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Autonomy means you own the scheme, and the audit that comes with it

For autonomous colleges, CampusHub supports your own examination scheme, question paper setting, evaluation with dummy numbering, moderation with a full audit trail, and result publication — along with the documentation an autonomy review expects of an institution that grades its own students.

Autonomy is granted and periodically reviewed by the affiliating university and UGC. The audit trail supports a review; it does not substitute for governance.

Autonomy is usually described as freedom. Operationally it is a transfer of obligation: the college now sets its own papers, evaluates them, moderates the results and publishes them — and has to be able to show that each of those was done properly.

You own
Scheme, papers, evaluation, publication
You carry
The audit obligation that comes with it
Key control
Dummy numbering and moderation trail
Reviewed by
Affiliating university and UGC, periodically
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Dummy numbering, and why it matters more when you are autonomous

When the university evaluates, the separation between the student and the evaluator is structural. When you evaluate your own students, it has to be constructed — and demonstrably so.

Dummy numbering assigns each script an identifier unlinked from the student until results are finalised. The mapping is held by the system rather than a person, and the point at which it is revealed is recorded. Without that, an autonomous college is asking to be taken on trust at exactly the moment it should not be.

02

Moderation that survives a review

Moderation is legitimate — a paper turned out harder than intended and the cohort is adjusted. What makes it a liability is applying it in a spreadsheet with no record of the original marks or the basis.

Here the raw mark is never overwritten. An adjustment records who applied it, when, on what basis, and the prior value. At an autonomy review, that is the difference between explaining your results and defending them.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Can we run our own examination scheme?

Yes — components, weightings, moderation rules and grade mapping are configured per programme rather than being fixed to a university pattern. That is the point of autonomy.

How is evaluator anonymity maintained?

Through dummy numbering, with the mapping held by the system rather than an individual and the reveal point recorded. This matters more for autonomous institutions than affiliated ones, because the separation is not structural.

What does an autonomy review look for?

Broadly, that your processes are documented and were followed — paper setting, evaluation, moderation and publication. The system supplies the trail; the governance around it is yours.

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Checked by the Implementations desk on 1 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.

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Tell us your enrolment, we will tell you the number.

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Forty minutes with an implementation engineer — your classes, your fee heads, your grading scheme, entered as we go. No slides, no sample school.