In take-home exams, students are sometimes given a relatively long time to complete it, e. g. several days. Some students take the chance of being able to pass the exam assignments by searching the literature and reading just the minimum needed to pass the direct exam questions.
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Inspiration: 20 different ways for examination
A collection of examples with descriptions of 20 different ways of examining. It is NSHU (Agency for Networking and Cooperation in Higher Education) that compiled and commented. (Swedish language)
Continue reading “Inspiration: 20 different ways for examination”Tips: Testing skills online in novel ways
Three suggestions for alternative ways to examine course objectives of the skill type.
Continue reading “Tips: Testing skills online in novel ways”Tips: Students create their own quiz questions
Examination arrangement where the students in a course create quiz questions for a question bank that is used in the examination.
Continue reading “Tips: Students create their own quiz questions”Story: From exam in exam hall to digital “open book” examination
The story of an urgent relocation of hall exams to home exams in Chemistry during the pandemic in the spring of 2020. Video, 22 min. Swedish language.
Continue reading “Story: From exam in exam hall to digital “open book” examination”Canvas template course
In this short video, we will show you around in a template course homepage for Canvas that is designed based on good pedagogical principles. You can “download” the template from Canvas Commons directly from your course shell.
(Video, 9 mins. Only Swedish)
Cheating: Make cheating difficult
Make it difficult to cheat. There is hardly any one single solution that makes it impossible to cheat, but you may at least make it difficult for the person who is tempted by implementing several combined arrangements.
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When students submit written assignments in Canvas, they should be checked for plagiarism. The Canvas tutorial includes instructions on how to activate plagiarism control and how you as a teacher can monitor and use the results of the automatic control.
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Inform students carefully about what cheating is and the consequences of it. Do it in ways that are not too casual. Here are how you find more useful material on cheating and plagiarism.
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It is almost never a good solution to simulate the controlled situation that the exam on campus offers by video-monitoring students when they conduct take-home exams. It is about integrity, effectivenes and efficiency.
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