Perception of new medical graduates on e-assessments conducted through Microsoft Team’s portal during the covid pandemic

Background: The effect of covid pandemic has left a vacuum effecting every field of life, with lots ofquestion, especially on group meeting that including teaching at all levels. The impact of web-basedassessment practices on the performance of undergraduate medical students is not widely studied. Themodern digital global world provides e-assessment, contributing a crucial role and has powerful effects onstudent learning and their outcomes. 1–3 Designed e-assessments may even provide a scale to measure theprogress and the effects on the outcome of institutions, including a tool to target the attention of students tofocus on the learning outcomes. As e-learning includes various modes of communication both visual andaudio in different formats i.e, animation, visual streaming; it motivates many e-learning processes, as it canbe done in or out of the classroom, and has been proved an open-source web-based learning managementsystem (LMS), managing the tools required for collaboration, communication, evaluation, and assessmentfor higher education. Online quizzes are methods for graded assessment that offers students an opportunityto gauge their level of performance on a topic including feedback to the faculty to make necessary changesin the ongoing curriculum.Materials and Methods: 100 First-year medical students were registered and the dates for assessmentand conducting of survey before and after was fixed. Thirty MCQ and SEQ from various sections of humanphysiology were preloaded on the Microsoft team’s portal, from the topics covered during pandemic live onnet and the students used their devices to answer the questions within the stipulated time. The results wereautomatically loaded at the end of the assessment. Pre- and post-test survey were conducted to investigatethe significance of the E-assessment.Results: The students responded that the e-assessment was easy to assess, unique as they receivedimmediate feedback, customized, and flex