
  

Role of iCloudEMS in generation of course file:

iCloudEMS allows to have an eagle view to all the latest and previous records on the dashboard of a faculty member that can be accessed with their specific credentials. Faculty can select and customize the data in accordance with the subject and batch of the required course file. With the help of iCloudEMS, it is no longer necessary to spend your important hours on this laborious task that can be easily completed in seconds only.

• We offer dashboard entry of students’ database with all their necessary personal and academic details at the admission stage that can be easily fetched any time for maintaining and updating records.
• We have automatic time table generation system to prepare multiple type of timetables i.e., class wise, room wise, faculty wise without any clashes and redundancy.
• We provide computerized course allotment utilities that assist to choose the desired courses with its associated credits scheme that can be retrieved and utilized for the required reports.
• Our OBE supported functionalities help the faculty members to design and map the assignments, question bank and end term examination in the framework of OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy that aligns the workflow in line with OBE guidelines.
• We deliver personalized learning management system to create online repository of lecture notes and other study material that can be easily downloaded for documentation of course file.
• We restrict the attendance marking on portal unless uploading of the digitized copy of lesson plan of with all the necessary details of the courses, that enables the instructors to easily create and access this important file.
• Our cybernated attendance marking system provides the statistical attendance reports at any time during the program.
• We provide managed services to the ERP of Higher Education System to automate and simplify the administrative and non-administrative tasks of Colleges and Universities.
• The Online Examination system of iCloudEMS fosters all examination and evaluation related data and reports in the OBE paradigm including all imperative COs-POs mapping analytical reports to gauge the abilities of students and empower continuous quality improvement.
• We deliver multiple survey and feedback features with powerful reporting tools to maintain and fetch as a course file component and enrichment of academic standards.
  

In a nutshell, it can be mentioned that iCloudEMS is built to offer hassle-free management of all the important activities in the Higher Education Institutes. It enables faculty members to be more creative and channelize their efforts in more productive way as we are here to take care in aligning their workflow in compliance with the visionary requisites and guidelines.

How iCloudEMS is beneficial to Higher Education Institutes

The ultimate objective of all educational institutes is the accomplishment of learning goals in the best possible manner. In today’s dynamic world of Education, it is getting difficult for the institutions to maintain the quality standards along with the plethora of daily activities.  Manual intervention in such a large number of activities can lead to redundancy of information, missed information or wrong information that can sometimes produce irreversible consequences. The advancement in Information and Technology has brought solutions and alternatives to such workflow issues with the Education Management Software (EMS). EMS is a set of software modules that automates the imperative daily administrative and non-administrative activities and assists the institutions to streamline the workflow in line with regulatory guidelines. The major benefits of an efficient EMS include:

Huge data storage

The massive amount of important data and reports are generated at each and every level of process in the campus. The web-based Education Management System makes the herculean task of data storage and retrieval easy for all stakeholders. 

Cost-effective

The cloud-based services of an efficient EMS avoid the hardware requirement and its maintenance that makes it a cost-effective utility to solve campus tasks.

Creative teaching-learning

The smart features of an effective Education Management Solution make the teaching-learning practices creative and engaging that helps to bridge the learning gap.

Paper-free approach

A large number of non-academic tasks such as admission, fee collection, result generation etc. are paper-based and require much time and efforts of associated staff.  A flawless EMS saves the valuable energy of the staff members and supports all the activities with a couple of clicks only.

Data Privacy

The access of data with individual login credentials ensures the right access of data to right users that enhances the data safety and privacy.

Mobile-supported

Today smartphones have become an indispensable part of life. So it has become inevitable to design mobile technology supported EMS that can make the information at the fingertips of the stakeholders.

iCloudEMS promises to offer prime cloud-based Education Management in Higher Education Institutes that bring digital transformation in handling the important academic and non-academic operations of the institute for efficient utilization of available resources for accomplishment of more productive goals.

Our following breakthrough products and managed services foster student-centric learning and cater to the needs of all stakeholders.

