Instructions for HS 200 S1 Division Exam

Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2022

The Exam will be of 90 minutes duration from 9.00 AM to 10.30 AM
All students should join the CodeTantra Proctoring system by 8.30 AM. This will enable
adequate time in case there are technical glitches, which need to be resolved. All students are
already registered on CodeTantra. Students have also been mapped to their courses
(registered for this semester).
The name of the exam on CodeTantra for this course will appear as: HS200_S1-2022-
Spring_Exam
The exam will be conducted on SAFE App. SAFE is a mobile app with a lot of useful
features such as ability to run timed exams even if the network is down; it is designed by
ITIB CSE’ Department. Please ensure that you have SAFE App on your device and ensure
that you have registered for the course (HS200S1 Environment Studies). If you have not
already used the SAFE App or given an exam on it before, please familiarize yourself with it.
More details regarding SAFE App is given at the end of this note.
At 8.55 AM, all students will be given the password for the SAFE Exam on MS Teams HS
200 Course.
All students are requested to carefully read the instructions sent by DD AIA for full view
proctored exam. A set of instructions are given below:
1. You may take the exam using any smartphone device. For full view proctoring to be
done through CodeTantra, please have a laptop, PC with Camera, or another
smartphone device placed appropriately so that we can see your desk or table, half
view of your body including your face and hands, and the device on which you will
take the exam. The Laptop / PC / smartphone should have a decent webcam or
camera. You will thus need two devices for the exam – one for proctoring and the
smart phone for taking the exam.
2. Please ensure you have a convenient and comfortable place to take the exam, without
disturbance, and with good access to WiFi, internet, or mobile range if using mobile
data for internet or hotspot.
3. Please keep all devices fully charged before the exam!
4. Keep your IIT Bombay ID card and any government approved ID card handy with
you. You will be asked to show this to our Proctors when you enter your respective
CodeTantra Proctor groups at 8.30 AM.
5. You may keep one blank sheet and a pen since one question will require some
calculation. No other material should be kept with you.
6. No Headphones are allowed.
7. The student is not expected to approach the laptop or other device which is being used
for full view proctoring, except once to check the Exam password on MS Teams.
Teaching Assistants and Faculty members will be proctoring you during the exam.
 8. The proctoring for the exam will be done on CodeTantra. Please visit this site, and get
yourselves familiar with the CodeTantra Environment: https://iitb.codetantra.com/
9. Student instructions for taking the exam on on CodeTantra are available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19xlpfJV3Gne_kKjyHm88n-0w3xlpN_WT/view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oit_hnCnAoo

10. Please read the instructions carefully. In other exams run on CodeTantra some
students have experiences glitches and lost precious time owing to not following the
instructions correctly.
11. Microphone and webcam should be ON during the entire period of the exam. Instruct
your family members and those around your room to please maintain silence and give
you privacy during the exam.
12. When instructed to do so by an invigilator, before the exam, show your IITB and
other ID card to the camera.
13. In case of any network outage, power cut, video freeze, app crash etc, do not panic.
Wait till the devices are restored, and talk to your proctor who will ensure that you get
additional time.
14. We trust students will uphold the integrity of the exam process, act as per the honour
code, and help us run the online exams successfully. We hope that there will be no
instances of use of unfair means. If you learn of any instances of students
successfully using unfair means, please do inform your instructors of basic details that
can help us take countermeasures, even if you do not wish to disclose names.
15. Please keep a watch / clock near you to keep track of time.
16. Please ensure that all devices used for the exam have the correct time. If the time is
incorrect, there may be problems in submitting the exam, in recording, informing us
of network failure etc.
17. The timed exam of 90 minutes will automatically end and it will auto-submit, if you
do not do it manually. If some of you finish early, you may leave after confirming
with your Proctor. Some of you may require extra time for various reasons, and hence
the Proctors will be available for an extra half hour till 11.00 AM.

Instructions regarding SAFE APP

1. Download and install the SAFE app (from synerg.cse.iitb) on your smartphone. SAFE can be
downloaded from Google Play Store or Apple Store.
2. Login to SAFE using your @iitb account with SSO.
3. Register for each course on SAFE using the key provided by your instructor. We will be
providing the key
4. Get familiar with SAFE and take at least 1 test quiz using SAFE
5. After sitting down at the place from where the exam will be taken, login on your smartphone
using SAFE app. Connect to your course on SAFE.
6. The exam will start at the specified time on SAFE. At the start, show the screen of your
smartphone running SAFE app to the laptop webcam, in a way that the remaining time is
clearly shown.
7. If the exam is objective to be answered on SAFE itself, proceed to do so. You may use your
blank papers for rough work.
8. Don’t worry if there is disruption of internet on your smartphone while submitting the
answers. The answers given using SAFE will be locally stored and then uploaded on the
server as and when internet is re-established. Even if that happens after the end of exam time,
as long as the paper was submitted using SAFE within time, the paper will be counted as
submitted on time

All the best for your exams and continued well-being!

Instructors for HS 200, S1 Division