Take-home exam – Keep on teaching!

Tips: Two-part exam for students with extended writing time

Posted on 20 April, 20223 June, 2022 by Veronika Hartmann

Prevent cheating at take-home exams, where fast students help students with extended writing time.

ICT: Tools for examination

Posted on 2 February, 202219 October, 2022 by Veronika Hartmann

KAU has two tools for handling specific examination-related matters. On the one hand Ouriginal for text comparison (to detect plagiarism) and on the other hand Inspera for digital exam. In addition, of course, we have Canvas and the functionality with assignments and Quiz.

NOTE that the university has replaced Wiseflow to Inspera for digital examinations in autumn 2022.

Tips: Three strategies for good take-home exam questions

Posted on 7 October, 202112 February, 2022 by Veronika Hartmann

Several strategies for making take-home exam questions: Putting questions in context, making them individual-related, or more complex.

Tips: When students don’t study until the take-home exam

Posted on 7 October, 202111 February, 2022 by Veronika Hartmann

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.

Tips: Testing skills online in novel ways

Posted on 7 October, 202112 February, 2022 by Veronika Hartmann

Three suggestions for alternative ways to examine course objectives of the skill type.

Story: From exam in exam hall to digital “open book” examination

Posted on 7 October, 202118 May, 2022 by Veronika Hartmann

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.

Story: Planned on-campus courses off-campus

Posted on 7 October, 202118 May, 2022 by Lotta Svenneling

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.)

Canvas: Extra examination time for students

Posted on 6 October, 202126 October, 2021 by tomajans

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.

Canvas: Pick up exams online

Posted on 6 October, 202128 January, 2022 by tomajans

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.

Canvas: Reexams/Resits online

Posted on 6 October, 202128 January, 2022 by tomajans

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.