1. Accreditation Management System: 
   

iCloudEMS offers a cloud-based Accreditation Management System, an integrable solution to generate, collect, organize and administer all required data and reports in the predefined formats given by regulatory bodies such as NAAC, NBA etc. and helps Institutes throughout the preparation and submission of quick and accurate information for evaluation. It also includes many graphical and analytic tools with collaborative dashboards to easily track the progress of data submission. Its main features and benefits include:

• Predefined Question Set in line with different criteria of governing bodies that eases to enter and govern data for faculty on a centralized platform.
• Standard utilities and formula set that help them to generate main reports and supporting reports for assessments and qualification analysis.
• Powerful reporting tools with a standard formula set to generate analysis reports such as SER/SAR/AQAR/IQAC/ AACSB.
• We also offer provision for kind perusal of data by concerned authorities. 
• Innovative templates to streamline the administration of bulk data uploading for several years.
• Swift multilevel evaluation process for management to benchmark standards and get a ready reckoner on the current status.
• Automatic and precise results with a couple of clicks to ease the DVV clarification by governing bodies.
  

2. OBE supported Learning Management System

Our personalized interactive Outcome Based LMS brings the right fusion of technology in the traditional chalk-and-board model to strengthen the deployment of prime technology in upgrading the academic standards at par with global level. It provides a common digital platform for students and teachers for knowledge sharing and tracking the learning trajectory via user-friendly gateway. Its innovative functionalities help the instructors to create and deliver the content under the OBE framework. Have a look at the major benefits of our OBE-LMS product.

• Faculty can easily plan and design the curriculum, course content, assignments in the framework of OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy model.
• They can create online repository of e-content and deliver 
• Can create online storehouse for e-content such that students can find the content available prior to session for quality learning
• Students can set milestones and govern their learning with the help of easy access to study content and performance records.
• Our system fosters the teacher-pupil interaction and increases the students’ engagement in learning sessions.
• Parents can actively participate in learning of their children and Can get complete insights of their wards’ attendance and performance grades anytime.
• They are able to judge their children’s all-round progress with OBE and Bloom’s levels mapping records. and can have effective communication with teachers and management.
• Management can get the overhead view of course planning and coverage progress to find any gap and take well-informed decisions at all levels.
  

3. Online Classes and Exam management system

iCloudEMS utilizes a 360-degree platform that presents unified solutions to Online Exam Management System and LIVE Classes services that work on all the intricacies of classes and examination that replaces the cumbersome manual operations with a disciplined digital governance for effective planning and execution of time and resources. It offers following benefits to cater the assorted needs of all stakeholders: 

• Faculty can organize the interactive LIVE classes supporting multimedia to boost students’ engagement 
• They can easily generate Question papers using extensive question banks and innovative template papers in line with OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy norms.
• Virtual examination space with LIVE proctoring maintains the integrity of examination space and can promote smooth planning and conduction of exams.
• On-screen evaluation and grading save the time of faculty members and support quick and flawless evaluation and results.
• Students can reap the benefits of Online Classes and Examination sessions to accomplish their learning goals at their own pace and at their own space.
• Administration can seamlessly plan and manage material and human resources to conduct classes and examinations.
• Management can get the eagle’s view of the cyberspace of LIVE classes and Examination at a single click and can continuously put their efforts towards raising the academic standards for continuous quality improvement.
  

4. Student Lifecycle Management System

iCloudEMS assists the Colleges and Universities with its versatile Student lifecycle management system to access and process a plethora of information with a couple of clicks, anytime and anywhere throughout the academic journey of all students. It gives integrated solutions to smoothen student recruitment and management for both administration and students to save their valuable time and energy for achievement of more creative goals. The major benefits of our innovative product comprise of:

• Faculty can save their time and efforts to access and process integrated databases of students from being prospective to alumni.
• They can easily track and analyse the cognitive abilities of students with OBE and Bloom’s taxonomy levels mapping.
• Students can retrieve and update their required information on a central platform only for different uses and can easily perform tasks such as fee payment, hall ticket, timetable etc.
• Parents can be more relaxed with online admission and fee payment tasks can involve in the learning and other activities of their children.
• Management can experience a technology-oriented transparent ecosystem for the quick analysis of accomplishments.
  

