SENATE - Revolutionary software service for the education sector

In what must go down as a significant milestone as far as education in India is concerned, Blueshift has launched a new service called SENATE (Service Engine for Assessment, Testing and E-learning).  SENATE is a set of software-powered services offered by Blueshift for the education sector, and it promises to enable educational institutions to completely manage their testing and assessment processes electronically.  Every process, from application processing to conducting tests, evaluating to generating results will be managed through Blueshift's services in an electronic environment.

It is indeed inspiring to note the vision with which the Blueshift team has worked towards bringing about change in the education system through this revolutionary software service. As Konrad Fernandez of Blueshift put it aptly, "Change when it comes must mean a complete revolution".  Dr. Sankaran P Raghunathan, Chairman, Blueshift said that the entry of SENATE into the education sector would make possible for the first time in India, the complete technology driven management of tests on such a large scale, as entrance exams for engineering colleges, medical colleges, management schools and even government colleges.  He spoke about his 3S strategy - Specialisation, Scale and Standardisation, as thus, "We need to specialize in order to create opportunities to make wealth, while to specialize we need to have a scale for which we need standardisation. And as I see all three in the domestic market, I think we are now ready to tap into it.", he said.

Ravi Venkatesan, Product Manager, Blueshift, said that the service would help institutions to go electronic with their test process and would help them conduct their tests online.  SENATE would be offered by Blueshift, as a service that would completely manage the test process. Right from online applications for tests and conducting tests online to the electronic evaluation process and result generation.  The service would be managed by Blueshift on a turnkey basis and would enable institutions to completely dispense with the hassles of the test process.  Blueshift would tie-up with third parties, which have the needed infrastructure to act as test centres, where students can take the test online.

With SENATE, an institution can register candidates online, set test papers and specifications, conduct the test in a secure, reliable and failsafe manner, evaluate and shortlist candidates according to specified norms, notify and intimate candidates,  analyse the efficacy of the tests and generate other reports. SENATE's advantages include saving on printing,  courier, logistics, hardware and software. It also frees those who conduct tests from worries about impersonation, copying, mix-ups, leakage of papers or results. SENATE has the capacity to manage any number of students and handle the test process across a vast geographical spread on a large scale, as many times as desired within a year.

SENATE is a boon indeed for the institutions, teachers, administrators and of course, the millions of students who undertake hundreds of entrance tests for various courses, institutions and universities every year. 

To know more about how exactly SENATE works, you can find more information at senate.blueshift.com

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