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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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”Story: Planned on-campus courses off-campus
The story of challenges and solutions during an urgent reorganization of an on-campus course in Informatics to off-campus during the pandemic in the spring of 2020. (Video, 28 mins., Swedish language.)
Continue reading “Story: Planned on-campus courses off-campus”Canvas: Extra examination time for students
A common support for students with dyslexia is to get extra time for written examinations. If you use Canvas for the exam, it is easy to adapt the exam time for individual students.
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Set up a specific Canvas course page to be used for all pick up exams in a course or in a program. It helps you to keep track of all the students that show up to complete their missing exam assignments long after the regular exam opportunity or resits. Here is how to do it.
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Reexamination in Canvas is easy to organize. No pre-registration required, no reservation of seats in the examination hall, everything you need in one place.
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Can groupwork be used for examinations? Is it possible to give individual grades? Are there other ways to use groupwork in teaching?
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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)