5. Managed Services for ERP

iCloudEMS offers Managed Services comprise to ERP of various Higher Educational Institutes different that digitize various academic and non-academic operations like pre-admission, admission, fee payment, attendance, assignment, examination, library management, accreditation management, etc. and channelizes the efforts of all stakeholder for quality improvement. The significant benefits our managed services include: 

• Hassle-free admission process from pre-admission to post-admission activities.
• User-friendly fee payment and record maintenance that adds convenience for both students and administration.
• Computerized time-table preparation and management to overcome the challenges in multiple time table generation.
• Centralized digital training & placement avenue to facilitate recruitment activities.  
  

In a nutshell, it can be mentioned that in the era of innovation & technology NEP has recommended Higher Education Institutes investment should invest in the generation of tech-savvy infrastructure and services to bring the best of time and energy of the staff members and iCloudEMS is a reliable partner to bring the digital revolution in Higher Education Institutes.

How iCloudEMS eases the journey of Accreditation for Higher Education Institutes

Today the quality education is the benchmark of Higher Education Institutes to build their trust in the society, nation and the world.  To up-skill the youth according to today’s demand of employability and Higher Studies, the number of professional programmes is increasing at a high rate. Thus, the Quality Assurance has become imperative for the Higher Education programmes to prepare a knowledgeable and skilled workforce. Accreditation is a quality monitoring measure to check how well the Institutes or Programmes are able to stand on the pre-defined parameters by the governing bodies. New Education Policy recommends the holistic development of students to foster 21^st century education competencies, which are more focused on the development of critical thinking, communication skills, research, problem solving skills etc.

Accreditation is a series of rigorous procedures that ensure social, technological and industrial development in the students. In 1994 University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education established autonomous bodies named National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) to evaluate the all-round quality parameters of Higher Education Institutes. Accreditation impetuses the Higher Education Institutes towards continuous quality development.  The exhaustive measures of Accreditation include organizing and compiling the data of several years with generation of multi-level self-analysis reports to iteratively benchmark the standards. NEP has emphasised the extensive use of technology in teaching and learning practices and for efficient educational planning and management. This has promoted the Institutes to leverage the reliable Edu techs in aligning their administrative and non-administrative workflow standards compliance with the external audit or regulatory bodies

iCloudEMS was founded in 2017 on the notion that “We honour Great Education and Great Educationists”. We offer various cutting-edge cloud-based products to give the unified Education Management Solutions. Our Accreditation Management System assists the institutes and the associated staff to smoothen their workflow towards achieving the best position in accreditation endeavours. 

Our key utilities include:

• We offer a comprehensive accreditation information system comprising SIS and other different modules which is designed for every kind of technical and non-technical Higher Education Institutes and that delivers results compliance with Washington accord, LIMA accord and Bologna process.
• Our system supports powerful reporting tools to generate numerous self-assessment and analysis reports such as SER/SAR/AQAR/IQAC/ AACSB required for your institution with a couple of clicks only 

• We deliver the services for errorless mapping the learning outcomes with the mission and vision of the institute that ensures to follow continuous quality monitoring and enhancement mechanisms. 

• We present a digital space to easily review accreditation phases and determine the plans and strategies to align the pre-set goals of the institute. It validates the right Implementation of OBE and consistent feedback practice for regular quality check and upgradation. 
  

Benefits of our Accreditation Management System to Higher Education Institutes.

Our Accreditation Management system offers the following advantages to Higher Education Institutes:

• Accreditation bodies generally demand and evaluate data of several years, but organizing and formatting such a huge data manually is a herculean task and is also vulnerable to redundancy and missed information. Our cloud-based system simplifies the data management and formatting in line with the regulations.

• Today it has become necessary to upload the data on Accreditation portals before the visit of the peer team, our innovative functionalities facilitate the bulk data uploading process that also includes the facility to use the prefilled data on the portal during the process of the multiple years data collection.

• The data is mainly asked to be filled as the answers of a few predefined Questions, following the same guidelines we help the administration to fill their data according to the Answers of Questions in different evaluation criteria.

• Examining its own abilities is an important step in Accreditation process, and reports mention results better than words. We assist faculty members by automating the generation of main self-assessment reports along with different supporting reports in the course of accreditation assessments and qualification analysis. 

• Our expert database verification team performs close analysis of the standards and the criteria to be validated upon through the compilation and management of data in chronological order.

• Our quick and flawless results alleviate the DVV clarification by governing bodies.

• We have a multilevel evaluation process with the help of which, Institutes can rapidly check the benchmarking standards and get a ready reckoner on the current status.
  

In today’s competitive world, Quality assurance of Higher Education Institutes or Programmes is necessary to prepare educated and skilled young minds who can contribute towards global progress. Thus, quality enhancement at all levels is the focus of the modern Higher Education system. Accreditation bodies such as NAAC, NBA, ABET, AACB help the institute to benchmark their standards and motivate them towards Continuous Quality Improvement. All these bodies have established their quality parameters, and the Institutes willing to get accredited are required to follow their guidelines and series of steps on which these can be evaluated for quality maintenance and improvement. iCloudEMS strengthens the Higher Education Institutes by digitizing the groundwork of accreditation and aligns myriad preparatory activities in compliance with the regulatory bodies to assure the flow of quality in the successful journey of accreditation.

How accreditation bodies evaluate Higher Education Institutes for Quality assurance

Accreditation is a rigorous process under which Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) are evaluated if they meet pre-established standards of governing bodies. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the University Grans Commission (UGC) have taken many initiatives time to time for the assessment of quality standards of HEIs. Subsequently, the National Policy on Education (1986) and Programme of Action (1992) recommended to establish an autonomous Accreditation and Assessment body for the maintenance and promotion of standards of Higher Education. In 1994 University Grants Commission (UGC) established an autonomous institution named National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) to evaluate and promote the quality in Higher Education. NAAC strives hard to undertake plans and activities for the accomplishment of its vision and mission to make quality, an Integrated element of Higher Education in India with major concern on prepare youth with high values and global competencies who can contribute to national and global development.

Benefits of Accreditation: Following are the important benefits of getting accredited:

• Accreditation pushes the Institution towards its SWOT analysis and its improvement.
• Accreditation builds the trust and accountability of Institutes among students, parents and society on quality education offered.
• Funding agencies are more interested to invest their financial resources in the progress of accredited institutes,
• Accreditation directs the Institutes for Continuous Quality Improvement.
  

Process of NAAC accreditation

The NAAC follows a combination of self and external quality measures for promotion and sustenance of quality parameters that include:

• First the HEIs willing for accreditation get themselves registered on the NAAC website
• Then Institutes are required to prepare and submit Institutional Information for Quality Assessment (IIQA) first and Self Study Report (SSR) on acceptance of IIQA
• Next step is to proceed to Student Satisfaction Survey (SSS) and Data Validation & Verification (DVV) process for thecalculation of Pre-qualifier Score
• Once all the reports and scores are there with NAAC then an on-site visit of peer team is done following the grading of Institute is declared.
  

Criteria for assessment:

Following seven criteria are considered as the basis of assessment procedures:

Curricular Aspects: NAAC Criterion I is all about the evaluation of curriculum features of Higher Education Institutes that comprise the planning, designing and implementation of curriculum of various programme and courses of HEIs. The Curricular Aspects are the backbone of Higher Education System. Though, the curriculum practices are different according to the academic and administrative levels of Institute i.e., whether the task has been performed by university, affiliated institute or autonomous institute. The key concern for evaluation deals with the assessment of curriculum enrichment of various programme and courses to check its relevant of national and global needs in terms of multi-skill development and academic flexibility. Curriculum updating is also judged by assessing the involvement of feedback procedures and stakeholders’ participation

Criterion I is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Curriculum design and development,
• Curriculum planning and implementation,
• Academic flexibility,
• Curriculum enrichment,
• Feedback system.
  

Teaching-learning & Evaluation: NAAC Criterion II is to gauge the efforts made by institution towards catering the needs of students belonging to different backgrounds, with its effective teaching-learning practices. The innovative teaching skills that promote students’ engagement with the help of interviews, focused group discussions, debates, projects, presentations, experiments and applications of technology resources are reviewed. As the teaching-learning are key concern hence the proficiency of faculty is analysed with the institutional efforts for their continuous faculty development.

Criterion II is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Student Enrolment and Profile
• Catering to Student Diversity
• Teaching-Learning Process
• Teacher Profile and Quality
• Evaluation Process and Reforms
• Student Performance and Learning Outcomes
• Student Satisfaction Survey
  

Research Consultancy and Extension: NAAC Criterion III pertains the information collected on the policies, practices and outcomes of the institution, with reference to research, innovations and extension. It is concerned with the fostering of research culture by undertaking research projects useful to the society and efforts made by institution for the same.

Criterion III is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Promotion of Research and Facilities
• Resource Mobilization for Research
• Innovation Ecosystem
• Research Publications and Awards
• Consultancy
• Extension Activities
  

Infrastructure and Learning resources: NAAC Criterion IV focusses on the resources available in an Institution and how are these deployed for quality sustenance in the academic programmes. I also seek information on the benefits students, teachers and other staff using these available facilities in the campus. Criterion IV is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Physical Facilities
• Library as a Learning Resource
• IT Infrastructure
• Maintenance of Campus Infrastructure
  

Student Support and Progression: NAAC Criterion V reviews the efforts made by an institution towards the holistic development of students to make them well capable to enter into the challenging world.  either to pursue Higher Education or to get rewarding profession after they leave the campus.

Criterion V is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Student Support
• Student Progression
• Student Participation and Activities
• Alumni Engagement
  

Governance Leadership and Engagement: NAAC Criterion VI pertains the operational policies and practices in the institution with respect to recruitment, training, performance appraisal of human resources and the effective financial management and overall leadership role.

Criterion VI is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Institutional Vision and Leadership
• Strategy Development and Deployment
• Faculty Empowerment Strategies
• Financial Management and Resource Mobilization
• Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS)
  

Institutional Values and Best Practices: NAAC Criterion VII An educational institute has its social responsibility to be solution giver for the emerging national and global challenges with its variety of programmes. Every institute is expected to implement unique practices towards the major domains such as gender equity, environmental consciousness and sustainability, inclusiveness and professional ethics. These academic and administrative practices to be impactful in these pressing issues are considered as best practices of the institute and these unique ways are reviewed during the accreditation process for the evaluation.

Criterion VII is assessed in the following Key areas:

• Institutional Values and Social Responsibilities
• Best Practices
• Institutional Distinctiveness
  

Following table represents the weightage given to the various Criteria.


Source: NAAC Website

(U) – applicable only for Universities and Autonomous Colleges (A) – applicable only forthe Affiliated / Constituent Colleges

Grading System of NAAC Accreditation:

                     Source: NAAC Grading

“A grade qualifier is kept for the institution on qualify for valid accreditation. In order to qualify for any Grade (C to A++) Institution needs to score at least 1.51 CGPA aggregated score (quantitative and qualitative) in each criterion”.  [from NAAC grading system].  Once the grade qualifier is finalized, accordingly the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of an institution is calculated by collating scores of the total, the scores obtained during Peer Team through on site visit and the scores computed using the Student Satisfaction Survey, on a five-point scale.

Accreditation Management System: iCloudEMS offers a a cloud-based accreditation management system designed to cater the groundwork needs of higher education institutions and helps them to generate, collect, organize and administrate all required data and reports in the predefined formats given by regulatory bodies such NAAC, NBA, ABET, NIRF etc. The academic leaders can get the following advantages with our Accreditation Management System that helps to save their time and efforts in performing tedious and repeated tasks with a couple of clicks only:

• We offer a centralized platform to enter and govern data on a with respect to criterion wise predefined Question set.
• There is also a provision for kind perusal of data by concerned authorities to track the progress in real-time that helps to identify gaps compliance to pre-established standards.
• Our system supports Powerful reporting tools with standard formula set to generate analysis reports such as SER/SAR/AQAR/IQAC/ AACSB and many supporting reports in the course of accreditation assessments and qualification analysis.
• Our system is equipped with different templates that ease the bulk data uploading process of several years.
• The system also includes facility to use the prefilled data on portal during the process of the multiple years data collection.
• We empower Outcome based Education model in HEIs and centralizes the outcome-based data and reports of programmes and courses such as PO-CO mapping results, survey reports, rubrics data for calculation of direct and indirect attainment levels.
• We have an Expert Database Verification team for close analysis of the standards and the criteria to be validated upon.
• You can rapidly check the benchmarking standards and get a ready reckoner on the current status.
  

iCloudEMS supports Colleges and Universities to streamline the planning, assessing and analysing the several years of data and reports. We bring the organization under one roof to channelize the collective efforts of all stakeholders towards the achievement of their goals in the journey of accreditation.